Kostume Kult Presents
JABBERWONKY
Black & Light Ball 2024
Beware the Jabberwonk, the jaws that giggle, the paws that dance. Descend into our rabbit hole for a most luminous circumstance.
SATURDAY JUNE 8th
9pm to 5am
@ 9 Bob Note
270 Meserole St
Bushwick, BK
(2 big rooms + a large outdoor space)
Costumes or Neon Fashions Required
21+
ART THEME
At Black & Light Ball, all forms of electronic or black light reactive fashions are encouraged. In homage to Burning Man’s, “Curiouser & Curiouser” Alice in Wonderland theme, this year we mix all things Lewis Carroll with nonsensical poetic license and many black lights. Eat me, drink me, wear fancy hats. Tea will be served… (More inspiration at bottom)
MUSIC
DJs in 2 rooms:
– Travisty
– WildMike
– Braulio
– MAMÍ X PAPÍTBA
* More TBA
ART & ACTIVITIES
– Flamingo Croquet
– Tweedledum and Dummer
– Neon Caterpillar
– More TBD – Suggest something!
GET INVOLVED!
TEAM
Production: Gene Harrison
Decor: Danisa Arias
Music Curation: Kishti & Gene Harrison
Flyer: Michelle Staton
Photographer Wrangler: Tom Egan
Ticketing issues?: tickets@kostumekult.com
ABOUT
Black & Light Ball is an annual springtime fundraiser for Kostume Kult, a non-profit arts org supporting costume art, street theater and big fun while bringing wonderful people together. Originally a psychedelic spoof of Truman Capote’s Black & White Ball, BLB #19 is a high tech event mixing glowing light art and fabulous fluorescent fashions illuminated by many black lights. For more info, please visit: kostumekult.com/join/
COMMUNITY CODES
True to Burning Man’s 10 Principles: Kostume Kult is inclusive, welcoming the stranger and all those who dare to participate. Our events are safe spaces where we welcome new people while warning everyone to *respect boundaries* and *ask first* when photographing or flirting.
INSPIRATION
JABBERWOCKY by Lewis Carroll
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought —
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
WHITE RABBIT by Jefferson Airplane
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you’re going to fall
Tell ’em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head