Drag Workshops with Tracey and Sugar Paper

Here’s your chance to join a fun and fabulous workshop led by professional drag and performance artists, Tracey Paper (Drag Queen) and Lisa Warnock (AFAB Queen). Come and learn some of the skills used to create a successful drag performance including lip sync, characterisation through movement, and comedy skills. This class is open to all genders and is suitable for complete newcomers who just want to try something fun, as well as those with some prior performance experience.

You’ll also get the chance to try some basic choreography to iconic music.

Please bring a bottle of water and wear clothes you can move in. Trainers are recommended but please feel free to wear what you are most comfortable in. Please note that you are unable to consume alcohol during this session for safety reasons.

Join us straight after the workshop for our Cocktail Cabaret event at 9.40pm championing local queer talent that promises to be entertaining, informative and supportive in our Cafe/Bar. The night will contain splashes of drag, dashes of dance, sprinklings of comedy, drama, and poetry making up the cocktail for the night. Hosted by the King and Queen of Colchester, Cyro and Flick.

Lisa Warnock – Aka Sugar Paper (AFAB Queen) – Practitioner

Lisa is a professional dance artist and one half of the PAPER DOLLS with Drag queen TRACEY PAPER. Sugar Paper was ‘born’ 6 years ago when Lisa started producing LGTBTQ+ Cabaret with Tracey Paper. Since then Sugar Paper has become a regular guest performer at Colchester Pride and at Colchester Arts Centre where she also creates and choreographs content for various fundraisers and cabaret events. Lisa and Tracey Paper premiered their first full length theatre show PAPER DOLLS at Colchester Fringe Festival in October 2022. Sugar is proudly AFAB and an active ally within the local LGTBTQ+ community. Alongside this work, Lisa continues to work as a professional choreographer and movement artist. Lisa also delivers performing arts to young people for The Mercury Theatre Colchester and for Essex Youth Services.