Y2Cali Kiki Ball

Y2Cali Kiki Ball

Welcome to the Y2Cali Kiki Ball, where the glamour of Beverly Hills's rich and famous meets the wild 2000s. Designer drama, tabloid scandals, and iconic pop culture moments defined a generation. It’s all about money, fame, and messy reality TV energy—red carpet arrivals, paparazzi chases, and juicy drama of Hollywood’s elite. From the sun-soaked beaches of Malibu to the velvet rope exclusivity of LA’s hottest clubs, bring looks and attitude – rich, reckless, and ridiculously iconic. In the 2000s, Southern California was not just about looking at the part but about playing the game.

🎟 TICKETS & ENTRY

● Competitor Entry: $5

● Spectator Entry: $20

● Tables: $100 *email infovkba@gmail.com for table inquires

📅 EVENT SCHEDULE

● Doors Open: 3:00 PM

● LSS: 4:30 PM

🎤 Commentator: Ego Telfar

🎙 Host: Batty 007

🎧 DJ: Softishan 007

🔥 CATEGORIES & EFFECTS - OTY APPROVED

🎭 OTA BEST DRESSED

(MF, FF, GNC)

This just in! The red-carpet looks from the early 2000’s Music Awards were OVAH! Pay homage to an iconic red-carpet-inspired look from any music awards show from the early 2000s. Think the Grammy Awards, the MTV Video Music Awards, the Billboard Music Awards, etc.

Must include a printed reference photo

📸 OTA FACE

(New Face, BQ, FQ, Drags, GNC, Womens, Trans Man)

Is your MUG(shot) front-page-worthy? Bring it in a celebrity courtroom effect that’ll have the tabloids gagging.

Must include a printed reference photo.

✨ OTA HANDS PERFORMANCE

Snap, snap! Bring it in a paparazzi look and incorporate snapping photos as the world’s best paparazzi throughout the 10s and battles.

🎟 OTA REALNESS

(New Realness, School Boy, Pretty Boy, Everyday, Executive, Trans Man, Butch, FQ, Drags)

Coachella has been labeled "the premier pop music festival in the country", while Rolling Stone labeled it "America's Best Music Festival". Tonight, the realest ones are working the festival and the judges want to see you as:

● New Realness: Festival attendee.

(Walking 1 year or less.)

● School Boy: Festival Intern

● Pretty Boy: Social Media Influencer

● Executive: Record Label Exec

● Trans Man: Roadie or Backline Tech

● Butch: Security

● FQ: Hair or Make Up Stylist

● Drags: Musician or Performer

● Everyday: Food Truck Worker.

💃DANCE, DANCE, DANCE

Hit the dance floor with your freestyle moves as classic house anthems from 2000 to 2010 set the vibe. Feel the energy of house music legends like Carl Cox, Todd Terry, Daft Punk, and Benny Benassi. Serve a true 2000s look—baggy jeans, a bold graphic tee, and the attitude to dance, dance, dance!

󰝢 OTA BAZAAR

Pool Parties were all the rage in the early 2000s, hitting the runway in an avant-garde and fashion-breaking look utilizing items found on the pool deck - such as pool floaties, lifesavers, snorkels, and/or pool skimmers.

🎤 OTA COMMENTATOR VS. COMMENTATOR

For 10s, bring an original chant incorporating a line or two from a song about California.

🏆 OTA RUNWAY

(Virgin, BQ European, Drags Runway, Femme Queen European, Women's Runway, FF All-American, MF All-American)

Ooooooo, BRATZ! We want to see the superior fashion dolls pumping the runway! For European, bring it in a head-to-toe inspired BRATZ doll look. For All Americans, bring it in a look inspired by BRATZ - Boys.

💪 OTA BODY

(MF, FF)

Step into the ultimate after-dark Playboy Mansion party.

● Female Figure: Show up in ears and a tail (think bunny, fox, etc.); you embody

playful seduction.

● Male Figure: Show up in a satin robe and boxers, showing us your effortless charm.

📻 OTA OLD WAY VS. NEW WAY

(Old Way, New Way)

The way we listen to music has changed so much over the last few decades. From records to tape players, there have been many advancements in audio devices, but two brands overtook the 2000s.

● Old Way: Bring it in a Walkman-inspired effect

● New Way: Bring it in an iPod-inspired effect.

