Horned Ball 2016 at Webster Hall 20,000 Horns Under the Sea

Would you believe its almost time for Horned Ball again!?
Kostume Kult welcomes Spring with its annual emergence of horned beasts and creatures to party all night long.

This year we are going deep, deep sea diving that is. Come with us 20,000 Horns Under the Sea to a Steampunk themed adventure!

Kostume Kult Presents
-- Horned Ball 2016 --
20,000 Horns Under The Sea

Saturday 4.9.16 - 9pm to 5am
Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St., NYC

TIX: Buy Now at http://bit.ly/HornedBallNYC
Tickets Tiers: $40/ 50 (Early tier $30 sold out)
$60 at the door (if available)
Drink Specials all night
21+

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/485930291595872/

This April, please join Kostume Kult for our largest ever horned spring bacchanal ever! Channeling Jules Verne, on April 9th we plunge into the sea with a steampunk adventure to the Lost City of Aquatis and its wild variety of sexy and strange HORNED creatures… And our Philly friends Space Pirates!

THEME:
While HORNS of any type will suffice, to play along with this year's theme, come as steampunk explorer, horny pirate, mermaid, aquatic retro-futuristic, bizarro deep-sea, mesozoic oceania, tentacles, leviathans, krakens or anything with horns, spikes or tusks. Jules Verne wrote both '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' and 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'… We mash them together with artistic license and many questionable choices… WITH YOUR HELP!

DJs (TBA) in 3 rooms spinning Nauti-House, Fishy-Funk and Deepsea Bass downstairs icluding

** Marlin Room (Nauti-House) **
TBA

** Sunken Ship Room (Fishy-Funk) **
David Kiss
https://soundcloud.comdavidkiss/
Luka Tacon
https://soundcloud.com/lukatacon
NSR
https://soundcloud.com/iamnsr
Salinger
https://soundcloud.com/salinger
(all affiliated with DEEP NYC)

** Space Pirates Room (Deepsea Bass) **
Sequoia (Mischief/Meso Creso - DC)
Captain Shaggy2K (Space Pirates/Disorient - Philly)
Elixir (Space Pirates/Disorient - Philly)
STLTZ (Space Pirates/Disorient - Philly)
KDubz (Space Pirates - Philly)

PERFORMANCES (before midnight)
Dark Cabaret Musician Aurelio Voltaire (http://www.voltaire.net/)
Wild Women Of Planet Wongo (http://www.planetwongo.com/)
Liah Alonso (http://www.liahalonso.com/)
The Mating Game Returns
Aqua-Fashion Show (around 1am)

ART/ ACTIVITIES:
Neptune's SeaTrap
Jonah's Esophageal Lounge
El Pulpo Fantastico
Coral Boob Reef
Bath-O!-Sphere
Seahorse Stampede
Clocks & Cog
Coelacanth Ranch
Hydrothermal Venting
Narwhale Jousting
Pin the Tail on the Leviathan
(the return of) Let Loose the BuKKraken!
Live Painting with Tico Chango
*Propose Something*

PROPOSE ART/ ACTIVITY:
http://bit.ly/HB16Artists

TO VOLUNTEER:
http://bit.ly/HB16Volunteers

QUESTIONS?
Producers: Marianna Grace & Ema Takeda
Decor: Gabrielle Myst & Joanne H.
Volunteers: Eliza Spear & Stacey Wrangler
Music Curation: DJs Milk & David Kiss
Performances: Ema Takeda
Mating Game/ Fashion Show: Christopher Hardwick
Photography: Tom Egan
Flyer: Matty Weiss
Ticketing problems?: Tickets@kostumekult.com

ABOUT:
Horned Ball is the longest running event of the Kostume Kult arts collective (Costume Cultural Society), a non-profit arts org supporting costume art, street theater and mad fun while bringing wonderful people together. Horned Ball is Kostume Kult's first of three official Burning Man camp fundraisers also including Black & Light Ball (5.19.16) and Freakkshow (late July). With the three events vibed Geek, Chic and Freak, respectively, HB is the most fantastical where all themes are set in fantasy realms as spring bacchanalias with the animals shaking off winter slumber with itchy horns and the urge to dance! Horned Ball is a safe space where all are welcome while warning everyone to *respect boundaries* and *ask first* whenever photographing or flirting... And quickly report creeps! (We have a zero-tolerance policy).

