Last Chance For Drag Camp At MoPop

June 15, 2024• byMichael Strangeways

Here’s a fun thing to do with your drag obsessed teens aged 14 to 18…a one day “drag camp” with legendary Seattle drag “hostess with the mostest” Sylvia O’Stayformore! It’s happening Saturday, June 22nd, the designated CHOSEN VISIONS: PRIDE DAY AT MOPOP CELEBRATION! There’s a whole slew of events happening that day:

EVENT SCHEDULE

Drop-in Zine Workshop (11:00am–4:00pm)
Shorts program screening in Sound and Vision Theater @ 11:00am, 1:00pm, and 3:00pm
Pop-up exhibition featuring artifacts from the Matrix series (will be on view starting 5/30)
Queer Visions reading and resource list from Seattle Public Library and Seattle’s LGBTQ+ Center
Family Drag Workshop (noon–4:00pm, registration required)

This Pride we’re looking Queer to the future with a sensational Saturday of celebration.

Join us at the museum June 22 for a day-long extravaganza including a zine workshop, short film screenings, a family drag workshop, and a special pop-up exhibit featuring artifacts from The Matrix.

Queer creators have shaped some of pop culture’s most iconic visions of our shared future, and MoPOP is here to celebrate, honor, and share it all with you.

In partnership with Seattle Rep and their upcoming production of Jinkx Monsoon & Major Scales: Together Again, Again!, MoPOP is proud to present Chosen Visions: Family Drag Workshop.

Queer creators have produced some of pop culture’s most iconic images of the future, and now it’s your turn. Teaching artist and drag activist Sylvia O’Stayformore will guide youth and adult participants through a fabulous voyage of self-discovery, diving into dreams and visions while gathering the skills to achieve their own personal form of drag success.

Then it’s off to glory as participants parade from MoPOP to Seattle Rep for a showcase and fun-first group number.

▸ About Sylvia O’Stayformore

Saturday, June 22

Noon–4:30pm

Check-in at 11:45am

Ages 14–18

+ 1 adult guardian

MoPOP

325 5th Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.