Upcoming Events
Horned Ball 2024 – HATCHLINGS
When Dragons Return, Magic Is Reborn.
Past Events
2023
New Year’s Eve 2023 – Sparkle Atlantica
Kostume Kult sparkles and thumps at our glorious new Atlantic Avenue venue.
Holiday Social 2023 – Virgin Birth
Kostume Kult’s annual holiday community social
Halloween 2023: CIRQUE SATANIQUE @ City Of Gods
For this year’s Halloween weekend, we are proud to announce another grand City of Gods collaboration where Kostume Kult will be hosting a centrally located circus tent with our own DJs and Kostume Runway experience.
15th Annual FreaKKshow 2023: Global Weirding
On July 22nd things will be freakkier than usual…
Yellow Subs and Doms at Mermaid Parade 2023
Saturday June 17th 2023
Sky of blue, sea of green…. join us and dive into the Swimming Sixties for Mermaid Parade 2023 with Kostume Kult!
Glinda the Good Bus transforms into the iconic Yellow Submarine as we embrace our wildest fanta-seas.
Details and regsitration code at: kostumekult.com/yellow-subs-and-doms-at-mermaid-parade-2023
Black & Light Ball 2023 – A.I. A.I. Oh!
Old MakkDonald had a server farm… Spawning many Artistically-Intelligent, black-lit possibilities at this legendary
all-night dance party
Horned Ball 2023 – FEAST OF THE JAKKALOPE
Our legendary Spring Bacchanal welcomes the season change with the Easter Jakkalope hosting this absurdist “last supper” dance party
2022
Halloween 2022 – Mysterious Island
Kostume Kult discovers NYC’s most Mysterious new venue mixing the Lost Island, Intrepid Explorer and Steampunk genres. Saturday 10.29.2022.
Black & Light Ball 2022 – UFO KONSPIRACY
It’s official, UFOs are real and the aliens are coming out of the shadows and into the black lights for this ultimate radical-inclusion event.
Kostume Kult’s annual Circus Themed gala returns with House of Yes and, this year, a special partnership with the group behind the Mermaid Parade
Black & Light Ball 2022
Kostume Kult’s infamous psychedelic dance party returns with help from JunXion and our extraterrestrial friends…
Horned Ball 2022
The Fallen One rises. Back from the beyond, emerging to set the record straight.
2021
Beyond The Veil
This Halloween, you are invited to join us as we traverse between worlds.
On this night the realms of the living and the dead shall become most blurred
FreaKKshow 2021 – Karnyval
Step right up and enter our 3 ring circus of carnival & cacophony! House of Yes and Kostume Kult have come together for a special edition of Freakkshow to create magic and mischief for both an open-air DAY party and an all-NIGHT Celebration.
Black & Light Ball 2021 – Fantastikk Voyage
Kostume Kult brings UV Light “into the body” at a large, legal
outdoor-indoor venue. The Roaring 2020’s Begin!
Horned Ball 2021 – Rise of the PhoenOx
In the Year of the Ox we rise Phoenix-like from the ashes of the Rat year into an era of optimism and societal reimagining. To these ends, we blow our bullhorns, strap on plowshares and push forth into fertile fields. Rise we will, with feathered plumage and HORNS!…
2020
*Virtual* Black & Light Ball – Into The Fairyverse
Wade through the purple mysts where nymphs dance with gnomes, sprites and muppets – where magick flows from the elements. – where electricity sparks in the darkness and ultraviolet aids in illusion… Enter the Upside-Down-Outside-In as Kostume Kult, YOU, and, for this years theme, your little puppet friends set forth on an epic adventure into a fantastical, glowing multiverse.
*Virtual* Horned Ball 2020 – ApoKKalypso
Rev those virtual, post-apocalyptic engines and get ready to enter the Funderdome – in your living rooms! – In HORNS!
Horned Ball 2020 – Jöurney to CentreHjørn
A descent into a volcanic, prehistoric land
(Cancelled due to COVID19 but the concept is still fun to look at!)
NOCTURNAL KINGDOM
A Lunar Valentine Celebration
Kostume Kult welcomes the Year of the Rat with the original New York hustler, Pizza Rat, and his many nocturnal friends for a night of dancing, flirting and all-night lunacy.
2019
Nicely Naughty
A Holiday Social with Kostume Kult & Friends
WYLD THINGS: Halloween Parade Afterparty
by House of Yes and Kostume Kult
Kostume Kult’s Float in the Village Halloween Parade
FreaKKshow 2019 – Kafka’s Karnival
Shifting shapes. Glittering contours. Embrace your dark sparkle in vivid vibrations and musical splendor. This year, Kostume Kult projects our annual absurd circus through the dark lens of Franz Kafka, whose Metamorphosis inspires creative, colorful, and critter-ful transformation!
Black & Light Ball 2019 -Biota Morphosis
A garden of metamorphic delights
Horned Ball 2019 – CHEWBACCHANAL
The Death Star is teetering, the Rebels are organizing and
the Wookiees are having a party! A night of intergalactic
idiocy, interactive art and two dance floors
bristling with Horns!
The Alt Oscar Awards 2019
New York’s Answer to the Oscars where YOU are the Celebrity.
2018
New Year’s 2018: TimeWarp
Halloween 2018: Tails from the Krypt
Freakkshow 2018 – Robot Circus
Black and Light Ball 2018 – Kryptopia
8th Annual Alt. Oscars
Horned Ball 2018: World of Horncraft
2017
NEW YEARS EVE – Metropolis 2018
Halloween 2017 – To Hell and Bosch
Freakkshow 2017 ~ Purple Haze ~
Black & Light Ball 2017 – Superstition
Horned Ball 2017 – Barbarian Horde
Valentine 2017 – Year of the… “Rooster”
2016
Halloween 2016 – Zombie Pirates of OZ
Freakkshow 2016 – Dystopian Carnival
Black & Light Ball 2016 – Da Vinci’s Brain
Horned Ball 2016 – 20,000 Horns under the Sea
Valentine 2016 – Monkey House
2015
Halloween 2015 – Escher’s Labyrinth
Halloween Parade 2015
ReEntry 2015
PRE-2015
Kostume Kult has been hosting themed events and other group actions since 2004 with some of the old event links and info still visible at our original website at https://legacy.kostumekult.com/events/index.html