VOGUE YYC and TWISTED ELEMENT PRESENT:THE Y2K KIKI BALL
DATE:
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31ST, 2022
DOORS:
6 P.M.
(All guests are welcome to arrive earlier to enjoy Happy Hour from 6PM-9PM)
MEET & GREET W/ AJA LABEIJA:
8 P.M. - 9 P.M.
CATEGORIES BEGIN:
9:30 P.M.
VENUE:
TWISTED ELEMENT - 1006 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0G3
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The reflection of golden lights glisten upon the fervent eve of the year 1999. These lights echo a palpable tension that weaves among the crowd, their eyes transfixed upon the ball to drop at midnight. The culmination of a thousand years of human history has been leading up to this moment, any moment now, we’re almost there… It's the year 2000! Future promises of revolution, industry, and cultural renaissance mark the beginning of a new chapter in human history. To think, in our dizziest daydreams, that the cusp of a new millennium would dawn on our race so soon… Join us in this night, this jubilant celebration of love, hope, and sensuality, as we usher in the era of Vogue YYC’s Y2K Kiki Ball. A collaboration between VOGUE YYC and TWISTED ELEMENT, we are thrilled to welcome AJA (RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9, and Legendary Season 3) as one of our judges, alongside some special performances throughout the night.
The evening celebrates the art of vogue with categories open to all.
Read on for more info on special guests, categories and ticket info.
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**FEATURING**
DJ:
Father Gagged Gvasalia & DJ Sonidef
HOST:
Kevin 007
SPECIAL GUEST JUDGE:
Aja
WITH JUDGES:
OA MOTHER POSH GVASALIA
TONY
TIGGER
DMITRY
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**TICKETS**
COMPETITORS:
$10 At Door
SPECTATORS:
General Admission:
$25 Online
$30 At Door
Meet & Greet Package:
$35
**WE WILL NEVER SAY NO TO ANYONE WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY**
Please contact us for sliding scale admission/support at [email protected]
https://www.showpass.com/y2kaja/
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**CATEGORIES:**
PERFORMANCE: Juicy Couture
I’m not like other moms, I’m a cool mom! The coolest of cool moms know of the chokehold that Juicy Couture had (and has!) on our early collective fashion conscious. Dig them up from the archives, grab them from off the thrift store rack, do whatever you have to do to serve us Juicy Couture velour tracksuit cool older sister coming to grab you and your friends from a party realness!
Category is OTA (open to anyone) which means all are invited to participate, but those walking must get their 10s before they proceed. A fundamental understanding of the five elements of vogue performance is required to be successful.
RUNWAY: Translucence
Ooh la la! Better not get any water on this effect, huh? Don’t wanna possibly be too revealing… might accidentally slip up and show a bit too much. But isn’t that the point ?? The fashion ideologies of the 2000 showed sheer materials, netting, and translucent textiles to usher in the dawn of the new millennium in style! Show us your best translucent effect and strut down the runway as the most see through babe around!
Category is OTA (open to anyone) which means all are invited to participate, but those walking must get their 10s before they proceed. A fundamental understanding of the runway category is required to be successful.
FACE: Lisa Frank
When iconic songstress Hilary Duff said, “Yesterday my life was duller/now everything's technicolor” we took that personally! And what better way to envision this dream, this ideology of color, and pop, and pizazz, than to emulate the gorgeous aesthetic of Lisa Frank. Her multicoloured portraits of animals, nature, and love, resonate in the minds of sticker lovers everywhere. Show us your most brilliant Lisa Frank inspired face and give these peeps a run for their money!
Category is OTA (open to anyone) which means all are invited to participate, but those walking must get their 10s before they proceed. A fundamental understanding of the face category is required to be successful.
Sex Siren: Cyber Sex
A line of code flashed across the screen of our desktop computer. AOL’s crunchy screeching dial-up came to life, and suddenly, we were inundated by the beauty of beings chopped up into little pixels and illuminated into our eyes. Webcams, chat rooms, forums galore. The age of the internet introduced a new world of intimacy, passion, and sex. Serve us your best cyber sex realness in a bid to compete for the adoration of all your online fans. Make them drip, make them tip, make them ask, “Is she the girl that’s from the video?”
Category is OTA (open to anyone) which means all are invited to participate, but those walking must get their 10s before they proceed. A fundamental understanding of the Sex Siren category is required to be successful.
BAZAAR: Y2K Apocalypse
The promise of the new millennium hangs heavy on the air, on this, the eve of 1999, ending an era of 1000 years of human civilization. Such jubilant promise lingers on the tip of our fingers as we usher in an age of technology, revolution, modernity, and future. But wait… something’s wrong. What’s this Y2K bug everyone’s talking about? Are our technologies doomed! No, we waited so long for this what’s happening! The only message on our screens when midnight hits: C̶R̶I̷T̵I̷C̵A̴L̴ ̴E̸R̶R̵O̴R̴ ̴C̸R̷I̴T̸I̵C̴A̵L̵ ̴E̵R̸R̸O̸R̶ ̴C̴R̷I̵T̸I̴C̵A̵L̶ ̵E̷R̶R̴O̸R̸. Fashion together a look based on the future, past, and abandoned technologies of the new millennium. Rise from the ashes of the Y2K apocalypse and make the judges gag as the last remnant of human existence on earth.
