Anchorage MPowerment Project (Amp Anchorage), in conjunction with The Friday Night Diva Variety Show and Mad Myrna’s, presents Drag Camp 2012: Drag your way to the top! — an opportunity for young men to become the drag divas of their dreams. Drag Camp and competition will be held on successive Saturdays, Feb. 18 and 25.

At Drag Camp, there will be hair and makeup professionals available to help you get your drag on, and seasoned drag queens to help you acquire that swagger on the runway. Participation is limited only by the amount of room available in the Four A’s conference room. An “all fun/no fund” event. Participants must provide their own hair, dress, shoes, and makeup mirrors. There will be enough experience in the room to help make your drag dream come true!

The following week, come watch the fledgling divas at the Drag Camp competition! Contestants must have their own garments, accessories, hair, and shoes; have one song read to go; and must not have performed previously at the Friday Night Variety Show. The winning new drag queen will be offered a SPECIAL GUEST spot in Anchorage’s wildly popular Friday Night Diva Variety Show at Mad Myrna’s the following Friday.

Drag Camp 2012

• Date/time: Saturday, February 18, 2:00-5:00 PM
• Location: Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association (Four A’s),1057 West Fireweed Lane, Anchorage, AK (see map)
• Cost of admission: No cost. All fun, no fund!
• Further info: see Facebook events page

Competition

• Date/time: Saturday, February 25, 8:00 PM
• Location: Mad Myrna’s, 530 E. 5th Ave. in downtown Anchorage (see map)
• Cost of admission: $10.00
• Age restriction: Mad Myrna’s is a bar! Must be 21 with valid identification to enter.
• Further info: see Facebook events page

UPDATE 2/23: “Drag Camp 2012 – The Competition” is being rescheduled to a later date. Please stay tuned for more information on the date, and we will keep doing what we do here at Mad Myrna’s , which is entertaining Alaska (and the WORLD) one fabulous show at a time!!! Love to all, Aunt Daph.

Is your event not on our calendar? No matter where you are in the state, if you’re running an event of interest to the LGBTQA community, we’d be glad to put it on the Bent Alaska events calendar. If you use Google Calendar, you can subscribe to our calendar at http://bit.ly/bentcalendar.