Written by Kaila Johnson, The UbysseyBisexual lighting — saturated beams of blue, pink and purple — coated the stage of the Queer Art Festival(QAF)’s Queerotica: Literary Readings on July 6 at the Sun Wah Centre. Four different writers shared their work on stage surrounding the...

Written by Makyla Smith, The UbysseyPride Month 2022 had no shortage of Queer-oriented art; some funky, some flamboyant and some straight from the surreal Salvador Dalí playbook. In Vancouver, the world-renowned Queer Arts Festival (QAF) provided all of the above.On June...

New Delhi’s Adwait Singh curates the fest’s signature art exhibition under creative direction of QAF founding artistic director emeritus, SD HolmanBY GAIL JOHNSON, STIR VANCOUVERQueer Arts Festival presents Vanishing Act in partnership with Centre...

By Steve Newton, Georgia StraightTHE IMITATION GAME: VISUAL CULTURE IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Exhibition surveys the extraordinary uses (and abuses) of AI in the production of modern and contemporary visual culture around the world. To Oct 23, Vancouver Art Gallery.KINKY BOOTS Tony...

ByPeak WebBy: Yasmin Vejs Simsek, Staff WriterThe Vancouver Queer Arts Festival (QAF) is in the top three list of LGBTQ2S+ arts festivals world-wide and features multimedia exhibitions, music, rooftop parties, and more. This year it returns to an in-person programme from June 18–July 8 with...

Quebec-born interdisciplinary artist Gabriel Dharmoo unveils a joy-filled full-length drag showBY ALEXANDER VARTY, STIR VANCOUVERThe Queer Arts Festival presents Bijuriya at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre on June 28 at 7 pm.

The musicians perform locally through a Queer Arts Festival and TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival co-presentationBY EMMA JEFFREY, STIR VANCOUVERCoastal Jazz and Queer Arts Festival present Adria Kain + Janette...

By Maria Diment, Vancouver is AwesomeHappy Pride Month!Vancouver is very proud of its 2SLGBTQ+ community and the city is showing support through the big and little things (like having a 2SLGBTQ-only micro-wedding day at City Hall). 

By Charlie Smith, Georgia StraightWe’re coming up on festival season in Vancouver, which sometimes offers a way to take in the arts at bargain prices—or even for free. In this article, we're providing a snapshot of many of the big events. For more information,...

BY GAIL JOHNSON, STIR VAANCOUVERThe fest celebrates its 15th anniversary of summer-arts programming with the theme of HauntingsQUEER ARTS FESTIVAL (QAF) celebrates 15 years of summer-arts programming with QAF 2022: Hauntings, a “playful and profound exploration of Queer existence throughout...

Stuart Derdeyn, The Vancouver SunVancouver Queer Arts FestivalWhen: June 18 — July 8, various timesWhere: Various spacesTickets/info: queerartsfestival.comThe 15th annual instalment of this artist-run, transdisciplinary arts festival is...

Queer-themed Canadian opera makes U.S. premiere at Hampton Opera CenterFEBRUARY 2, 2022BYANGELA ALLEN, OREGON ARTSWATCHWhen the Sun Comes Out opened in 2013 in Canada, commissioned by the Vancouver Queer Arts Festival.Now, a...

Originally commissioned and produced by the Queer Arts Festival, opera explores forbidden love in a nation where homosexuality is banned.BY JANET SMITH, STIR VANCOUVERA PIONEERING OPERA about oppression and the LGBTQSIA+ community is set to see its American premiere.

By: Brendan Kergin, Vancouver is AwesomeAn unusual sight lit the city's only cemetery this past weekend.On the evening of Sunday, Oct. 24, a piano was set on fire as a woman in a red (fire-proof) gown played two new songs.

BY JANET SMITH, STIR VANCOUVERThe Queer Arts Festival and the Talking Stick Festival present Piano Burning on October 24 at 5 pm at Mountain View CemeteryIT’S A PERFORMANCE that refuses to be extinguished.After seeing...

by Charlie Smith, Georgia Straight on August 16th, 2021One of Vancouver's most influential queer arts administrators is going to take a well-deserved respite.SD Holman cofounded the Queer Arts Festival 14 years ago and in 2018, founded SUM, which is the festival's year-round...