For more on Kostume Kult, our year-round events and Burning Man camp, please visit www.kostumekult.com, join of FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Kostumekult/ and like our Community Page at https://www.facebook.com/KostumeKultPage

Kostume Kult Halloween Party 2015

Kostume Kult Presents
ESCHER’s LABYRINTH
Halloween Eve 2015 – Mischief Night!
Friday October 30th, 9pm-5am

TIX - Buy Now at: http://www.kostumekult.com/events/halloween_2015
Presale tiers $40/50 ($30 tier sold out)
More at the door (if available)
Drink specials all night
21+

SLAKE NYC
251 West 30th Street
between 7th & 8th Avenues
Manhattan

RSVP on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1007666242617821/

Mashing the surrealistic world of MC Escher with the Glam-Goth of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, we present a journey through the many dark, creepy corners of Slake… Beware the Goblins!

Enter this labyrinth in whatever Halloween costume you dare but prepare yourself for music, monsters and mayhem in many rooms - all designed to confuse and amaze… The Hall of the Skeksis mixes Henson, Escher and house music magick, the Urban Underground vibrates with black light, banging bass and street art, the Mystical Mesopotamia room flows with world beats and kaleidoscopic visuals, the Kreepy Karny room hosts ongoing performances, aerial displays and human oddities or take a break in the mezzanine's Purgatory where you can sort out your obliterated senses.

DJs on three floors INCLUDE:
- Lovecraft (No.19)
- Iman Rizky (Ebb&Flow)
- Terreyl Kirton (Soul Mob/Slur)
- Milk (Kostume Kult/Binative)
- Travisty (Trifucta)
- Myk 2Melo (JunXion)
- Monikkr (NYC Bass Collective)
- Teknacolor Ninja (Tropic Of Bass/PCF)
- Carmel (I Feel/Carmel Productions)
- Banginclude (Enchufada/Latino Resiste)
- Dirty Dan (Fresh Farm Music)
- Zach Ωhms (Future Strange)
- Casey Skodnek (JunXion)
- Rasta4Eyes (Stampede Sound)
- Bad Ginger (Digital Distortion)

ART / INTERACTIVITY
Enter an alternative universe with many rooms and multiple stairwells…
- Ridable Skeksis and Lamasu by Kimmy D
- Infinity Dungeon Photobooth by Gene Harrison
- Multiple Monsters by Themendous
- Visionary Live Painting by Myztico Campo
- "WHODUNNIT" Interactive Mystery Game
- Escherized Stairwells
- Muppety Mahem
- All-Peering Eyes
* More TBA soon… Propose something?

SPECIAL INSTALLATIONS
- Mural by street artist Gazoo To the Moon
- 3D Projection Mapped main stage by Rhizome NYC

PERFORMANCES
Curated by Link Link and Wang Newton

VIDEO
Vj Krunch
Rhizome NYC

CREATE ART or PERFORM?
Propose something, decorate? Set up art?
Do something fun or strange? Budgets available
fill out this form! https://goo.gl/BIWkG4

VOLUNTEER?
Who wants to help? Get Involved!
Fill out this form: https://goo.gl/n3iwuW

QUESTIONS?
Producer: Isabeau Vidal
Decor: Rachel Eisley
Volunteers: Eliza Spear
Performers: Link Salas
Music/Audio:  Milk
Press/Communications: Joelle Musante
Photography: Tom Egan
Ticket Problems: tickets@kostumekult.com

ABOUT
Kostume Kult is a themed event focused arts collective that has big fun while bringing tremendous people together… We are always looking for fresh faces and new energies and all are welcomed to get involved. Bring your own koolaid or try some of ours. It's delicious. More at www.KostumeKult.com

NYC HALLOWEEN PARADE 10.31
The day *after* the party Kostume Kult will be hosing its 16th annual Halloween Parade Float inviting to march along with our rolling party! 

Kostume Kult presents: Black & Light Ball #10 - Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Black & Light Ball 10 - Saturday May 16, 2015.

Our annual pre summer formal is turning 10 this year! What a milestone!
This glowing bash is a very special part of our Burning Man fund raisers for Kostume Kult and a great excuse to make yourself a new UV reactive costume!
Personally I start shopping with my travel black light in my purse cause you never know what kind of materials glow (or don't glow for that matter) under UV lights. 

Our theme this year is inspired by Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick, the sci-fi novel behind Blade Runner. It will be a futuristic and psychedelic dystopian wonderland that will glow like crazy! 

So what to wear?
Dust off your black light from high school and head to your costume closet to see what glows. Whites, neon greens and hazard oranges seem to glow brightest, although a good lightening yellow can pop well too. I am thinking of taking a white dress I've never worn and puffy painting the heck out of it to create a trippy glow patterned formal dress.
Remember to test your materials. I have bought fabric that I was SURE would glow great only to get home and find the black light results to be lackluster. I can't stress enough how handy a travel black light flashlight on a keychain is for testing your paint, paper or fabric before you buy.
Black & Light Ball has traditionally been our "formal" event, when we kind of poke fun of proms, formal dances or even cotillion. With this futuristic theme, top hats with gears and robot parts would be appropriate or poofy white glowing tulle skirts! Let your imagination go wild cause you cannot possibly overdress for a Kostume Kult party. Just look at some of the outfits of Black & Light Balls past.

