Kostume Kult’s
Black & Light Ball 2025
ELEKKTROPUNK
🗓 Saturday, May 31st, 2025
⏰ 9PM to 5AM
📍 9 Bob Note, 270 Meserole Street, Bushwick BK
As we spiral into a hyper-technical era, Kostume Kult conjures a black-lit vision of the future, mixing sparks from Cyberpunk, Solarpunk and Raverpunk cultures. Syncing with Burning Man 2025’s “Tomorrow/Today” theme, we flash forward into a world of creative rebellion and 24/7 psychedelia — at a sprawling indoor/outdoor venue glowing with UV light and electric energy where we invite you to radiate your most luminous future fashions.
DJs on indoor/outdoor stages
Oveus
Softer
Rafael De La Cruz
Travisty
WildMike
Flared Bass
Bumpy Nuggets
THEME / ART / ACTIVITIES
⚡ ElekktriCity ⚡
Welcome to ElekktriCity and the glorious future, where humanity has cracked the code for a utopia — albeit with a punky, seedy vibe. ElekktriCity is a retro-futuristic place that harbors some dirty secrets 🤫, discoverable by those bold enough to dive into the districts… 🌆
🟣 THE BLACKLIGHT DISTRICT
A dodgy place of dissidents and rabble-rousers 💥 with several ill-advised activities including:
🍑 Crappy Endings Buttock Buffing Lounge (they’ll buff the 💩 out of you)
🛠️ Tinker your tech at the ReVolting Lab
🌱 Seedy CDs offering glowing garden seeds yielded from genetic plant experimentation
🧪 NutriPaste Glory Hole: Kneel and receive daily nutrients 🧎♂️✨
🔌 THE CONDUIT DISTRICT
The gateway to the outside 🌐
💊 Solicit mood stimulants at the Volt Vault
😁 Get a glow job from Glow Co’s dentist
👗 Shop the Violet Vintage boutique
🛣️ Traverse the Elekktric Boulevard
⚠️ THE POWER PLANT
A highly controlled government site 🏛️.
Move along, there’s nothing to see here. (except… 👀)
🔋 The Generator: the powering place
🧑✈️ The Mayor’s Office: the governing place
📇 The Citizenship Bureau: the controlling place
⚡SynthLab by Xris Smack 🎶
👉 BE AN ACTOR 🎭 in an interactive experience! (Form link below)
GET INVOLVED
Propose Art / Activity / Acting: bit.ly/KKBLB25ART
Volunteer: bit.ly/KKBLB25VOL
TEAM
Production: Gene Harrison & Rafael De La Cruz
Theatrikks & Co-Production: Alex Gurevich
Decor: Alienz & Lucey
Volunteer Coordinator: Danisa Arias
Promotion: Marz Katz
Koms: Claire Novotny
Music Curation: Kishti & Gene Harrison
Flyer: Michelle Staton
Photography Wrangling: Tom Egan
Ticketing issues: tickets@kostumekult.com
ABOUT
Black & Light Ball is an annual springtime fundraiser for the Kostume Kult arts collective, 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 #20 is a high tech event mixing glowing light art and fabulous fluorescent fashions illuminated by a vast array of black lights. Get involved, join us at 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.