HEADS UP , CUE BALLS!
City’s 1st Bald Fest
Hairless is more. Gotham denizens will revel in their lack of locks this month during the city’s first-ever Bald Fest — a bacchanal for shorn scalps and those who love them.
“Bald Fest is a celebration of owning your own fate,” organizer Rami Even-Esh told The Post, saying all are welcome. “People who are losing hair, receding hair, bald, alopecia, bald allies and bald-owned businesses.”
Even-Esh, a 40-year-old Brooklyn-based rapper who goes by Kosha Dillz, said the event was a way to lampoon the city’s Fashion Week, which will take over more well-heeled portions of the city this month.
“It’s the opposite of Fashion Week. Bald Fest will celebrate the things people don’t have — which is hair,” said Even-Esh (above, front right, with fellow performers).
The festival will mark National Bald is Beautiful Day on the evening of Sept. 13 at Brooklyn’s legendary underground Rubulad club.
The venue doesn’t have an official public location, and anyone looking to attend will get the address only after buying an $18 ticket from its Web site. Profits go toward Haitian earthquake relief, organizers said. EvenEsh says he will have space for hundreds.
Tickets will also be sold at the door. Anyone who happens to show up and is willing to have their head shaved by an on-site barber will be granted free access.
Events on tap include bald musical performances and bald poetry readings and even a “bald mitzvah,” which will “celebrate a man coming into his own and becoming bald.”
Entertainment will include a roster of semi-notable bald city performers including street acrobats Tic and Tac. Instagram influencer Nicholas Heller (aka “New York Nico”) will be on hand for bald trivia, as well. Attendees can also expect to leave with an ample supply of free Bic razors.
“I am new to all this. I shaved my head. I was balding,” Heller told The Post, saying he typically wore a hat and struggled with “bald pride” in the past.
“Maybe this is my opportunity to really embrace it and lose the hat for a little while.”