ASL interpretation has been booked for this event. Renowned curator Jonathan D. Katz and curated artists lead audiences through Drama Queer: seducing social change.  Entry to all QAF events requires membership to the Pride in Art Society. Memberships are available for $2 online, or a $1-$5 slide scale at the...

In partnership with WePress , Directions Youth Services and Broadway Youth Resource Centre . For queer youth, the defence of our identities is wrapped into survival. Self portraiture, a.k.a. Selfies, are a grounding mechanism and an easy route to self compassion and empowerment. This workshop encourages the mixing and blending...

In partnership with MACHiNENOiSY . The late teens and early 20s are often a time of uncertainty and self-identification. We struggle to figure out who we are, who we want to be and how we can embody that to the world. QAF and MACHiNENOiSY create opportunities for the next generation...

In partnership with Redshift . Tickets $30/$15 concession A Gossamer Bit celebrates the longstanding association between the Toronto based ensemble Contact and lesbian composer Allison Cameron. A kaleidoscopic fusion of elements as disparate as minimalism, avant-garde jazz and Charles Ives, Cameron’s music is spacious, introspective and hypnotic. Released on CD...

ASL interpretation has been booked for this event. Queer Noise is a program of Canadian media art which combines presentation and dialogue to explore political intention in contemporary queer work. The evening will include short film and video curated by media artist E Hearte and featuring the work of artists: ...

In partnership with BC Living Arts . Tenor Frédérik Robert performs as iconic French singer Edith Piaf, accompanied by a silent film directed by Alan Corbishley. Desperate to be loved and understood, Vancouver drag queen Ed becomes obsessed with the tragic life of Edith Piaf, paints himself in her likeness,...

Presented by  SAD Mag . ASL interpretation has been booked for this event. SAD Mag presents the Queer Arts Festival’s final blowout—revel in community, effervescent refreshments, karaoke and DRAG! Glue on your glitter beards and get down to the Waldorf for glitter-licious performances by: ROSE BUTCH ALMA BITCHES and GRIMM...

Queewritica: Erotic writing on libido's continuum. No matter the genre, no matter your level of experience on or off the page, if you're writing about sex, we want you to come. Be your boner micro or macro or no bone at all, Queewritica can take it. From dried up to...

ASL interpretation has been booked for this even. Please arrive early, as the event will begin promptly at 7:00pm with no intermission. This new work by acclaimed Australian composer Lyle Chan , is a visceral musical portrait of the peak of the epidemic. Between 1991-1996, Chan and fellow activists couriered AIDS treatments...

in partnership with Art Song Lab and the Canadian Music Centre, Vancouver International Song Institute, CMC BC Creative Hub, The Roundhouse A queer edition of the week-long program exploring the collaborative fusion of poetry and music. Hear the songs premiered at SongLaunch on Sat Jun 25 at 2pm. Brown Paper...

ASL interpretation has been booked for this event. Join us for the Queer Arts Festival’s Art Party!, one of Vancouver’s hottest pride season events. This spectacular gala event features, ravishing refreshments, amazing artwork and queer conviviality. Art Party! celebrates the opening night of QAF’s curated exhibition, Drama Queer: seducing social...

From the roots of the queer arts Festival, this open visual art show exhibits artists from our communities and honours our founder Robbie Hong. Artists: Katherine Atkins Kate Braun Jackson Photographix Jeff Gibson Kelly Haydon Donal Hebner Trish Holowcznek Dzee Louise Noemi Molitor Nisha Platzer Rosamond Norbury SD Holman  ...

In partnership with Directions Youth Services and Broadway Youth Resource Centre . Jonathan D. Katz, curator of QAF's visual art exhibition Drama Queer: Seducing social change, leads a tour of the exhibition for street-involved queer youth. A meal will be provided onsite after the tour by Directions Youth Services. Need...

ASL interpretation has been booked for this event. A soirée of erotic literary readings to tantalize and titillate. This year's edition of Queerotica is curated by Dagger Editions , Caitlin Press ’s new imprint dedicated to writing by queer women (those who identify as queer women, including trans women, or...

Salon with artists and Daily Xtra’s Robin Perelle. Bring your open minds and hearts to reflect on the curated exhibition. After years of swinging in and out of fashion, the art world's appreciation of art for social change may once again be on upswing. But queer artists have always known...

Produced by the frank theatre company . ASL interpretation has been booked for this event. What’s it like being a person of colour and being queer in a community where whiteness and queerness are synonymous? Where do you fit when your black hair and brown body mark you out as...

Dagger Editions , an imprint of Caitlin Press , publishes literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry by and about queer women (those who identify as queer women, including trans women, or include this in their personal history). We celebrate the launch of Dagger’s first,  Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity...

Visual art exhibition curated by Jonathan D. Katz and Conor Moynihan. At the centre of this year’s festival is Drama Queer: seducing social change , a visual art exhibition curated by Jonathan D. Katz. This exhibition explores the role of emotion in contemporary queer art as a form of political...