Excerpt from Queer Arts Festival’s newsletter June 21, 2013 Check out the complete QAF line-up online at queerartsfestival.com Cutting-edge new media art, a gay pig-boy dance duet, gender bending performance art and the world premiere of a lesbian opera… where else can you find this spectrum of culture and entertainment…
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Zeitgeist Curator/Artist Walkthrough SOMArts Gallery San Francisco, USA June 15, 1pm Zeitgeist is the Nationa Queer Arts Festival’s visual arts group exhibtion. Curators for the exhibition include Jacqueline Francis, Josh Faught, Jordy Jones, Rudy Lemcke, Matt McKinley, Pam Peniston and Tina Takemoto. They say about theme and title of the…
Press release by Eyeswilddrag.it GendErotica 2013 contamination of queer art Fem! Rome, Italy, May 31st – June 2nd at Nuovo Cinema Palazzo and at Teatro Valle Occupato The most international, dissacrating, activist edition of GendErotica. Femme Power and Queer Femininity are the tools that women have for the appropriatation of…
Press release by PiA, Canada Vancouver, BC – May 8, 2013 The Pride in Art Society (PiA) is thrilled to announce that Canadian Heritage has restored partial funding for this year’s Queer Arts Festival (QAF). In April, PiA received word that Canadian Heritage was withdrawing its funding for QAF. This…
Press Release We Love We Make We Exist is a Photo Documentary delivered by Marta Kochanek thanks to kind support of Arts Council England and Birmingham Shout Festival. The new body of work consists of 13 panoramic photographs for which Marta portrayed members of LGBT Families including their children. We Love…
Press release by Eye Wild Drag QUEER INFECTION GENDEROTICA 2013 queer art contaminations International Festival by Eyes Wild Drag Rome – June 2013 Queer Infection, section born during the second edition of the Festival, is an exhibit and performative laboratory open to Italian and foreign artists, working on Gender and…
Midsumma Festival, Australia – since 1988 – celebrate its 25th anniversary Jan 13 – February 3 2013. The Midsumma Festival, Victoria’s premier gay and lesbian arts and cultural festival, is presenting a rich programme of queer events, encouraging the development of innovative artistic content and a unique cultural experience. The…
Press release QWOCMAP invites queer women of color, gender nonconforming and transgender people of color to submit films to our 9th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival, June 14-16, 2013 in San Francisco. The Queer Women of Color Film Festival seeks films of any genre, any subject and any…
Yarra Arts Presents Energy from Stillness Energy from Stillness harnesses the strength and imagination from 2 and 3 dimensional artworks to create an art exhibition that is truly one of beauty. Artists: Matto Lucas, Emma Buckland, Alexander Edwards, Tama Favell, Hillary Green, Jacqueline Gwynne, Savina Hopkins, Cath Johnston, Sol Mann,…
The 25th Midsumma Festival program is being launched this week. The festival will run from 13 Jan to 3 Feb, 2013. The full 48 page printed program guide will be on the streets from Fri 23 November. The complete program is now available on the Midsumma website. I send a…
Homotopia 2012 will take place across Liverpool, UK from 30th October until 30th November.
The O’Less Festival’s photography exhibition in Poland earlier this year presented works by: Margareth Knoll, Bozena Magnucka, Marta Kochanek, Human Nature, Sillen, Beata Borys Kosc, Booojka, Alicja Sikora, Joanna Knoll, Barbara Gibson, Goodyn Green, Anna-Stina Treumund, Camilla Storgaard and Grzegorz Banaszak. Curator: Barbara Gibson. Installation view photos courtesy of Marta…
Text by Barbara Gibson, translation Marta Kochanek O’Less Festival October 5-7 2012 Curator Barbara Gibson: An Art Festival that would only concentrate on Lesbian Art is something I have never heard about before. It is also something that had never happened in Poland anyway. Taking into account both facts…
Vagina Bomb, Freya Steadman 00:37 Berlin August 2-5, 2012 Entzaubert Queer Film Festival Entzaubert is a annual radical queer d.i.y. film festival which has taken place at the queer wagenplatz Schwarzer Kanal in Berlin since 2007. The festival team writes at their website that they: “aims to bring queer artists…
Press release, cross posted at http://queerartsfestival.com Pride in Art Community Art Show Start: July 31, 2012 End: August 18, 2012 Cost: Free – Donations Appreciated Venue: Roundhouse Great Hall Address: 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC, Canada Facility Hours: 9am – 10pm Monday to Friday. 9am – 5pm Saturday and Sunday Queer…
Lion, Raven and Walnut Tree by Kimberley French Random Acts of Queerness – Curated Visual Art Exhibition July 31 – August 18 Roundhouse Great Hall Vancouver, Canada Gallery Hours 11 am – 10 pm Monday to Friday 11 am – 4:30pm Saturday and Sunday The 2012 Queer Arts Festival brings…
Testimony: A Living Exhibition of Queer Youth Curated by Alexis Handwerker July 18-28, 2012 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art 26 Wooster Street / New York City Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 18, 6-9 pm Testimony: A Living Exhibition of Queer Youth will feature images made by photographers Amos Mac,…
Art is So Gay opens on June 26, 2012 at the Forum Box gallery in Helsinki, Finland. This mixed group exhibition will run through July 22, 2012. Emmi Kattelus writes: “The ‘Art is So Gay’ exhibition will present an uniquely wide selection of contemporary art as a part of Helsinki…
Curator Jonathan D. Katz has made a remix of queer artists – a reunion of QCC Visual Artists at SOMArts Main Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Call for submissions for Homotopia 2012. The festival seeks new work from artists, theatremakers, producers and promoters for consideration for the autumn festival, which will be held at various venues across Liverpool, UK, between November 1-30, 2012. Homotopia seeks work in various art-forms such as live performances from theatremakers, musicians,…