Category is OTA (open to anyone) which means all are invited to participate, but those walking must get their 10s before they proceed. A fundamental understanding of the Bazaar category is required to be successful.
REALNESS: Canadian Tuxedo
Well, eh? That’s a real nice suit you got on. It’s not a suit you say? Well here in Canada, jeans on jeans on jeans on denim means only one thing: one handsome son of a gun must be coming our ways! Just because we’ve entered an era of the future, doesn’t mean we’ve forsaken the fashion of the past. In many ways, double denim is as timeless as fashion can get! Prepare a denim on denim inspired look for the judges that will have even the shyest of damsels asking to split a lumberjack sandwich with you at the local diner.
Category is OTA (open to anyone) which means all are invited to participate, but those walking must get their 10s before they proceed. A fundamental understanding of the Realness category is required to be successful.
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**ACCESSIBILITY**
Please contact us at [email protected] or message us on our Vogue YYC page for accessibility accommodations.
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Washrooms are gender neutral.
Please let staff or organizers know if you experience any issues with these policies.
**LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT**
We gratefully acknowledge that we stand on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot and the people of the Treaty 7 region, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuu T'ina and the Stoney Nakoda First Nations. The City of Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
**WE DO NOT TOLERATE
Homophobia// racism// sexism// transphobia// harassment// ableism// general hatefulness
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**BALLROOM CULTURE**
TO ALL COMPETITORS: Please come prepared knowing what to expect. If you are walking in a category for the first time PLEASE do your research and understand that there can only be one winner per category.
Look up videos on YouTube, come to a VOGUE YYC session and ask, reach out to us by email ([email protected]) or on IG at @VOGUEYYC. Please use the resources around you to be prepared. We also encourage you to ask us for feedback before you compete so that you feel strong going into the ball.
We want everyone to have fun, to feel they were able to serve their best, and we want everyone to have a fair chance at competing but you WILL be chopped during your 10s and unable to compete if you are unprepared.
VOGUING is a freestyle competitive dance form that utilizes 5 key elements, in an improvised battle with other competitors. Currently (although open to interpretation within various vogue communities), the five popular elements of Vogue Performance are catwalk, hands, duckwalk, spins and dips, and floor performance.
Vogue and Ballroom culture emerged in the 1930s and 40s in New York City, birthed by the Black and Latinx LGBTQ2S+ community who were excluded from the pageant world of white America. The development of the Ballroom scene created safe and inclusive spaces for these communities to explore and experience life styles from which they were excluded due to systemic oppression.
Vogue can be categorized into 3 main styles. Pre-80s early Voguing, called “Old Way”, directly emulated the glamour and posing of high-fashion models in Vogue Magazine and showcases direct influences from popping and breaking. The style exploded when Madonna famously popularized the dance style in her music video for “Vogue”. The second style “New Way” is an evolution of “Old Way” introducing elements of contortion while maintaining linear and rigid shapes. The last, and most recent, vogue style is “Vogue Femme”. This form was created and popularized by Black trans-women in the Vogue scene as a response to the hyper masculine world of “Old Way” and “New Way” Voguing. Vogue Femme since then has also grown to further diverges into the two branches of “Soft and Kunt” and the highly popularized “Dramatics”.
“For decades, ballroom, ball or house culture has been a way for queer blacks and Latinos to live their best lives – that is, to figure out how to respond to a society that devalued their lives and attempted to erase their presence. Through elaborate performances incorporating and commenting on race, class and gender, the ball community has historically reflected the American Dream and one’s exclusion from it.” - Les Fabian Brathwaith (Quote from Rolling Stones).
A BALL is an event that hosts a series of competitive categories, each with their own focus. Having been birthed in NYC by communities of Queer Black and Latinx people out of a need for safe nightlife spaces due to the discrimination they faced, balls are typically centered around creating safe space for LGBTQIA2+ POC.
Spectators, competitors, and judges, come together to celebrate people within their communities and compete against each other in different categories. Some of the most popular categories are Vogue Performance, Sex Siren, Hands, Runway, Bazaar, and Face. Each of these categories have specific requirements, and competitors are judged by a panel on how well they accomplish them. Before competing against others, category participants are required to “walk” one by one to receive full approval from all judges, known as ‘receiving your 10s’. Competitors who make their 10s battle one on one against each other to impress the judges until there is one winner.
"This culture was co-opted during the '30s by white LGBTQ people in the New York scene, where Black participants were discriminated against. However, Black ballroom wouldn’t be dismayed, as it continued to grow as an underground movement with chapters, leaders, and houses named after some of the most famous designers. Decades later, this underground culture of primarily Black and Brown people continues to thrive in major cities throughout the United States, with expansion as far as Japan and the UK."
Article by George M Johnson https://intomore.com/.../the.../cc08d84cbedd4629
Event Venue
Twisted Element, 1006 - 11th Ave SW, Calgary, Canada
Tickets
CAD 25.00 to CAD 40.00
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