Back and bolder than ever: The trailer for Canada's a Drag Season 3 is here

Canada's a Drag is baaaack.

Nearly two years after CBC Arts debuted the first season, the docuseries returns for a third round that highlights a diverse array of drag performers from seven different cities across Canada (including Lethbridge and Moncton, each for the very first time). Providing an all-too-rare showcase for our country's extraordinary alternative drag performers, the show continues to prove that drag doesn't always need to be a race: in Canada, we run together. And next Thursday, February 7th, you can run to your various screens and watch every episode on CBC Gem.

In anticipation, we are so excited to offer up this trailer (masterfully edited by March Mercanti) introducing you to all the performers involved and getting you revved up for next week. And speaking of next week, if you're in Toronto there will be a free sneak preview of four of the episodes at Toronto's Glad Day Bookshop Thursday, February 6th at 8pm. Many of the performers will be attendance for a Q&A afterwards, which I will personally be hosting — in drag, of course.  

Watch the trailer:

As that trailer makes clear, the performers featured in our third season are pushing the boundaries of drag all across this country: Vivian Vanderpuss (Victoria), Rose Butch (Vancouver), Shay Dior (Vancouver), Francheska Dynamites (Lethbridge), Sapphoria (Edmonton), Mx. Wolverine (Toronto), Fay Slift and Fluffy Soufflé (Toronto), Mikiki (Toronto), Charli Deville (Montreal) and Chiquita Mare (Moncton). Alongside the 22 folks we featured in the first two seasons, that collectively makes 33 subjects so far on the series — though it's more than clear that's still just a small fraction of the drag talent this country has to offer.

It's also clear just how much filmmaking talent from across Canada has been involved in this project. This season's episodes were directed by Josephine Anderson (Vancouver), Kelly Conlin (Victoria), Gabriel Yee (Lethbridge), Tamarra Canu (Edmonton), Lucius Dechausay (Toronto), Caitlin Durlak and Andrew Moir (Toronto), Istoica (Toronto), Ashley Duong (Montreal) and Matthew Brown (Moncton), and they all did an incredible job.

Additional thank yous to Hope Little for doing our title graphics, and to our entire in-house team here at CBC Arts, particularly Kiah Welsh (who packaged our episodes), Jeff Hume (who organized our release), Eleanor Knowles (who edited our written copy), Romeo Candido (our senior producer), Luke Myers (our unit manager), Andrew D'Cruz (our executive producer) and Mercedes Grundy, who produced this series with me — and I can assure you what's coming next week would be considerably less fabulous without her.

Watch the first two seasons of Canada's a Drag here, and check back next Thursday, February 7th when the entire third season drops.