Cirque De So Gay

Thursday May 29 in downtown Salt Lake City IN THIS WEEK MAGAZINE hosted CIRQUE DE SO GAY. This first annual “Take Your Gay to the Stage” Pride Talent Show had a ton of fun and amazing talent.

This being the first time i have been to Club Metro I was very impressed. The bar was clean and the atmosphere was welcoming. The DJ played top 40’s music during the breaks in the talent show while the crowed danced all their worries away. Between the Bboy Federation and Blow-Up Kings holding it down in the cyphers there was always something fun to watch.

The talents ranged from singing, individual dances and group performances; all of which were different and fun to watch. The crowed was hype and very supportive to all the contestants. I would suspect the judges decision to be quite difficult but they somehow narrowed it down to top 3 acts.

 Taking 3^rd place was the Bboy Federation, who had 6 individual different style urban dancers perform. In 2^nd place with a group performance and freestyle was The Blow-Up Kings. And lastly in 1^st place for the win was an artist by the name of Jersey who performed a dance in various costume pieces that slowly came off throughout his number. Jersey was by far my personal favorite and I was very pleased when they called him to win!! 

Overall my experience was fun, and I left feeling the overall excitement from the night. I am excited and can't wait until next year to attend again. 

Urban Arts Festival

This Past Saturday, May 21^st I was lucky enough to attend the first Urban Art Festival. This street fair had tons of fun attractions at it. There was a section where kids could to learn to ride skate boards, paint, and make necklaces or bracelets. They had tons of art there and all sorts of different booths. For example one was a clothing company, Ensoul who had DJs and a few performers. Another, Uprok Records had a wall where Graffiti artist could do what they do best.

 Some of my friends even held down the SLUG booth all day, informing people about their alternative magazine.

 Now no matter what end of the fair you were at there was music, from live bands to DJs and even a group who played on tubs and cans. Four performers with their drum sticks in perfect synchronization banged away on different sized plastic tubs and other cool noise makers.

 

Now I might be a bit bias, but the Bboy Federation all style qualifier was a huge success. When the DJ Big Mike played and the dancers gave it their all, the area was surrounded by people watching and cheering for the dancers they liked. The all style battle that was held was a qualifier for an event ALL OUT in June. The winner De’Von McCullough who has a very diverse dancing style and was able to change styles due to the music that was being played, will not have to battle in the prelims at the All Out event as a prize for winning the qualifier.

                                                                               DJ Big Mike

The Future of the Bboy Federation 

Muchacho (AOD) in the Finals

De'Von taking in home, for the win

Over all this event was fun and it could have been a more perfect day for it! I cant wait to go again next year.