Asia O’Hara
From Staff Reports
Officials with the Greg Dollgener Memorial AIDS Fund, the organization that each year presents MetroBall, this week announced that local favorite and RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10 contestant Asia O’Hara will be emcee for MetroBall 13, set for June 29 at S4.
O’Hara joins an already-announced lineup of entertainers that includes icons of 1980s and ’90s dance/pop music, Exposé (“Come Go With Me” and “Point of No Return”) and Shannon (“Let The Music Play”).
O’Hara is a costume designer and owner of her own design company, Helen of Seven, and a dance instructor, as well as one of the best-known female impersonators in North Texas. She has won several national titles in drag pageantry systems, including the Miss Gay America crown in 2016.
O’Hara will perform herself as well as introducing Exposé and Shannon.
More than 700 guests are expected to attend MetroBall 13, which in addition to the entertainers will feature a silent auction with more than 100 items to bid on and a DJ-dance party.
Over the past two decades, the MetroBall has raised more than $600,000 for GDMAF, which has used the money to provide assistance for more than 3,000 people with HIV/AIDS across the Dallas Metroplex. GDMAF was founded in 1996 with a mission to provide emergency financial assistance to individuals living with HIV/AIDS that are otherwise unable to receive other social services assistance, and to provides assistance to other North Texas AIDS service programs once their primary funding is exhausted.
VIP tickets and sponsorship packages for MetroBall 13 are available through June 28, ranging from $250 to $15,000, and silent auction donations are being accepted through June 20. Those donating auction items valued at more than $400 will receive two tickets to the VIP reception, two complementary drink tickets, an early preview of the silent auction and general admission to the concert and DJ-dance party.
For information on sponsorships and auction donations, contact David Hearn by phone at 972-743-6323 or by email at planobar@aol.com.
General admission tickets are $30 advance and $40 at the door. Advance tickets are available now online at GDMAF.org/metroball and at metroball2018.brownpapertickets.com, and in person at The UPS Store at 3824 Cedar Springs Road.