Photos of Celebration and Community at The Grand Silky Ball

Photos of Celebration and Community at The Grand Silky Ball

On a Saturday night in Sydney, The Walkers Room at Machine Hall is the most alive it’s ever been. Members of different ballroom houses across Australasia glue down lashes, tighten corsets, and wipe the sweat off the brow of their siblings before they grace the stage at The Grand Silky Ball to walk, vogue, or sell realness, body or face to the judges. Over the muffled mics of the MCs and the sound of the iconic ballroom cymbal crash over the spea…

COMMUNITY NOTES: The Season of Celebration

By Phillip Knighten, Charles City Council Summertime is here, and with that comes many occasions to celebrate. High school seniors celebrate completion of a long 13-year period of study as they prepare to enter the world of adulthood and responsibility. Citizens nationwide celebrate Memorial Day with a tribute to those military veterans that no longer dwell on this Earth among us. Then comes Juneteeth, also called Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, …