Sat, May 23
|Highways
Dreamocracy in America/House of Lucha - FASHION vs FASCISM
As part of Highways’ BEHOLD! A/O/X Series, award-winning artists Victor Payan and Pocha Peña bring their By Any Memes Necessary locura to Highways with a bold fashion show/performance exploring resistance, drag, rasquache, camp, lucha libre, and all-around fierceness in the fight against fascism.
Time & Location
May 23, 2026, 8:00 PM
Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
About The Event
Award-winning artists Victor Payan and Pocha Peña bring their By Any Memes Necessary locura to Highways for the premier of Fashion vs. Fascism, the first prêt-à-deporter fashion show/performance. This event features a cadre of stylish artist provocateurs exploring notions of fashion as a form of resistance, urban camouflage, invisibility, quick change, uniform, misdirection, transformation, drag, rasquache, camp, lucha libre, humor and all-around fierceness in the fight against fascism. Get ready for House of Lucha to step out onto the runway!
Participating Artists/Fashion Guerillas include Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Natasha Estrada, Glittering Andy and Skeith de Wine.
This performance is part of Payan and Pocha’s Creative Capital project, Dreamocracy in America. For more information, visit www.dreamocracyinamerica.org, votoslocosgame.com and www.victorpayan.com.
