with Broadway Youth Resource Centre & Directions Youth Services
Curator tour of the visual art exhibition for the younger generations (ages 15-24). You are welcome to experience a guided tour with QAF 2018 visual art curator, Valerie d. Walker. Come interact, ask questions about the DECADEnce exhibition, stand-back or just observe contemporary art at the Queer Arts Festival.
Not a youth anymore but still want to meet the curator and artists, and talk about the art? Please respect this space, and attend instead QAF’s public Curator Panel on Sun Jun 17.
Scent Reduced:
This event is scent-reduced. Please help us keep this a welcome space for everyone and refrain from wearing scented products while attending QAF events.
Mobility Accessibility:
This event is fully wheelchair accessible. If you move through space differently, we will be ready to assist you.
Click HERE for a full accessibility audit of the space by Radical Access Mapping Project. To learn more about Radical Access Mapping Project, visit their website at radicalaccessiblecommunities.wordpress.com
QAF takes place on the traditional, unceded territory of the Coast Salish people, in particular the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwəta? (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. We recognize their sovereignty, as there are no treaties on these lands, and we are dedicated to building a new relationship between our nations based on respect and consent.
An annual soirée of erotic literary readings, curated this year by Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation), UBC Indigenous Professor and co-editor of Sovereign Erotics, the first and only published collection of Two-Spirit literary erotic writing. Previously known as Queerotica, Samantha Nock rebranded the readings as Lay of the Land in 2017.
World Premiere with the frank theatre company | Roundhouse Performance Centre
A love story. A ghost story. A ritual for release.
A Vancouver artist attends the opening night of his career retrospective. Unbeknownst to gallery-goers, his past has returned to haunt him. What if what we thought we knew about our lives proved to be less than true? And how can we know the truth if the one creating it keeps it in camera, hidden?
Two beautifully young men, off in radically different directions, become entwined with the untimely death of a stranger, which seals their fate; Camera Obscura (hungry ghosts) is an exciting new contemporary play inspired by Governor General Award winning, multimedia artist, Paul Wong*. His true life and radical work provide a jumping off point for playwright and director Lesley Ewen to contemplate the act of creation as both a way of coping with despair and of telling lies. Mixing truth and fiction she spins out a world of multiple realities that re-views a double tragedy in the hope of absolution and understanding.
Actors Jeff Ho, Julien Galipeau and Braiden Houle bring the story to life with passion, intelligence and a brash sense of humour. The renowned design team, Sammy Chien, Khan Lee, Stefan Smulovitz, James Proudfoot and Hannah Case, have created an elegantly rich, multidimensional environment within which to tell this heartfelt, funny and deeply intense tale of Love and Redemption.
This performance deals with topics of racism, suicide and murder. Please care for yourself as you see fit, including leaving the theatre; you’re welcome to return quietly. We will have an Indigenous Elder available if you require support.
*Paul Wong is a Governor General Award winning, Vancouver-based notorious multimedia provocateur. He is a founding member of several important artists’ groups including VIVO Media Arts Centre, as well as curator of QueerSUM. His work includes conceptual performances which mesh video, photography, installation, and performance with Chinese-Canadian cultural perspectives.
Written and directed by Lesley Ewen.
Cast
Jeff Ho
Julian Galipeau
Braiden Houle
Khan Lee | Set Designer
Sammy Chien | Video Designer
James Proudfoot | Lighting Designer
Stefan Smulovitz | Sound Designer
Hannah Case | Costume Designer
Fay Nass | Dramaturg
Jennifer Swan | Stage Manager
Heather Barr | Assistant Stage Manager
Jeff Harrison Technical Director
Kanon Hewitt: Assistant to projection designer/operator
Community partner: Full Circle – First Nations Performance Society
Regular 4-Show Flex Passes ($79) and single tickets on sale April 16:
TICKETS $30 General Admission | $20 Concession
June 19 PREVIEW NIGHT $25 General Admission | $15 Concession
June 23 matinee PAY WHAT YOU CAN DAY
Written and directed by Lesley Ewen.
Cast
Jeff Ho
Julian Galipeau
Braiden Houle
Khan Lee | Set Designer
Sammy Chien | Video Designer
James Proudfoot | Lighting Designer
Stefan Smulovitz | Sound Designer
Hannah Case | Costume Designer
Fay Nass | Dramaturg
Jennifer Swan | Stage Manager
Heather Barr | Assistant Stage Manager
Jeff Harrison Technical Director
Kanon Hewitt: Assistant to projection designer/operator
Community partner: Full Circle – First Nations Performance Society
Regular 4-Show Flex Passes ($79) and single tickets on sale April 16:
TICKETS $30 General Admission | $20 Concession
June 19 PREVIEW NIGHT $25 General Admission | $15 Concession
June 23 matinee PAY WHAT YOU CAN DAY
Entry to all QAF events requires membership to the Pride in Art Society. Memberships are available for $2 online or $5 / $2 concession at the door. Please allow a few extra minutes at your first event to obtain your new card.
