TEAM 2026
The people we choose are sometimes friends, sometimes people we met somewhere and enjoyed their presence/style, sometimes also diversity criteria influence our choices.
Here you can see some of our amazing team members for 2026 - we’re updating step by step, so come back later for more!
OUR PROGRAM + CONTENT
We will offer workshops, playspaces, dances, concerts, morning movement... All content will be related to our bodies, and nuances of getting in touch in some kind of way, with ourselves and other beings. Things like massages, performative work, dances, blindfolded encounters, playfight, kinky stuff, ropes, energetic work, queer content, emotional selfcare, playgrounds for pleasure & fun, things for depth & challenge... The workshops may contain exercises alone, in pairs, small groups, the whole room, it may be rituals or different kinds of experimental spaces.
Our DAILY GATHERINGS with everyone are usually quite popular and are designed to bring a beautiful sense of common ground to the experience.
Participating in anything is optional at any time! You are invited (actually even asked to) to step out or leave anything that you don't want to be in.
Everything will be presented in our program with descriptions, and also we will shortly announce every offering in our daily gatherings, so that you can see what calls you.
The actual program for 2026 will only be published about 2 weeks before the event -
because it is much more organic for us (the facilitators) to shape our offerings not too far ahead, so that it still suits what we feel when it happens, and we can facilitate with integrity.
To get an idea, you can have a look at our
→ PAST EVENT'S PROGRAMS ← !
This little archive also includes programs of LOVE RYOT and UNFOLDING, which are other sibling festivals of ours.
LABLES:
Our different offerings can carry the following symbols,
referring to the intentions of the person offering it:
open door = Drop in any time
lock = Closed after beginning, be on time!
butt = Nakedness invited
panther paw = Sexual feelings or/and interactions invited
storm = Intended to go deeper & move emotions (maybe crying, screaming, …)
EXTRAS:
A sauna waggon outdoors,
beautiful nature for walks,
the Love Lounge + Love Nest which are smaller intimate/sexual spaces
the Soul Care Room for emotional (self-)care,
and free time options like playing music, chatting, resting…
This year we will have a lounge room to just hang out instead of joining a workshop.
ART CONTRIBUTIONS:
Our team will present an amazing workshop program - and we would love more ARTSY STUFF:
Concerts, live music, themed talks, shows, performances, art pieces, crafting, creative add-ons...!! (but no workshops!)
If you might want to offer something, please tell us more about it in your registration (it has a section for that). Add links if you can.
If we invite an offering of yours, we can negotiate on reducing your event fee.
Limited spots, and we pick carefully, so please be aware that we might not take on your offer.
BACKGROUND
PANDORA is happening in 2026 as the fifth edition, organized this year by Liisa Fatuma, Ben, Lo & Monalice, with our amazing team of facilitators, performers, helpers.
What was the beginning of all this?
Me (Liisa Fatuma) and Monalice have been friends since we lived and studied together in Mainz (Germany) many years ago - our co-creative spirit was already showing back then, as we created our shared flat life with a lot of passion for connection, fun & community.
A few years later we had started our work together as MonaLiisa, and also separately, organizing & facilitating seminars for emotional and self-empowerment work, which soon became our main profession.
In 2019 we went for the first time to a so-called ‘sexpositive festival’ named Sexsibility in Sweden and were very skeptical about it - we were afraid to end up with weird people doing weird things, and the journey to that place (Ängsbacka) was quite long… But it was an expanding, eye-opening & pretty great experience!
Here you can see us after an euphoric body painting workshop! 😁
We attended more events and met more like-minded people interested in conscious places for emotions, sexuality, touch & empowerment - and at some point we started to dream of hosting such a festival!
I (Liisa) love putting ideas into realization, so I kind of stormed into creating the first PANDORA festival in winter 2021 near Cologne, which back then was an event with about 40 people.
In summer 2022, Monalice and me co-created our first LOVE RYOT festival near Cologne, with about 85 people - we were amazed that so many people joined, and how nice it turned out!
Since then, PANDORA is happening every winter near Cologne (more or less) and it's Liisa’s baby, with Monalice’s support & co-hosting for most editions, and LOVE RYOT is our common project, happening in summer, and it alternated between Berlin and near Cologne.
The events grew bigger up until 120 people, but we currently don’t intend to expand them more, to still feel a good group spirit.
For quite a while now, I am in Cologne and Monalice is in Leipzig, we’re sometimes offering seminars together as well as hosting the festivals, and we also both found fulfillment, depth and a beautiful approach to life in Gestalt therapy - by now practicing as therapists.
After each of our events we take in feedback, we spend many hours reflecting and having inspirational talks about what we could add, change, reduce, and also getting ideas from visiting other events.
Some examples of events that we would say are similar to our festivals: Sexsibility (Sweden), The Intimate Revolution (Germany/Austria), Juicy Lab (Germany)...
Looking forward to many more years of new creations…
Hope to see you at our events, or somewhere else!
Love,
Liisa 🦊
(updated in autumn 2025)