To make sure you get your Queer Art fix on and to ensure the safety of our team and audience, this year’s Queer Arts Festival will be experienced remotely, from their new digital hub!
Art Party! | Cinq-à-Sept Festival Opening | Jul 16, 5 - 7 pm |
QAF’s opening: Luxuriate in a cinq-à-sept afternoon delight! Come together for our Visual Art tour with curator Jonny Sopotiuk, guest artists, and a gallery of intimate friends old and new. Wonderfully Wicked...
Wicked: Visual Arts Exhibition | Jul 16 — 26 QAF’s Signature Curated Visual Art Exhibition
Guest curator Jonny Sopotiuk brings together an international array of artists reflecting on the festival theme.
Too Spirited | Jul 17, 7pm | Indigenous Burlesque
Embrace your too-muchness with bombastic burlesque brought to you by the badass babes of Virago Nation.
Rupture Probe: Queer Inquiries & Remediations | Jul 18, 7 pm | Media Art Screening
Recent queer shorts rupture normative notions of gender, pleasure, and activism, curated in partnership with VIVO Media Arts Centre.
Return to Sodom North | Jul 19, 7 pm | VIVO Media Art Screening90s Queer Video Out & Uncensored. Vancouver queer media artists raged back against the malignment and suppression of queer lived realities and representations of desire.
A Night of Storytelling | Jul 22, 7 pm | Literary Readings |
Curated by Danny Ramadan with readings presented by local, national, and international writers.
Underground Absolute Fiction | Jul 23, 7 pm | Speculative Theatre |
An immersive play-meets-punk-concert, inspired by the Polish “home theatre.” Written by Anais West and co-produced by Queer Arts Festival and The Frank Theatre.
The Darlings, Uncensored | Jul 24, 7pm | Drag Performance |
Experience the unexpected with genre-bending non-binary avant-drag collective, the Darlings: Continental Breakfast, PM, Rose Butch and Maiden China.
A Conversation on Queer Mentorship | Jul 25, 12 pm | Lunch Discourse |
Hiromi Goto and Erica Isomura explore the nuances of intergenerational mentorship as queer POC writers.
This Crazy Show | Jul 25, 7 pm | Jul 26, 2 pm | Dance Performance |
In his Swan Song, contemporary dance legend Noam Gagnon sashays the fine line between pain and pleasure in a fetishization of something glamorous and beautifully twisted: a monster beautified.
Glitter is Forever: Pajama Party | Jul 26, 4 pm | Closing Binge
Get your dress jammies on, grab a drink and binge-watch the entire Queer Arts Festival! Expect surprises and special prizes. This year’s tickets are by donation.