Inside the 11th annual Booby Ball: 28 photos of nostalgic partygoers wearing badge sashes and tennis socks while eating s’mores and dancing with a giant turtle

Date October 17, 2012

Last Friday night, Toronto’s most nostalgic celebrated the latest edition of Booby Ball, this time themed in ode to the days of campfires and tuck shops. The 11^th annual party-for-a-cause run by Rethink Breast Cancer proved an even bigger blowout success with the massive Sound Academy virtually packed with thousands of partygoers accessorizing with everything from tennis socks to Girl Guides badge sashes to feather headdresses for “Camp Booby.” Just like a scene out of Troop Beverley Hills, the venue was decked out with camp-themed activity stations including mini golf, s’mores-making, warm-ups and more. Of course, there was plenty of breast-friendly messaging strewn throughout the room, including T-shirts emblazoned with the tongue-and-cheek Booby Ball phrase “Save the boobies!” which appeared on volunteer T-shirts.

As with any good camp soiree, the dance floor stayed full throughout the night, with guests including Rethink Beast Cancer founder MJ Decoteau The Globe and Mail’s Tiyana Grulovic, Cosmo TV’s Wilder Weir, socialite Ainsley Kerr, MTV’s Aliya-Jasmine Sovani (co-host for the night) and a turtle mascot dancing to the DJ beats of a one mister Brendan Fallis aka. Paul Newman (I mean, have you seen that face?) The only thing not typically camp-apropos? The many themed libations that seemed flowing from each corner of the space all night long. Don’t tell mom!