Utilize the colours and logos for whichever device your breakdown calls for.

🔥 OTA SEX APPEAL

(MF, FF)

Sex Appeal is a category about the art of seduction. Keep it mostly clothed in a

not-so-school-appropriate look inspired by a 90210 character. Nudity of any private areas will be an automatic chop, even during the battles

💅 NAIL AFFAIR

Bring your decked-out clawz in a Cheetah Girls-inspired effect, dripping head to toe in Y2K vibes. The nails and the effect must coordinate.

🎶 OTA PERFORMANCE

(Virgin, BQVF, RWT, FQ, Drags, Womens, Butches)

We all know the baddest bitches wore velour! Serve the vogue femme elements in a velour tracksuit that shows off how cunt you are.

LAND/CULTURAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND CONSENT

We would like to acknowledge that we are coming together to celebrate on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations.

As an organization that is founded by non Black and Latinx people we acknowledge our ongoing need to question and reflect on how we navigate practicing our ballroom scene here in Vancouver, BC. We know we do not have all the answers and are always looking to be better. We are always seeking and open to how we can better support the Queer/Trans Black and Brown folks that founded the culture we love and share through VVJ.

Creating safe space has always been at the heart of ballroom culture and we hope that this event can be a safe space for everybody to enjoy.

Oppressive attitudes and behaviours including but not limited to misogyny, transphobia, racism, fat phobia, ableism, and general bigotry are not welcome here.

Racism, Anti-Blackness, homophobia, transphobia and sexism are ongoing battles that are being experienced in America, Canada and the rest of the world. We all have a lot of work to do in the ongoing fight for equality and have compiled a list of resources to help you support, donate, educate and take action to help you wherever you may be in your continued unlearning/relearning process.

If there are ways VVJ can better create an inclusive and safe space please do inform us by e-mail at info@vanvoguejam.com so that we may listen to your input and improve on this for future events.

A BALL

An event that hosts a series of competitive categories, each with their own focus. Having been birthed in NYC by communities of Queer Black and Latinex people out of a need for safe nightlife spaces due to the discrimination they faced, balls are typically centred around creating safe space for LGBTQIA2+ POC.

Spectators, competitors, and judges, come together to celebrate people within their communities and compete against each other in different categories. Some of the most popular categories are Vogue Performance, Sex Siren, Hands, Runway, Bazaar, and Face. Each of these categories have specific requirements, and competitors are judged by a panel on how well they accomplish them. Before competing against others, category participants are required to “walk” one by one to receive full approval from all judges, known as ‘receiving your 10s’. Competitors who make their 10s battle one on one against each other to impress the judges until there is one winner.

HISTORY

Ballroom culture, drag ball culture, the house-ballroom community, and similar terms describe an underground queer subculture in which people "walk" (i.e., compete), perform, dance, lip-sync, and model in different categories, which are designed to simultaneously epitomize and satirize gender constructs, occupations, and social classes, while also offering an escape from reality. Category participants are required to “walk” one by one to receive full approval from all judges, known as ‘receiving your 10s’. Competitors are judged on their abilities, “effect” (costumes, appearance, theatrics, presentation), and perceived “realness” (embodied and/or visual believability, authenticity). Those who make their 10s battle one on one against each other for trophies, prizes, and glory.

Ballroom culture emerged in the late 1960s in New York City, birthed by the Black and Latinx LGBTQ2S+ community who were excluded from the drag pageant world of white America. The development of the Ballroom scene created safe and inclusive spaces for these communities to explore and experience life styles from which they were excluded due to systemic oppression.

Vogue is a freestyle competitive dance form that utilizes 5 key elements in an improvised battle with other competitors. Currently (although open to interpretation within various vogue communities), the five popular elements of Vogue Performance are catwalk, hands, duckwalk, spins and dips, and floor performance.

“For decades, ballroom, ball or house culture has been a way for queer Blacks and Latinos to live their best lives – that is, to figure out how to respond to a society that devalued their lives and attempted to erase their presence. Through elaborate performances incorporating and commenting on race, class and gender, the ball community has historically reflected the American Dream and one’s exclusion from it.” - Les Fabian Brathwaith (Quote from Rolling Stones).

QUESTIONS?

Please contact the VKBA for more information at infovkba@gmail.com