As Black & Light Ball is a fundraiser, please contribute at the highest level you can afford. Thank you for your generosity.
Please RSVP & invite friends: http://www.facebook.com/events/277373559018769
Volunteer: http://tinyurl.com/BLB2012volunteers
Disorient and Kostume Kult present:
BLACK & LIGHT BALL VII
~ Electric Culture ~
On Saturday, May 12th, please join Kostume Kult and Disorient for our annual black-lit spring formal and Burning Man project fundraiser, this year mixing microbiology (cell cultures) with all things electronic, luminescent, and musical. Explore your inner universe and the primordial ooze from which all life has sprung, bring out your microbial, protozoan best, and be prepared to dance all night in a high-tech, ultraviolet petri dish with one of the best sound systems in NYC, glowing UV creations, and exotic apparel.
Saturday Night, May 12th, 9pm to 5am
DISTRICT 36
29 West 36th Street
Between 5th & 6th Aves
Midtown Manhattan
Drink Specials all night
21+
DRESS: A faux-upscale event with an annual theme, this year we encourage electronics and microorganisms-- glowing, throbbing or flagellating. A black light party in a primordial soup can or creative, neon black tie where all effort is appreciated and imaginations are free to be wild.
DJs on two floors spinning electrifying music to make you dance all night:
Davidson Ospina (Ospina Digital / PEX / Bubbles & Bass : Philly)
Arrow Chrome (Disorient : NYC)
Boris Burning Elf (Kostume Kult / Toad : Queens)
DK (Kostume Kult / Toad : NYC)
EZ Almighty (Space Pirates / Disorient : Philly)
Friar Tuck (Disorient : Brooklyn)
Sequoia (Disorient / Mischief : DC)
Adi (Disorient : Brooklyn)
VISUALS:
VJ Gui"aum"etriX (Disorient, NYC)
PERFORMERS:
Solstice Dancers - Solstice
JustinJustin Toca & Ale'Ale' Drummers
Entwined - Feed Me
ARTISTS (highlights):
Betty T. Kao - Back to the Sea of Soup
Britelite - Black Light Chandeliers
John Walter - Anti-Gravity True Mirror
Matthieu Boardman - Liquid Sculpture
Rebecca Nuvoletta - Puddle
The Eye - Halo
Thomas Egan - Photo Booth
Liquidmatter - Airbrushing
Vann Godfrey & co. - Transformational Bodypainting
Bodyworx.me - Live Bodypainting
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BLACK & LIGHT BALL is a fundraiser for Kostume Kult and Disorient, both 100% volunteer-run art collectives. Proceeds go entirely towards creating our Burning Man theme camps and public art projects.
Kostume Kult is a costume art, theme event and media collective involved in public festivals, underground art parties and street theater events.
Disorient is an open creative platform powered by love. We create art projects and art installations with hardware including wood, scaffolding, palette racks, containers, recycled materials, your body, geodesic domes, inflatable structures, video, repurposed objects, black lights and vehicles. We develop software for our installations. Our guiding principles are outlined in the Disorient Model and in the Political Economy of Disorient.