Performed by Erato Ensemble with special guest artist Jerry Pergolesi, percussion, double bass, this concert honours seminal electro-acoustic Vancouver composer Barry Truax in a 30-year retrospective concert of his trailblazing work, breaking down barriers of gender, sexuality and technology through music.
Featuring
Barry Truax
Jerry Pergolesi
Will George
Hilary Ison
Melanie Adams
Steve Maddock
Featured works are Skin & Metal, for leather percussionist, Androgyne, Mon Amour, based on the poetry of Tennessee Williams, and vocal theatre works, Thou & I, The Sibyl, and Enigma, based on the life and death of Alan Turing, all with digital soundtracks.
$30 / $20
in partnership with: Music on Main and CMC BC Vancouver Creative Hub
Regular 4-Show Flex Passes ($79) and single tickets on sale April 16 at Brown Paper Tickets:
This session will be led by Jeremy Dutcher, a composer and vocal artist of the Wolastoq nation. His music merges aesthetics and influences from traditional, classical and contemporary sound worlds, and his breakout album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa explores his sonic heritage. Come and engage in an intimate, interactive sounds workshop that explores contemporary Indigenous sonic practice.
The Queer Arts Festival presents MACHiNENOiSY’s PROX:IMITY RE:MIX
PROX:IMITY RE:MIX is the culmination of a 2 week performance process in Dance, Theatre and New Media with MACHiNENOiSY and LGBTQ+ youth. RE:MIX is an interdisciplinary dance performance which celebrates diversity of experience and individuality in order to challenge conforming representations of identity. PROX:IMITY RE:MIX reminds us of what our bodies are capable of when freed from traditional expectations.
Directors/Choreographers – Delia Brett and Daelik
New Media Artist – Marcelo Track
Composer – Chris Kelly
Youth Mentor – Red Lenore Fawkes
Youth Worker – Rianne Svelnis
Performers – Alexandra Rodriguez, Brenna Murray, Emma Joye Frank, Ivy
Hazard Wilson, Jackson Tse, Jen Hutter, Melicia Zaini, Teddy Lake, & Saturno.
Operatic tenor Jeremy Dutcher performs traditional songs of his Wolastoqiyik ancestors, in duet with recordings that he rediscovered, transcribed from century-old archival wax cylinder recordings, and arranged for voice, electronics and piano.
This performance is SOLD OUT! We recommend arriving at the Roundhouse early to ensure enough time to pick up advance tickets and memberships. We will have a RUSH line, where folks can lineup for a chance to get into the show in the event of cancellations or no-shows—but entry is not guaranteed.
Community partners: Vancity and Full Circle – First Nations Performance Society
Performed by Erato Ensemble with special guest artist Jerry Pergolesi, percussion, double bass, this concert honours seminal electro-acoustic Vancouver composer Barry Truax in a 30-year retrospective concert of his trailblazing work, breaking down barriers of gender, sexuality and technology through music.
Featuring
Barry Truax
Jerry Pergolesi
Will George
Hilary Ison
Melanie Adams
Steve Maddock
Featured works are Skin & Metal, for leather percussionist, Androgyne, Mon Amour, based on the poetry of Tennessee Williams, and vocal theatre works, Thou & I, The Sibyl, and Enigma, based on the life and death of Alan Turing, all with digital soundtracks.
$30 / $20
in partnership with: Music on Main and CMC BC Vancouver Creative Hub
Regular 4-Show Flex Passes ($79) and single tickets on sale April 16 at Brown Paper Tickets:
Dancer Lee Su-Feh negotiates an environment of smoke and numbers, flying objects in this durational performance. The complicated dialogue as Asian diaspora encounters colonized Indigeneity.
Nelson, B.C. poet, Jane Byers, “came out” with her 2nd poetry collection, Acquired Community, in October 2016 (Caitlin Press-Dagger Editions). It is a 2017 Golden Crown Literary Society Award Winner for Poetry and is featured on All Lit Up’s Top Ten Social Justice publications in Canada. Her debut poetry collection, Steeling Effects is published by Caitlin Press (March, 2014). Jane has recently published a chapbook, It Hurt That’s All I know (NIB Press, 2017). Jane has had poems and essays published in various literary journals in Canada, the U.S. and England, including Best Canadian Poetry 2014. She is delighted to have her poem, Nothing To Forgive, currently on Poetry in Transit. She is the 2017-18 Writer-In-Residence for the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony at Simon Fraser University.
