Code Red Ball - Dec 10th - Baltimore

CODE RED BALL
This is Women's Ballroom Scene Event in celebration of World AIDS Day.
The event is also targeting HIV/AIDS Awareness & Prevention

Date: Saturday Dec, 10th 2011
Doors open @1am (This is Subject To Change In advance)
$15 w/ testing

$$$Stipend for House with Most Tested$$$
And Lots of Surprise Categories
So HOUSES BRING YOU'RE A-GAME & GET TESTED!

Location:
Club Bunns (Penthouse Entrance)
608 Lexington Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201

Hosted By: Legendary Motha Aisha Iman & Legendary Father Kiron Alpha
Commentator: Symba Iman

ALL CATEGORIES ARE IN CELEBRATION OF WORLD AIDS DAY!

REALNESS - Trophy
Butch: In red fitted
School Boy: In red bow-tie)
Big Boys: In a red t-shirt
Jr Transman: (This means you have been mooning 6 months or less) You should be wearing a red button up
TransMan: In a Red hoody

RUNWAY - 6 trophies 1 $$$
In an extravagant creative Red Ribbon for HIV/AIDS! Awareness. Make sure your effect SCREAMS Runway!
Women vs Fem Agg
Butch vs Tman
Fq vs Bq vs Bqid

PERFORMANCE - Trophy
The vogue style is on you! Just make sure your representing with your Red Ribbon for HIV/AIDS Awareness.
Butch vs Tman (Red Fitted & Red Ribbon)
Fem Agg vs Women (Red Footwear & Red Ribbon)
BQID vs BQ vs FQ (Red Gloves & Red Ribbon)

FACE - - 6 trophies 1 $$$
Sell your flawless face in a safe sex campaign with an over entrance and message. Convince the judges that you should be the new face representative.
Butch Face Women
Jr. Transman Fem Agg
Transman Big Girls

SWITCH PT.1
Health Class. Bring us a school boy look with a safe sex message in poster form. Make sure your message is very informative to the community
SWITCH PT.2
Health Class. In a naughty school girl effect. Show the judges why the boys cant pay attention in class.

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OTA CATEGORIES

LEGEND VS LEGEND - Trophy & Cash
Performance, Face, Realness, Sex Siren, Body, or Runway. Time to Educate the kids! Let us know why you are Legend! With a Red Ribbon and all black! Must battle for cash.

FACE W/PERFORMANCE - Prize & Trophy
You don't have to vogue! Just bring us an over performance and a flawless face.

PICTURE PERFECT - Prize & Trophy
You don't have to be a face kid just be photogenic! 3 large photos expressing a different emotion and why you feel that way concerning the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

COUPLES DELIGHT - Prize & Trophy
You and your mate in complimenting outfits and a red ribbon. Are you prepared to answer a question concerning the cause???

SNEAKER vs SNEAKER - A touch of Red and don't forget your ribbon!

SHOE FETISH - A touch of Red and don't forget your ribbon!

LABELS - A touch of Red and don't forget your ribbon!

FOOT & EYEWEAR - A touch of Red and don't forget your ribbon!

PERFECT 10's
WOMEN: In a sexy red outfit but don't forget your condoms SEX, BODY & FACE
MEN: In red briefs or under garments and don't forget your dental dam. SEX,REALNESS & BODY

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AS A HOUSE CATEGORIES
Realness As A House:
The Black Panther Party with a safe sex Campaign

Runway As A House:
The Superheroes Unite to fight the evil of the Virus.

Best Dressed As A House:
The Look and Era of your choice! Just make sure you all are without a doubt best dressed! Also Don't forget your Secret Weapon! It must scream SAFE SEX!

For more info: Please contact Father AJ Prom or AriqChaun Alpha
Add the event page on FB - https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=285488974808478

14 week PAID Internship in NYC - DYCD's Young Adult Internship Program

THE ICON DEREK PRADA EBONY WROTE:

Our young brothers and sisters regardless of how they identify have to get up and start doing something with their lives. Its a shame the amount of young guys and girls come into hospital and cant fill out basic medical forms. So pass this around, send via email, forward to a friend, anybody. If it reaches one person that say "hey I enrolled" then you have done your job.

Young Adult Internship Program

Are you between the ages of 16 and 24, not enrolled in school and looking for work? DYCD's Young Adult Internship Program (YAIP) is looking for you!

As part of Mayor Bloomberg's Center for Economic Opportunity, DYCD is providing the most job-ready disconnected youth with short-term paid internships, job placements, and follow-up services.

The Young Adult Internship Program (YAIP) is a 14-week internship program for low-income New York City young adults aged 16-24 who are not working and not in school. YAIP is composed of a 2- to 4-week orientation conducted by selected community-based organizations followed by 10- to 12- week paid internships that offer structured work opportunities. This year-round program, serving approximately 1,360 youth per year, incorporates ongoing education, as well as other participant and employer supports. Upon completion of the internship, the organizations will provide nine months of follow-up services and help place the participants in permanent jobs, training programs, or educational settings.

Past participants have interned as auto mechanics, sales reps and radio production assistants and are currently accepting applications!

Enroll Now!

A Blast from our past! 1995 - The House of Tuscany Eternity Ball

A precursor to the WBT Ballroom scene was when Ballroom Icons Reese Pendavis and Kim Pendavis (butches) opened the House of Tuscany, a predominantly Women & Butch house but this ball was promoted as a mainstream ball. To note, there were also 11 FQ and 11 BQ categories. Grand Prize was $1000 Dinner at the White House and called for one BQ, one Butch, one woman, and one FQ ...

