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At Voulez-Vous Productions, we’re thrilled to unveil our new educational platform, specifically tailored for queer women & gender non-conforming artists. This innovative space is designed to nurture your talents, fuel your creativity, and expand your artistic horizons.

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Voulez-Vous Productions offers three pricing options for our courses: Full Price (the actual cost of the teacher’s time), Solidarity Price (25% off), and Pay What You Can (with a suggested minimum). The Solidarity Price is open to anyone experiencing financial insecurity and/or multiple forms of marginalization. The PWYC option is open to QTBIPOC wishing to professionalize their artistic careers. 

In order to access the Solidarity Price or PWYC Price, please write an email to [email protected] with a couple of sentences about your situation, and we will provide you with the necessary codes and next steps!

Due to generous donors, there are 2 free spots for BIPOC performers available in Joy Rider’s Burlesque Act Development course. In order to apply, please send an email to [email protected] with a short paragraph about why you would like to be considered for this scholarship, along with any documentation of your burlesque/theatre/dance work that you have. Candidates will be selected in the first week of February.

Voulez-Vous’ courses are designed by and for queer women and gender non-conforming artists. Our courses are designed to meet the specific needs of artists from these communities and their specific barriers to institutional aid, continuing education, and professional development. Our practice is intersectional and aims to address the specific barriers experienced by multiple marginalized queer people, including BIPOC and people with disabilities.

Voulez-Vous offers three course formats: Progressive, Bootcamp, and Weekender. Progressive courses are multi-week courses that allow students to develop their skills in one subject matter over the course of the semester. Bootcamps are half-day workshops of 4 hours that allow a deep dive into more specific aspects of arts administration. Finally, Weekenders is a conference-style, two-day series of hour-and-a-half workshops that give the bases in a variety of courses all focused on one larger theme in arts administration.

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Meet Our Instructors

Drag & Burlesque

HercuSleaze

HercuSleaze is Canada’s most recognized drag king, having appeared on OutTV’s competition show, Call Me Mother. He’s grown a large following on Insta where he’s known for his makeup looks and historically-inspired outfits. Herc has performed on large stages across Canada & the US, including at Fierté Montreal’s Superstars, Toronto’s Just for Laughs, and as a headliner at California’s Oaklash Festival.

Rosie Bourgeoisie

Rosie Bourgeoisie is a multidisciplinary queer artist, performance artist, burlesque/drag artist, dancer, costume designer, burlesque and adapted movement teacher, self-love/body positivity educator, model, producer and activist. Their practice centralizes the reclamation of space in the performing arts for larger bodies, different abilities and gender non-conforming people.

Joy Rider

Joy Rider is a multi-award-winning international burlesque artist and headliner. She is a 3-time winner (Most Innovative, and Best Small Group 2023, Best Debut 2022) at the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, burlesque’s most renowned international competition and showcase. She uses her signature blend of glamour, power, storytelling, and sensuality to create acts about identity, queerness, struggle and joy.

RV Métal

Geneviève Labelle is Drag King RV Métal. This feminist artist has a strong interest in performance and documentary theater. An entrepreneur and multi-faceted artist, Geneviève Labelle seeks to provoke thought and bring queer issues to the fore, in works that are sometimes raw, sometimes playful, but always hard-hitting and relevant.

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Communications

Shahed Abotouk

Meet Shahed, a Montreal-based marketing professional, artist, and successful small business owner. With a rich portfolio spanning SMBs and Enterprise clients across the United States, Toronto, Montreal, and Bahrain, Shahed has excelled in marketing, brand development, and content strategy.

Élyanne Coursol-Dion

EDI/Talent care consultant, live model, and Master's student in Cultural Enterprise Management at HEC de jour, event production manager and harm reduction speaker after dark; she has been evolving within Montreal's queer nightlife since 2016.

Avery Burrow

Vancouver-born, Montreal-raised, and Paris-based, Avery's curiosity has taken them through as many career paths as cities. A graduate of Concordia University's Bachelors of Translation, she has worked and consulted in bilingual communications, marketing strategy, and event production since 2018.

Steffie Boucher

Steffie Boucher is a black queer visual artist from the Caribbean. Her interests revolve around urban architecture and the body. The dancing body inspires her, and she seeks to include it in her work to evoke it. The dancing body calls to her, as does nature. Discerning diverse architectures and geometries and creating new ones based on the existing ones are at the heart of Steffie's visual and audiovisual research work.

Chlo Rivest

Chlo Rivest is a Montreal-based musician and sound engineer. Having worked as a sound engineer in the music world for several years, notably with the Let's Be Giants, Em & I and CRABE projects, they are now involved in the Montreal theatre community, having signed the sound design and sound engineering contracts for Ève Landry's Guide pour salle d'attente, and for the theatrical concert VACARMES presented at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier in 2023.

Carlin Holmes

Carlin Holmes is a multidisciplinary performer and songwriter. Based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal they are most well known for their Drag-pop act BiG SiSSY and for producing Montreal’s Afro Drag Cabaret. Holmes has been independently producing live events across Canada for more than ten years.

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Arts Admin

Maggie Flynn

Maggie is an artist and an organizer. She's also a math nerd, a bureaucracy bulldozer, a recipient of the QAFP Award of Merit, and a candidate working on her Certified Financial Planner designation. She's passionate about supporting art, activism, and queer communities so we can spend less time figuring out how to pay rent and more time flourishing in our lives.

Marie Ayotte

Marie has been a multidisciplinary artist, author, trainer and cultural manager for over 15 years. Over the years, she has worked in theatre, film, dance and music and assisted over a hundred artists with their funding applications, a subject she is particularly passionate about.

Sika Valmé

Sika Valmé is a contemporary Creole-Canadian illustrator, musician, and performer who was born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Established in Quebec since 2001, she now shares her time between Montreal, Vancouver and Mexico City. She holds a DEC in Visual Arts, a BA in Set Design, a professional MA in Project Management, as well as training in business and teaching.

Agathe Desseaux

After studying art history and cultural management in Spain, Agathe devoted herself to the production and coordination of multidisciplinary cultural events and the presentation of performing arts shows. Rigorous and determined, it's also her creativity that enables her to meet the specific logistical and/or economic challenges of a cultural manager.