Worcester Draglesque Festival

Worcester Draglesque Festival uplifts LGBTQIA+ voices in Central Massachusetts through the art forms of drag and burlesque. Through workshops and performances, we cultivate performers and audience members who recognize queer joy as an act of resistance.

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• Education: WDF is committed to making arts education accessible by offering free and lost-cost workshops for drag and burlesque performers of all experiences to hone their craft. 

• Effervesance: WDF brings together community members of all experiences to celebrate LGBTQIA+ art as a joyful act of resistance against oppression and discrimination.

• Entertainment: WDF platforms the diversity of performance styles of local and regional superstars and uplifts our neighbors of all abilities, body types, neurotypes, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, sizes, religions, and other lived experiences and identities.