Ahoy Sailors!
Thanks everyone for coming out and making Prance On A Boat such an amazing time! Especially thanks to all the volunteers. We couldn’t do it without you!!!
There are some great photos, check it out. As always, if you want us to take something down just send us a fbook message or email prance.prance.revolution@gmail.com. Also, email us if you lost anything at this party.
Prance is taking a break from throwing parties for the summer but we are cooking up some ideas for other types of fun times… we will update when we figure it out so stay tuned!
This boat is real! (actually no it is not)
We are so excited about the party this Saturday! (see the fbook event for details)
We made you a little video about it:
Prance: On a Boat (not actually on a boat) from short pants on Vimeo.
Prance on a Boat poster
Prance: On a Boat!**
**not actually on a boat
Summer’s almost here! Set sail with us on the gayest cruise ever, for the first nautical-themed Prance. Bring your swim trunks and your flippy floppies, sailor hats and mermaid tails. Practice your nautical rope-tying skills, because you may just find a sailor who needs their jib rigged. We’ll be busting 5 knots, we’re gonna fly this boat to the moon somehow!
We’ll serve ye some fine BC ales and grogs, by jove!
DJ Bromeo
DJ French Press
Want to be our ship’s cockswain, just for the night or for a little bit longer? Send us an email at prance.prance.revolution@gmail.com… crewmembers get to skip the lineup!
More DJs and bar tip donation recipient to be announced soon!
9:30pm – 2:00am at 1965 Main St. $5-10 sliding scale. 19+ Venue & bathroom are wheelchair accessible. Childcare funds and “Oops, too trashed to get home” funds available. Prance believes in maximum danceability. prance.prance.revolution@gmail.com and pranceparty.wordpress.com
We are thrilled to have this event at VIVO Media Arts Centre. Since 1973 they have supported artists with activist, feminist, first nations, & queer perspectives to produce and distribute new media work. Go check out their archive sometime!
VIVO accessibility info:
Prance would like to date you!
We are: Uber-queer, non-profit, volunteer-run east van queer dance party organizing group
You are: Enthusiastic Prancer with rad politics
Interests/Hobbies: Queers, volunteers, positivity, processing, prancing, puns, creating maximum danceability.
We are a super fun, easy-going group of people and we’re ultimately looking for people who have similar goals as us for queer party planning, and who can commit some time & energy to doing that. Ideally, you would have some experience organizing parties or other events in a volunteer-run context. Also, if you can drive and/or have access to a vehicle, that would be extra amazing!
Check out our man-date just so you know a little more about what our intentions/hopes are for the party.
If you’re interested in us, please let us know why, and what your schedule and/or availability is like. Perhaps we can schedule a meeting date and decide where things go from there? If long-term relationships are not your thing, but you are still interested, we are open to having something more casual…We always need help in the days or weeks leading up to the party as well.
Can’t wait to hear from you!
xoxo
Prance
Prance East Vandia
Your local, organic, cruelty-free queer dance party.
Come get self-referential with us at our East Van themed party! We will feed you a 100-mile diet of the hottest hard-partying queers. No preservatives, always fresh and locally caught! Served with all-natural, raw, biodynamic dance party action.
Wondering what to wear? Just put a bird on it! Or a patch! Or a patch with a bird on the patch! Have the bird wear a hanky and sitting on some powerlines! And screenprinting another bird onto a hoodie! The other bird could have antlers!
We will play songs with clapping and cowbell, maybe some spoken word. Well, maybe not.
Featuring 100-mile sourced Phillips beer!
DJ’s
DJ Extra Feeling
DJ Ruggedly Handsome (Back from retirement for one night only!)
More DJ’s and bar tip donation recipient to be announced soon.
9:30pm – 2:00am at 1965 Main St. $5-10 sliding scale. 19+ Venue & bathroom are wheelchair accessible. Childcare funds and “Oops, too trashed to get home” funds available. Prance believes in maximum danceability. prance.prance.revolution@gmail.com and pranceparty.wordpress.com
Accessibility info in the “read more” link. Read more…
Fancy Thanks (and photos)!
Hey Prancers!
Thank you once again for yet another super fagtastic Prance!!! Unsurprisingly, there was a ridiculous amount of outstanding get-ups. It had to be the busiest Prance yet — and we just have so many “thank you’s” to dish out. Where do we begin? Major thanks to all the amazing volunteers that made this party happen, our DJs who played the best music (special thanks to Blow Pony’s DJ Jodi Bon Jodi who came up all the way from Portland to play for us), thanks to all of you who waited patiently in the line-up for almost an hour outside VIVO when we had reached capacity, and everyone of you who busted several amazing moves in those thrift-store spats, gowns, suspenders and other full-on fancy gear! Not to mention the $300 we raised for Raincity Housing!!! We could not have pulled it off without each and everyone of you, so thank you so much for supporting your local, volunteer-run, not-for-profit east van queer dance party!
On a not-so-fancy note, we did hear about a couple incidents of people having their wallets stolen. That is a terrible thing to have happen! Gaywads shalt not steal from other gaywads at a volunteer-run queer dance party, organized for all gaywads and friends alike! We will be looking into setting up a coat check for our parties in the future to prevent these types of scenarios. This will definitely require a lot more coordination and volunteer help during and after the party, so please let us know if you can help in any capacity.
We also did clean up quite a few booze bottles at the end of the night that we do not sell at the bar. Just a gentle reminder — bringing in your own alcohol violates our liquor licence and could get us into big trouble! We try to keep our alcohol prices low and affordable, so please refrain from bringing your own alcohol and continue supporting us so we can keep this party going!
We’ve uploaded some photos (at flickr) thanks to a fantastic volunteer that captured moments and outfits at the party. Check our facebook for a list of lost things we found. To all volunteers and DJs that have helped us out since the beginning of Prance: we will be announcing a special volunteer appreciation event fairly shortly, so stay tuned! In the meantime, stay safe, keep well, be nice to one another, and see you again at the next Prance in March!
In solidarity,
Prance
Fanciest Video Ever.
We encrusted it with diamonds, for real.
Fancy Prance: January 29
Do you feel stressed out when your private jet is late picking you up? Self-conscious because all your other clothes were dirty and you had to wear last season’s Prada? Sad when you drop your diamond-encrusted iphone in a puddle? The new poolboy not interested in helping out with your summer schedule of gay orgies?
Us neither! Let’s have a party to celebrate all the things we are too broke to worry about. Bust out those spats an…d DIY tuxes, dollar-store pearls and that amazing thrift store cocktail gown you’ve never had a reason to wear. Let’s get fancy, East Van style!
Bar tips from this party will be donated to Raincity Housing. Dignity and respect for those in search of housing!
Featuring Phillips beer!
DJ’s
Guero Bandolero
BROMEO
Jodi Bon Jodi (From Blowpony in PDX!)
More TBA!
9:30pm – 2:00am. $5-10 sliding scale. 19+ Venue & bathroom are wheelchair accessible. Childcare funds and “Oops, too trashed to get home” funds available. Prance believes in maximum danceability. prance.prance.revolution@gmail.com and pranceparty.wordpress.com
We are thrilled to have this event at VIVO Media Arts Centre. Since 1973 they have supported artists with activist, feminist, first nations, & queer perspectives to produce and distribute new media work. Go check out their archive sometime!
Accessibility info below:
Read more…
Our so-called finances…
Hello dear Prancers! Sorry for the major delay, but here (finally) are the financial statements for our last party in November. Thanks again for making it such a good time, and stay tuned for our upcoming (and dare I say fabulous) party on January 29th!
See you soon!
