Twisted Element & VogueYYC present: 

Now Showing . . . Kiki Ball

featuring Calypso Jeté PinkLady & iconic members of the kiki house PinkLady, Legendary Mother Maldita Siriano, Legendary OA Father Twysted Siriano, Mother Katria Gvasalia, Father Gago Gvasalia, OA Mother Posh Gvasalia, Mother Ivy Andromeda and Prince Cardi Galore. 

Thank you to GoFreddie for sponsoring this event.

Lights, camera, action! Oh, the movies - the solace of silence, the allure of the theatre lights shimmering overhead. From the advent of the stop-motion picture, to the silent films of the early 20th century, cinema has united and celebrated stories of the ages all across the world for over a century now. Join us for a night of jubilant celebration, of buttery popcorn and sweet candies, to hear the roar of speakers filling the theatre with music, singing, and laughter. The crackle of flashing bulbs mesmerizes moviegoers as they enter the building, ready for an evening you won’t soon forget, featuring recently released films… - VogueYYC present’s Now Showing, A Kiki Ball. 

 

DATE: WEDNESDAY AUGUST 30TH, 2023

DOORS: 7 P.M. 

MEET & GREET: 8 P.M. 

CATEGORIES BEGIN: 9:30 P.M.

VENUE: TWISTED ELEMENT

 

 

The evening celebrates the art of vogue with categories open to all.
Read on for more info on special guests, categories and ticket info.

 

 

FEATURING

DJ:
Father Gago Gvasalia

HOST:
OA Mother Posh Gvasalia

COMMENTATOR:
Legendary OA Father Twysted Siriano

WITH JUDGES:
Mother Calypso Jeté PinkLady
Legendary Mother Maldita Siriano
Mother Katria Gvasalia
Mother Ivy Andromeda 
Prince Cardi Galore

 

CATEGORIES:

 

OTA VIRGIN RUNWAY - PRIZE: $100

JOHN WICK 4
Years were spent in the criminal underground hiding, shying away from the throes of a violent past. First they came for your career… but then they came for your dog - this time, it’s personal! Give us runway in your best suit and tie combo a la the famous assassin John Wick.

 

OTA VIRGIN PERFORMANCE - PRIZE: $100

ELEMENTAL (PIXAR)
Water, earth, fire, air.
Long ago in Calgary, the four elements lived in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Now Showing Kiki Ball attacked! The elements both battle, play, and meld with each other in an eternal dance that keeps the natural world in balance. Singe like fire, soothe like water! Give us your best Elemental look and battle it out for OTA Virgin Performance! 

 

OTA PERFORMANCE - PRIZE: $100

SPIDERMAN: ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSE
Come as one of the many multiverse spider heroes, or as a new spider hero from another universe to join the story. 

It didn’t begin with Peter Parker… It didn't end with Miles Morales. The webs of our masked friend stretch and grow as the love of our favorite neighborhood hero, Spiderman, expands into the Spiderverse! Come dressed as one of the many multiverse spider heroes, or perhaps create your own zany webslinger hero ready to take on the likes of Doc Oc and Venom!

 

OTA RUNWAY - PRIZE: $100

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
You grasp the golden treasure in front of you only for the booby trap to suddenly give way to the floor under your feet! AHH! You crash down, the dust settles, and you find yourself on a runway in the thick of the Now Showing Kiki Ball OTA Runway category! Khaki, adventure attire, debonaire cunning - come as one of the characters in the fifth installment of the Indiana Jones Franchise, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny! Whips not mandatory but encouraged. 

 

OTA FACE - PRIZE: $100

BARBIE
Homemaker, astronaut, plumber, overall woman extraordinaire - it’s Barbie! When she’s not busy questioning the existential aspects of her existence, Barbie can be found shining as a beacon for all those searching for purpose, beauty, and meaning in this world. From the realms of Barbieland, to Fairytopia, to Mermaids, come serve face as a character from the flawlessly plastic Barbie universe and be who you wanna be! You wanna go for a ride? 

PRIZE: $100

 

REALNESS - PRIZE: $100

MOVIE NIGHT
It’s movie night! Whether it's for a date, a night out with friends on the town, or an evening to geek out over the most anticipated release, give us moviegoing civilian realness! Are you the regular who comes in every Tuesday, tickets in one hand, Rotten Tomatoes open in the other? Or are you a platinum movie member, the one who employees see and think, “Wow, I wanna watch a movie with them!” Serve us realness for the big screen!

 

OTA BEST DRESSED - PRIZE: $100

RED CARPET MOVIE PREMIERE
Come as a star dressed for their movie premiere on the red carpet.

The starlets of times past made it a point to glisten and sparkle at premieres just as brightly as the stars in the sky. In this same vein, glamour bridges the gap between heaven and earth, to accentuate our features, to help those shine brighter than limelight and glisten along the red carpet! Show us what it means to be best dressed strutting at the premiere of your motion picture! 

 

OTA SEX SIREN - PRIZE: $100

MAGIC MIKE’s LAST DANCE
A bath of purple light enveloped the audience as the performers’ prepared for their final curtain call. Dressed in their best attire, the sultry dancers emerged from the stage glistening with sweat, pulsating at the prospect of the rhythmic night. Suddenly, a dancer catches your eye and Magic Mike himself calls you to the stage - it’s time to give it your all! Give us Sex Siren in your best Magic Mike inspired look - will you save that dance for us?

 

TICKETS

COMPETITORS:
$10 at Door

SPECTATORS:
Early Bird: $15 until August 10th, $20 until August 20th.
$25 Online - or - $30 At Door

Meet & Greet Package:
$40

 

 

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 (vogueyyc@gmail.com) 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