Terrace Thursdays: July 11

Get into your groove on the Walker’s rooftop with hot music, dancing, fashion, and more. Terrace Thursdays showcase a diverse lineup of inspirational individuals breaking boundaries in art and identity. Meet your people, meet new people, grab a drink, and make the most of summer!

Vogue. Fashion. Runway. Realness. The LOVE and the SHADE. Are you ready? Once again, the Walker’s rooftop terraces will transform for a spectacular evening under the sunset for the Twin Cities Ballroom event of the year! With giveaways, competitions, and your host-with-the-most, 2019 Midwest Awards Ball Commentator of the Year Nominee, Fatha Jazz Bordeaux. Dress to impress and you may just be crowned the Best Dressed Spectator in town. Will we see YOU on the runway? With lighting design by video artist Hal Lovemelt.

Vogue Night Sunset Ball Competition (Hosted by Fatha Jazz Bordeaux)
7:30 pm
Terrace 3

Music: DJ Madre T. Rosa
6–7:30 pm
Garden Terrace Room

Music: DJ Niesha
9–11 pm
Garden Terrace Room

Fatha Jazz Bordeaux hosted his first ball in Minneapolis in 2011, as a response to LGBTQ+ youth homelessness in Minnesota, in partnership with Tongues Untied and Youth and AIDS Projects at the University of Minnesota and RARE Productions. By career, Fatha Jazz works in youth homelessness as the program manager for the nation’s first culturally specific LGBTQ+ Rapid Rehousing Program. He has partnered with many organizations and venues in the Twin Cities to provide access to spaces for various LGBTQ+ communities in Minnesota to come together and RESIST systems of oppression out loud through the runway.

Programming for Terrace Thursdays 2019 was designed in collaboration with a committee of local artists, activists, and community organizers. Thanks to Scott Artley, Machen Davis, Anthonia Eboreime, Nicky Leingang, Yoni Light, Oskar Ly, Meena Mangalvedhekar, Wintana Melekin, and Taja Will.