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Saturday, May 17, 2025
The Oaklash Festival is the San Francisco Bay Area's favorite annual celebration of drag and queer performance! Our annual festival features a full weekend of nonstop DRAG including live performance, DJs, vendors, and more! Kings, queens, and queers from all over the Bay Area and beyond will join together for this annual celebration of queer culture and art. The event takes place in Old Oakland at 9th St and Broadway.
CHECK OUT THE FULL LIST OF PERFORMERS
All events are pay-what-you-can, and walk up entry is encouraged! No one turned away for lack of funds!
Oaklash aims to make our events accessible to all! All events will take place at ADA compliant venues and feature ASL interpretation during performances.
GET YOUR OAKLASH TICKETS TODAY!
About Oaklash
Oaklash is an Oakland-based arts nonprofit that produces large scale Drag performance events, facilitates mutual aid, and provides mentorship to emerging queer and trans leaders in nightlife. Founded by Beatrix LaHaine and Mama Celeste in 2018, Oaklash has provided a stage to over 600 queer and trans performers from all around the world and raised over half a million dollars to support queer and trans art here in Huchiun and Yelamu, also known as the Bay Area.
Our flagship program, The Oaklash Festival of Drag and Queer Performance, is part of our mission to create opportunities that showcase, elevate, and resource local queer and trans talent. Our year-round programming aims to create safe and accessible environments that celebrate the diversity of intersectional identities held within our community, especially queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color. Our organization was founded to showcase performances that are boundary-pushing, underrepresented, and unique to the sensibility of the Bay Area. We aim to stay true to the history of Oakland as a home to creative renaissance rooted in diversity. We hope that by amplifying and supporting the queer art community in the Bay Area, we illuminate the need for investment in the arts in the face of systemic racism, growing economic disparities, and the Bay Area housing crisis.
For questions, concerns, or access needs, email us at oaklashtickets@gmail.com
Header photo by Leif Aus and video of Miss Bea Haven by Pseuda.
