An extravaganza of queer joy and resistance! DJs, bar, live performances and the community runway
Venue: Portobello Town Hall
Organiser: Porty Pride
Cost: £5-£25
Age: Over 18s
Event Description
Get ready as if it's your birthday, because it is. Porty Pride Ball is celebrating its 5th Birthday. Cover your birthday suit in your best outfit, grab a party hat and dance!
Mystika Glamoor will host this evening extravaganza of queer joy and resistance
This Year’s Theme:
It’s all about us this year, us as a community, us as an uncontrollable force of change, us as a loose collective of LGB…and never not the T!
We’ll have party hats and balloons, but we also welcome sashes, birthday badges and headbands, anything that shows your pride!
🍺 Bar by Porty Tap
Alcoholic and Non-alcoholic drinks available, including a limited edition Porty Pride beer.
Line Up
To celebrate our birthday, we’re welcoming back some of our favourite acts over the last 5 years and collaborating with some new faces.
Mystika Glamoor
Mystika Glamoor is the surrealist socialist socialite, the High Priestess of Edinburgh drag.
Greengiant | DJ Set
Serving up a tasty platter of global grooves, soulful sounds, disco and more from a fully vinyl set.
Simba | DJ Set
An eclectic, high-energy set, he moves fluidly between Miami bass, Jersey club, dancehall, Afro pop and Afro house, with girly pop and noughties nostalgia as the thread that ties it all together.
DJ Hotmess | DJ Set
As far as we can tell, the world's only out bisexual deaf DJ. A queer institution since 2010, playing fun blend of disco, house and 80s electropop. Expect to sweat!
Gemma Cairney | DJ Set
Local DJ, mama/writer/broadcaster/radio dj/art lover/polymath, 'n advocate in devotion to queer culture!
Schedule
Greengiant
SIMBA
DJ HotMess
The runway - get ready to show yourself off.
Gemma Cairney (Headline)
Accessibility
Please be aware that this venue gets very hot.
The dancefloor in Portobello Town Hall is Wheelchair Accessible
Portobello Town Hall has step-free access, wheelchair accessible, accessible and gender-neutral bathrooms
