DRAG @ the Annex

Drag as Sacred, Healing, and Empowering

DRAG | Divination, Rainbows & Glitter is strutting back into the Annex with a new season of exciting offerings: a live audience podcast, movement workshop, performances and DJ dance party.
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Centering Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

We Have Always Existed

At its heart, this program is a celebration—a lifting up of BIPOC ancestral knowledge and voices. It’s about remembering, honoring and embodying indigenous understandings of sex and gender that existed long before western drag. From the revered Two-Spirit people of Turtle Island, to the Bakla of the Philippines, to the Māhū of Hawai’i and beyond—these are not just identities, but lineages of wisdom, resilience, and spirit.

What can we learn from our ancestors that speaks to who we are today? How do their truths help shape our liberation?

This isn’t just entertainment—it’s ceremony. It’s storytelling. It’s culture in motion. The Annex is a space where culture bearers remix, reclaim, and reimagine drag in ways the mainstream might never show you. It’s where tradition meets innovation, where joy becomes resistance, and where our histories come alive on our own terms.

Come witness. Come celebrate. Come remember.
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A Drag Laboratory of Possibility

Nature is Queer

Think of the Annex and this program as a Drag Institute – but with more glitter. Through different workshops, podcasts, events and experiments, we’re cracking drag open—examining it as personal expression, cultural inheritance, and political imagination.

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What We Do (and Werk!)

● Research & Development: digging into drag’s intersections with history, identity, and community.
● Honoring Culture Bearers: spotlighting the elders, legends, and culture shapers who keep drag alive.
● Community Dialogue: holding space for conversation, critique, and connection.
● Education: showing audiences that drag isn’t just performance—it’s cultural theory with a contour since time immemorial.

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DRAG @ the Annex is redefining what drag can mean: from late-night spectacle to everyday brilliance. It’s drag as scholarship, drag as ritual, drag as resistance, drag as love. Come ready to learn, laugh, and maybe leave with a little more glitter than you arrived with.