ABOUT SYDNEY LEATHER FESTIVAL (SLF)

Sydney Leather Festival will emerge in 2025 after having been previously run in 2023 as Sydney Leather Weekend and 2024 as Sydney Leather Week running for 10 days.

After carefully considering ideas, recent feedback and addressing some opportunities, we have decided for 2025 and onward to rename Sydney Leather Week (SLW) to Sydney Leather Festival (SLF). SLF will continue to be an opportunity to showcase and celebrate Sydney’s Leather, Fetish, and Kink community.

SLW was initially organised and funded in collaboration with Sydney Leather Men however the founders have now separated Sydney Leather Festival off into its own entity and in the interests of transparency the operating name is privately owned along with that of Sydney Leather Week. While they are privately owned by the founders to protect the branding, there is no intention for this festival to profit from its true intention of showcasing and celebrating Sydney’s Leather, Fetish and Kink community. Most events are run by the community and its groups and that’s how we want it to continue, so the success of SLF is based on the community.

Sydney Leather Week was co-founded by Sydney Mr Leather 2023 Coach Jura and Mick Watson Sydney Leather Person 2023. SLW and now SLF was created from a vision to create a global destination event that reaffirms and showcases Sydney as a powerhouse in Leather, Fetish and Kink.

SLF continues to be run and organised by the founders under the name IM Entertainment alongside the support of several amazing community businesses, events and groups.