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Club La Persé is a eccentric genderfuck club in Helsinki. The club started in 2005 in small bar in oujee, uudenmaankatu and is now Helsinki´s largest NEO "Blitz Kids"  - club, featuring now bimonthly at the Kaiku in kaikukatu 4, Kallio. It´s sensual antidote to fierce bigotry. "It's a joyous mess of face paints, glitter and wigs!" It features dance floor, musical acts, performance art and fashion shows It is now described as "legendary" and "a capital institution" by Helsingin sanomat net liite -magazine. It has also been described as "a combination of a style, body art, modern primitives, straight, gay, performance art, body ritual, fashion, techno/industrial/atmospheric music, multimedia, and cyberspace club wehere only imagination is the limitation.

Atmosphere
The co-founders of La Persé ( Kirsi Nisonen, Pietari Kaakkomäki, Jan Koskinen & Minna Parikka, Vesa Kmeppainen) described the experience as "like entering to another dimension". "Its is hard to say where reality ends and fantasy starts" A lack of intimidating or threatening behaviour is characteristic of the club, in contrast to most nightclubs. One club kid reported the "welcoming, liberating, anything-goes atmosphere". La presé is unique for Spontaneus and its blend of subcultures and musical styles.

Philosophy
To be wrong is right and to be right is wrong.

Events
La Persé has hosted club nights in several places in Helsinki, including cruise boat Turku, aura river (UMF- festival) and Helsinki arcipelago cruise boat. La Perse ran a live stage fashion show as the design exhibition at Kaapelitehdas in 2006, and hosted a night at the Malmöe Diesel art project

Celebrity attendees
Prinsess Julia, Tasty Tim, Disco Smacks Josh & Andy, Ray Noir, Lady Lloid, Janne Räisänen, Ninja Sarasalo, Daniel Palillo, Housewife from Mars: Tatu and Minna Parikka

Dresscode
There is no a strict dresscode: " but regular La Persé boys and girls can do a look out of anything. (Electric fence, Fantasy, Body Art, Food, Drag, Rubber, Leather, PVC) This can been summarised as "More is more, and never enough!" if you think you’ve put enough make up on, you’re probably wrong.