The Mother City of all parties
Posted on 13. Dec, 2004 by Cassandra in Streetflava
If there is just one party you go to in Cape Town this year…then this has got to be it.
The MCQP, along with the Met, has become Cape Town’s premiere dress up party.
This year’s theme….Jungle Fever. No dressup = no entry.
Date Saturday 18th December 2004
Time 9pm – 9am
Venue ARTSCAPE Garden
Tickets R150 – available at CD Wherehouse, V&A Waterfront or R200 at the door.
So what’s the party all about?
Cape Town is made up of many queer tribes. Once a year, in December, they all get together for Africa’s biggest Queer tribal gathering – the annual MCQP costume party. This unique home-grown event has put Cape Town on international map of Queer culture. It is planned over a period of 6 months, and culminates in weekend of celebration and splendid festivity. It has become a cultural phenomenon in the Mother City and attracts 1000′s of visitors to Cape Town annually. International travel agents are chartering planes and planning trips for posses of pink playmates to come and taste our wildlife.
The costume party is formatted as a multi-venue themed fancy-dress art party and is attended by 8000 thousand partygoers – who arrive in teams in matching costumes – somehow related to the theme.
In addition to showcasing the richness of our city’s creativity, the MCQP costume party also kicks in the summer season with a memorably marvelous bash.
And no…being gay is not required…but getting out there and cutting some serious steps is. Get a team together, choose a theme, get the ticket and come along.
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DA mal
13. Dec, 2004
MCQP is the definitive Cape Town party, and probably the definitive South African party. Someone in the M&G said that it’s Cape Town’s answer to the Latin American carnival; it is, but more. It’s a home-grown invention, totally successful, entertaining, heartwarming and profitable.
Cape Town’s other answer to the carnival, the New Year parades at Green Point, has now sadly failed. It was cancelled today. The Coon Carnival on Tweedenuwejaar was also something of a (less explicit) celebration of sexual diversity.
Rich...!
14. Dec, 2004
Dude, if you bump into Graham Norton (world’s funniest guy if you weren’t sure) tell him that Jo’burg’s not as bad as he thinks (and CT ain’t as good), but let hiim know all is forgiven, and he should pop up here and sign my book…!