The Whoriental Kiki Ball
Schedule
Sat Sep 21 2024 at 06:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Club GRETCHEN | Berlin, BE
German Overseer Parisa Juicy Couture presents:The Whoriental Kiki Ball
21.09.2024 – 18h-23h + After Party (DJs tba)
Gretchen Berlin
Obentrautstraße 19-21, 10963 Berlin
A ball In solidarity and celebration with S3x Workers, Refugees and Activists from the SWANA region.
Set during the Whoriental Festival 2024 where beauties and talents of the Queer German Underground Performance and Ballroom Scenes unite and shine.
With the themes and category descriptions, every participant and spectator is advised to stay in their own cultures for this evening.
Traditional clothing is highly appreciated!
Dip into your ❗️ OWN ❗️ ancestry, dig up your past selves that have resisted and persisted for you to continue their lineage, and share them with the Ballroom floor.
Bring your pride, your protest and the undeniable beauty of your complex identities to the Whoriental Kiki Ball!
Judges, MC, DJ tba
KuntzWerkTV will be recording the Ball.
SPECTATORS / GUESTS
As a spectator, please refrain from registering online, as this is exclusively for community members. If you are attending as a guest, kindly purchase your tickets through this link: (select Regular Saturday / Regular Festival Pass / Support Ticket - Festival Pass)
https://t.rausgegangen.de/tickets/whoriental-festival-2024
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Registration open for Ballroom Community
CLOSES SEPTEMBER 15TH
https://forms.gle/EibUrgnYmn9esgcg6
BACKSTAGE will be limited. Please prepare yourselves and your effects accordingly.
PRODUCTIONS
Music productions can be created for any category you are walking. MP3-files to be send to this email by September 19th: [email protected]
💸💸💸 Cash Prizes on EVERY category! 💸💸💸
One grand prize per category. Final battle for the cash.
Category Order:
OTA Tag Team Realness
OTA Face with an OVAH Entrance
Tag Team Baby Runway + Baby Performance
Best Look of the Night
Triple Threat Runway, Body, Performance
OTA Sex Siren
OTA Performance
Shake That Ass: Habibti vs DHQ
OTA Tag Team Realness 💸100€
Sweet Like Honey 🍯
This Love is Finger licking delicious!
Take us to your sweet spot, your romance, your holy union!
Juicy treats for the judges are mandatory!
(Baklava, Fresh Fruit, etc)
Tag Team = NO need to pass as A COUPLE, you two can be besties, neighbours, whatever to each other.
OTA Face with an OVAH Entrance 💸100€
💥 Crystals and Perfume 💕
All the diamonds and gold in the world can’t match your beauty!
Make Your Moment as the most precious of the entire ball, wearing priceless jewelry and perfume!
Tag Team
Baby Runway + Baby Performance 💸100€
🧚 Fairy and Jinn 🧞♀️
Magical creatures of light and shadow.
Create matching looks inspired by mythologies, anime and fantasy.
OTA Sex Siren 💸100€
🐍 The Shahmaran, GodX of Snakes and Sex! 🐍
As the supreme deity of Strength, Survival and Sensuality, you are charming the judges with your serpentine movement.
For your entrance, create a seducing effect where you make use of poison, a love potion or other magic to enchant the judges and spectators from the back.
OTA Best Look of the Night 💸50€
🪭 Mommy’s Shoes 🪭
A fashionable love letter to your parents, biological or ballroom. For this category we want you to honour your ancestors and trans*cestors by bringing their shapes and shades to the floor.
Triple Threat
1 Runway, 1 Body, 1 Performance 💸150€
🌹 Paradise Flower Garden 🌹
Come together as a team, craft and style fashionable outfits that take us to your own garden of paradise.
Florals, Petals, Leaves, Vines and anything that grows roots!
No House affiliations for the battles ❗️
OTA Performance 💸50€
🔥 The original Fire 🔥
Pay homage to pioneers and blueprints of your performance category. Bring a classic, vintage or timeless look inspired by your favourites and let their energy fuse into your signature style.
When recreating moments, make sure to not copy somebody, but channel their essence and create something new and original.
Carry their fire with you, and make it hot!
Reference mandatory!
Shake That Ass: Habibti vs DHQ 💸50€
Let the spirits speak through your lower back as a language of release and rebellion!
Shimmy, belly dance, twerk and wine for the cash!
Keffiyeh or other accessories are appreciated!
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DISCLAIMER
We do not tolerate non-Black participants wearing afro-wigs, afro hairstyles, braids, locs etc. Same rules for non-asian participants wearing Kimono, Saree, Qipao etc.
You WILL be chopped from the back and escorted out.
BALLROOM HISTORY 101
Our ballroom scene originated in the late 1960s in Harlem, New York City (US) when Black and Latina fem queens separated themselves from white drag queens that were dominating the beauty pageants. With their own balls, they created spaces of safety from the white hetero-cis-sexist society that was/is extremely violent and unforgiving to femmes of colour in public spaces.
Through different categories like Realness and Face, they would mirror and mock the normative and cis-passing people on fashion magazines or in executive jobs and compete against each other to gain recognition and win grand prizes.
Knowing that our context in 2024 in Europe is different from the one that started the scene, we are protective of our space and our community.
This to say: we do not tolerate (anti-Black) racist, queerphobic, trans-mysoginistic, body-shaming, ageist, ableist, classist, xenophobic comments or behaviour in any form at our balls / in our spaces.
If you want to walk the ball, make sure to prepare your look and your performance with respect to the Icons who created the scene and their children aka the judges, hosts, MCs and DJs of the balls.
Especially if you are white, heterosexual and/or cis-gender.
