The event gives revellers a chance to shake their tailfeathers and still get a good night’s sleep.
Lines are appearing on the face and hair is growing where it didn’t even a decade before. Or maybe it’s disappearing altogether.
Bouncing back after a night on the town the next morning is no longer a given and sometimes entire weekends are ruined.
Indeed, Father Time is undefeated and always will be.
A group of Metro Vancouver revellers is leaning into the ageing process rather than fighting it.
Enter Home By Midnight, an ongoing dance party series that eschews the late-night rabble and instead prefers shutting things down at a reasonable hour.
The parties were started by five women who were once all about the 2 a.m. shuffle down the Granville strip.
“But as we got older, had kids, started careers, we went out less and less and found ourselves wondering why there were no dance parties that catered to folks who couldn’t do ‘Doors at 10,’” the group says on its website.
The first gig happened in 2018 and has now blossomed into something of a regional phenomenon.
Shows are happening on the regular across the region, catering to parents, students, shift-workers and the like who are looking for community and camaraderie rather than worrying about being the cool kids on the block.
The next hoedown goes down Friday night (Oct. 9) at the Anza Club, followed by an Oct. 18 date in Coquitlam.
DJ Why So Serious heads up each gathering and spins everything from the 1990s on: pop, hip-hop, RnB, Afrobeats, Latin and reggaeton.
“We need community, freedom of self-expression, queer friendly and formed spaces, connection and dancing,” the group says. “We’ve all felt the twang of social isolation and we’d like to offer a hand; particularly for populations who are excluded from the classic offerings of city-based nightlife.”
Home By Midnight
When: Oct. 9, from 8 to 11:45 p.m.
Where: The Anza Club – 3 West 8th Ave.
Cost: $25. Get tickets.