Connection to ALOT:
“After an initial meeting with Elise in Nelson, where she was undertaking some research, I again met Elise in Vancouver at a reading/launch of Acquired Community, which is a collection of lesbian and gay history poems. Dr. Elise Chenier asked me if I would be interested in becoming ALOT’s first writer in residence. I was honoured to accept this opportunity. I am in the midst of reviewing oral testimonies and writing poems in response. These are the poems I will be reading from as well as some relevant poems from Acquired Community. I am also interviewing Daphne Marlatt for ALOT, after having spent a week with her papers in Special Collections.”
Cicely-Belle Blain
Cicely Blain is a writer, facilitator and activist originally from London, UK, now living on coast Salish lands. They run a consulting agency and are a founder of Black Lives Matter, Vancouver as well as a columnist for several publications including Daily Xtra and the Body is Not an Apology. They are also a sub-editor at Beyond the Binary, UK-based magazine for trans and non-binary people. Cicely is the 2017 winner of the Canadian Power of Youth Leadership Awards in Social Movement Building for their contributions to LGBTQ rights and the Black liberation movement. They love instagram, red wine, dinosaurs and painting.
This event is free and open to the public.
The address is 268 Keefer St., between Main St. and Gore Ave. The SUM gallery is located on the 4th floor, suite 425.
Transit access:
Skytrain: Main Street-Science World or Stadium-Chinatown, bus 22 on Gore, buses 03, 08, 19 on Main, 14, 16, 20 on Hastings
Accessibility: This location has not yet had an accessibility audit.
– Entrance is street level with no steps at front entrance;
– There is a ramp to reach the elevator;
– Washrooms are accessible & non gendered;
– The automatic door operators haven’t arrived yet but the main doors will be propped open;
– Our events are scent reduced;
– There is a paid parkade as part of the building unfortunately for now it closes at 7pm. We encourage you to park at EasyPark on Keefer and Quebec or street parking.
– ASL interpretation will be provided.
Please let us know if you have any requests or need more information.
Come party with us on Wednesday February 14, 2018 for our winter fundraiser, Bleeding Hearts & Artists! This year’s live art auction and performances at Bleeding Hearts & Artists is graciously hosted by Bruce Munro Wright. The soirée will feature performances by burlesque sensation Shane Sable and musical trio Parlour Panther and be MCed by the multi-talented Fred Lee.
If you can’t make it to the event but still want to bid on artwork, stay tuned for Absentee bidding information.
We are thrilled to once again have Tyler Alan Jacobs engage us in a traditional land acknowledgement as this event will take place on the sovereign, unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
QAF’s final blowout—revel in community, effervescent refreshments, and karaoke with glitter.
Free, $6 cover after 9pm.
At the Junction
The Junction is a 19+ venue at all times. Proper government issued photo I.D. is required for entry.
The kitchen closes at 10pm.
$6 Cover Charge – BRATPACK : SEASON 3 Showtime 11:30pm
Mobility Accessibility:
This event is wheelchair accessible.
QAF takes place on the traditional, unceded territory of the Coast Salish people, in particular the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwəta? (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. We recognize their sovereignty, as there are no treaties on these lands, and we are dedicated to building a new relationship between our nations based on respect and consent.
From the roots of the Queer Arts Festival, this open visual art exhibition honours our founder, Two-Spirit artist Robbie Hong.
Scent Reduced:
This event is scent-reduced. Please help us keep this a welcome space for everyone and refrain from wearing scented products while attending QAF events.
Mobility Accessibility:
This event is fully wheelchair accessible.
Click HERE for a full accessibility audit of the space by Radical Access Mapping Project. To learn more about Radical Access Mapping Project, visit their website at radicalaccessiblecommunities.wordpress.com
QAF takes place on the traditional, unceded territory of the Coast Salish people, in particular the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwəta? (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. We recognize their sovereignty, as there are no treaties on these lands, and we are dedicated to building a new relationship between our nations based on respect and consent.
Art and conviviality converge at the grand opening of our 2017 festival. Performance art curated by Stimson will take place on this night.
ASL Interpretation: ASL interpretation has been booked for this event.
Scent Reduced:
This event is scent-reduced. Please help us keep this a welcome space for everyone and refrain from wearing scented products while attending QAF events.
Mobility Accessibility:
This event is fully wheelchair accessible.
Click HERE for a full accessibility audit of the space by Radical Access Mapping Project. To learn more about Radical Access Mapping Project, visit their website at radicalaccessiblecommunities.wordpress.com
QAF takes place on the traditional, unceded territory of the Coast Salish people, in particular the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwəta? (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. We recognize their sovereignty, as there are no treaties on these lands, and we are dedicated to building a new relationship between our nations based on respect and consent.
