What Genuine Alternatives Are There Today to Traditional Masculinity?

What are the Forms of Masculinity to Come?

Join A Two Day Festival Reimagining Masculinity In Our Time

21-22 November 2026 | Rushcutters Bay, Sydney

Is it inevitable that the old patriarchal structures will break down?

What genuine alternatives are there today to traditional masculinity, both for those who have been socialised as men and for those who have not?

In the context of the contemporary rise of the far right and surging rates of violence towards women, it seems urgent today to reimagine what has been passed down to us by our culture.

Reimagining Masculinity is 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 reimagining what is called masculinity.

We welcome all genders and orientations to our playground!

We’ll explore

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

➤ How to partner with your body and your nervous system

➤How to grow your capacities to trust and manage conflict with others

➤ How to attracting others and expressing yourself beyond traditional masculine role models

➤How to be together in a space of permission but with a reimagined idea of what masculinity is?

“How can we not ask masculinity to change when, within it, we have become so wounded?”
— Ocean Vuong

Who is this festival for?

➤ For those curious about how to think and feel beyond traditional masculine role models.

➤For those who are bringing up young men (cis, trans or non-binary).

➤For those who play with masculinity and perform with it.

➤For those seeking more expansive relationships with women and with other men.

Is this festival only for those who were assigned male at birth?

No, it for anyone who has a stake in reimagining who or what masculinity can be today beyond hegemonic stereotypes. All genders and orientations are welcome, especially LGBTQIA+ people and women.

Reimagining Masculinity

  • Tony Yap

    Dancer Choreographer Director

    Animal/God: A Journey into Trance

    Kinjiki -Forbidden Colours

  • Simon Copland

    Journalist & Researcher at ANU

    Understanding the Manosphere & Online Misogyny

  • Danica Lani

    Founder. Artist. Visionary. Community Builder.

    King for a Day

    Kings of Joy

  • Peter Banki

    Writer & Curator

    Melting and Dissolving

    Reimagining Masculine Leadership

  • Luke Fischer

    Poet Philosopher Writer

    The Receptivity of the Artist

  • Sonic Horizon | Joe Ramen and  James Adcock

    Movement Music & Meditation

  • Gideon Payten Griffiths

    Actor Dancer Massage Therapist

    Footwashing

  • Taichi Ishii

    Dancer Performance Artist

    Kinjiki - Forbidden Colours

  • Reuben Lewis

    ARIA nominated trumpeter, composer

    Kinjiki - Forbidden Colours

  • Jan Suren Möllers

    Cultural Anthropologist, Funeral Worker, Grief Counsellor

    Grief After Suicide

  • Lian Loke

    Multidisciplinary Artist and Academic

    Skinfulness

  • Simon Wing-Lun

    Spiritual Teacher, Mentor & Healer

    Subtlety

  • Sebastian Job

    Anthropologist Psychedelic Researcher

    Psychedelic Fatherhood

  • Sarah Roffey

    Social Worker and Activist

    Kissing

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.