2025 MX Daemōn presents LUMEN

✨ Prepare to be illuminated as we make history with Michigan’s 1st National Monster Xtreme Preliminary. This year's theme: LUMEN—a spectacle where darkness bleeds light.

🌟 HEADLINING: AUNTIE HEROINE
Top 3 star of The Boulet Brothers Dragula Season 666 is bringing an immersive, mind-blowing performance that will leave you breathless. This is your chance to witness Auntie Heroine live on stage in #Lansing for one night only!

Join us for a night of intense pageantry competition and an illuminating light experience at 2025 MX Daemōn presents LUMEN

🕯Eight competitors will battle in Monster Drag Events' MX Daemōn—but only one will claim the title and move on to represent Michigan at National Monster Xtreme 2026. Who will rise? Who will reign?

3rd Annual World Goth Day Mid-Michigan Film FestEvil
Saturday, May 17, 2025 | REO Town Marketplace & The Robin Theatre | Lansing, MI

🕯️ Prepare to be Illuminated 🕯️
Join us for a full day of gothic arts, monster drag, film screenings, vendors, and pageantry as Monster Drag Events presents Michigan’s first-ever National Monster Xtreme Preliminary alongside the 3rd Annual World Goth Day Film FestEvil.

🎟️ One ticket grants access to all daytime festival events from 11 AM – 8 PM! Seating is limited in select venues. An optional ticket add-on gives access to the MX Daemōn Pageant & After-Party.

🍽️ Food & Drink Available:

• Sleepwalker Spirits & Ale inside venue
• Food trucks lined up outside

🛍️ Vendor Market open all day

👕 Official MX Daemōn 2025 T-Shirt Pre-Order Available!

Rep the monsters. Bleed the light. Wear the darkness.
Pre-order now for $25 to guarantee pickup at the event.

🕯️ Don’t miss a day of goth, drag, and luminous transformation. Be part of Michigan drag history at 2025 MX Daemōn presents LUMEN & World Goth Day Film FestEvil!

🎟️ Get your tickets now—once they’re gone, they’re gone!

👉 For more info: mxdaemon.com

⚠️ ABSOLUTELY NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON

✨ FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS:
👑 Alexandria Evangelista – Reigning National Monster Xtreme 2025, known as the chameleon of drag, this designer brings breathtaking imagery and mesmerizing performances, all the way from Kansas City, MO.

🔥 Nomi D'shire – Your 1st Alternate National Monster Xtreme 2025 and Mother Monster of Monster Drag Events spawning right here in Michigan, bringing their signature power, presence and poise.

🎤 HOSTED BY Dia Elektra – The fashion witch of the MidWest's narration will keep the whole night filled with spell binding energy, wit, and breathtaking moments!

🎤 Judges & Special Guests Include:

• Alexandria Evangelista (Reigning National Monster Xtreme 2025)
• Nomi D’shire (1st Alternate National Monster Xtreme 2025)
• Gabriella Stratton Galore (Miss Gay Michigan America 2023)
• Apollo Venom Summers (Emeritus National Monster Xtreme)
• Deija Vaton (Judge & Performer)
• The Baron & Sindee Nyte (ScreamCraft Studio, Voodoo’s World of Oddtiques, The Otherside Museum)

🗓️ DAYTIME SCHEDULE (Included with Festival Ticket BUY HERE):

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

• Festival opens
• Vendor Market: Explore dark wares, gothic art, oddities & more
• Monster Drag Brunch @ Sleepwalker Spirits & Ale (seating limited, 2-hour event)

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

• Gothic Poetry Hour @ The Robin Theatre

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

• Film Screening: “Little Sister” @ The Robin Theatre

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

• Shopping Break

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

• Film Screening: “Donnie Darko” @ The Robin Theatre

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

• Goth DJ Sets @ REO Town Marketplace

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

• Dinner & shopping break

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

• Film Screening: “The Crow” @ The Robin Theatre

7:30 PM – 8:00 PM

• Final shopping opportunity

🕗 8:00 PM: Festival officially closes

🎟️ 2025 MX Daemōn Pageant: LUMEN:

🔥 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Monster Drag Pre-Show & World Goth Day After-Party

👑 8:00 PM – Midnight
2025 MX Daemōn Pageant: LUMEN
Michigan’s first-ever National Monster Xtreme preliminary—where darkness bleeds light.

Witness 8 fierce competitors battle for the MX Daemōn crown under the theme LUMEN: Bleeding Light Into Darkness. Only one will reign and advance to National Monster Xtreme 2026!

🌟 HEADLINING: AUNTIE HEROINE (Top 3 finalist from The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Season 666)
🔥 An immersive, mind-blowing performance you won’t forget.