Boof (Dance ++ Dark Room)

BOOF — FRI, MAY 8 ⛓️ DANCE + DARK ROOM 😈 📍 The Foundry SF — 1425 Folsom St 🕙 10P → 4A 📸 IG @boof.party BOOF returns to The Foundry. Two dance floors and a dark room. BOOF is a queer-led underground. Come to move, connect, explore, watch, participate, or just lose yourself in the room. All expressions of gender, sexuality, race, and style are welcome here. In two years, BOOF has grown into one of San Francisco’s most vital queer nightlife spaces by building something immersive, high-energy, and fully our own. 🤝 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE If cost is a barrier, email hey@boofparty.club or DM @boof.party on Instagram at least one day before the event. Sliding scale tickets available. All budgets are valid. We prioritize these tickets for FLINTA communities. Please review our production costs below. 🧱 PRODUCTION COSTS BREAKEVEN: ~$35 / ticket (with fees) based on ~650 attendees Production + Build (lighting, trussing, dark room, spatial design): $9.23 Talent (DJs + performers): $8.05 Experience (decor): $3.80 Venue + Permits (rental, after hours): $3.23 Safety (security, EMT, insurance): $1.81 Marketing + Promotion: $1.92 Staffing (door, coat check, floaters): $1.19 Photography: $0.77 ⛓️‍💥 ABOUT THIS EVENT After sustained operational excellence in underground indulgence and several quarters of spiritually dubious nightlife production, BOOF returns to The Foundry to once again optimize your evening into a high-output, low-regret sensory experience. Leveraging two fully activated dance floors and a strategically underlit dark room environment, we invite you to participate in a vertically integrated night of sweat, sound, and poor decision-making. In an increasingly crowded nightlife marketplace, BOOF asks: what if the function was the dysfunction? what if the dance floor dissolved and no one was watching anyway? what if we stopped pretending this was about anything other than the music—and each other? This is a no-spectator environment. Engagement is mandatory. Observation is discouraged. 🖤 VIBE dark, sweaty, charged no spectators — only participants