Meet Our Sponsors
The House of Noire is an award-winning ensemble that specializes in thought-provoking burlesque choreography and opulent artistic expression. Noire offers striptease and non-striptease performances for corporate events, art exhibitions, casinos, dance workshops, festivals, and private events. Our mission is to showcase elegance, artistry, and healing power through burlesque and artistic expression. We are passionate about preserving the art of striptease, transformational performance art, burlesque education, and high-end glamour.
Thank you to our sponsors who help make our POC legacy a success. Their financial support and dedication to providing a platform for proper performance opportunities is a key element to our success.
Founded in 1796 and located in the mountainous Aragua Valley, ours is more than a home. It has withstood wars, revolutions, invasions, even dictators. There has always been sugarcane and since 1830 there has always been rum. Hacienda Santa Teresa represents the character to succeed, no matter what the world throws at you.
We believe that the exceptional balanced smoothness of our rum is only made possible by working in harmony with the exceptional natural beauty of our surroundings. It’s for this reason that we’re inspired to improve the communities around us, investing in their future to instill values and ideals that help future generations flourish.
We aim to make women feel good in their own skin, work with what they have and DEFYthe odds, in life and in fashion. We design pieces that DEFYthe laws of gravity while giving every cheeky chick her sexy back.
M·A·C is the world’s leading professional makeup authority because of our unrivalled expertise in makeup ARTISTRY.
M·A·C celebrates diversity and INDIVIDUALITY – we are for All Ages, All Races, All Genders.
Looking Glass Gems specializes in beautiful, affordable crystal rhinestones for creative design! Our signature brand of rhinestones are all machine-cut, faceted crystal. We are a family owned and operated boutique rhinestone house, based in Baltimore, Maryland. We work closely with our small team to create a high quality product that’s perfect for your next bedazzling project! Looking Glass Gems’ rhinestones are a wonderful option for use on shoes, purses, hats, stage and dance costumes, props, and anything else you can dream up! Our clients are always telling us that our rhinestones sparkle just as much as the most popular brand names, but cost a fraction of the price! Let’s make the world a more sparkly place together!
The New York School of Burlesque has set the standard for entertaining and instructive classes to thousands of students and partygoers from around the world.
Based in the Slipper Room, a cabaret and bar which has been dedicated to presenting burlesque for over a decade, the school is a collective of some of the most celebrated performers in burlesque. With its foundation in the New York Burlesque scene (widely recognized as the most prolific in the world), the school draws on a diverse pool of talent.
Classes include movement, history, costuming, makeup, choreography, fitness, theatrical skill building, circus training, and confidence building.
Certain Sundries is a millinery business specializing in high quality retro-inspired veils, burlesque headpieces and pinup accessories, owned & managed by Maeri Certo in Cleveland, Ohio. These are heirloom quality pieces made by hand with high quality materials and extensive attention to detail. Each piece is made to be customizable and last for many years to come.
Maeri's clients have included burlesque performers, retro enthusiasts, and brides throughout the US, but she has also worked in theatrical costuming since 2004. Her theatrical work includes touring the world with Feld Entertainment, providing wardrobe services for Disney on Ice & Disney Live, and freelancing with Cleveland area theatres.
At Little Love Affairs boutique, "The Little Shop of Indulgences" you can expect a shopping experience based in self-care. Home of the plant-based wellness apothecary, Toussaint Tinctures, their guiding principles are self-love, self-care and balancing the mind, body and spirit with handcrafted ritual and non-ritual products and specialty items imported from the motherland. Their motto "Where Nature and Luxury Merge” is embodied through using nature’s best to nurture clients by offering plants as medicine. All handmade with love to promote both self-love & devotion with every use. Plan to fall in love with every slice of delectable goodness, from plant-based spa and wellness products to hand picked novelty treasures.
Twin Cities Burlesque Academy
Krystal Cornelius is the designer of Krystal Bijoux Jewelry. This native of Texarkana, Arkansas now resides in Little Rock where she produces statement jewelry pieces while watching horror movies (and has no trouble going to sleep afterwards). Her main inspirations are anything strikingly innovative, lavishly lush, and outlandishly decadent. Krystal’s mother, Rose Dedner Cornelius, is her prime example on trying new things, daring to dream big, fulfilling those big dreams, and putting your heart into every endeavor. You can see her work on Facebook and Instagram and purchase it from her shop on Etsy. It is rumored that burlesque beauty Maxie Fauna is Krystal Cornelius all glammed up and strutting across the stage. More burlesque shows will need to be attended to confirm this report.
