NEW START TIME 7:30PM

With event partner Genderfest ASL Interpretation provided by BCRAD

Tentacles wrestle the sexual status quo; secret identity exposes itself; and the Empire is challenged by authentic expression in a work that mixes whimsy, savage poetry, heartbreaking vulnerability and B-movie joy.

Get your alien on in this transdisciplinary evening for the Queer Arts Festival, featuring the work-in-progress presentation of Alien Sex. Come dressed in an outfit original to your planet of origin! Prizes will be awarded to the best dressed queer aliens.

Actor/director and Alien Sex instigator David Bloom conspires to bring together an exciting and diverse team in a multi-genre, multi-generational feast. The all-star cast features Vancouver genderqueer creators Olivia B (performance poet/tap dancer) and Floyd VB (performance poet/visual artist), propelled by the visceral and immutable life force of Taiko drummer Eileen Kage, composer/dancer/video artist Sammy Chien, actor/dancer/visual and performance artist Robert Leveroos, and photo-based artist/actor SD Holman (of BUTCH: Not like the other girls).

Drawing upon energetic interpretations of the transgressive BDSM poet Linda Smukler/Samuel Ace and the divisive heterosexual playwright David Mamet, gay, lesbian, bi, queer, straight, vanilla, kinky and yet-to-be-named perspectives collide in a speculative fiction that fearlessly explores the strange, beautiful, and sometimes inexplicable territory of human sexuality.

Hang around after the show to mingle with the artists and find out more about Alien Sex!

** NOTE: Workshop presentation starts at 7:30pm, talk-back and reception to follow. For more information contact: Jessa Agilo (jessa@prideinart.ca)

This event is ASL interpreted (confirmed), scent-reduced, and fully wheelchair accessible. For more information on how to support a scent-reduced event, please visit PeggyMunson.com. For a full accessibility audit of the space, visit Building Radical Accessible Communities.

The Radical Accessibility Mapping Project performed an accessibility audit for the Roundhouse in August 2011, and the space has remained the same since.

Access Overview: Just the Basics.

Full Access Audit.

You can learn more about the Radical Access Mapping Project here.

ARE YOU A QAF FAN? Buy a 4-show QAF Pass for only $69 / $20 for youth. Price includes membership. Get advance seating, invitations to parties, special passholder offers & more!

Sponsored by Vancouver Creative Space and Progress Labs 1422

Co-presented with the Erato Ensemble

Just in time for Pride weekend, Erato Ensemble’s I Sing the Body Electric celebrates the Queer spirit of Walt Whitman and the Beat Generation, who dared to express an individual language and lifestyle in the midst of the conservative social mores of their times, changing our culture forever.

Walt Whitman’s poetry is the basis for an emotional love story of two men – from meeting , to falling in love, to separation by war and death. Music by Kurt Weill, Charles Naginski, William George and world premieres by Lloyd Burritt and Ben Schuman.

The Beat poets Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Diane Di Prima inspire colorful new works by David Del Tredici, David Sisco, Jerome Kitzke, Steven Ebel, Anthony Ocaña, a “Beat Madrigal,” and a world premiere by Catherine Laub.

Erato Ensemble:

Catherine Laub, soprano

Melanie Adams, mezzo-soprano

Will George, tenor

Peter Alexander, baritone, percussion

Michael Park, piano

Cicely Nelson, violin

Mark Haney, double bass

This event is scent-reduced, and fully wheelchair accessible. For more information on how to support a scent-reduced event, please visit PeggyMunson.com. For a full accessibility audit of the space, visit Building Radical Accessible Communities.

The Radical Accessibility Mapping Project performed an accessibility audit for the Roundhouse in August 2011, and the space has remained the same since.

Access Overview: Just the Basics.

Full Access Audit.

You can learn more about the Radical Access Mapping Project here.

ARE YOU A QAF FAN? Buy a 4-show QAF Pass for only $69 / $20 for youth. Price includes membership. Get advance seating, invitations to parties, special passholder offers & more!

