Kostume Kult Presents
Black & Light Ball 2021 – FANTASTIKK VOYAGE
Plunging into innerspace, this year we bring healing UV light “into the body” for our first large-scale event of what will become the Roaring 2020’s…
** VAX REQUIRED – SEE DETAILS BELOW **
SATURDAY JUNE 12th
9PM-5AM
3 DOLLAR BILL
260 Meserole St,
Bushwick, Brooklyn
TIX TIERS
$ 40 / 50 / 60
BUY NOW at
http://bit.ly/BLB21Tix
21+, Costumes or brightly colored Fancy Dress required
RSVP
ART THEME
On one level – this year we merge nebulous theories of injecting UV light with inspiration from the 1966 sci-fi film and numerous other “tiny-submarine-in-the-body” adventures while resuscitating the powerful glow within our community. On another level… Where is fashion going in this new era? What will the Roaring 2020’s be about
and what kind of costume vibes shall we activate on June 12th? For this night, consider retro sci-fi psychedelia including any form of neon swim-wear, UV spandex and fluorescent-medical. BLB is about any form of light art & UV reactivity and, this year we consider our special circumstances and shine twenty+ black light cannons at them!
DJs in multiple rooms
RENEGADE MASTERS – [SOUP NYC, Admit One Records] bit.ly/3pnSYGR
THE COMPANY SOUNDSYSTEM [Nite Grooves, LTHM, 3Bridge] bit.ly/3yMO8H5
DÉVOTION – [Tuckahoe // Rao // Ostro]
AKA Trick – [Just Playing Records, Kostume Kult]
MONIKKR – [Bubbles & Bass / NYCBC]
VITO FUN – [Kostume Kult, Glamcocks, Bubbles & Bass,]
KENZIE [Illumination / Plus]
ART / ACTIVITIES / VOLUNTEER
– Midnight: Community Fashion Show with Emcee Christopher
– Vulvaic Photobooth
– Sperm Mobile- UV Labyrinth
– Bloodstream Ballooning
– Fluorescence Royale
– Komfort Zone
– Touchy Blinky
– Neon Ganglion
– InnerSpace Vortex Video
– Neon Sakks by Saki & Shoji
– DoubleHelix by Gene Harrison
– Balloon Design by Atrina Lovekins
– Visuals by The Sperm Whale
– Lasers by Dougie Lazer
TO VOLUNTEER
http://bit.ly/BLB21Volunteer
PROPOSE ART or ACTIVITY
http://bit.ly/BLB21Artist
SCIENCE & SAFETY
This is a fully vaccinated INDOOR party following CDC and NYC guidelines. Proof of full vaccination status required at the door. (ORIGINAL Vaccine Card, Excelsior Pass, or other certified apps) We are unable to make exceptions to this rule for any reason. If you were vaccinated in New York State, you are already in the NYS vaccine registry and simply need to download the mobile app and activate your pass. In order to speed admittance to the event, we strongly recommend this option!
SIGNUP FOR NYS EXCELSIOR PASS HERE:
https://epass.ny.gov/home
TEAM
Producer: Susan Chen & Gene Harrison
Decor: Dave Friedeborn & Elisa Hetmanski
Volunteer Wrangling: Dave Friedeborn
Music Curation: Gene Harrison & Kishti
Flyer: Tom Egan & Costume Jim
Photographer Wrangling: Tom Egan
Ticketing issues: tickets@kostumekult.com
ONLINE ACCESS
If you cannot make it to the live event or not yet fully vaxxed, you can join the event online for interactive conversations & dancing with people at the live event and elsewhere via
-> https://backroom.social/kostumekult <-
with more info on how this works (how-to video) at: https://youtu.be/7LeHFsd5UME
JOIN OUR TELEGRAM CHANNEL
Join the ‘Friends of Kostume Kult’ (FoKKr) Channel on Telegram at: https://t.me/s/fokkr … Low volume, one-way announcements on this encrypted app, this will be for confidential updates for Black & Light Ball and future underground events. Part of the new reality is developing channels outside of Facebook!
ABOUT
Black & Light Ball is an annual psychedelic spring fundraiser for Kostume Kult (Costume Cultural Society), a non-profit arts org supporting costume art, street theater and big fun while bringing wonderful people together. BLB #16 is a high tech themed event mixing glowing light art and many fabulous fluorescent fashions being illuminated by a vast array of black light cannons. For more info, please visit: http://box5822.temp.domains/~kostumek/join/ and,
to join our low-volume event announcement list for earliest announcements, please sign-up at http://box5822.temp.domains/~kostumek/join/mailchimp/
COMING NEXT
FreaKKshow: Late July
Elements Festival: Labor Day weekend
Halloween: City of Gods (two nights), Halloween Parade & After Party
COMMUNITY CODES
True to Burning Man’s 10 Principles: Kostume Kult is inclusive, welcoming the stranger and all those who dare to participate. In HORNS!… Our events are safe spaces where we welcome new people while warning everyone to *respect boundaries* and *ask first* when photographing or flirting… And until covid is behind us, it is Safety First!