Queer Spaces at MIX NYC 2014

Video made by Christian Vega. 2014. Interview with Caitlin Rose Sweet Caitlin Rose Sweet is co-curator of the 24 media arts installation at MIX NYC 2014. Caitlin is a craft-based installation artist and independent curator. Caitlin’s work focuses on queer world building and mapping out the shared spaces between craft…

MIX NYC: 27TH NEW YORK QUEER EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL

Excerpt from Leslie-Lohman Museum Recommends – November 2014 MIX NYC: 27TH NEW YORK QUEER EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL November 11-16 337 Butler St. (between 3rd & 4th Avenues) Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival is an annually occurring underground gem of NYC queer counter-culture that brings together…

London Gay Art Festival GFEST 2014 Programme LIVE Now

Excerpt from press release by GFEST ‘All Arts, All Welcome: An eclectic line up featuring new commissioned works presented along with curated LGBTQI art and films. GFEST – Gaywise FESTival 2014 full programme details are now announced on GFEST 2014 website: http://gaywisefestival.org.uk/ London’s LGBT cross-art annual event GFEST 2014 will…

Dorothée Smith: Entre (deux) fantômes

Press photo courtecy of Dorothee Smith Festival Jerk Off 2014 presents Entre (deux) fantômes Solo exhibition by Dorothée Smith September 12 2014 – January 4 2015 at Pavillon Vendôme, Centre d’Art Contemporain in Clichy, France Opening September 11 at 18:00 as part of the opening of Festival Jerk Off 2014….

Vancouver – Queer Arts Festival 2014: JUL 23 – AUG 9

Excerpt from Queer Arts Festival’s newsletter July 5, 2014 Queer Arts Festival 2014: JUL 23 – AUG 9 ReGenerations: Dare to be challenged. Risk being Changed. The Queer Arts Festival [in Vancouver, Canada] is fast approaching, and we’ve been busy putting together an extraordinary selection of events that everyone will…

California: Bodies Curators’ Tour

June 14, 2014 Bodies Curators’ Tour 11am at SOMArts, San Francisco Each year as part of its National Queer Arts Festival, the Queer Cultural Center presents an international exhibition of cutting edge queer art. This year’s exhibition is titled Body, body, bodies. Curators and exhibiting artists will give a guided…

SD Holman Receives YWCA Women of Destiction Award

Press release by Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada Pride in Art is delighted to announce that Artistic Director SD (Shaira) Holman has been honoured with the YWCA Women of Distinction Award. Recognized nationally as one of Canada’s most prestigious awards, the Women of Distinction Awards honours women whose outstanding achievements…

New York: After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality

Press Release by Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and Fresh Fruit Festival Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body as site of resistance, envisioning a positive queer future. After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality Curated by Alexis Heller Exhibition…

SD Holman Nominated For YWCA Women Of Distinction Award

Press release by Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, BC (9 May, 2014). Portrait of SD Holman Pride in Art is delighted to announce that Artistic Director SD (Shaira) Holman has been nominated for a YWCA Women of Distinction Award. Recognized nationally as one of Canada’s most prestigious awards, the Women of…

California: Body, body, bodies

Body, body, bodies June 7, 2014 Opening Reception 2pm-5pm Exhibition June 7–28 SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, USA Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 12–7pm, Saturday, 12–5pm Artist/Curator Walk Through – Exhibit walk: June 9, 5:30pm Body, body, bodies The National Queer Arts Festival organised by the Queer Cultural Center presents Body, body,…

PASSAGE & PLACE at the National Queer Arts Festival 2014

PASSAGE & PLACE: a multimedia visual arts exhibition OPENING: Sunday, June 1st Alley Cat Books Gallery Passage & Place is a multimedia visual arts exhibition, book project, and skillshare series that explores displacement & movement, freedom & incarceration, and home & im/migration at the intersection of queerness. How do our…

Vancouver – QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL 2014: ReGenerations

Press release QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL 2014: ReGenerations An annual three-week artist-run transdisciplinary arts festival, July 23 – August 9, Roundhouse Exhibition Hall and Performance Centre in Vancouver, Canada. The 2014 Theme: ReGenerations Queer Arts Festival (QAF) is delighted to unveil our 2014 theme, ReGenerations. A defiant reframing of the Nazi…

Femina Potens’ Askew Film and Performance Festival

Femina Potens’ Askew Film and Performance Festival Feb 6 – 8 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission Street, SF, California, USA Admission (per screening): $10 YBCA Member, senior, teacher, student: $8 Femina Potens Art Gallery’s Live Art Movement presents the 2nd annual ASKEW Experimental Film and Performance Festival,…

Montreuil Paris – 2nd Elles résistent Festival

Trailer Elles résistent France: The program of the 2nd Elles résistent – contre les violences masculines faites aux femmes festival is online now. The second edition or this vibrant radical feminist and lesbian festival takes place on November 24 – 30 2013 at La parole errante, 9, rue Francois Debergue,…

MIX NYC: Craftivism Curated by Coral Short

Craftivism Sun Nov 17, 2013 @ 5:00 PM MIX NYC Curated by Coral Short, guest curator. TRT: 65 min. Queerness, feminism, and craft go hand in hand for many of these emerging contemporary artists, as they rethink and reclaim craft in their own unique ways. Sit back and let these…

Cineffable 2013

I went to Cineffable Film Festival (October 30 to November 3, 2013) for the first time as a selected filmmaker…

Design a Poster Competition

Bravo! Cineffable will celebrate their 25th anniversairy! The 25th Paris International Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival – Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinéma. Space EFCB 23/25 rue Emile Zola – Montreuil 93100 Métro Robespierre October 30th to November 3rd, 2013. Design a Poster for the 2014 edition “No single…

Canada Celebrates Queer Art

TransgressionNow – the 6th annual Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver Canada July 24 – August 9 2013. QAF is one of the most unique multidisciplinary festivals of its kind in Canada, featuring a curated visual art exhibition and three dynamic weeks of cutting-edge performances and inspiring workshops from all artistic…

Queer New York International 2013

The 2. Queer New York International arts festival will take place from October 22 – November 2, 2013. Queer New York International (QNYI) is a performing and visual arts festival. The first QNYI took place in 2012. The goal of the festival is to create an artistic context that will…

Italy – GENDEROTICA on Tour!

Excert of press release by Eyes Wild Drag / GENDEROTICA After the great exit of Festival 2013 [in Rome], a GendErotica excerpt is going on tour from south to north: June, 25th and 26th – CATANIA June, 29th – TORINO CATANIA PRIDE with GendErotica two intenses days. Special guest, on…