2019 Full Frolic Festival Trailer with program details

The time has come to reveal our full 2019 Ballarat Frolic Festival trailer!

So we may have been a little cheeky when we said there were clues in the teaser trailer. There wasn’t really… except for the dates 🤣 But there’s definitely some obvious clues in our full trailer with some of our key events highlighted. 😝

Our full 2019 program and ticket sales will be going live this weekend. Email subscribers get early access to our cheaper Early Bird tickets. Sign up to our mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/c79X-9

Watch our trailer with Festival highlights below or on our Ballarat Frolic Festival Facebook page!

Meet the other Jay in our next Frolic Volunteer profile!

Jay is the next volunteer we are profiling as part of our Frolic Festival profiles. No, you’re not seeing a double post! This is the OTHER Jay that volunteers with Frolic.

Jay joined the Frolic Volunteers just before last year’s festival and is on our Art Show Working Group. Read our interview with her below.

Jay in her steam punk look at Frolic Cabaret during Ballarat Winter Festival.

Preferred first name: Jay

Pronouns: She, her

How do you identify? Lesbian

Describe yourself in 25 words or less: A crazy creative being! I love meeting people, spontaneous adventures and helping out wherever I can.

Outside of Frolic, what are you most passionate about? Art! Creating awesome things with phenomenal people is what my world thrives on.

How did you become involved in Frolic? I was lucky enough to have moved over from WA just in time to help out with Frolic in 2018.

Why are you involved in Frolic? To meet, create, and have fun with people in our community!

What do you love about Frolic? The variety of people and the stories everyone brings.

What do you hope for Frolic’s future? For the festival to grow and continue to allow a safe space for those who need it.

Favourite past event and why: The Cabaret nights! They just blow me away every time with acts, courage of performers and being able to help bring them to life for everyone.

What are you looking forward to most at this year’s festival? Performing my very first Drag King act!

Pitch a fantasy event for Frolic in the future: UV Party!

Tell us about your relationship with Ballarat: I was born in Ballarat and have finally moved back from WA after 7 years.

What do you love about Ballarat? The buildings and little quirks that hide around the city.

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Thanks so much Jay for sharing your story! Part of connecting the local LGBTIQA+ community is getting to know and celebrating its individual members. We’ll continue to share the stories of our volunteers in further updates!

Have you ever thought about getting involved in Frolic Festival as a volunteer? More info here: https://frolicfestival.org/volunteer/

The countdown has begun!

The countdown until our full 2019 Frolic Festival program launches and ticket sales open has started!

We’re super proud of the program we’ve put together this year. We hope you love it as much as we do.

Our full program will be revealed and ticket sales will open THIS coming weekend. Before then, look our for our full trailer and poster reveals.

Email subscribers will get a special alert when everything goes live and early access to cheaper Early Bird tickets. Not a subscriber? Sign up here!

You’ll want to get in quick – some of our events have super limited tickets and our event pricing remains accessible to all!

Ballarat Queer History Exhibition and NEW video!

Earlier this year 632 people engaged with our Ballarat Heritage Weekend exhibition and 78 people took our Ballarat queer history tours!

Watch this video by the very talented Akasha Temple to find out more about our Exhibition and Frolic Festival.

This November our history exhibition from Heritage Weekend will be on display in Lucas at Ballarat Community Health. Ballarat Community Health are a proud Rainbow Sponsor of Frolic Festival and good friend to the local LGBTIQA+ community.

Also, it will come to you as no surprise but we’ll also be having another Ballarat Queer Goldfields History Tour led by Thomas (co-host of popular podcast Tales from Rat City) as part of this year’s festival! More details on that to come soon. It’s always a popular event, and no matter if you’re a local or from out of town – you’ll learn something new and fascinating!

Another special event announcement!

This year we’re partnering with the Art Gallery of Ballarat to bring you a very special event – Queering the Gallery with Frolic!

Featuring Lance DeBoyle and special appearances by Gabriella Labucci, it’s going to be an event not to be missed! Did we mention there’s super limited tickets?! Don’t miss out…

Find out more info by visiting our events page.

Looking for cabaret performers!

Yes, Frolic Cabaret will be making its return to the 2019 Frolic Festival. After a very successful sold out run as part of Ballarat Winter Festival we’re bringing it back for one night only!

The great thing about our Frolic Cabaret is that we keep it fresh – with singers, drag artists, circus, and burlesque (and more). You never know what you’ll find at Frolic Cabaret.

If you’re interested in being added to our performers list for consideration as an act this year, complete this form and we’ll be in touch!

Minnie Mayhem before she and her victim got a little bloody.

Note, we operate on a profit sharing model and ensure all our performers get paid. We ask you promote the event and our Festival too as the more attendees, the more the performers take home! Profits are split evenly amongst performers. Oh, and strictly no divas allowed – we’re a friendly bunch at Frolic! 

Share our Teaser Trailer and win!

What have you got planned for the weekend? Personally, we’re watching this Frolic teaser trailer over and over again to pick up the secret hidden clues as to what expect. 🤔

Check it out for yourself below.

Want to win some tickets to our Frolic Warm Up event at No Lights, No Lycra announced earlier this week?

Go to our FB post here, click share and get excited! One lucky person that likes and shares the FB post will win entry for you and another to the Special Frolic No Lights, No Lycra! ❤️🏳️‍🌈🎉

Make sure you like our FB page so we can tag you if you win!

Come out, come out for our Frolic WARM UP event!

Come out, come out, wherever you are! This year we have a SPECIAL event happening a few days before the Frolic Festival. Consider it a festival WARM UP where you can meet your Ballarat Frolic Festival BFF before the main festival. That way, you’ll always have someone to go to a Frolic event with.

Last year we had a Fast Friends Speed Dating event – this year we have a special Frolic Edition of NO LIGHTS, NO LYCRA!

We’ll meet beforehand, and then dance to some classic queer anthems in a total non-judgemental and (almost) dark space!

More details can be found at this link.