Kiss My Grits Burlesque & Vaudeville Festival

The Atlanta School of Burlesque (ASB) presents the first annual Kiss My Grits Burlesque & Vaudeville Festival, an international arts festival featuring performances, classes, and development opportunities. The festival takes place from April 24 – 27, 2025. Kiss My Grits aims to inspire and explore the boundaries of creativity, social justice, and sheer entertainment by bringing the best and brightest talent working today.

Founder and Executive Producer Roula Roulette (CEO of parent company Metropolitan Studios, Inc. and ASB) says, “Atlanta is home to a host of arts organizations, actors, musicians, dancers, muralists, filmmakers, buskers, painters, and more, Atlanta has a vibrant arts community. Yet, to truly cultivate an expansive and diverse arts scene, Atlanta must embrace burlesque, which draws artists from a range of backgrounds and lived experiences.”

Roulette continued, “Since 2013, ASB has been industry shaping. We’ve launched careers, set performance and quality standards, cultivated partner relations, and impacted the personal lives of our students in profound ways.”

The festival includes three themed nights of performances, a burlesque peer review show, classes and workshops, networking opportunities between artists and business vendors, and a competition judged by burlesque legends and dance industry professionals.

Kiss My Grits! Burlesque & Vaudeville Festival welcomes some of burlesque’s notable figures: emcees May Hemmer, Lola LeSoleil, and Blanche DeBris along with headliners Queerly Femmetastic, BeeBee Sanchez, and Willy LaQueue.

Tickets and Performance Schedule:

• 4/24: Newfangled Nerds Nerdlesque Show

• 4/25: Honey & Hominy BIPOC Showcase

• 4/26: Hot As Blazes! Showcase & Competition

• 4/27: Nose to The Rhinestone Peer Review

Tickets are on sale now on Eventbrite.

Locations:

• 7 Stages MainStage, 1105 Euclid Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307

• Metropolitan Studios, 1259 Metropolitan Ave. SE, Atlanta, GA 30316