BY JANET SMITH, STIR VANCOUVERTHE PRIDE IN Art Society board has announced that SD Holman is stepping down from its helm after 14 years.Musician Mark Takeshi McGregor will take on the role as artistic director of the multidisciplinary queer arts...

by Craig Takeuchi, Georgia Straight, on August 6th, 2021 at 1:57 PMA scheduled performance at an East Vancouver cemetery involving fire has been postponed after after facing online comments, criticism, and questions.In response, the Queer Arts Festival (QAF), which began on July 24 and...

BY JANET SMITH, STIR VANCOUVERUpdated: THE QUEER ARTS Festival has decided to postpone its Piano Burning concert due to the fire ban.Though the fest had a fire permit, it’s going to comply with the provincial fire ban...

BY JANET SMITH, STIR VANCOUVERAS WILDFIRES rage across BC, a timely performance this weekend will ignite discussion—along with a pianoFull Circle First Nations Performance and the Queer Arts Festival’s presentation of Piano Burning, in which star musician Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa...

Queer Arts Festival presents Language as a Virus: Queer Isolation Stories around False Creek and online, to August 13BY GAIL JOHNSON, STIR VANCOUVERMUSIC, SOUND ART, individuals’ recordings, and power transmitters—Language as a Virus: Queer Isolation Stories is an event...

BY GAIL JOHNSON, STIR VANCOUVERLIVE MUSIC IS back, and it’s never sounded more joyful than in our (getting-there) post-pandemic world. Here are a few places to find it this summer. Check individual websites for the latest health and safety information.Keep...

Pour la première fois de son histoire, le Festival des arts queer de Vancouver propose une programmation hybride qui se déploie aux quatre coins de la ville. Un reportage de Lyne Barnabé. 28 juillet 2021. CBC Radio Canada Ici Télé.

BY GAIL JOHNSON, STIR VANCOUVERQueer Arts Festival 2021 Dispersed: it’s not easy being green runs July 24 to August 13 online and in-person at various venues. It’s not easy being green: a Curated Visual Arts Exhibition runs the same dates at...

by Charlie Smith, Georgia Straight on July 22nd, 2021Even though the term two-spirit originated with Indigenous people on the Prairies, it had immediate appeal to Orene Askew, a member of the Squamish Nation council.Askew’s mother is Indigenous and her father is African...

Carlito Pablo, Georgia Straight on July 27th, 2021This year’s Queer Arts Festival marks a homecoming for dancer and choreographer Alvin Tolentino.The founder and artistic director of the Co.ERASGA dance company said that he was one of the original performers in the...

The site-specific performance by Onibana Taiko and Alvin Erasga Tolentino is part of Queer Arts Festival 2021Sponsored Post by Pride in Art Society · stir · 22 Jul 2021Ceremony for Rebel Spirits is more than a...

Amber Turnau · Hello BCAlthough we can share our pride year-round, Pride Month in June brings us all together to celebrate, advocate for, and support the LGBTQAI2S+ community. Though festivals and celebrations in British Columbia are adapting for the second year in a...

Rebecca Bollwitt · Miss 604 · Jun 8 2021 9:09am PDTQueer Arts Festival – Dispersed is a three-week eco-apocalyptic exploration of queer experience and artistic expression in the face of an ongoing pandemic and marginalization. Vancouver’s premiere artist-run, multidisciplinary roister of...

Annual celebration’s 13th edition returns with some live and outside shows across the Lower Mainland to complement its online offeringsDana Gee · Vancouver Sun · 20 Jul 2021Last year, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced...

Charlie Smith · The Georgia Straight · Posted: Jul 21, 2021 9:54 AM PDTGrowing up in Winnipeg, visual artist Dayna Danger experienced conflicting identities. With Tio’tia:ke, Métis, and Saulteaux/Anishinaabe heritage, the 34-year-old Montreal-based artist described feeling “really ostracized” as she was raised in Polish Roman Catholic traditions.

by Rebecca Bollwitt, Miss604 blogThis weekend Miss604 is proud to sponsor the Queer Arts Festival, kicking-off Saturday, July 24 and running until August 13 at various venues across the city and online. The Coquitlam Summer Concert Series is also...

