Party: The Mainstreeters Dragball

Party: The Mainstreeters Dragball

After a 30-year hiatus, the legendary Mainstreeters Dragball that transformed Mt. Pleasant is back, featuring Vancouver’s best drag queens, DJs, performers, and Vera Wong as the outrageous Mistress of Ceremonies. Co-presented by The Grunt Gallery.

The Mainstreeters
From 1977 to 1985, the Mainstreeters’ Dragballs began as intimate studio events, developing into elaborate art parties with spectacular décor, performances, and DJs. Shaping an important chapter in Vancouver’s history, the Mainstreeters were an “art gang” of East Van rebels who were fearlessly open about their work, sexualities, and lifestyles, helping to build a Warhol Factory-like scene that still resonates today. This month’s dragball will be a showstopping night of old and new-school gender-bending drag queens, kings, and everything in between. There will be special performances, homages, and awards for Best in Drag—the perfect opportunity to finally express your “other” self and take it to the next level
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House rules: Come in drag, or not at all! Bring out your creative best.

Performers:
Vera Wang, Maria Toilette, Badkitty Lulu, Dairy Queens, Edward Malaprop, Jane Smoker, and Berlin Stiller.

DJs: HEAVEN record-spinners Trevor Risk & Patrick Campbell.

Visuals by: Paul Wong and Patrick Daggitt.

This event is part of Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage, on view at the Satellite Gallery until Mar 14, 2015.

Saturday, March 7th.
Fox Cabaret
2321 Main St.
10:30pm-2:00am

Tickets available through Eventbrite.

Invited: Brandon William Fletcher, Karen Segal, Tamara Ramusovic, Dening Eugene, David Walmsley, Pascale Laviolette, Michelle Etienne, Kyle Martin Jones, Lisa Mickleborough, Lyndsay Tilston, Emma Helsinki Cooper, Patrick Campbell, Audrey MacDonald, Jennifer Chiu, Fabian Muljono, Bella Sie, Hayley Goo Ooze, Jen Gregory, Jules Francisco, Patrick Daggitt, Kate Henderson, Monique Levesque, Rossanne Whitney, Airiel Adele Ellyse, Zoë Alexander, Dan Wurzer, Christine Walker, Alli Brahniuk, Harry Slaughter, Kasey Rae, Lauren Ray, Matt Cooke, Hannah Rose Maté, Kathleen Taylor, Gillian Thomson, Becca Clarkson, Jesse Blanchie, Leeland Askew, Paul Abila, Bry Bry, Desi Rekrut, Leigh Matthews, Brittney Rand, Jenna Ashley Winder, Camille Flanjak, Julia Jean, Tamara Brown, Sydney Koby, Loren Bird, Kar Harvey, Stephen Liddell, Devo B., Alison Arsenault, Justin Mac, Daniel Zomparelli, Olivia Dreisinger, Sean Beardoncé Parsons, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Debi Abrantes, Shannon Rose, Hussein HandsomeTiger, Nathalie Levesque, Douglas Watt, Danielle Marie, Trevor Risk, Michael Gibson, Kate Spudson, Rae Takei, Åsa Cederholm, Mark Ollinger, Melissa Mayo, Lise Monique, Nathan McLean, Matthew Santoro, Fiona Rayher, Val Lee, Katie Randall, Ryan Rose, Steph Parkes, Cole Alvis, Brent Haddow, Emil Hadad, Jodie Leanne Sentes, Lisa Zed, Gord Pollock, Daniel R., Tanya Crail, Shane Raman, Pat Valade, Paula Paulita, Erica Divine, Hannah Conroy, Gisele da Silva, Matt Troy, Prince Thomas, Alyssa Marie Dusevic, Bea Edelstein, Patricia Louis, Sven Summer Tsvetkov, Tom Hsu show more »