Free for members. Become one at cityreliquary.org/join.

Welcome to the Ball. This is not a virtual event.

THE LAST CHANCE DANCERS PRESENT: FAME MONSTER, spun on vinyl from start to finish. We don't stop dancing until the center groove. No breaks. No mercy. Just raw emotion and bare flesh.

Witness Queensiñera, Esmé D’Avril, Kita St. Cyr, Maggie McMuffin, and Venatrix. And special guest: Olive TuPartie!

With just-insanely-thick hot chocolate (with optional whisky and espresso shots) served all night by Reliquary resident chef (and early Reliquary member) Sam Reiff-Pasarew.

First show is at 7:30pm, second show at 9:00pm. The show is outdoors with no heat so bring your finest furs, blankets, and capes to keep warm! Not for the faint of heart. Again: This is an outdoor show in December. Come prepared. You're welcome to move around to warm up throughout the show.

Warning: This is a real burlesque show, with professional burlesque dancers. Anyone is welcome, but please note there will be sexually explicit performance and may be sexually explicit language.

SAFETY
Attendance will be capped. Numbers are subject to change slightly, but currently we are capping total volunteers, performers, and tickets sold to 22 people in the backyard at once. Up to 5 at a time will be permitted indoors for restrooms, or to browse the museum. Otherwise everyone will be outdoors.

Facemasks must be worn when you are not seated, and at all times indoors.

Seats will be arranged in distanced "pods" based on the number of tickets purchased in each order. If you would like to sit with someone who purchased tickets separately for the same show, please email jacob@cityreliquary.org in advance with the names for tickets you would like to be seated together.

Hand sanitizer will be available for all.

ACCESSIBILITY
The main entrance and indoor museum are entirely flat, but there are 4 steps up and 4 steps down to the backyard. The backyard is uneven but no major steps. Email jacob@cityreliquary.org we're happy to figure out how we can accommodate your needs.

WHAT IS THE CITY RELIQUARY?
Reliquaries typically house the ostensible bones of dead saints. We house the bones of New York City. From seltzer bottles to schist cores, roller skates from racially integrated rinks, and a burnt out lightbulb from the Statue of Liberty's torch. All these and many more artifacts are in our collection.

Since our founding in an apartment window in 2002 The City Reliquary has been collecting, preserving, and sharing pieces of New York City, for New Yorkers. Now more than ever the stories of every New Yorker need to be told.

You can first become a member for $10/month at cityreliquary.org/join then return to this page to find the price magically vanished. Or, buy a ticket and apply it directly toward a few months of membership to try it out. Membership is the way we will survive through and beyond this pandemic.

WHY MEMBERSHIP?
Because we can survive better on "subscriptions" than tickets.

COVID-19 has shifted The City Reliquary headfirst toward a member-supported financial model, because sustaining monthly (or annual) memberships are much more reliable and dependable than ticket sales and museum admissions.

In exchange for your ongoing support as a member, you'll receive free admission to the museum for you and your household anytime, free tickets to events, and—we hope—tiny New York City historical institution to call your own.

Join at cityreliquary.org/join.

WHAT ELSE?
Please come prepared to tip the performers, via cash or Venmo.