The Bay Area\u2019s beloved drag festival\u00a0Oaklash is returning for its ninth year with a day of nonstop queer art and performances.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Founded in 2018 by Mama Celeste and Beatrix Lahaine, this inclusive celebration knows no binary: Drag kings, queens and every other kind of drag artist is welcome. The organization has evolved into a year-round nonprofit organization dedicated to pushing the boundaries of the art form and creating a safe community for local artists. Even as the event has grown, it\u2019s still maintained its uniquely Bay Area, alternative ethos. At Oaklash, the art can be beautiful, political and just plain stupid (in the good way) all at once.<\/p>\n
The Oaklash Block Party in Old Oakland includes seven DJs, 60 performers, and 50 food and art vendors. Stages are hosted by the founders along with Nicki Jizz,\u00a0Misterrr, Sally Lim\u00f3n and Mojo Carter. This year\u2019s headliners include Aja, a standout on Season 9 of \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race,\u201d and King Molasses, who won the first season of\u00a0\u201cKing of Drag.\u201d<\/p>\n
That night\u2019s Official\u00a0Oaklash Afterparty is hosted by Bonita Rose at Crybaby with tunes by\u00a0DJ\u00a0Finishher and\u00a0\u200bDJ\u00a0Del.\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n
All performances will be ASL interpreted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bay Area\u2019s beloved drag festival\u00a0Oaklash is returning for its ninth year with a day of nonstop queer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[329,7,332,839,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-310268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-california","tag-east-bay","tag-festivals","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}