Queer Day of the Dead

A party to honour our Ancestors.

Tickets / Early Bird £10 / Standard £15 / On the door £20 / All entries will receive a ticket for a free glass of mezcal punch / We offer free places to those who cannot afford the entry price – please email us directly info@vfdalston.com

Times

Shrine building from 5pm to 7pm.
Party from 10pm until late

This will take place outside - at the front of VFD.

Please consider bringing:

Images of people you would like to honour
Offerings related to those you're honouring
Candles - in jars to protect the flames from wind

Please note the bar will not be open at this time.

From 7pm-10pm there will be a 3 hour gap before the festivities in the evening - a good opportunity to go out for dinner or go home to get ready for the night ahead!

Dancing and Drinking from 10pm to 3am

Line Up:

Manuka Honey - 10pm to Midnight

Instagram // Soundcloud // Boiler Room

Yes Mel - Midnight to 2:00am

Instagram // Mixcloud

Lady Shaka - 2:00am til late

Instagram // Soundcloud // Boiler Room

Raggaeton / Mambo / Salsa / Old skool Disco / Bounce / RnB / Full Latin X Flavours!

VFD is a safe space for all and run by a QTIPOC crew we will not tolerate discrimination or hate of any
kind.

We are building this event with Mexican company ‘Gented De Mezcal’ and members of the queer Mexican and LatinX family based in the UK who miss their families, cultures and homelands.

On our Day of the Dead Celebrations, we honour members of our LGBTQI+ family who have passed. We welcome them back, to let them know that they are loved and not forgotten.

With COVID impacting all of us, we also want to reflect on the momentous times that we have all passed through and the ones who have passed.

You are invited to bring images of loved ones you want to honour, tokens, candles and keeps sakes to add to our shrines. The shires will be at the front of VFD and will be up the evening of the 30th, the 31st and the morning of the 1st.

Let's Celebrate, Renew, Reflect and give thanks to those who have guided our journey's so far.

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We reject the colonial, commercial and missionary bastardisation of indigenous cultures.

We say YES TO ...

YES TO FLOWERS / YES TO FEATHERS / YES TO SNAKE SKIRTS / YES SEQUINS AND SCALES / YES TO CLAWS / YES TO JAGUAR SPOTS / YES TO GOLD / YES OMEN OWLS / YES WARRIOR FROGS / YES TO WINGS / YES EARTH MOTHER / YES SKY FATHER / YES TO EMERALD AND JADE / YES TO BUTTERFLIES / YES TO OBSIDIAN /YES TO SKULLS AND SKELETONS IF CULTURALLY RELEVANT TO YOU / YES TO OUR QUEER FAMILY !!!!

We are working with Mexican owned Sirena imports and their product Gented De Mezcal ... harvested from renewable crops and processed by families with traditional knowledge. The Mezcal is bottled and then shipped under sail on a carbon-neutral journey to Europe. Sirena takes its names from the bewitching and glamourous sea witches who lured the handsome and strong to their sanguineous and deliciously soggy end.

WEB / sirenaimports.com and gentedemezcal.com / IG @sirenaimports

COVID

For entry to Queer Day of the Dead we kindly ask that you bring either: