Gala Opening Reception | Roundhouse Exhibition Hall
Art and conviviality converge at the grand opening celebrating 10 years of the Queer Arts Festival.
with DJ O’Show!
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Tag: 2018 events
Roundhouse Great Hall
This open visual art exhibition honours our founder, Two-Spirit artist Robbie Hong and 20 years of Pride in Art.
Alecska Divisadero
Art Sun-Face
Chris Watson
David Camisa
Edward Bader
Holly Steele
Jeannette Sirois
Julia Wong
Kenneth Freeman
Sakino Sepulveda
Samsa
Tyler Homan
June 16 – 27 — The Roundhouse
DECADEnce visual art exhibition curated by Valérie d. Walker.
Visual artists
AA Bronson
Angela Gabereau & Coral Short & Visionaries
April Sumter-Freitag
Berlynn Beam
Carl Pope Jr.
Chandra Melting Tallow
Dana Claxton
Dayna Danger
Eloisa Aquino
General Idea
Guerrilla Girls
Jenny Lin
Katherine Atkins
Mutya Macatumpag (moo-cha) (maca-toom-pag) – aka. FiND MUTYA
Paul Wong
Raven Davis
Susan Stewart
Syrus Marcus Ware
TJ Norris
What is a mark? In a settler colonial society we have a very solidified perception of what “counts” as worthy of articulating. Programmed in an imperial tradition, we literally count success and attach dates to significant momentous occasions, times in history when someone is said to have “accomplished something” that should be celebrated and then written down to measure its worth, annually. HIStory has tried to erase the Other in its wake of calculating difference, asserting authority, superiority, a bar to be set by systems of power to ensure the success of a single story.
2018 marks 10 years of the Queer Arts Festival and Pride in Art’s 20th year as an artist-led organization. 2018’s curated visual art exhibition DECADEnce remembers the Other marks and interrogates what we collectively choose to celebrate. By engaging queer artists across disciplines DECADEnce explores marks that live beyond the page, numerical devices, and quantitative data; the mark that lives in actions unnoticed, voices unheard, lost stories of self, and races won in forgotten Herstories/Ourstories.
DECADEnce marks a time for us to revisit, and therefore represent and archive, the stories of us by celebrating and honouring our community of trailblazing queer ancestors, the stories untold, the unmeasurable progress, visceral pleasures, tragic loses, the almosts, the push back, the unnamed, the unmarked, the dead, the blood-sweat-and tears. These marks continue to live in and inform our actions, our reality to fuel a discourse that challenges perceptions of success by sharing the stories of how we got here and what sacrifices and struggles it required.
Our marks draw circles, wherein the repeating struggle continues in the company of a rejuvenated resistance, reviving of power and strength through art.
These marks are where we find joy, love, thrive, and create to feed our spirits and develop thick skin. We are time travelers, we have been here before, and will do it again.
Roundhouse Exhibition Hall
Curator Valérie d. Walker discusses DECADEnce with curated artists Berlynn Beam, Eloisa Aquino, Jenny Lin, and Mutya Macatumpag (moo-cha) (maca-toom-pag) – a.k.a. FIND MUTYA the stirring moments of queer time, the inherited legacies of queer ancestors and why public queer art is essential and timely.
Community partner: Contemporary Art Gallery
Unfortunately due to unforeseeable events, today’s event will not include ASL interpretation. Our apologies to anyone who planned on attending and required this resource.
with VIMAF | Roundhouse Performance Centre
Transfixed is a curatorial collection of films that highlights the strategies utilized by Trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming artists to mitigate violence. Each artist within the collective examines the fractals of state violence that is perpetuated onto their bodies. The collective’s works discuss white supremacy, transphobia, violence against femmes, colonialism internationally, and colonialism on the land we are presently on. Transfixed is intensity, urgency, and power.
Curated by Fallon Simard.
Alli Logout
Dayna Danger
Jack Saddleback
Alec Butler
Thirza Cuthand
Jes Sachse
Joshua Vettivelu
Kim Ninkuru
Monica Forrester
Regular 4-Show Flex Passes ($79) and single tickets on sale April 16 at Brown Paper Tickets:
with Broadway Youth Resource Centre & Directions Youth Services
Curator tour of the visual art exhibition for the younger generations (ages 15-24). You are welcome to experience a guided tour with QAF 2018 visual art curator, Valerie d. Walker. Come interact, ask questions about the DECADEnce exhibition, stand-back or just observe contemporary art at the Queer Arts Festival.
