Tag: 2014 events

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.