Ladies Day at The Ballery

Name: Ladies Day at The Ballery
Start: 2025-03-07T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-07T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Nollendorfstrasse 11, 10777 Berlin, Germany

Schedule

Fri Mar 07 2025 at 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Nollendorfstrasse 11, 10777 Berlin, Germany | Berlin, BE

The Ballery, Simon Williams invites you to our Ladies Day art salon event. Dress to impress.
A sharing of visual and performing arts with a collective of Berlin based artists and friends.
Friday 07th March 2025
6-10pm
What brings people to work together? For The Ballery, it has been the impulse to form a collective of artists and performers who have stepped out of the main stream to follow their own personal path, and whose artistry comes from a keen observation of the world, as well as a strong and wide-ranged background.
Because all believe creation, whatever the medium, is deeply rooted in human experiences, the common wish is to lead the audience to actively live the performance more than merely watching a show.
Around director Simon Williams, The Ballery has gathered a group of artists coming from all parts of the world. Dance, music, visual arts or literature, each medium is an equally important part of a more global work.
What is Ladies Day?
Many of the world's biggest horse racing festivals feature a Ladies’ Day. The idea appears simple: it’s a day that women are welcome at the races. But of course, women are always welcome at horse racing events. So why is there a day supposedly dedicated to them?
Well, the concept of Ladies’ Day actually goes back more than two centuries – and it’s important to understand the historical context of these events. Back in the 1700s men, women and children were all permitted to attend racing festivals, and it was only in the early 19th century that Beau Brummel – the Prince Regent’s mate – suggested a dress code for men.
Men of status, he said, would need to begin wearing pantaloons, waisted black coats and white cravats. The style took on and it’s why men in the royal enclosure at Ascot wear what they do to this day.
However, there was no specific dress code for women because they were expected to dress to their social status anyway. This meant upper-class women in the 19th century wore dresses and coats that befitted their status. Once Queen Victoria started wearing hats at the races, women were encouraged to wear headpieces too.
The first genuine concept of a “Ladies’ Day” emerged at Royal Ascot in 1823, when a poem penned for the event referred to “Ladies’ Day… when the women, like angels, look sweetly divine.”
Tickets at the door: 10€