Co-presented with the Vancouver Men’s Chorus

The perfect post-parade pairing — round out your Pride Sunday with a Queer Arts Festival’s mainstay, Big Gay Sing!, a festive, participatory, music-making spectacle led by the Vancouver Men’s Chorus.

Described as “Karaoke with Glitter,” this post-parade sing-a-long is one of our most popular annual events now in its fifth year! Whether you’re winding down your festivities, or revving up for the night ahead, the Roundhouse will be alive with “The Sound of Music”. This interactive audience event takes you out of the spectator’s seat and puts you right into the performance. Don’t even think about sitting back and enjoying the show!

Always a sold-out show, Big Gay Sing! is led by choral conductor Willi Zwozdesky, pianist Stephen Smith, and the Vancouver Men’s Chorus. A perfect way to keep your Pride celebrations going after watching the parade.

So come early to the Roundhouse and mingle — oogle at the fabulous outfits, meet your fellow queers, have a few beverages, and take in the curated art exhibition, Queering the International!

This event is scent-reduced, and fully wheelchair accessible.For more information on how to support a scent-reduced event, please visit PeggyMunson.com. For a full accessibility audit of the space, visit Building Radical Accessible Communities.

The Radical Accessibility Mapping Project performed an accessibility audit for the Roundhouse in August 2011, and the space has remained the same since.

Access Overview: Just the Basics.

Full Access Audit.

You can learn more about the Radical Access Mapping Project here.

ARE YOU A QAF FAN? Buy a 4-show QAF Pass for only $69 / $20 for youth. Price includes membership. Get advance seating, invitations to parties, special passholder offers & more!

Co-presented with the Kickstart Society for Disability Culture and REVERB: a queer reading series

The dog days in August bring languid evenings, raw mornings, hot afternoons. This year, as part of the Queer Arts Festival, they also bring an alchemical collaboration between Kickstart Disability Arts and REVERB: A Queer Reading Series, with words from communities united against normalcy, the best of strange bedfellows. Kickstart produces and presents work by artists with disabilities in a variety of disciplines. REVERB is a quarterly reading series with an anti-oppressive framework that showcases emerging and established queer writers on unceded Musqueam, Sḵwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh land.

On August 6th, join us for an evening of literary readings from queers with and without disabilities. Presenting work by Irit Shimrat, Seema Shah, Jotika, romham padraig gallacher, Katrina Elisse Caudle and Alex Lu.

Like they say, expect the unexpected, because the seas might boil.

ASL interpretation is confirmed. This event is scent-reduced, and fully wheelchair accessible. For more information on how to support a scent-reduced event, please visit PeggyMunson.com. For a full accessibility audit of the space, visit Building Radical Accessible Communities.

The Radical Accessibility Mapping Project performed an accessibility audit for the Roundhouse in August 2011, and the space has remained the same since.

Access Overview: Just the Basics.

Full Access Audit.

You can learn more about the Radical Access Mapping Project here.

3rd of 3 sessions: July 26, 27 and August 2, 1 – 3pm

A Memoir Writing Workshop for trangressive voices led by author Amber Dawn, Tough Language, Tender Wisdoms invites participants to write under-told and boundary-pushing stories from their personal experience, and to develop strategies to creating safe and celebratory spaces for these stories to be heard. Whether participants are interested in formally writing their memoirs or writing is a part of self-discovery, this workshop will offer foundational memoir writing exercises.

Amber Dawn will use source material from her book “How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustlers Memoir” and select other text to lead participants through a series of free-writing exercises, small group work, and discussion. Participants should come prepared to share, listen and take risks.

Amber Dawn is a writer from Vancouver, Canada. Author of the memoir How Poetry Saved My Life and the Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa, and editor of the anthologies Fist of the Spider Women: Fear and Queer Desire and With A Rough Tongue. Amber Dawn was 2012 winner of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers. This is her second year leading the Tough Language, Tender Wisdoms writing workshop with QAF.

Registration was so great for Amber Dawn’s memoir writing workshop in 2013 we had to turn many hopefuls away, so we are bringing her back with priority registration for those who were wait-listed last year.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a progressive writing workshop. Space is limited to 16 participants; only register if you can participate in all three classes. Please check that dates and time carefully to ensure you can commit to all three.

