20% off museum store purchases this weekend (plus, enter our drawing)!
Save 20% off all museum store purchases (except books) this weekend, November 30 and December 1, in honor of Small Business Saturday and Museum Store Sunday. And everyone who makes a purchase will be entered to win a free 2020 BHoF Weekender 4-day pass! Small Business Saturday and Museum Store
Holiday Giving Starts at BHoF
Kick off your holiday giving this year with great gift ideas from the BHoF museum store. And don’t forget #GivingTuesday on 12/3! Start your holiday shopping with the unique products in our museum store. Every purchase supports the museum’s efforts to preserve, share, and celebrate burlesque, as well as supporting
2019 Holiday Card Drive for the Legends of Burlesque
Help us make the holidays a little brighter by sending cards for your favorite burlesque Legends. Now through December 6, we will be collecting cards to forward. A list of people whose mailing addresses we currently have up-to-date can be found below; you can send any of them a card
2019 Weekender Recap by Sparkly Devil Memorial Scholarship Winner Precious Ephemera
Our 2019 Sparkly Devil Memorial Scholarship recipient, Precious Ephemera, shares how her experiences studying with the legends of burlesque at the BHoF Weekender solidified her commitment to community. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants From the moment I received the call that I was the Sparkly Devil Memorial Scholarship recipient
RIP Kitty West (1930-2019)
Burlesque legend Kitty West, also known as Evangeline the Oyster Girl, passed away Sunday (8/18/19) at the age of 89. Born Abbie Jewel Slawson in Mississipi, Kitty ran away to New Orleans at age 16, where she began dancing. Her signature act, rising out of an oyster shell like Venus
NAC Operating Support Grant Received!
BHoF has been awarded a $21,000 Operating Support Grant by the Nevada Arts Council. Paid out over two years, this competitive grant is intended to help build Nevada’s arts infrastructure by providing unrestricted operating funds to non-profit organizations throughout the state. 35% of the funding of this grant comes from
Thank you Dr. Lawson!
Thank you to Dr. Jeffrey Lawson for his donation of $10,000 received by us this month. Dr. Lawson’s donation will allow us to launch a marketing and networking campaign intended to spread the word about BHoF and drive new traffic to the museum. We are deeply grateful for Dr. Lawson’s
Pre-Order NOW! BHoF Holiday Ornaments Featuring Jennie Lee
Decorate for the holidays with style this year. For the first time, BHoF is offering a gorgeous crystal holiday ornament featuring “Miss 44 and plenty more!” Measuring 2 5/8″ x 3 5/8″, this oval-shaped ornament will dazzle your family, friends, and guests (including jolly elves of all ages). Hang one
Volunteers Needed: Remote Data-Entry
BHoF is looking for people anywhere in the world who can help us type up our handwritten inventories so we can import them into our database. To volunteer, sign up at bhof.link/data and we’ll send you your first sheet. Each sheet contains about two dozen entries, and data is entered
Join us July 5 for Liber-TEASE!
The Burlesque Hall of Fame is proud to present its Independence Day weekend show Liber-TEASE! In partnership with Ron Decar’s Event Center, the show will feature top burlesque performers from Las Vegas and beyond, including the 2018 Miss Exotic World Runner-up Jessebelle Thunder, performing alongside legends of the classic burlesque