Upcoming Events
Including events produced by Twisted Windows, curated performance showcases, events featuring our troupe, and classes.
Taste of Tension
Join Artease for an intoxicating evening designed to engage your senses.
Each act is curated to embody the flavor, mood, and spirit of one of the venue's signature cocktails, blending dance, rope bondage, and performance artistry into a fully immersive tasting.
Sip. Watch. Listen.
Kinky Kollege in Chicago
Join some of the nation’s most respected educators in kink, BDSM, and alternative relationship dynamics in Chicago, as they lead a wide variety of workshops and classes. Whether you’re brand new or a seasoned edge player, our curated curriculum offers something for everyone.
Wrapt: “Self-Tying with Shay” - An AfterDark Rope Jam
The March Wrapt Rope Jam skill-share welcomes Shay Tiziano to present “Compression & Tension for Self-Tie Flow”. This is a welcoming, raw-beginner-level class.
Pretty Mean Things: Floor rope for sensation and aestetics
This class will teach a variety of straightforward, flexible patterns designed to facilitate connection and creativity. Whether your style leans sweet, seductive, or sadistic, you’ll leave with new ways to make your rope both pretty and mean.
Vampire Ball
Enter a world of mystery, seduction, and elegance. For one night only, the long-hidden vampires of Mission Control emerge from the shadows of the Oakland Castle to host a decadent soiree for mortals and monsters alike.
Shay & Angel will be performing as part of the event!
KinkFest
The largest kink & BDSM conference on the West Coast – Shay will be presenting and performing!
EXIST - Educational Exchange and Information for SelfTiers: Montreal
Shay & Angel are excited to participate in a selftie conference for enthusiastic selftiers to exchange information and skills while fostering a growing and diverse community 💙💛
Tying and Flying: Beginning Self-Suspension
Class presented by Shay Tiziano, at VoxBody Studios in Oakland
Once Upon a Rope Lab
Participatory tying event at Little Boxes Theatre in San Francisco
Seattle Erotic Art Festival
The Seattle Erotic Art Festival is a 3 day festival celebrating and cultivating an appreciation of art that explores all aspects of eroticism, sexuality, and sensuality, including and certainly not limited to gender, orientation, relationships, and identity. Shay/Twisted Windows will be curating the Aerial & Bondage Stage.
Thirst, a high-energy play party by Dual Demons & Twisted Windows
Give in to your thirst for touch and ties; come see, be seen, and scene at a high-energy play party by Dual Demons & Twisted Windows!
Ropecraft
Join us in Chicago for the Bondage Convention that is Knot - For Everyone!
Get knotty with 400+ rope enthusiasts in a gigantic space just for us at Ropecraft’s 13th in-person convention!
Self-Suspension Open Space
Self-suspension can be used for dynamic movement, exploration of intense sensation, mindfulness practice, as a tool to build partnered bondage skills, as a ritual, and more.
Come tie in the beautiful VoxBody Studio, surrounded by other self-suspension aficionados, hosted by Shay & Angel!
Up Your Alley, by Folsom Street Events
Celebrate community, connection, support, and sexual liberation for ALL at Up Your Alley. Joining GoGos and DJs on the main stage will be featured Twisted Windows bondage performers!
Folsom Street Fair Bondage Stage
7 hours...over 50 sets…over 100 performers…don’t miss a moment of the 2026 Folsom Street Fair Bondage Stage!
Rope Lab: Spring Equinox
Participatory tying event at Little Boxes Theatre in San Francisco
Tethered Together
Tethered Together is a wonderful Connecticut event focused on rope bondage with additional programming in circus arts, kink, relationships, and body movement such as dance and yoga. Shay will be presenting and producing the Saturday night show!
Tethered Together: Underwater Circus
Tethered Together combines aerial acrobatics, dance, and spoken word for our Saturday night show!
Tethered Together
Tethered Together is a wonderful Connecticut event focused on rope bondage with additional programming in circus arts, kink, relationships, and body movement such as dance and yoga. Shay will be presenting and producing the Saturday night show!
Dark Odyssey: Winter Fire
Imagine a vacation… where you can explore the many facets of sexuality in a private, intimate community of like-minded people. A wholly unique immersive experience which brings together sexuality, spirituality, education, and play in a fun, supportive, non-judgmental, diverse environment where fantasy becomes reality.
Deep Red, by Opel Productions
SF's bondage & eros tinged performance artists meet the burning dance music underground on Valentine’s weekend
Night’s Kiss: A Crimson Cabaret
Join our lustful underworld, where desire never dies, and aerial immortals, rope revenants, bloody burlesque, and variety vixens beckon you to a lavish spectacle of temptation and power. Featuring the unique Twisted Windows blend of exquisitely erotic, sensually subversive, and distinctly daring queer performance art, in a world where every shadow has teeth, and every performer tells a story older than sin.
Rope Lab: Red, Pink & Black
Participatory tying event at Little Boxes Theatre in San Francisco
Self-Tie Rope Jam: Aesthetics, Doubled
Self-tying is a fantastic way to get started with rope and build your skills, and can be used to explore intense sensation, engage in mindfulness or ritual, practice for partnered bondage, and more. Learn and tie in the beautiful VoxBody Studio space surrounded by other self-bondage aficionados!
