The opening night of Queer Arts Festival’s Visual Arts Exhibition and multi-disciplinary arts festival.
Art Party!
Opening night celebration of the Queer Arts Festival in a gay, carnival atmosphere
Proudly sponsored bt Health Initiative for Men (HIM)
July 26, 2011 7 pm
Performances by:
Dianna David, as Meena Mina the Mime Magician
Al Cannon, trumpet
Kallisto, a-cappella women’s trio
Bluelight
Games People Play: Curated Visual Arts Exhibition
To celebrate the North America Outgames in Vancouver this summer, the Queer Arts Festival has chosen Games People Play as its theme for 2011.
Queer cultures often emphasize elements of game-play: from camp to butch/femme to strictures of “straight looking/straight acting”, we play around with identity and its shadows of artifice, passing and trespassing. The curators are encouraging artists to queer the idea of games and play: board games, bored games, war games, mind games, drinking games, parlor games, gender games, games theory, game shows, word play, gun play, foreplay, BDSM play, playing the fool, playing by ear, playing along, playing around, playing for the team, playback, playmates, team sports, blood sport, water sports… With this exuberance of possibilities we will build a show of divergent investigations; a game for viewers to trace commonalities and conflicts along the through-line of gaming.
‘Maturity means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.’
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Curated by Persimmon Blackbridge, Jeff Gibson and SD Holman
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Artists:
Garth Amundson
Patricia Atchison
Kathy Atkins
Dana Ayotte
Angelina Cantada
Rodrigo Cervantes Ramirez
Jen Crothers and !Kona
Amy Dame
Adrian Fehr
Kimberley French
Pierre Gour
Afuwa Granger
Charlotte Hewson
Suzo Hickey
Abegael Jackson
Lizard Jones aka Emma Kivasild
Tillie King
Dzee Louise
Mark McGregor
Steve Middleton
Rosamond Norbury
Sarah Race
Naufus Ramirez-Figuieroa
Sakino Sepulveda
Wendy Sexsmith
Noel Silver
Suzy Stroet
Oscar Sanchez
Entry by donation
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Pride in Art Community Visual Art Show
July 26 – August 13, 2011
The Queer Arts Festival 2011 has two visual art shows this year! We are getting back to our roots with the Pride in Art Community Show! In the Great Hall of the Roundhouse, outside the main Exhibition Hall, the PiA Community Show exhibits. Artists were not asked to stick to the theme
Artists:
belle ancell
Cliff Blank
david sandford
Hiiro Prince
Jack Herman
James Sullivan
SD Holman
James Walton
Jeffery Gibson
Joel Levine
Kate Price
Kricket Crow
Persimmon Blackbridge
Ron Kearse
Tom McKenna
Aerlyn Weissman