Intended outcomes: a DRAFT of 1-5 poems, or DRAFT of a 2,000 word short story
Requirements: pen and paper
Workshop time: 2hrs + ½ hour debrief time, per class. 6 hours total

Registration cost is sliding scale, $25-225. Please pay what you can, to help QAF keep our workshops accessible to all, regardless of income level. Registration fees for a workshop of this kind are typically $225 per person.

This event is scent-reduced, and fully wheelchair accessible. For more information on how to support a scent-reduced event, please visit PeggyMunson.com. For a full accessibility audit of the space, visit Building Radical Accessible Communities.

The Radical Accessibility Mapping Project performed an accessibility audit for the Roundhouse in August 2011, and the space has remained the same since.

Access Overview: Just the Basics.

Full Access Audit.

You can learn more about the Radical Access Mapping Project here.

ARE YOU A QAF FAN? Buy a 4-show QAF Pass for only $69 / $20 for youth. Price includes membership. Get advance seating, invitations to parties, special passholder offers & more!

Co-presented with the Vancouver Pride Society

Join the Bobbers’ all-queer improv comedy troupe for a special edition of QueerProv! The well-loved weekly improv show at Heaven’s Door moves on up to the Roundhouse for Pride. Featuring local performers in a fabulous showcase Vancouver’s LGBTQ comedic talent. QueerProv: Special Pride Show is a 105 minute comedy tribute to Pride! Featuring an all-queer cast of 7 of Vancouver’s top improv comedians, we’ll create hilarious scenes and play rapid fire games based on pride suggestions and stories from the audience. A rip roaring good time! Proudly presented by The Bobbers and their weekly QueerProv comedy show – Vancouver’s very own queer improv troupe. 

This event is scent-reduced and fully wheelchair accessible. For more information on how to support a scent-reduced event, please visit PeggyMunson.com. For a full accessibility audit of the space, visit Building Radical Accessible Communities.

The Radical Accessibility Mapping Project performed an accessibility audit for the Roundhouse in August 2011, and the space has remained the same since.

Access Overview: Just the Basics.

Full Access Audit.

You can learn more about the Radical Access Mapping Project here.

ARE YOU A QAF FAN? Buy a 4-show QAF Pass for only $69 / $20 for youth. Price includes membership. Get advance seating, invitations to parties, special passholder offers and more!

Co-presented with the grunt gallery and Dazibao

Co-presented with the grunt gallery

Initiated by the filmmaker Rodrigue Jean, Épopée is a collection of short films written and made in collaboration with male drug addicts and sex trade workers in Montreal. Set in the district known to residents as “the box,” an area bounded by the streets St. Denis, De Lorimier, Viger and Sherbrooke, the project was initiated following the shooting of the film Men for Sale (2008), whose participants expressed the desire to create fictional works in addition to the documentary.

Épopée followed from a series of writing workshops held at a drop-in centre for sex workers. The Fictions and Trajets (traces) are stories that often closely relate to the participant’s lives, blurring the boundaries between documentary and fiction. The two genres merge to yield a raw on-screen truth whose symbolic power gives meaning to the individual events they relate. The films provide us with a picture of our society, which is often impossible to grasp and ruled by exclusion. Translated as “epic poem,” Épopée is both a poetic and political gesture of resistance.

Two selections will be shown in Vancouver as part of QAF:

L’État des lieux (The State of the Moment) will be installed as an alternating projection at grunt gallery over the course of July 21-Aug 9, 2014. Attend the closing reception at grunt gallery on August 6, members of Épopée will be present at this event.
350 E 2nd Ave – Unit 116 Vancouver, BC V5T 4R8
Free admission

L’État du monde (82 m, 2013)
Theatre screening in the Roundhouse Performance Centre, Aug 5 7:30pm
Post-show talkback with filmmaker Rodrigue Jean and Serge-Olivier Rondeau, a member of the Épopée collective.
TICKETS $10 General Admission | $8 Youth/Seniors/Underemployed

This event is scent-reduced, and fully wheelchair accessible. For more information on how to support a scent-reduced event, please visit PeggyMunson.com. For a full accessibility audit of the space, visit Building Radical Accessible Communities.

