Da Return- Baltimore Know Your Status Free Ball
Schedule
Sat, 30 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Baltimore Unity Hall | Baltimore, MD
🔥🔥🔥 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND 🔥🔥🔥Legendary Keith Ebony and Begin Anew presents...
✨ DA RETURN: Know Your Status Mini Ball Deluxe & Conference ✨
📅 Saturday, May 30, 2026
📍 Baltimore Unity Hall | 1505 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, MD 21217
🚪 Doors at 6PM | LSS at 7PM
🎟️ FREE ADMISSION | Over $3,500 in Prizes
Your Hosts:
🎤 Icon Jack Gorgeous Gucci (HBO Max "Legendary" Co-EP | FX's "Pose")
🎤 Icon Mook Ebony
After 10 legendary years and a whole lotta people asking... WE'RE BACK. But this time, we're coming with a mission to Educate, Motivate, and advocate!
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📋 CATEGORIES. Just Bring It
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BEGINNER RUNWAY
BEGINNER PERFORMANCE
$BEST DRESSED
$MF CLASSY SEX SIREN
$FF CLASSY SEX SIREN
$MF REALNESS — Thugs · Pretty Boy · Executive · Schoolboy · Transman · Legends
$FF REALNESS — Drag · FQ · Legends
$OTA RUNWAY (MF vs FF vs Legends/Icons). 3 trophies, 1 cash
$OTA PERFORMANCE (twisters, BQ, Drag, FQ, Transman, Oldway,Legends/Icons). 7 trophies, 1 cash
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🏆 Storytelling as a group— $1,000 PRODUCTION
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Tonight we wanna see a PRODUCTION. 🎬
Each team will take one of the following topics and create a 2-3 minute production that educates, entertains, and spreads awareness and resources. Must choose one of the following issues:
🗳️ Voting Rights
🎗️ HIV/AIDS
⚖️ Gender Equality
💊 Substance Abuse
Your team must include: a Runway, a Performance, a Realness, and a SECRET WEAPON that will WAKE THE BUILDING. 💥
Here's the twist — there's NO house affiliation tonight. Your cast can be made up of members from ANY house. Tonight we showcase that working together despite differences can produce AMAZING results. Build your dream team and BRING IT.
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🏠 HOUSE CHALLENGES
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🏆 House with the MOST MEMBERS TESTED — wins a prize
🏆 House with the MOST PEOPLE REGISTERED TO VOTE — wins a prize
Not in a house? Give your point to any house of your choosing.
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🤝 FOR OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS
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You been at the free balls. You watched Pose. You heard the community talk about ballroom. You understand and respect the space — but TONIGHT, we wanna see what you learned. 👀
Open to our community partners, family members, and allies. You cannot have walked a ball before. Let’s have FUN.
💼 BEST DRESSED — In the Field!
You may be doing outreach, tabling events, and working in community... but you ALWAYS look good doing it. Come from behind that table and Bring it to the floor!
💎 FACE
Your face matches your heart of gold — flawless.
🎁 SWAG vs SWAG
Bring items from your table and SELL IT to the judges. Best swag wins.
👠 RUNWAY
Just bring it and have fun.
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📌 WALKING SPECIFICS
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Every person who wants to walk MUST visit the Resource Center first and get a ticket to participate. The tickets will need to be stamped by tables. You give your stamped ticket before you walk. That simple. Completing any service in the resource center is voluntary — but the conversation is mandatory to walk.
Resource Center includes: Health screenings including HIV/AIDS · Voter Registration · Mental Health · Employment · Education · and more
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Kicking off Pride Month 2026 🌈
#DaReturn #KnowYourStatus #BallroomCulture #Baltimore #FreeBall #HIV #VoterRegistration #PrideMonth #Ballroom #LGBTQ #CommunityHealth #BaltimoreBallroom
Where is it happening?
Baltimore Unity Hall, 1505 Eutaw Place,Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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