Community Partners: Broadway Youth Resource Centre, Directions Youth Services, Bill Reid Gallery
Not a youth anymore but still want to meet the curator and artists, and talk about the art? Please respect this space, and attend instead QAF’s public Curator Panel on Sun Jun 17.
Scent Reduced:
This event is scent-reduced. Please help us keep this a welcome space for everyone and refrain from wearing scented products while attending QAF events.
Mobility Accessibility:
This event is fully wheelchair accessible. If you move through space differently, we will be ready to assist you.
Click HERE for a full accessibility audit of the space by Radical Access Mapping Project. To learn more about Radical Access Mapping Project, visit their website at radicalaccessiblecommunities.wordpress.com
QAF takes place on the traditional, unceded territory of the Coast Salish people, in particular the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwəta? (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. We recognize their sovereignty, as there are no treaties on these lands, and we are dedicated to building a new relationship between our nations based on respect and consent.
Roundhouse Exhibition Hall
An annual soirée of erotic literary readings, curated this year by Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation), UBC Indigenous Professor and co-editor of Sovereign Erotics, the first and only published collection of Two-Spirit literary erotic writing. Previously known as Queerotica, Samantha Nock rebranded the readings as Lay of the Land in 2017.
Writers:
April Sumter-Freitag
Johnny Trinh
Lydia Kwa
Samantha Nock
Smokii Sumac
Community Partners: Dagger Editions and Massy Books
World Premiere with the frank theatre company | Roundhouse Performance Centre
A love story. A ghost story. A ritual for release.
A Vancouver artist attends the opening night of his career retrospective. Unbeknownst to gallery-goers, his past has returned to haunt him. What if what we thought we knew about our lives proved to be less than true? And how can we know the truth if the one creating it keeps it in camera, hidden?
Two beautifully young men, off in radically different directions, become entwined with the untimely death of a stranger, which seals their fate; Camera Obscura (hungry ghosts) is an exciting new contemporary play inspired by Governor General Award winning, multimedia artist, Paul Wong*. His true life and radical work provide a jumping off point for playwright and director Lesley Ewen to contemplate the act of creation as both a way of coping with despair and of telling lies. Mixing truth and fiction she spins out a world of multiple realities that re-views a double tragedy in the hope of absolution and understanding.
Actors Jeff Ho, Julien Galipeau and Braiden Houle bring the story to life with passion, intelligence and a brash sense of humour. The renowned design team, Sammy Chien, Khan Lee, Stefan Smulovitz, James Proudfoot and Hannah Case, have created an elegantly rich, multidimensional environment within which to tell this heartfelt, funny and deeply intense tale of Love and Redemption.
This performance deals with topics of racism, suicide and murder. Please care for yourself as you see fit, including leaving the theatre; you’re welcome to return quietly. We will have an Indigenous Elder available if you require support.
*Paul Wong is a Governor General Award winning, Vancouver-based notorious multimedia provocateur. He is a founding member of several important artists’ groups including VIVO Media Arts Centre, as well as curator of QueerSUM. His work includes conceptual performances which mesh video, photography, installation, and performance with Chinese-Canadian cultural perspectives.
Written and directed by Lesley Ewen.
Cast
Jeff Ho
Julian Galipeau
Braiden Houle
Khan Lee | Set Designer
Sammy Chien | Video Designer
James Proudfoot | Lighting Designer
Stefan Smulovitz | Sound Designer
Hannah Case | Costume Designer
Fay Nass | Dramaturg
Jennifer Swan | Stage Manager
Heather Barr | Assistant Stage Manager
Jeff Harrison Technical Director
Kanon Hewitt: Assistant to projection designer/operator
Community partner: Full Circle – First Nations Performance Society
Regular 4-Show Flex Passes ($79) and single tickets on sale April 16:
- TICKETS $30 General Admission | $20 Concession
- June 19 PREVIEW NIGHT $25 General Admission | $15 Concession
- June 23 matinee PAY WHAT YOU CAN DAY
Written and directed by Lesley Ewen.
Cast
Jeff Ho
Julian Galipeau
Braiden Houle
Khan Lee | Set Designer
Sammy Chien | Video Designer
James Proudfoot | Lighting Designer
Stefan Smulovitz | Sound Designer
Hannah Case | Costume Designer
Fay Nass | Dramaturg
Jennifer Swan | Stage Manager
Heather Barr | Assistant Stage Manager
Jeff Harrison Technical Director
Kanon Hewitt: Assistant to projection designer/operator
Community partner: Full Circle – First Nations Performance Society
Regular 4-Show Flex Passes ($79) and single tickets on sale April 16:
- TICKETS $30 General Admission | $20 Concession
- June 19 PREVIEW NIGHT $25 General Admission | $15 Concession
- June 23 matinee PAY WHAT YOU CAN DAY
Entry to all QAF events requires membership to the Pride in Art Society. Memberships are available for $2 online or $5 / $2 concession at the door. Please allow a few extra minutes at your first event to obtain your new card.
