Scary Movies: Kiki Ball

SCARY MOVIES: KIKI BALL

What's you favourite scary movie?

Presented by the VKBA | OTY Ball

November 1st, 2026 | 📍The Dance Centre (Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St, Vancouver, BC)

Doors at 3:00 pm >> LSS at 4:00 pm

What's your favourite scary movie?

The phone is ringing. The lights are flickering. Something is lurking in the shadows…

One last warning...

Once the lights go down, there’s no guarantee everyone will make it to the end of the movie.

Tickets:

Walkers Early Bird: $5

Walkers: $7.50

Spectator Early Bird: $20

Espectator General Admission: $25

Tables: $125

DJ: Princess Kachonda Jeremy Scott

MC: Pegasus 007

VKBA is welcoming donations from sponsors to support the ball. Reach out via email at info@vkba.ca or dm us on instagram.

If you are unable to pay for tickets but would like to attend the ball, please email info@vkba.ca, no one is refused entry for lack of funds. Please contact us by noon of October 29th, 2026.

Any questions feel free to DM us or email info@vkba.ca

CATEGORIES

Virgin Runway 🏆

Step into the darkness and give us an all-black inspired effect.

Virgin Performance 🏆

She’s innocent, she’s programmed and she’s ready to perform. Bring us in an effect inspired by M3GAN.

OTA Runway 🏆

(FF All American (FQ, Womens) , MF All American (Trans-Man, Butch, BQ), MF European (BQ, TM), FF European (Womens, Drags, FQ),GNC European)

Dark glamour, powerful silhouettes, wide-brimmed hats, lace, leather, and mystical details. Enter the coven with attitude, confidence, and a powerful walk. Bring us a look inspired by American Horror Story: Coven and serve the energy of a witch who knows exactly how powerful they are.

Must have a printed reference.

OTA Performance 🏆

(BQVF, RWT, FQ, Drags, Women's, Butches, TM, GNC,)

I am a star… show us the sweet farm girl you are who dreams of becoming a star and the darker side that emerges when the dream starts slipping away. Bring us an effect inspired by Pearl and give us a performance that captures her desperate ambition, twisted innocence and a hunger for the spotlight.

OTA Realness 🏆

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

The movie is playing, the lights are low, and you’re one of the characters. Bring it in a character of the Scary Movie franchise and make us believe you just stepped straight out of the movie.

Must have a printed reference.

OTA Face 🏆

(BQ, Butch, TM, Women's, Drags, FQ, GNC, New Face)

Serve us the face that belongs in every horror movie. Bring in an inspired/elevated Ghostface mask and reveal the assassin hiding underneath.

OTA Best Dressed 🏆

(MF, FF, GNC)

Till death do us part… Ghostly glamour, Victorian silhouettes, torn wedding gowns, dramatic veils, delicate lace and gothic romance. Bring us your most hauntingly beautiful effect inspired by Corpse Bride movies.

OTA Body 🏆

(BQ, Butch, TM, Women's, Drags, FQ)

Take your body beyond the ordinary and show us the version of yourself you’ve never dared to become. Bring us in an effect inspired by The Substance.

OTA Sex Appeal 🏆

(BQ, Butch, TM, Women's, Drags, FQ, GNC)

Step onto the floor like the entire room is under your spell. Bring us the energy of someone who owns their power and knows everyone is watching, in an effect inspired by Jennifer’s Body movie franchise. You are hot, you are dangerous, and you know it.

Commentator vs commentator 🏆

The body is possessed, the room is spinning, and the devil has entered the building! Grab the mic and give us a chant powerful enough to send the devil straight back to hell. Your chant MUST include the word “EXORCISM.”

Hands Performance 🏆

Step into the dark twisted world of Wednesday Addams and bring Thing along for the performance. Bring it in an effect inspired by Wednesday’s darkness, gothic elegance, and eerie personality, while letting your hands channel the unpredictable movements and mischievous spirit of Thing.

Old Way vs New Way 🏆

Freddy or Jason? The nightmare has arrived, and two horror legends are ready for battle. Give us a performance that will make us feel like we are in a horror movie.

Old Way: Bring it in a Jason Voorhees inspired effect.

New Way: Bring it in Freddy Kruger inspired effect.

Club Kid Face 🏆

Your face is your canva. Transform your face with extreme makeup, exaggerated features, graphic details, distorted shapes, bold colors, and surreal textures. Step into the sewer and bring us your most outrageous club- kid interpretation of Pennywise from IT.

Bizarre 🏆

You weren’t supposed to be there…Step into The Backrooms and bring us a bizarre effect that feels like it slipped through the walls of reality. Lose reality. Break the rules. Give us BIZARRE.

Must have a printed reference.

LAND/CULTURAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND CONSENTWe 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 VBA.

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 VBA can better create an inclusive and safe space please do inform us by e-mail at info@vancouverballroom.ca 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 info@vkba.ca