The Radical Accessibility Mapping Project performed an accessibility audit for the Roundhouse in August 2011, and the space has remained the same since.

Access Overview: Just the Basics.

Full Access Audit.

You can learn more about the Radical Access Mapping Project here.

ARE YOU A QAF FAN? Buy a 4-show QAF Pass for only $69 / $20 for youth. Price includes membership. Get advance seating, invitations to parties, special passholder offers & more!

Join the BC Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf (BCRAD) and the Queer Arts Festival as we embark on a collaboration to explore the dynamics of Deaf-Queer identities! Our facilitator and four panelists from various backgrounds of Deafness explore the intersections of Deaf and queer culture, deliver heavy-hitting personal treatises on ableism and accessibility, and answer your own questions about the joys and tribulations of Deaf-queer identities. Be prepared to shock preconceptions of accessibility, and explore what it means for Deaf and queer communities to work hand-in-hand in challenging ableism and discovering accessibility as a united front.

English interpretation will be provided for non ASL-signers. English Language Real-Time Captioning is currently being arranged (to be confirmed.)

BCRAD is an education, social recreation, and administrative organization for Deaf, deaf, deafened, hard of hearing, Deaf-blind people who are gender and/or sexual minorities, and their hearing allies. Find more information go to BCRAD.com.
We are committed to supporting new and old signers alike, and encourage all to attend our frequent social events!

This ASL event is English interpreted, scent-reduced, and fully wheelchair accessible. For more information on how to support a scent-reduced event, please visit PeggyMunson.com. For a full accessibility audit of the space, visit Building Radical Accessible Communities.

The Radical Accessibility Mapping Project performed an accessibility audit for the Roundhouse in August 2011, and the space has remained the same since.

Access Overview: Just the Basics.

Full Access Audit.

You can learn more about the Radical Access Mapping Project here.

Register online for this event HERE

ARE YOU A QAF FAN? Buy a 4-show QAF Pass for only $69 / $20 for youth. Price includes membership. Get advance seating, invitations to parties, special passholder offers & more!

Celebrate the closing of another thrilling festival season with Loud and Queer!

Our final fiesta, join us for a delectable evening of choice edibles, effervescent refreshments, spellbinding performances, and two silent auctions featuring the latest treats, swag bags and accoutrements from local queer artists and businesses.  Revel in the scintillating voices of young, loud, and queer singer/songwriters from our fabulous QSONG workshop while bidding for your favoured auction items with old friends and new.

QAF ONLINE ART AUCTION

Featuring a sampling of new works by queer artists from the Queer Arts Family.  Have a favourite artist from a past festival? Get their latest creations in this special, one-time event!

Opens: Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 8:30 pm.

Closing: August 9, 2014, 8:30 pm.

Winning bids to be announced at Loud & Queer.

Participating Artists: Afuwa, belle ancelle, Joe Average, Kathy Atkins, Wendy B, Persimmon Blackridge, Jeffery Austin Gibson, Suzo Hickey, SD Holman, Abby Jackson, Ceci Lam, Zed Payne, James Walton & more.

How to bid:  Visit Loud & Queer Online Art Auction to view the individual art works and make your bids!

QAF Loud & Queer Silent Auction

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Opens: August 9, 2014, 7:30 pm

Closing: August 9, 2014, 9:30 pm

Would you like to donate an item for auction?  Please visit our Silent Auction Submission Form, or contact jessa@prideinart.ca.

This event is scent-reduced, and fully wheelchair accessible. For more information on how to support a scent-reduced event, please visit PeggyMunson.com. For a full accessibility audit of the space, visit Building Radical Accessible Communities.

The Radical Accessibility Mapping Project performed an accessibility audit for the Roundhouse in August 2011, and the space has remained the same since.

Access Overview: Just the Basics.

Full Access Audit.

You can learn more about the Radical Access Mapping Project here.