Around the World on a Butt Rainbow: A self- or partnered suspension sequence with Shay
This class teaches Shay’s all-time favorite lower body harness: the compellingly named Butt Rainbow Thigh Tie of Doom.
After a tie-along of this harness, we’ll use it to travel “around the world” through a partnered or self-suspension sequence that includes face-down, inversion, and face-up positions, the “Figurehead” shape, and dynamic flyer-driven movement.
Thirst, a high-energy play party by Dual Demons & Twisted Windows
Give in to your thirst for touch and ties; come see, be seen, and scene at a high-energy play party by Dual Demons & Twisted Windows!
Westcoast Bound
Westcoast Bound is Western Canada’s largest annual educational BDSM conference, offering a welcoming space for individuals of all experience levels to explore, learn, and connect. Shay & Angel will be presenting!
New Bohemia NYE 2026
Co-created by the Vau de Vire Society & Opel Productions. The historic Mint is transformed into a playground for the senses.
Rope Lab: Winter Ball
Participatory tying event at Little Boxes Theatre in San Francisco
Self-Tie Rope Jam: Under Pressure
Self-tying is a fantastic way to get started with rope and build your skills, and can be used to explore intense sensation, engage in mindfulness or ritual, practice for partnered bondage, and more. Learn and tie in the beautiful VoxBody Studio space surrounded by other self-bondage aficionados!
Holiday Market, by the Leather LGBTQ Cultural District
Immerse yourself in the festive spirit with a winter wonderland filled with handcrafted treasures, unique gifts, and artisanal delights, followed by the FESTIVE AS F*CK After Party!
Twisted Windows: Desert Lights
An extravagant Gala featuring San Francisco-style exquisitely erotic, sensually subversive, and distinctly daring queer performance art, including aerial acrobatics, suspension bondage, dance, live painting, and fetish acts. Looking for something gay to do in Phoenix? This is the place!
Hot Knots PHX
An intimate weekend mini-con including 10 classes across 6 sessions at Awun House in Phoenix
Bound Bliss presents: The Portland Fetish Ball – Darkness
The Darkness Charity Ball (for ya' perverts) – Produced by Bound Bliss
If the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness?
An unforgettable night of dance, play, and mind-blowing kinky performances. Fundraiser for the Triangle Legal Clinic: free legal services for trans individuals and SW'ers!
Dual Demons present: Inappropirates Queer Variety Show (Saturday)
A Mystical Adventure Queer Variety Show! Hoist your sails and ready your glitter, mates! Join the Inappropirates on a daring voyage to the long-lost Bottomless Isles, where sirens sing, fae enchant, and pirates clash in a night of Queer magic, mischief, and adventure.
Dual Demons present: Inappropirates Queer Variety Show (Friday)
A Mystical Adventure Queer Variety Show! Hoist your sails and ready your glitter, mates! Join the Inappropirates on a daring voyage to the long-lost Bottomless Isles, where sirens sing, fae enchant, and pirates clash in a night of Queer magic, mischief, and adventure.
Kinky Salon: Terrific Street (Mission Control Fundraiser)
Historical friction meets vaudeville, kink, and a dash of drag, and the ghosts of scandalous showgirls and debauched sailors still linger in the rafters at this Mission Control fundraiser.
Thirst, a high-energy play party by Dual Demons & Twisted Windows
Give in to your thirst for touch and ties; come see, be seen, and scene at a high-energy play party by Dual Demons & Twisted Windows!
Self-Tie Rope Jam: Mindfulness and Flow for Self-Tying
Self-tying is a fantastic way to get started with rope and build your skills, and can be used to explore intense sensation, engage in mindfulness or ritual, practice for partnered bondage, and more. Learn and tie in the beautiful VoxBody Studio space surrounded by other self-bondage aficionados!
Flying Fusion: A Nerdy Intro to Western-Style Partnered Suspension with Shay & Angel
This friendly introduction to Western-style partnered suspension includes an overview of general principles, safety considerations, risk mitigation, negotiation, and body awareness for suspension.
Dusk2Dawn: Halloween at the Midway
The Midway’s & Opel's legendary Halloween party returns... Dusk2Dawn is back for another all-night descent into the shadows. Featuring
Sin-Spired: Opening night performance extravaganza at Dark Odyssey: Surrender
Succumb to temptation at Sin-Spired! From wrath’s raging storm to lust’s irresistible pull, our acts present an eclectic mix of acrobatics, dance, suspension bondage, music, drag, burlesque, and campy shenanigans.
Dark Odyssey: Surrender
Surrender: Seven Deadly Sins is here, daring you to indulge in every wicked desire. For three days, we’ll revel in lust, pride, gluttony, envy, wrath, greed, and sloth—transformed into a feast of kinky delights. Come play, indulge, and sin gloriously with us!
Rope Lab: Halloween Costume Edition
Participatory tying event at Little Boxes Theatre in San Francisco
Tying and Flying: Beginning Self-Suspension
Class presented by Shay Tiziano, at VoxBody Studios in Oakland