CLICK + DRAG 3.0 - Nov 2008

CLICK + DRAG 3.0:
THE HALLUCINOGENIC TOREADOR

The Legendary Cyber/Fetish/GenderHacking Party Rebooted

The pioneering "Cyber/Fetish/Gender-Hacking" party CLICK + DRAG, which ushered out the 20th Century in style, returned as a new large-scale annual on November 15, 2008 at SANTOS PARTY HOUSE, NYC. Two of Click's founding producers - director and visual artist ROB ROTH and impresario CHI CHI VALENTI shaped this latest incarnation, CLICK + DRAG 3.0: THE HALLUCINOGENIC TOREADOR.

Enthusiastically attended by 500 revelers, CLICK + DRAG 3.0 preserved the night's strict dress code and pansexual mix of fetishists, artists, gender-hackers and "Glam Nerds." The evening featured performances and installations by VENUS DE MARS, VANGELINE THEATER, THE PIXIE HARLOTS, FX by BASIL TWIST and ROB ROTH, and DJs including SAMMY JO, JOHANNA CONSTANTINE, JOHNNY DYNELL, XRIS SMACK! (of the long-running SMACK! parties) and the FAERIE DJ POSSE.

CLICK + DRAG began as the Saturday-night weekly at Valenti's experimental MOTHER nightclub in 1996 and ran for four years in over two hundred themed editions. With their rigorously enforced "STRICT CYBER/FETISH DRESS CODE" the producers - Roth, Valenti, costume/fashion designer KITTY BOOTS and sex journalist ABBY EHMANN - ensured that only participants were allowed in. The creative collaboration introduced some pioneering aspects to the Nightworld, including Roth's notorious "Bathroom Cam", and also gave birth to THE MOTHERBOARDS NYC, a nocturnal online community.

When MOTHER closed in 2000, Roth, Boots and Ehmann launched CLICK + DRAG 2.0, a monthly edition at FUN. In its new larger format, CLICK + DRAG was thriving until the events of 9/11 shut down Chinatown for many months. One of the city's most seminal and creative parties is finally back after seven years, and will now be a Fall annual, returning in October 2009.

More Information clicknyc.com and mothernyc.com/click

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