About the Tortured Hearts Ball
On Saturday, February 15, 2025, San Diego will experience heartbreak in a grotesquely beautiful apocalypse – the return of the Tortured Hearts Ball!
Reimagined as an otherworldly deviation from the original event in 2010, when it debuted as an underground warehouse event, this sequel will be a mesmerizing twist, set in a series of hotel ballrooms, and elevating itself from the first, as despair and desire reunite.
You’re invited to this celebration of the bizarre and exotic, our ode to the bitter and the lonely, the bound and the broken, at a dark masquerade almost too bold for San Diego.
Expect two DJ dance spaces with a variety of melodies, a ballroom dance hall, specialty vendors, a karaoke salon, a hidden speakeasy, side quests, a gaming den, a performance room, and more secrets to be revealed soon!
Be engrossed in our demented world inspired by your most beautiful nightmares. Have a front row seat to peculiarly rare entertainment and performances. Acquire one-of-a-kind items from our specialty vendors. And satiate your morbid curiosity as you bask in the glorious darkness of the Tortured Hearts Ball.
Come in your masquerade finest. Costumes are mandatory and necessary for entry. The requirement, however, is flexible, as a mask, costume, or anything thematically relevant for a masquerade ball is acceptable.
Casual attire is not allowed and entry will be denied into the Dark Realm.
This is a 18+ event only.
VIP BENEFITS
- Early entry at 6:00 pm for exclusive VIP Hour
- Private VIP room with an exclusively brewed Mead
- Hors d’oeuvres reception in the VIP room
- Reserved seating in Entertainment room
- Collector’s Tote bag
- Limited Edition Tortured Hearts Ball Print Signed by the Artist
- Limited Edition Tortured Hearts Ball Trading Card
- Special Rose pin to designate VIP Status
Silk Road Productions
Silk Road Productions is a premier, Southern California-based event management and production team that has been recognized by the United States Congress, the State of California, the County of San Diego, and the City of San Diego for their events and for their service to enhancing and educating the communities in San Diego.
A full service event production firm, Silk Road Productions works with private entities, corporations, and nonprofits to make their events flow seamlessly, while ensuring event and organizational goals are achieved.
Silk Road Productions has created several renowned and acclaimed events, including the Asian Cultural Festival of San Diego, the AMP Music Festival, the San Diego Ramen Festival, among many others. Silk Road has also been instrumental in Asian themed events presented by the San Diego Padres, SeaWorld, the San Diego County Fair, and more! Learn more at www.silkroadproductions.us.
But more importantly, the Silk Road team and the Fangaea Committee are fans of nerdom and all things cool and geeky. We like dressing up, we like comic book movies, we like steam punk and Hello Kitty and sci-fi and video games and anime and pretty much everything there is.
Our new direction has lead us to create Fangaea, San Diego Anime Con, AnimeLand, Hentai Matsuri, AniPop, and Scream Diego!
