Van Vogue Jam teams up with Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week for blowout Supernatural Kiki Ball, December 2
Expect runway divas, vogue battles, and competitions for grand cash prizes
Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week and Van Vogue Jam present Supernatural Kiki Ball on December 2 at Performance Works
VANCOUVER INDIGENOUS Fashion Week is closing its weeklong event with a fashion dance extravaganza.
Founded by dance artist Ralph Escamillan,Van Vogue Jam is teaming up with the organization to present a Supernatural Kiki Ball. Expect runway divas, vogue battles, and competitions for grand cash prizes. Categories include Runway, Realness, Bizarre, and more.
The theme inspiring the celebration is supernatural beings from the past, present, and future, drawing on all things above and beyond the natural world.
Van Vogue Jam has grown Vancouver’s ballroom culture over the past eight years, creating a safe space for queer and BIPOC communities to showcase the artistry of fashion, art, and performance on the runway.
This is the first time the two organizations have teamed up for an event. Hosts for the evening are Khelsilem 007 and Jaye Simpson.
Janet Smith is an award-winning arts journalist who has spent more than two decades immersed in Vancouver’s dance, screen, design, theatre, music, opera, and gallery scenes. She sits on the Vancouver Film Critics’ Circle.
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