What are the Forms of Masculinity to Come?

Join a Two Day Festival Exploring New Masculinities

21-22 November 2026 | Rushcutters Bay, Sydney

Many people today cling to old stereotypes, thinking in this way they can escape what is so rapidly changing in our culture in terms of gender, sexuality and power.

In this festival, we seek to follow different paths.

We are curious about what will be the forms of masculinity to come, that are not simply reactive to feminism, but are responsive and can enter into dialogue.

The Festival of New Masculinities features two days of workshops, performances and play spaces, exploring psychological, embodied and erotic facets of these questions. In addition to talks and discussions, you will have experiences, which do justice to the full spectrum of what is at stake today in what is called masculinity.

We welcome all genders and orientations to our playground!

We’ll explore

➤ How to be strong and at the same time as being vulnerable.

➤ How to grow your capacities to trust.

➤ How to think and feel beyond traditional masculine role models and ways of feeling and being attractive.

➤ What are the forms of masculinity to come.

This festival is for you if you are

➤ Curious about how to think and feel beyond traditional masculine role models and ways of feeling and being attractive.

➤ Feeling curiosity, ambivalence and/or shame about masculinity.

➤ Bringing up young men (cis, non-binary or trans).

➤ Seeking to connect with like-minded people and feel more regulated, compassionate and happy in your own skin.

Program

  • Animal/God: A Journey into Trance

    with Tony Yap

    In this workshop, Tony will direct you into specific stages and modes of trance with an attention to ‘becoming animal/God.’

    Tony adopts specific inductions into deep-trance, exploring some of the ways in which the term "emptiness" is understood in Daoism.

  • Money - the Last Taboo

    with Peter Banki

    In polite culture, it is often considered to be a taboo to talk about money. However, for many of us money is more intimate than sex. This workshop focusses on breaking down the shame we hold around money.

  • Grieving the Unborn

    with Jessica Aszodi

    Join a musical exploration of grieving the un-lived, un-realised aspects of ourselves and others that we have been waiting to meet.

  • Psychedelic Fatherhood

    with Sebastian Job

    An experiential gathering to explore healing intergenerational trauma, ego dissolution, emotional resilience, vulnerability and intimacy in relation to fathers and fatherhood.

  • The Receptivity of the Artist

    with Luke Fischer

    The creative process also involves a receptive dimension, rather than a brute act of will; the artist cultivates a gentle openness to the spark or inspiration that ignites the process of art-making. This workshop will explore ways in which poetry and art bring us into touch with the receptive, affective and empathetic sides of ourselves. 

  • Understanding the Manosphere & Online Misogyny

    with Simon Copland

    Join Australian sociologist, Dr. Simon Copland, discussing community and alienation, neoliberalism and injured subjects as they relate to the contemporary phenomenon of the manosphere and online misogyny.

  • Deeper Virility? Accountability as a Path to Freedom

    with Peter Banki

    Becoming more responsible for one’s actions, for the consequences of one’s actions, there is something in this today for those who call themselves men. Cultivating the capacity to be accountable can give you the internal resources to stand up for yourself, go beyond seeing yourself as a victim and remain in connection with those who may be accusing you. This workshop will support you not to be afraid of taking accountability, which is to say also being vulnerable and open to change.

  • Mother's Love

    with Alessandra Massi

    Did we receive the nurturing we needed as a child? Or on the contrary were we smothered? Do you yearn to hold and be held? In this interactive workshop, we will explore giving and receiving mother’s love and what impact it has on our psyches and on our abilities to hold ourselves as adults.

  • Strength without Force: T'ai Chi

    with Ben Tan

    For those who’ve been conditioned to force, control, and dominating their environment, t’ai chi offers another path: power through yielding, breath, non striving. This alone can be a spiritual awakening.

    The slow, deliberate movement demands full attention — it becomes a moving meditation. For those who live in their heads, planning and problem-solving, t’ai chi trains the nervous system to be here.

Investment

$199 (Super Early Bird to 1 August) $249 (Early Bird until 1 October) $299 (thereafter)

Behind the Festival

Peter Banki, Ph.D is the Founder and Director of Erotic Living and the Festival of Death and Dying. He is an entrepreneur and scholar, who specialises in dreaming up highly innovative events and concepts.

For many years, he has wanted to address the topic of masculinity, as it is such a lightening rod in our culture at this time.