QAF 2020 EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS LISTINGS
Complete listings of exhibitions and upcoming events brought to you by the Queer Arts Festival. All events at the 2020 Queer Arts Festival are by donation. Browse events here and RSVP.
Wicked: Curated Visual Arts Exhibition | Curated by Jonny Sopotiuk | July 16 - 26 | Queer life is a reality of ongoing survival. From government and societal oppression, to family rejection and social isolation our memories and experiences have been defined and shaped by the structures that are designed...
Curator Tour | Curator Statement | Queer life is a reality of ongoing survival. From government and societal oppression, to family rejection and social isolation our memories and experiences have been defined and shaped by the structures that are designed to contain us. Our identities and experiences are mediated. Living...
Underground Absolute Fiction | Register | Speculative Theatre | July 23 | 7 pm | Underground Absolute Fiction is an immersive play-meets-punk-concert, inspired by the apartment theatre of 1980s Poland. It invites audiences into a secret meeting at a post-Communist home. There, they join a queer punk band and Lena,...
The Darlings, Uncensored | Register | Drag Performance | July 24 | 7 pm | The QAF proudly welcomes The Darlings—Continental Breakfast, PM, Rose Butch and Maiden China—to the stage, ahem, screen, with a new performance created around the festival theme of ‘wickedness.’ The multidisciplinary, non-binary drag performance collective has...
A Conversation on Queer Mentorship | Register | Lunch Discourse | Jul 25 | 12 pm | Hiromi Goto and Erica Isomura explore the nuances of intergenerational mentorship as queer POC writers. Hiromi Goto, an emigrant from Japan, gratefully resides on the Unceded Musqueam, Skwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil Waututh Territories. She’s...
Too Spirited | Register | Indigenous Burlesque | July 17 | 7 pm | Embrace your too-muchness with bombastic burlesque brought to you by the badass babes of Virago Nation, Turtle Island’s first all-indigenous burlesque collective. Featuring special guests Monday Blues and Lynx Chase! Whether you’ve seen it before or...
