Submissions are NOW OPEN for the 2025 QAF Community Art Show!
Submissions are OPEN for our QAF Community Exhibition, held at SUM gallery this summer!
We’re inviting artists in our local Queer communities to contribute works that explore our 2025 festival theme, “Portals” – though all submitted works will be considered. We are delighted to be hosting the exhibition at QAF headquarters SUM gallery in the Sun Wah Building in Chinatown, from June 13 – June 28, 2025.
We are considering 2-D visual works, sculpture, digital art, and interdisciplinary works for submission.
Submission deadline: April 30, 2025
Submissions are accepted via email at submissions@queerartsfestival.com
Submission Checklist:
Submissions for the QAF Community Art Show must include:
- Artist name and preferred email address for contacting.
- Digital images of artworks (individual files, jpgs, or links to a website or upload are best.)
- Artwork information for each piece (title, medium, year, dimensions, and price if applicable).
Additional information that is helpful but not required:
- Artist biography.
- Artist statement.
- Resume/cv.
- Headshot.
- Links/social media.
All works must be installation-ready (ie, framed, hanging brackets, wires, etc). QAF will be onsite for installation, but whenever possible Artist’s are encouraged to help!
Jun 25 | 7pm | Closing Reception | Roundhouse Exhibition Hall | Free | ASL by request
Our familial festivities officially come to a close with friends, music, art — and local drag royalty The Darlings! Take a final stroll through Flavourcel’s CRAWL SPACE, thrill to music courtesy of DJ Ziggy Zaya, and experience an experimental drag troupe that CBC praises as “pushing the boundaries” and “turning conventional drag upside down.”
About The Darlings
The Darlings are a multidisciplinary, non-binary drag performance collective based in Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh territory, colonially known as Vancouver, BC. Their work challenges the boundaries of conventional drag, and explores genderqueer, non-binary, and transgender experience through the use of movement, poetry, performance art, theatre, and immersive/interactive installation. The Darlings are Continental Breakfast (Chris Reed), Maiden China (Kendell Yan), PM (Desi Rekrut), and Rose Butch (Rae Takei).
Jun 23 | 2pm | Community Event | Roundhouse Community Centre, Room C | Free
Do you have under-utilized clothes and accessories? Are you on the hunt for some free, fab looks? Get those old clothes out of the closet and down to the Roundhouse on June 23 for our first ever QAF Clothing Swap! We’re looking for clothes that are clean, gently worn, and unscented. Clothes can be dropped off starting at 12:30pm — pro tip: drop off your clothes early and attend our free Curators Tour at 1pm in the Exhibition Hall; then join us in Room C for the clothing swap from 2 – 4pm! Don’t have clothes to bring? No problem, you’re still welcome to join in the swap! All remaining clothes will be donated to PACE Society. All clothing will be sorted by size, and all-gender change spaces will be provided.
Special thanks to Zhanger and Queer Inclusion for their guidance in organizing this event.