- Terrance Legend

Here's some WBT Ballroom links you should know about:

GettingYourLife Youtube Channel - videos of Women, Butch & Trans walking both Mainstream and WBT Balls, personal opinion videos and 101s - (http://www.youtube.com/user/RoxiContin2011)

What's Da Tea Radio - online radio show focused on the WBT Ballroom scene (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/da_tea)

The Women, Butch and Trans (WBT) Ballroom Coalition - Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/163561787023421/)

WBTBallroom twitter page - (http://twitter.com/#!/WBTBallroom)

Make your voice count by being involved, informed and included!

Until next time...

xoxo
Roxi

The WBT Ballroom Coalition - Week One

For those who don't know, the Women, Butch and Trans Ballroom Coalition have been actively trying to form an Executive Board in order to revamp, re-educate and restore our ball scene in order to continue an age old legacy established in our history. The members have been pushing hard to reconnect with the original women's scene members/houses and also trying to find supporters in the mainstream ball scene willing to back us and assist with formulating such a historical event. This week makes the first official week of progression and, in such, marks grand steps made.

This past Wednesday October 19th, Whats' Da Tea Radio (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/da_tea) aired the first Coalition meeting entitled "Meeting of the Minds" where the WBT Ballroom's biggest supporters and parents from its biggest houses spoke on key elements needed in the scene as a whole. [To hear the archived call - (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/da_tea) OR to read an overview of the call: (click here)]

The night's speakers were :

Icon Sean Ebony - Transman Realness
Legendary Overseer Khi Mizrahi - Butch Performance
Legendary Mother Aisha Prodigy-Iman - Women's Face
Legendary Father Kiron Ebony-Alpha - Transman Realness
Midwest Of The Year Mother Bunni Blahnik - Womens Body/Sex Siren
Nina Divine-Revlon - Women Best Dressed and VA ballroom promoter
Mother Diva Monroe - Womens Face and Big Girls Body
Legendary Shady Prada - Butch Realness, Labels, Streetwear
Grandmother Susan Mizrahi - Ballroom Historian
& myself as the Moderator

It was a grossly beneficial call detailing the hopes that each speaker had for the new scene and also outwardly expressive that we were all on the same page of doing our part to contribute toward a scene that was inclusive and unbiased. A refreshing and needed attribute to a scene that was waning due to bouts of shades, ego and blatant segregation.

Icon Sean Ebony proposed a conference call in which all the speakers and those involved in the Executive Board detail duties and responsibilities for themselves to execute and this call will take place on Wednesday, October 26th at 9pm. This is the time for proper organization and precise execution. We each want to present the best that ballroom has to offer as well help those interested to uplift themselves outside the ballroom.

WHILE YOU HAVE THE ATTENTION OF SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE... BE SURE TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING REAL TO MAKE THEIR LIVES BETTER #BALLROOM

- Susan Mizrahi

Week One was about gathering support and detailing our hopes for the scene. Next is about setting in stone our responsibilities and setting goals to reach these dreams. The picture is slowly being painted and from here; I see a Mona Lisa in the making.

Here's some WBT Ballroom links you should know about:

GettingYourLife Youtube Channel - videos of Women, Butch & Trans walking both Mainstream and WBT Balls, personal opinion videos and 101s - (http://www.youtube.com/user/RoxiContin2011)

What's Da Tea Radio - online radio show focused on the WBT Ballroom scene (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/da_tea)

The Women, Butch and Trans (WBT) Ballroom Coalition - Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/163561787023421/)

WBTBallroom twitter page - (http://twitter.com/#!/WBTBallroom)

Make your voice count by being involved, informed and included!

Until next time...

xoxo
Roxi

A WBT FIRST - MEETING OF THE MINDS - WHAT'S DA TEA RADIO

Tonight on Whats Da Tea Radio (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/da_tea) hosts Overall WBT Father Shady Prada (Follow Shady on Twitter) and Grandmother Susan Mizrahi (Follow Susan on Twitter) put together a Meeting of the Minds including some of the heavy-hitters and biggest enthusiasts in the WBT Ballroom scene. It included:

Icon Sean Ebony - Transman Realness
Legendary Overseer Khi Mizrahi - Butch Performance
Legendary Mother Aisha Prodigy-Iman - Women's Face
Legendary Father Kiron Ebony-Alpha - Transman Realness
Midwest Of The Year Mother Bunni Blahnik - Womens Body/SexSiren
Nina Divine-Revlon - Women Best Dressed and VA ballroom promoter
Mother Diva Monroe - Womens Face and Big Girls Body

Here's a brief synopsis of each speakers thought and subject:
Sean (organization) - Have a good short and long term goal and plan your steps.
Khi (preparation) - Strive to practice and be ready to battle all obstacles that come into your way.
Aisha (Self-awareness) - Be aware of what you can do and what you cannot and build on your strengths.
Kiron (Support) - Learn to bond and become one unit. Build a comraderie between one another.
Bunni (Experience) - Get yourself out there in order to build up your experience and allow your confidence to be seen.
Nina (Assistance) - Be open enough to allow yourself to be a help to others.
Diva (Networking) - Meet and introduce yourself. how what you're about, your intentions and allow people to know the real you.
Shady (Plan 2 Win) - Please bury the hatchet and allow shade to have its place on the runway in healthy competition. This is the time to bring back the fun!
Susan (Communication) - Open lines of communication to allow all to be on the same line.

If you would to listen to the archived call please long on to Whats Da Tea Radio (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/da_tea)