Visual art Curator: Elwood Jimmy
June 17 – 28, 2019
We often think of revolution in relation to ways of knowing, but we rarely think about revolution in relation to our colonial habits of being—how our habits are dependent on, maintained and enabled by colonization. A revolution of being is not about what we say, how we look, how we perform, or how we trade in the different economies of colonial modernity. A revolution of being invites us to change our desires, our hopes, how we hope, how we sense, how we love, and above all, regenerate and recalibrate our relationships with each other, with the land, with time, with form and with space. In this recalibration of being, time and revolution are not linear.
2019 Events
Stonewall 50: Glitter is Forever
Fri Jun 28 | 9pm | Free with QSO ticket | Party only $20 - $15 You can't get that shit out! On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and the closing of QAF 2019 we're throwing the party of the half-century! Get ready for a culmination of the...
Queer Songbook Orchestra Workshop
Thur Jun 27 | 6 - 8 pm room B | This opportunity is for emerging artists to work with the celebrated Queer Songbook Orchestra, and use your own personal narratives as an entry point for creating music. Young artists of all disciplines welcome - bring your songs, poems,...
Technical Knockouts Lab
Wed Jun 12 - Sat Jun 22 | A female-centred music production drop-in lab for queer, Indigenous and allied youth led by Kinnie Starr , DJ O Show and Tiffany Moses . ASL interpretation available upon request. Calling all queer, Two-Spirit, and allied poets, lyricists, performers, truth-tellers and music-makers! Want...
Queer Songbook Orchestra
Fri Jun 28 | 7pm | Concert | $40 - $30 Celebrated national chamber ensemble Queer Songbook Orchestra unearth the queer backstories and personal narratives inspired by musicof the past several generations, weaving together stories told by local narrators including Monica Meneghetti, jaye simpson and Marv Houngbo with arrangements by...
The Wide Open
Wed Jun 26 | 7pm | Media Art with Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival | $20 - $10 The Wide Open , curated by Lacie Kanerahtahsóhon Burning, continues from media art in community centres throughout Vancouver through their Trans, Gender Diverse, and Two-Spirit Inclusion team to the big screen. This...
Diaspora
Tue Jun 25 | 7pm | with The Frank Theatre | Pay What You Can Buy Tickets Buy Tickets on Eventbrite var exampleCallback = function() { console.log('Order complete!'); }; window.EBWidgets.createWidget({ widgetType: 'checkout', eventId: '61060017155', modal: true, modalTriggerElementId: 'eventbrite-widget-modal-trigger-61060017155', onOrderComplete: exampleCallback }); The Frank Theatre presents a reading of Diaspora: an...
Jesse – an ASL opera
Mon Jun 24 | 7pm | with Landon Krentz and re:Naissance Opera | Pay What You Can JESSE - AN ASL OPERA is a workshop reading by Landon Krentz, Heather Molloy & Paula Weber resulting from a two-week experimental process that gathered Deaf and Hearing artists to explore how poetry,...
Technical Knockouts
Sun Jun 23 | 7pm | Multidisciplinary Music | $20 - $10 Performances by young artists from QAF’s Technical Knockouts music lab, mentored by Kinnie Starr, DJ O Show and Tiffany Moses. QAF’s emerging artist program . NOTE: Entry to all QAF events requires membership to the Pride in...
The Queen in Me
Fri Jun 21 & Sat Jun 22 | 7pm | Multidisciplinary musical Performance | Amplified Opera and Theatre Gargantua | $30 - $20 Buy Tickets Buy Tickets on Eventbrite var exampleCallback = function() { console.log('Order complete!'); }; window.EBWidgets.createWidget({ widgetType: 'checkout', eventId: '59867100108', modal: true, modalTriggerElementId: 'eventbrite-widget-modal-trigger-59867100108', onOrderComplete: exampleCallback }); The...
Artist Tour
Thu Jun 20 | 7pm | Led by Elwood Jimmy | QAF visual artists and curator Elwood Jimmy convene for a panel discussing the visual art exhibition. ...
Youth Curator Tour
Wed Jun 19 | 4pm | led by Elwood Jimmy | Curator Elwood Jimmy leads tour for LGBT2S youth to see their identities reflected in art, organized in partnership with Broadway Youth Resource Centre and Directions Youth Services . ...
A Night of Storytelling
Wed Jun 19 | 7pm | Literary Readings | Pay What you Can Danny Ramadan brings his much-loved nights of readings to the Queer Arts Festival. Featuring Kai Cheng Thom , Mey Rude , Tash McAdam , Monica Meneghetti and Michael V. Smith . A Night of Storytelling is back...
Relational rEvolutions
Mon Jun 17 - Wed Jun 26 | Visual Art Exhibition | Guest curator Elwood Jimmy We often think of revolution in relation to ways of knowing, but we rarely think about revolution in relation to our colonial habits of being – how our habits are dependent on, maintained and enabled...
Art Party!
Tue Jun 18 | 7pm | Free Gala Opening Reception Join us for the Queer Arts Festival’s opening Art Party!, where art and conviviality converge at the grand opening. Art Party! marks the opening night of QAF’s curated exhibition, Relational rEvolutions, curated by Elwood Jimmy; the Pride in Art Community...