CBC reporter and former Olympian Karin Larsen and viaSport CEO Charlene Krepiakevich look ahead to the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. We get a tour of Bobbi Kozinuk's sound art installation "Language as a Virus," and QMUNITY co-executive director of programs and services Anoop Gill discusses...

Posted on July 21, 2021 by jminter, jayminter.com Summer swiftly moves along bringing more activities and adventures to us each week.Stage: The Arts Club Theatre returns to the stage, with I, Claudia opens Thursday. Running until August 15th at the...

WHAT'S ON QUEER BC JULY 9, 20212021 Queer Arts Festival (QAF): Dispersed — Vancouver’s QAF announces its first hybrid format festival in it’s not easy being green, opening Jul 24, 2021.Vancouver BC, Jun 8, 2021 | Vancouver’s premiere...

ART-BC.COMQueer Arts Festival (QAF) is returning for 2021 with Dispersed – it’s not easy being green, opening July 24, 2021.After a digital-only festival last year, the easing of COVID restrictions allows Vancouver’s premiere artist-run festival to return...

by Charlie Smith, Georgia Straight on June 11th, 2021estival season is underway in Vancouver, minus the communal feasts that have been a hallmark of events like Greek Day on Broadway and Italian Day on the Drive. Damn that pandemic!However, there is still...

BY JANET SMITH, STIR VANCOUVERIT’S WHAT everyone in the performing arts community has been waiting for: announcements from theatre companies that stages will reopen.The first out of the gates have released plans to host audiences not just outdoors, but to...

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Broadway World | July 23, 2020Recently referred to as "A Showcase of Resilience in the Digital World", the 12th Annual Queer Arts Festival (QAF) continues their digitally re-imagined festival through the weekend with headline performances from critically acclaimed artists such as avant-drag collective...

xtra | July 23, 2020What to watch:Life is EasyQueer digital platform Revry creates their own spin on Freaky Friday with the new body-swap comedy series, Life is Easy. The New Zealand-based web series explores the complexities of race,...

The Peak. | SFU | July 23, 2020By: Kelly Chia, Features EditorToo Spirited, an Indigenous burlesque show performed for the Queer Arts Festival, was an amazing reminder of why...

| Peter Knegt · CBC Arts · Posted: Jul 23, 2020 1:15 PM ET| The non-binary quartet are about to offer their most ambitious performance yet| Queeries is a...

Queer FM | Episode July 7, 20208:00am - 10:00amLynx the trans-identified Toronto based vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer Lynx has a major love of pop music with an edge...

Queer FM | Episode July 17, 20208:00am - 10:00amAnais West is a queer actor, playwright, and producer, as well as a settler of Polish descent. She is the playwright...

Queer FM | July 21, 20208:00am - 10:00amErica Hiroko Isomura 'A Conversation On Queer Mentorship' writer based in Vancouver. Check out programming at Queer Arts Festival.https://qafonline.ca/a-conversation-on-queer-mentorship/Social media handles...

CBC | July 19, 2020Now in its 12th year, Vancouver's Queer Arts Festival isn't letting physical distancing measures get in the way of its programming, as organizers reimagine the festival for the digital realm. 

 CBC Arts · Posted: Jul 16, 2020 11:45 AM ET by Peter Knegt Vancouver's Queer Arts Festival has gone virtual this year...and this is one event you won't want to missAs it has with pretty much every...

Vancouver Sun | Jul 14, 2020 Queer Arts FestivalWhen: July 16-26, 2020Where: Online and some public artTickets and info: Register for events and pay by donation at queerartsfestival.comLike...

Vancouver Sun | Julia Piper | July 151. Matthew GoodInfo: $20, sidedooraccess.comWhen: July 17, 6 p.m.Info: $20, sidedooraccess.com