Name: A Midwinter Night's Dream Masquerade Ball and Pagan Pride Day Fundraiser
Start: 2025-01-18T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 4880 Elmer Derr Road, Frederick, MD 21703

A Midwinter Night's Dream Masquerade Ball and Pagan Pride Day Fundraiser

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Join Frederick CUUPS for a Masquerade Ball as we dance into the night with the Winter Court of Faerie, rulers of the dark season! Please come in a wintry costume as we revel and celebrate the darkest time of the year with the Good Folk of the Winter Court.
Attractions include:
~Winter Faery Market
~Dancing to Music by The Dapper DJs
~Performance by Amandari Dance Company
~MC drag performer Lily DeValley
~Costume Contest: Best Group, Best Unseelie Court faery, Best Seelie Court faery, Best Winter Faery, Best Couple
Faery and Fantasy Attire, Masks or Elaborate Makeup Encouraged
7 pm – 12 am, 21+, BYOB
No entry after 10 pm
We will be offering a table again for a Boozy Drinks Potluck. This was a big hit last year. Please only frequent the Potluck table if you brought a drink to share.
2025 Winter Faery Market:
Our Winter Faery Market offers an incredible array of whimsical, fantastical, and beautiful goods to bring back home from your night in Faerie.
Pop-up Photo Studio with Nathan Skipper Photography: Moments are meant to be captured with meaning and emotion. A pop-up photo studio includes professional studio lighting, a carefully selected backdrop that fits the theme, and, most importantly, the photographer who directs, captures, and verifies each photograph. Delivery options include digital images via email or on-site professional photo printing for near instant keepsakes.
The Golden Rose Cakery The Golden Rose Cakery is a locally owned bakery right in beautiful Frederick MD. Servicing the local Frederick area, as well as the surrounding 30 mile radius, we offer home baked goods made in small batches with great care. We’ll be bringing a selection of delectable treats to make an already enchanting evening even more delightful!
The men of WizardsTower are Artisans & Purveyors of unique high-quality essentials for working magick; clothing, jewelry, magick wands and accessories. Kevin & Jim have been serving the needs of the Community for 17 years. We are specialists to the Intermediate & Advanced Magickal & Ritual Practitioners. Specifically, Kevin makes hand-carved wooden spoons and other treenware, magick wands and other specialty wood products; and Jim makes 5 styles of capes, tarot card/sacred object bags and messenger bags, altar cloths, 3 different vestment pieces, shawls, Wizard/Witches Robes, Traveling Cloaks and 3 styles of ceremonial vests. Jim specializes in Garb and Ritual Garments for men. Both men also create a line of unique Celtic/Wiccan/Pagan jewelry. The men are constantly working on new products to offer the community. The guys are constantly developing new ideas into accessories to help you in your personal practice. Stop by to see what’s new!
Tiw’s Arm is a mixture of geeky, nerdy, kinky, and heathen. We make chainmail products by hand, bending every ring to form unique jewelry, keychains, cubes, and other items like bags and owls. We also offer spell kits, spelljars, pins, simmer pot spells, pins, and spell sprays as well as books about mythology and some languages.
DragonWitch Apothecary is a family owned and operated traveling metaphysical store based in Northern Virginia. Our lovingly curated selection features an array of handmade goods including hand-crafted talismans, intuitively crafted crystal pens, artisanal bath salts, and more. Alongside a well stocked apothecary brimming with herbs you will find smoke cleansing bundles and DIY beginner spell kits for all your magical needs. Explore our dazzling collection of crystals, books, tarot cards, pendulums, and cast-iron tools, selected with care to support your magical journey.
If you are looking for the unique, The Enlightened Souls has something for you. From our handmade copper and sterling silver jewelry, to our unique crystals we have procured from around the world, we are convinced you will find what you are looking for at our shop. We also have tarot cards, singing bowls, incense, unique clothing, tapestries and more!
Doc Stone Studios. Doc Stone has been a leather artist and Metal worker for over 25 years and is recognized for his designs worldwide. His commitment to excellence is seen in the quality of his work and in the rave reviews from his clientele.
Alchemy Q Designs Through small-batch & ethically-sourced creepy crawlies, Alchemist "Q" of @alchemy_q_designs creates one-of-a-kind, whimsical "Crystals & Curiosities" to wear as you navigate your spiritual journey. This wearable art combines the healing properties of crystals infused with detoxing copper through electrochemistry, organically grown on Mother Nature's bones and bugs. Q's work is inspired by ancient cultures that paved the way for pagans so sneak away to her labyrinth for all your macabre needs.
Keeper of the Old Ways is an itinerant, small-batch Herbal Apothecary based in Frederick, MD that uses either locally sourced or fair trade organic ingredients. Owned and operated by Lauren (Gráinne) Koch, an integrative wellbeing practitioner and fulltime creative, with 20+ years of experience. Each herbal tea blend, nourishing balm and salve, ritual oil, mindfulness aid, workbook, piece of artwork… is handcrafted with love and reiki energy to nurturing connection to mind•body•spirit through creativity, mindfulness, and nature. You’ll find Lauren leading workshops on herbalism, veneration practices, creative techniques, and self-care within the Frederick CUUPS community and beyond, as well as vending handcrafted items and leading ritual experiences throughout the Appalachia’s and beyond.