Roundhouse Performance Centre
Performed by Erato Ensemble with special guest artist Jerry Pergolesi, percussion, double bass, this concert honours seminal electro-acoustic Vancouver composer Barry Truax in a 30-year retrospective concert of his trailblazing work, breaking down barriers of gender, sexuality and technology through music.
Featuring
Barry Truax
Jerry Pergolesi
Will George
Hilary Ison
Melanie Adams
Steve Maddock
Featured works are Skin & Metal, for leather percussionist, Androgyne, Mon Amour, based on the poetry of Tennessee Williams, and vocal theatre works, Thou & I, The Sibyl, and Enigma, based on the life and death of Alan Turing, all with digital soundtracks.
$30 / $20
in partnership with: Music on Main and CMC BC Vancouver Creative Hub
Regular 4-Show Flex Passes ($79) and single tickets on sale April 16 at Brown Paper Tickets:
This session will be led by Jeremy Dutcher, a composer and vocal artist of the Wolastoq nation. His music merges aesthetics and influences from traditional, classical and contemporary sound worlds, and his breakout album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa explores his sonic heritage. Come and engage in an intimate, interactive sounds workshop that explores contemporary Indigenous sonic practice.
Co-presented with Full Circle – First Nations Performance Society and Canadian Music Centre
with MACHiNENOiSY | Roundhouse Performance Centre
The Queer Arts Festival presents MACHiNENOiSY’s PROX:IMITY RE:MIX
PROX:IMITY RE:MIX is the culmination of a 2 week performance process in Dance, Theatre and New Media with MACHiNENOiSY and LGBTQ+ youth. RE:MIX is an interdisciplinary dance performance which celebrates diversity of experience and individuality in order to challenge conforming representations of identity. PROX:IMITY RE:MIX reminds us of what our bodies are capable of when freed from traditional expectations. Directors/Choreographers – Delia Brett and Daelik New Media Artist – Marcelo Track Composer – Chris Kelly Youth Mentor – Red Lenore Fawkes Youth Worker – Rianne Svelnis Performers – Alexandra Rodriguez, Brenna Murray, Emma Joye Frank, Ivy Hazard Wilson, Jackson Tse, Jen Hutter, Melicia Zaini, Teddy Lake, & Saturno.
Community partners: BYRC, Directions
Roundhouse Performance Centre
Operatic tenor Jeremy Dutcher performs traditional songs of his Wolastoqiyik ancestors, in duet with recordings that he rediscovered, transcribed from century-old archival wax cylinder recordings, and arranged for voice, electronics and piano.
This performance is SOLD OUT! We recommend arriving at the Roundhouse early to ensure enough time to pick up advance tickets and memberships. We will have a RUSH line, where folks can lineup for a chance to get into the show in the event of cancellations or no-shows—but entry is not guaranteed.
Community partners: Vancity and Full Circle – First Nations Performance Society
Roundhouse Performance Centre
Performed by Erato Ensemble with special guest artist Jerry Pergolesi, percussion, double bass, this concert honours seminal electro-acoustic Vancouver composer Barry Truax in a 30-year retrospective concert of his trailblazing work, breaking down barriers of gender, sexuality and technology through music.
Featuring
Barry Truax
Jerry Pergolesi
Will George
Hilary Ison
Melanie Adams
Steve Maddock
Featured works are Skin & Metal, for leather percussionist, Androgyne, Mon Amour, based on the poetry of Tennessee Williams, and vocal theatre works, Thou & I, The Sibyl, and Enigma, based on the life and death of Alan Turing, all with digital soundtracks.
$30 / $20
in partnership with: Music on Main and CMC BC Vancouver Creative Hub
Regular 4-Show Flex Passes ($79) and single tickets on sale April 16 at Brown Paper Tickets:
Roundhouse Performance Center
Dancer Lee Su-Feh negotiates an environment of smoke and numbers, flying objects in this durational performance. The complicated dialogue as Asian diaspora encounters colonized Indigeneity.
pay what you can
Community partner: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Traditional Chinese Gardens
Queeraoke Closing Party | The Junction
QAF’s final blowout—revel in community, effervescent refreshments, and karaoke with glitter.
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