Remember to buy your tickets early to get the best possible price. If you are worried that you plans might change, you can always sell your ticket to another party goer on the Facebook event page!

Kostume Kult presents: Baaaaaad KKids Valentines Party

KK's 4th Annual Valentines Party

Saturday, February 14th, 9pm - 4am

Kostume Kult welcomes in the Year of the Goat with a fantastic, dramatic and slightly spastic Valentines celebration. Channeling this peaceful and whimsical creature with a penchant to climb, lick and chew, participants are encouraged to bring your goat-cheesiest or sexy-valentine's best.

UNION SQUARE BALLROOM

27 Union Square West @ 16th Street

(across street from 456LNRQ trains)

Manhattan

TIX: Buy Now

Presale tiers $20/ 25/ 30

More at the door/ cheap drinks all night

21+

RSVP on Facebook!

THEME

All Valentines style encouraged or play along with the theme… Formally the "Year of the Goat/ Ram/ Sheep" -- come as anything horny, wooly, cute or cuddly. Farmyard or mountain. Billy Goats, Nanny Goats, Baaaaby Goats ('kids'), mythical Fauns or anything baaaaaaad or naaauuuughty valentine in red, white or pink... Or be a Black Sheep and do something completely different !!! With participation comes maximal love.

DJs in TWO ROOMS:

Illich Mujica (MothLab Recordings)

$mall ¢hange (No Parking/WFMU)

Milk (Binative/Kostume Kult)

Reaganomics (ESO)

Kinner G (Atlantis)

Shisaa (Vitamin B/The JunXion)

Joro Boro (Hookahdome)

- more tba 

VIDEO

VJ Krunch - Sexy Goat Mashups!

ART/ ACTIVITIES

* Propose something or volunteer to help create:

Petting Zoo

Udder Wall

Salt Licking

Hoof Fetish

Horny Goat Weed treatments

Black Sheep Group Therapy

Kupid's Kloset

Lickety Goat Photobooth

and the return of the personally molded Chocolate Vaginas... And Nipples!. (Models requested.)

To PROPOSE ART/ ACTIVITIES 

To VOLUNTEER 

WHO?

Marianna Lavin: Producer

Eliza Spear: Volunteers

Miguel Peschiera: Decor

Dba Milk: Music

Alizarin Zroob: Flyer

Ticket Problems?: Tickets@kostumekult.com

ABOUT

Kostume Kult's Valentine party is an absurdist take on an overblown consumerist holiday where the love and community are real and not forced by social convention. Kept fresh by baking in the Chinese New Year theme (Feb 18th this year) this is an excellent place to bring a date or find one. Or get involved in a creative project! All pervy references are with artistic license and meant in good humor

Kostume Kult presents Black & Light Ball 2014 : Haute Kulture May 10, 2014

As we roll into what we burners call Pre-Burn season (nobody calls it that) its time once again for our classiest of affairs known as the Black & Light Ball! A very cool, very UV reactive event featuring all the high class, upper crust costumers of the NYC area. All are invited, all are welcome, all are black lit for an evening of fun, art, dancing and glowing good times.

Check out the event page for more details and to buy TICKETS. Getting them early not only gets your a better price (CHEAPER) but it also ensures you will not be left outside the doors while the party glows on into the night at our venue in Manhattan. 

Once again we have searched near and far to bring the best DJs possible for this special event.
DJs in two rooms include:
Matt Hardinge (Motek)
Soul Mob (Ospina Digital/Slur/Worship/Soul Mob Productions)
WhiteOwlJaguar (Disco Fist/Talon & Claw)
Rhenalt (Rebel Eye/Nervous)

Tektite (Vitamin B/Blackbird Squadron)
Beatkitty (Kostume Kult/Kismet)
Havok (Osiris/Snap Music)
Jeffrey Dommer (NYC Tribe/Fire Triangle)

Now you are excited! What do I wear??!? Don't panic. I'm hear to help you through this. There is a world of UV reactive materials to make a costume with and above all we just want you to come enjoy the fun.

Here are some things I have found glow very well in black light and can be used for costumes:
Fluorescent yarn (Red Heart brand) The pink glows like crazy.
Paper! 
Neon Poster board (Dollar store- CHA-CHING!)
Neon craft paint (mini bottles at Michael's are about $1 each. Use multiple coats for better results)
Neon zip ties (Home Depot)

So go on an inspirational shopping trip and don't get over whelmed. Start with a hat or a blazer from the thrift store. Get crafty. Use your glue gun! Here are some photos from past Black & Light Balls. Hehe Balls.
Check out my Pinterest board for costume & makeup inspiration.
Pinterest

Black & Light Ball is Kostume Kult's springtime Burning Man fund raiser for our theme camp. We appreciate you coming out to have a great time and help us spread the costume love at the burn this year.

