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World Goth Day Festival is Back in the Bay

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The 3rd Annual World Goth Day Festival is going off at the Empress Theatre in downtown Vallejo Saturday May 6th!  This festival is a highly curated, immersive, innovative, and full sensory, multi-interdimensional, and experiential festival gala of transcendent dark art, music, entertainment and black pageantry that delves into and passionately explores over 40-years of influential and incomparable San Francisco Bay Area Goth Subculture.


The ART

The 3rd Annual World Goth Day Festival will feature an extravagant Art Market, proudly produced by Connstance and Michael Garcia, founders of the lauded and inimitable Menagerie Oddities Market, whose credo is, “This Ain’t Yer Grannies Craft Fair.”

On display will be 50 artisans, creators, crafters, and purveyors of eccentrically and esoterically Gothic baubles, trinkets, ornaments, novelties, knickknacks, and ephemera, such as elegant jewelry, clothing, accessories, photography, home decor, taxidermy, and works of fine art and other collectible oddities and curiosities created from components, parts, pieces, items and elements hand-made, foraged and found.

The Menagerie Oddities Market draws a merry band of nomadic, feral and cultishly-dedicated, awesomely awe-inspiring, anomalously aberrant, distinctively divergent and devient, as well as idiosyncratic and individualistic misfit artists from near and as far away as New York, South Carolina, Portland, and Los Angeles who regularly participate in the now, nearly 40, annual fantastical and festishized themed Curiosities Shows, Peculiar Pop-Ups, Residencies and Festival events projected for 2023.

ART MARKET SCHEDULE:
Art Market Only Admission: $10
Art Market Times: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Art Market DJ’s Sets: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Art Market Musical Act Performances: Unwoman
at 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM


The MUSIC AND LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

The 3rd Annual World Goth Day Festival will also be filled with captivating fun and engaging live entertainment and music, including four lauded live bands performing in the evening at the Empress Theatre; Ausgang (from the UK), Black Angel, Ms. Boan, and Unwoman, the latter of whom will be performing during afternoon festival hours.

EVENING CONCERT SCHEDULE:
Concert Time: 5:00 – 8:00PM

DOORS:
General Concert Ticket-Holders Admission Time: 4:30PM
VIP Priority Concert Ticket-Holders Admission
Time: 4:00PM

BAND SET TIMES:
Ms. Boan: 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM
Black Angel: 6:00 PM – 6:50 PM
Ausgang: 7:00 PM – 7:50 PM

Also featured are 7 DJs of local and international pedigree performing throughout the day; a bevy of bonafide roving performers and entertainers.

DJ Unseelie 11am
DJ Deadboy Sean 12:30pm
DJ @meltgirl 12:45pm
DJ @mizmargo 3:00pm
DJ Chat Noir @club_seance 3:00pm
DJ Songs of Preys 4:00pm (who is touring with @ausgang_kabuki


FASHION SHOW

A fashion show with mistress and hostess with the mostess, emcee Redd Fafilth as the legendary 80’s drag icon Divine!

Witness dark fashion at its’ finest! Live vicariously through daring fashionistas as they strut the catwalk in their gothiest frocks. What makes a goth? What does it all mean? How many colors exist in the goth rainbow? Is there any right way to wear it? Answers to these mysteries and more will be unveiled during our goth fashion show.

Libations

Food & libations! Mestizo SF, Provisions, and Big Top Kettle Pop will be on hand PLUS an assortment of restaurants in walking distance.

ADDITIONAL ACCOUTERMENTS: The 3rd Annual World Day Goth Festival features and benefits: ADA Access, Wristbanded Re-entry, Walking Distance from the Convenient Vallejo Commuter Ferry Dock, Public Parking, Plenty of Restaurants, Food Trucks and Full Bars.

PARKING: FREE parking. METERED Parking. STREET parking. PARKING LOT – ADA parking on first-come, first-served basis. Do not leave anything visible in your vehicle!

World Goth Day Festival
Empress Theatre 330 Virginia Street Vallejo, CA 94590
Saturday, May 6 · 11am – 8pm PDT
Get Your Tickets and more info Here


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