Queermess 2025
This year, Queermess is back & extended!
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The QUEERMESS project is an alternative Christmas celebration, developed through a collaboration between Zentralwäscherei and Klamydia von Karma. Taking place on December 25th, the event combines a curated communal dinner, night of drag performance art as well as a dancefloor, transforming a traditionally family-centered holiday into a space of collective gathering, peace, and inclusion.
By merging drag, performance, visual art, dance, music, and a communal dinner, QUEERMESS blurs the boundaries between artistic disciplines and social practices, creating a space for all where queer, trans, and non-binary voices are not only visible but celebrated.
The nightclub has historically been more than a site of entertainment: it has been a political engine where stories converge and hierarchies dissolve. The Stonewall Inn uprising in New York in 1969, led largely by trans women of colour and working-class queer people, transformed a space of leisure into the birthplace of a global movement for LGBTQ rights. Across Europe, venues such as Club SO36, Königshof, Eldorado Club, Kakadu bar in Berlin or The Warehouse Project in Manchester have similarly blurred class and cultural boundaries, producing spaces of resistance where art, pleasure, and politics collide.
QUEERMESS draws on this legacy, positioning the dancefloor as the place where equality and convergence of stories truly begin, where differences become strengths and where collective joy emerges as a form of resistance.
By taking place on December 25th, QUEERMESS reclaims the symbolic weight of Christmas. In biblical tradition, Christmas marks the birth of hope in a time of oppression: the arrival of renewal, togetherness, and care for the most vulnerable. Without parodying religion, QUEERMESS reinterprets this universal narrative to propose a radical and inclusive Christmas: not an exclusive family ritual, but a collective act of solidarity, unity, and freedom. Gathering around food, performance, and mutual support becomes a contemporary incarnation of the biblical call to welcome the stranger, protect the marginalised, and resist injustice through love and community. In this way, QUEERMESS embodies a necessary cultural intervention in times of discrimination and precarity, transforming a holiday of exclusion into a movement of belonging, resistance, and collective joy.
Program:
🦃 Special Dinner 🦃
- With tickets only
- Doors 19h ; Start 19h30
- Dinner seats limited (ticket also includes the party)
🎆 Party 🎆
- With tickets or Abendkasse
- Doors 23:00 ; Party 23:00-05:00
HALLE
Curated by Klamydia von Karma
with
Madame Selma
Klamydia von Karma
Roylesque
Third Kylie
Striking Dyke
Kinnari
Viktor Von Karma
KW
Lucianne Blue
Cristóval Dilunar
Sellyourmania
TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE 31.10.2025 at 12:00 !
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Tilt Queermess - Dinner!
Communal dinner by Kleinwäscherei x Bocanada
The communal dinner is curated and executed by Kleinwäscherei, the restaurant of the Zentralwäscherei in cooperation with Yris Apsit from the food and cocktails project BOCANADA, providing a thoughtfully prepared three-course vegan menu that emphasizes inclusion and accessibility, luscious appeal to senses and exploration of what “queer food” can be/mean.
More than a dinner, this food event put at its core the fact of sharing, while exploring what eating together means. The dinner will be hosted by Klamydia von Karma.
Limited seatings
More Info Tickets will be available online on the 31.10.2025 at 12:00
If you have any allergies and you bought a ticket, please send an email to gastro@zentralwaescehrei.space.
Tilt Queermess - PARTY!
Tilt
Tilt is a transdisciplinary night happening once a month at ZW. Tilt involves all rooms of our venue and offers DJ sets and live music alongside a variety of other formats all happening simultaneously.
Klamydia von Karma
Klamydia von Karma, If you have a Bad Karma, here is Klamydia!
French-Tunisian Drag creature born in the Swedish underground scene and now spreading in Zurich. A drag artist that challenges norms through their performances, and absurdity. Klamydia is a testament to the power of embracing individuality through emotions and unleashing our inner freaks.
Take it or leave it, Klamydia will be always around and offering you the BEST QUEERMESS EXPERIENCE
Kinnari
Kinnari, seductive, androgenous and high energy.
Kinnari is known as a self-established drag performer since 2019. As a Zurich based dancer, they have been performing in multiple occasions such as: Werq The World, Superball Amsterdam 2023, Lila Queer Festival, CSD Zurich and many more.
Third Kylie
Third Kylie is a visual drag artist who merges traditions with pop culture, creating a vibrant mix of heritage and contemporary expression. Through drag, she reclaims her cultural identity, challenging fixed perceptions and opening new perspectives. Her performances celebrate the fluidity of identity while placing traditional symbols in a modern context and taking herself not too seriously.
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STRIKING DYKE
STRIKING DYKE leaves you thirsty and wet at the same time. Pussy* juice realness is what they're aiming for, ‘cause this dyke wanna go all night. They are coming from dance and wrestling - cute and sexy in their body language, they are ready to make you cheer. There‘s a first time for everything, enjoy the ride and come again. <3
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Viktor von Karma
The most tolerated Ausländer in Switzerland’s drag scene, Viktor Von Karma bends gender with fearless theatrical magic.
A cocktail of Latin culture shaken in bold, graphic style, this Drag Thing—never just a monarq—reclaim stages with unapologetic Brazilian fire and hand-painted, cartoonish charm.
More than a performer, Viktor is a living tribute to every Brazilian who crossed the ocean with a suitcase full of dreams—turning each performance into pure, vibrant possibility.
Now, was this written by AI? Aliens? Viktor or Mendes? Well, I guess we’ll never know. In any case, get confy, put your phones down and enjoy the damn show.
What’s certain? That night you’ll witness drag history
Roylesque
Roylesque is a queer crip performer who serves you a delicious blend of drag, cabaret and burlesque with live vocals, reveals and killer heels.
In this second edition of Xmess Roylesque takes you on a dramatic and empowering journey kicked off by the happiest of occasions: a wedding. Or is it? Let the bells ring and find out!
Madame Selma
Madame Selma, lady of the world!
Originally from Slovenia, she is the Tarot Goddess in Zurich. She has been DJing since the 90s, when club kids were still running riot. As resident DJ and regular at the Heldenbar, she is the only one who plays cards and music!
Lucianne Blue
Lucianne Blue is a Chilean-born DJ and artist currently based in Zürich. After spending a period in Berlin, where she deepened her artistic practice and engaged with diverse musical scenes and political queer spaces, they returned to Switzerland to continue evolving their craft. Music is at the core of their work — a medium through which they explores emotional resonance and connection. Behind the decks, she aim is to build a dialogue with the audience and the space, intuitively shaping and orchestrating each moment through sound.
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Cristóval Dilunar
Cristóval rarely fits neatly into a genre. His sonic world drifts between trance, techno, and EBM, infused with the theatrical flair of bold Spanish electroclash and synth-pop inspired vocals, and even tender whispered love songs over breezy house beats.
Since launching his project in 2018, he’s played across diverse, from massive to underground stages in Chile, Latin America, and Europe—spanning nine countries. Along the way, he co-founded Disco Fantasma, an underground party he curates with DJ and close collaborator Andrea Paz.
Now based in Berlin, Cristóval continues to expand his sound—shaped by the pulse of new cities, scenes, and frequencies that echo far beyond borders.
sellyourmania
sellyourmania is a DJ from Ticino based in Zurich. With a classical training as a pianist, she dives deep into many electronic genres like techno, electro, acid and breakbeat. Part of the duo Minerali, her selection often wanders on the leftfield side of the spectrum.
Besuche die offizielle Website von sellyourmania