Creative Encounters: Drag Up Your Mask

Brought to you by queer pan-Asian cabaret collective The Bitten Peach, this mask-painting workshop is a masterclass in releasing your inner fabulousness.

Be coached by London drag queen royalty Mahatma Khandi and cabaret sensation Kaajel Patel as they let you in on their trade secrets.

Together, they teach you the power of contouring, the art of the perfect cut crease and how to express your inner drag persona.

Whether it be a glamorous beast, a mystical creature or a creative clown, be artistically inspired and fabulously fulfilled at this workshop.

Creative Encounters is your creative space in the heart of the city, bringing together Londoners old and new for art, making and conversation.

About the Artists
Mahatma Khandi is the queen auntie supreme of the London scene – your favourite auntie’s favourite auntie. Their career spans from stage to screen (and into the basement). They’ve worked with make-up brands like MAC, NARS and Charlotte Tilbury, with their artistry being seen at London Fashion Week as well as on fashion and video shoots. Their special expertise is in show make-up: how to blend for flawlessness, how to contour to carve out those shadows into bone structure and how to shimmer and glitter to dazzle an audience from the stage. Be dazzled by Khandi’s comedic timing and fabulous fashions.

Kaajel Patel is a painter, dancer and performance artist. Born in Leicester and based in London, she works professionally across Bollywood, Indian Classical and Cabaret. Her paintings explore divinity, sensuality and ferocity within the South Asian femme, rooted in her British Asian heritage and expressed through a magical, dreamlike lens. Her make up extends her painterly world onto the face; a dreamy Bollywood goddess aesthetic. Bindis, gemstones, stringed forms and misty washes of colour transform the body into living art.