Love and Glow Sticks,
KostumeGirl

Kostume Kult presents Horned Ball 10: Red Planet 4.4.14

Kostume Kult Presents

HORNED BALL #10 RED PLANET -
A Retro-Futuristic Martian Fantasy-Scape

CREDITS: Collaged elements from Boris Vallejo, Joe Jusko and
John Carter of Mars & Jane Fonda 

A place of lost legends, the 5th planet once teemed with strange life
and great civilization.  Our galaxy's first eden which came of age
whilst earth wriggled with earliest life.  An alien place where
intelligent beings mixed with savage, horned beasts.  Aqueducts
crisscrossed the surface while cave cities grew underground.
Some believe that life still remains... Biding its time.

In the tradition of artists Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, Joe Jusko
and others, this year we present a place of otherworldly evolution,
fierce costumery and unapologetic hotness. In this lesser gravity --
jump higher, dance harder and last longer. It's the 10th Annual
Horned Ball and the countdown is on...

Friday, 4.4.14
9pm to 5am

SANTOS PARTY HOUSE
96 Lafayette Street
Betw. Walker and White
Tribeca, NYC

TICKETS
Buy Online
Presale Tiers: $20 / $25 / $30
Door $40/stylish, $50 normal

ART THEME: Barbarella Safari, Extra Terrestrial Evolution, Buff Warrior,
Arrakis Spicey, Alien Tribal, Future Punk and ANYTHING IN
HORNS! Heinlein, Bradbury, John Carter and HG Wells will be in
attendance…

DJs on two floors with top sound systems:
ShOOey (Space Cowboys)
Boris Burning Elf (Kostume Kult/ TOAD)
Groovecreator (Ph Recordings)
Milk (Kostume Kult/Geoxie United)
More TBA soon

VJs Krunch and Metal Tiger

ART & ACTIVITIES:  Got Art or a Crazy Idea? Please sign up below.

PERFORMANCES:  *Please get involved* with an extra Horny production of
Karaoke Karabret, Hosted by MC Christopher and Featuring Cali
Fornication & Fluffer The Klown.  Perform your best bit, but prepared
to be tickled, tortured and teased by our World Famous Celebrity
Judges.  Sign up below!



PARTICIPATE!
To Propose Art or Performances - http://bit.ly/KKHB14art
To Volunteer - http://bit.ly/KKHB14vol . We need doers, shakers,
carpenters & crafters

QUESTIONS?
Co-Producers Marz & Geoff Shearer
Decor: Gabi McGarvey
Volunteers: Eliza Spear
DJs & Audio Tech - Amanda Wotten & DJ Milk (Geo)

DIY Lightweight Horns 

Make your own Malicifant style horns with this video.
Previous Horned Ball posts.

Kostume Kult presents: Horseplay Valentines Night Party 2014

UPCOMING COSTUME PARTY ALERT!

Kostume Kult presents: Horseplay!

On Valetine's night we are off to the races, celebrating Love and the Year of the Horse with a frisky frolicky night of clippety clopetty fun. Neigh, Nicker and Nibble… Trot, Traipse, Mingle and Mate… Get out of your stable and onto the dance floor… Pony Playtime is at hand!

But how do I dress?
Well it's a Valentine's Day party so cupids and hearts are always welcome, but the twist is the equestrian theme! Four horsemen, My Little Pony, Fox Hunters, Jockeys (just your Jockeys), Carousel Horses, Unicorns, Pegasus, Lil' Sabastian, let your imagination run while! Dress to Impress!

Want to bring your art or performance?

This is a great opportunity to showcase your cool art or premiere your new burlesque act! 

Perhaps you could just like to help craft some decorations or you are really good at standing on ladders and hanging things! 

To Craft/Volunteer: Fill our this form to get the ball rolling and participate! 

To Propose your cool art: Fill our this form and make it happen!

How do I get in?

STEP 1:

You gotta have a TICKET!!

The earlier you buy them the cheaper they are. Right now 1st tier tickets are just $20. 

STEP 2:

RSVP on the Facebook event page. Ask others what they are wearing! Get excited about the DJs and great music!

STEP 3:

Arrive at Union Square Ballroom at 27 Union Square West/16th Street at 9pm

STEP 4:

GET DOWN WITH YOUR PONY PALS!

Love and Sparkle Ponys,
Kostume Girl

Follow me on Instagram to see the progress of my Horseplay costume @kostumegirlscloset