Butter Pecan Burlesque is New York City’s only all Latinx burlesque and variety revue. The mission: to provide a platform that creates visibility to us Latin performers. We are here entertain as well as educate all that we are a multifaceted phenomenon. By Us, For Us, For All
Quote by Perle Noire for Quoted Magazine
Sheertex is the company behind the world’s toughest sheer knit and the world's first unbreakable-in-human-hands pantyhose. All Sheertex products are manufactured with love in Canada. The proprietary Sheertex knit is cooling, ultralight, 10 times stronger than steel and was named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2018.
Hoodoo Hussy Conjure Enterprises provides spiritual care using plant medicine and African/African American traditional religious practices.
We sell spiritual products such as condition oils, cleansing spray, incense, herbal smoke blends and spiritual bath. These products can be used to improve and support your spiritual health and hygiene as well as address your very earthly ailments and life conditions.
Hoodoo Hussy is a root worker and Njuzu priest(priest of water spirits) with roots in Mississippi and Baltimore. She is the granddaughter of sharecroppers who picked cotton and pulled corn, not too far from the legendary crossroads. She came back to this mortal coil to help people, minister and to be in service to her community. She uses her ancestral birthright of Hoodoo as her foundation to support those in need.
BETSY BOTTOM DOLLAR COACHING
Stuck in a rut? Is your video not getting selected for festivals? Need to add a little KAPOW to your act? Betsy is here to help! Online or in-person, Betsy can help bring your act from drab to fab! Contact her today for awesome advice and reasonable rates!
Arcane Coda is a Canadian label, created in 2007 from a history of selling at festivals, events and fairs from British Columbia to Manitoba.
With ideas born on the highways of Canada and peppered with a South East Asian influence, we design and import clothing for the life-loving, passion-seeking, rock n’ roll hippies who wish to add alternative options to their wardrobe. We have developed our own style while working in close collaboration with tailors in Nepal. Full production takes place in small garment studios that are family owned and operated. A strong and long-lasting relationship with our partners is as paramount as the care and quality of the garments we bring to you.
Arcane Coda’s fashion line includes styles for every season that are uniquely designed with durability in mind: from the finest materials selected for each customized style, to the highest-quality accessories for the final touches. With trusted quality control on every item, you can rest assured that what you wear is well-constructed with the highest of modern, moral standards.
Perry & Venessa also personalize garments on the spot at events, adding their handmade accents, accessories and decor to the booth.
Mighty lucky studio is a full-service photography studio for rent, conveniently located in the heart of chinatown's growing art's community. Mighty Lucky is a photography studio ideal for modest crews producing portraiture, beauty, video & still life photography.
Mighty Lucky is a boutique New York Photography studio that offers natural light and is a full service studio that caters to smaller crews. We are a great space to shoot in for e-commerce businesses and are ready to help with any aspect of your shoot. Contact us today to learn more about our studio rental rates, and book your next photo and/or video shoot with us. Our photo studio for rent offers 360 sq. ft of shooting space, black and white seamless backdrop, and a wide selection of photography equipment for rent.
Since its inception in April 2011, Sublime Boudoir: Seduction of Senses has brought audiences elegant burlesque, cabaret, and circus performances in fantastical settings, while entertaining the senses with unconventional visuals and signature cuisines.
Founded with the intention of highlighting well-known performers as well as up-and-coming artists, Sublime Boudoir provides a collaborative creative environment for industry professionals. The company seeks to redefine and challenge traditional ideals of the industry by combining burlesque with complementary artistic mediums. Painstaking research and attention to detail provide audiences with an immersive and multidimensional experience, Seduction of Senses.
Constructing annual events on a global level, the creative team represents a vast range of cultural histories and perspectives, from Europe to Indonesia to North America. They have travelled the world in search of inspiration and the most exciting new performance artists. Complemented by breath-taking floral design, music, and cuisine, every production epitomizes luxurious elegance, underlined by cabaret’s signature playful humor.
Velvet Jones an international burlesque artiste and an award winning bespoke costumier in based in London, UK.
Her extensive costume portfolio can be found on instagram: @velvet_jones_bespoke
Her limited collection can be found on Etsy: velvetjonesbespoke
Overseas commission requests welcome!
