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Wednesday 6pm - 12am Thursday 6pm - 12am Friday 6pm - 12am Saturday 6pm - 12am Sunday 6pm - 12am

Arcana

Name: Arcana
Address: 331 W MAIN Street 002, BACK ENTRANCE, Durham, NC, 27701, US
Telephone: +19199731675
Rating: 4.8

Durham's Underground Bar and Lounge
(471)

04/27/2026

A full week ahead and we’re SO excited to announce it’s all our returning folks and friends! love life!

🐉 on Tuesday
🎶 Wednesday (if you wanna have fun it would be a mistake to miss this)
🩷 MARMALADE on Thursday (event by ) hot, sexy, and FUN!!!
🔊 on Friday DJing with vinyl records
💿 Saturday! always a pleasure!
🎸 and closing the week on Sunday with some good tunes!

come hang out, grab a drink and like, make out or something!

04/20/2026

happening this week!!

come out and listen to some poetry, erotic stories, and dance with us!!

d**e night this thursday will be the last night with our beloved angel baby whitney behind the bar, so come say hi!! give her your largest bills and shake it on the dance floor!!! ☀️💋🎶🩵

04/18/2026

Coming to you, Thursday April 30th! MARMALADE: A sexy, ambient lounge night in the basement🫦 This evening’s sporadic performances allow you to enjoy your date night, mingle with friends and be entertained while still maintaining connection. Sip on some cocktails or mocktails, and wind down after a lonnng week. Soothe yourself to the sounds of Nebula, enjoy a comedic burlesque act by Big Cherry (you loved her at the Q***r Talent Show!) and Dana L’orell, (another fan favorite from QTS) performing drag. All performances are 20’s inspired with a twist

04/17/2026

TGIF!!! come in for an ice cold cocktail or zero abv drink and unwind with Ally J & Kevin Clark!

open 5pm-12am
music at 9pm
tarot with .shines starting at 8pm!

keeping it chill and light and breezy tonight☀️✨🎶💐

04/15/2026

Arcana is proud sponsors of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival happening this weekend in Durham!!

There are some great documentaries happening this weekend, but we’re especially excited for Friday’s screening of Forever Barbara:

Feminist icon and le***an filmmaker Barbara Hammer’s life mission was to create and record le***an histories, both personal and societal. With Hammer’s own voice as our guide, Barbara Forever weaves elements from her personal archive—films, home movies, photos, audio recordings—and interviews with her longtime partner, Florrie Burke, to create an expansive portrait of its subject.

playing at 7:30! tickets at Full Frame Doc Film Festival !!!

Stop in before or after the screening for a springtime cocktail! If you pop in after, you might catch Ally J and Kevin Clark’s set!!

04/13/2026

Making friends as an adult feels like a herculean task, so we’ve made it easy with mannny fun events this week to come mingle with other durham qu**rs!

Tomorrow we have our in house diva, 𝐌𝐞𝐤𝐚 𝐋𝐚 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞’s birthday celebration!!!!! Come out and party with some live burlesque performances all in celebration of Meka (NO COVER, bring $$ to tip performers)

If you wanna mingle some more, we have q***r craft night & le***an poetry club this week on tuesday and sunday respectively!!

We also have live music this week with many many may long time friends: Emily & Itsi, Ally & Kevin, and Les Trios Chats!!! some folk, acoustic, and live jazz!!! so fun!

come make new friends, come hang out!!

04/11/2026

this wednesday!

our monthly craft night hosted by Adela (Adela)!!

bring a project or take one of ours! the community bin is filled with crafting material from the projects of yesteryears, and we are always accepting donations! one q***r’s trash is another q***r’s treasure or however the saying goes🧶🎨

21+, accessible entrance just call Arcana when you get here for access to the elevators! 🩷

04/06/2026

💐happy spring time, friends💐

Very fun, creative, lively week we have ahead of us!!

Our gorgeous friends are here tomorrow for some latin dance lesson & social!! they are here every first tuesday of the month, come out and dance!!💋👯‍♀️🪩🩷

we also have figure drawing, followed by S*x Trivia on Thursday with and .xwellness !!!!!!! come win a variety of sexy prizes for you or your lover or your lover’s lover ;))) ($5 entry for all participants!)

🎶 AMAZING weekend for music with DJ Orokos, the always fabulous Trio Factual, and Loose Greens!! 🎶

Stop by Sunday for Q***r Soup Night with !!! (see our most recent post for more info!) shoutout to Chef Meredith who we can confirm is a genius and artist in the kitchen🔪👩‍🍳⏲️🍜

03/31/2026

Next Thursday!!

Come join us and in a fun and flirty and SEXy Trivia game!! 🥵💦🩷

SO many prizes to give out!! get your smartest sexperts and come win em all!!

21+, $5 donation to the best group in Durham: The LGBTQ Center!!!

see you soon 🥰

03/30/2026

fun, music filled easter week 🐰💐🩷🩷🩷

Address

331 W MAIN Street 002, BACK ENTRANCE
Durham, NC
27701

Opening Hours

Wednesday	6pm - 12am
Thursday	6pm - 12am
Friday	6pm - 12am
Saturday	6pm - 12am
Sunday	6pm - 12am

Telephone

+19199731675

Website

http://www.arcanadurham.com/

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