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Workshop for Queer Youth: Finding Your Drag Identity with Gabriel Dharmoo

Venue: The Theatre on King (171 King Street)

Date: Wednesday November 19th, 5-8pm

Pricing: PWYC

Tickets Available on Eventbrite

Accessibility: Please reach out to eva@publicenergy.ca with accessibility questions and requests

Whether you have a drag persona already, or daydream about what your drag persona could be, this workshop celebrates how multifaceted and diverse drag can be! Spoiler alert: as you conceptualize and develop your alter ego, the best place to look is… within yourself!
Montreal-based composer and performer Gabriel Dharmoo brings music, theatre, and drag together as his high-voltage persona Bijuriya. Known for bold, playful performances blending original songs, improvisation, and South Asian-inspired glamour, Bijuriya enables Gabriel to celebrate queer joy and self-expression.
Through his workshops, Gabriel celebrates how lip-syncs, fashion, makeup, music, dance, comedy and other facets of drag artistry are all tools for creativity, confidence, and storytelling. By brainstorming and sharing ideas about their dream drag identity, participants are encouraged to play, create, and shine.

Gabriel Dharmoo

Gabriel Dharmoo is a composer, vocalist, improviser, drag artist, interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Montréal – Tio’Tia:Ke – Mooniyang (Canada). His works have been performed in Canada, the U.S.A, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Estonia, Poland, Australia, Singapore and South Africa. He has received many awards for his compositions, such as the Canada Council for the Arts Jules Léger Prize for his chamber work Wanmansho (2017) and the Conseil Québécois de la Musique Opus Award for his opera À chaque ventre son monstre (2018). He recently released Vestiges d’une fable (2024), an album of his chamber music in collaboration with Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra. As a vocalist and interdisciplinary artist, his career has led him to travel internationally, notably with his solo show Anthropologies imaginaires which was awarded at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival (2015) and the SummerWorks Performance Festival (2016).

The new solo show Bijuriya is the culmination of their drag persona Bijuriya’s work as a performance artist and musician; after having been active on social media (@bijuriya.drag) and the local drag scene in Montréal since 2019.

Gabriel Dharmoo holds a PhD in research-creation from the Individualized Program of Concordia University.

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