For the Love of Freedom: Pride

Pride is a photo exhibition portraying gay history and the democratic struggle for gay rights from 1972 to the present. It is a part of the exhibition For the Love of Freedom at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway. Pride present a chronological caleidoscope of the political efforts,…

SAILOR by Mox Mäkelä

SAILOR – “A body from a beam of the runaway dream, a spark of the engine room” Street dance & reflector clothes. Overal idea, clothes, music: Mox Mäkelä Dance, choreography: Rasmus Leppänen. The event takes place in Kotka City, Finland on October 10, 2014 at 19.00.

Finland: Jeppis Pride 2014

Photo from the series HETERO by Fredrika Bistöm Heidi Lunabba – Studio Vilgefortis Jeppis Pride 2014 at Galleri Gro, Campus Allegro, Runebergsgatan 8, 68600 Jakobstad, Finland Opening: July 25 at 18.00 – 20.00 hrs. Jeppis Pride 2014, a queer group exhibition. It runs from July 25 through August 16 2014…

Night Ship by Mox Mäkelä

Press release by Mox Mäkelä Night Ship “How high a wreck can sink, how glorious bright it can be, when the sky turns black in your eyes, the back of the sea is full of cuts and the land visible only in bruises.” “Night Ship” is Mox Mäkelä’s artwork, a…

Portraits & Wild Pain

A cross-posted INDIEGOGO campaign by Amie LeeKing Mikki by Amie LeeKing, USA Portraits & Wild Pain My INDIEGOGO campaign is to raise funds for my first solo show at NYC’s ION Studio in late June. My background Hi, friends, I’m Amie LeeKing and since the 90’s I always had a…

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…

California LGBT Arts Alliance

California LGBT Arts Alliance is an alliance of California Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Artists and Arts Organizations. They include all artists, arts organizations and individuals who support their mission as part of their alliance. Their mission is “to promote artistic and financial partnerships that strengthen and deepen the cooperative…

BUTCH: Not like the other girls

Press Release and video by SD Holman Kickstarter campaign: Artist SD Holman’s photographic exploration of female masculinity: gallery show in Easthampton, MA + catalogue to enable future touring. BUTCH: Not like the other girls is a photographic exploration of the space occupied by female masculinity in contemporary communities. The images…

Luchadoras – Mexican Female Masked Wrestlers by Alma Lopez

“Luchadoras” a Successfully Crowd Funded Art Project Alma Lopez: “Luchadoras have been ignored and overshadowed for far too long. In popular culture, we widely recognize Luchadores (male masked wrestlers) and if asked, most of us can easily identify the masks of El Santo or Blue Demon. The sad reality is…

Spectographies by Dorothée Smith

Press photo courteey of Dorothée Smith, 2014. SPECTROGRAPHIES Solo Show by Dorothée Smith 26 January 2014, at 20h00 Cinema, Petite Salle – Centre Pompidou, Paris Do You Believe in Ghosts? Spectrographies is Smith’s photographic, cinematographic and philosophic research explores different definitions and representations of ghosts, through the notion of “haunting”….

Creating a Pipeline for a Queer Arts Festival

Video: ‘Creating Queer Community Worksample 1’ by Rudy Lempke, 2012 Description of the video: ‘Jeff Jones, Development Director of Qcc explains the Creating Queer Community Workshop process. Jaime Cortez discusses the importance of the CQC Workshops. Celest Chen and Kali Boyce discuss their participation as CQC grantees. Caitlin Sweet discusses…

LAVENDER REVIEW Issue 8 – Dance

Press release by Mary Meriam, Editor of Lavender Review Issue 8 – Dance POETS Yvonne Rainer, Judy Grahn, Joy Ladin, kathryn l pringle, Carla Petree, Hannah Baker-Siroty, Flower Conroy, E.F. Schraeder, Seree Cohen Zohar, Debra Revere, Daniel Meltz, Risa Denenberg, Laura Davies Foley. DANCERS Yvonne Rainer, Carolyn Boll, Elizabeth Streb,…

Portraits of real life by Mel Ljubović

Portraits of Real Life Editor: Melisa Haćimić-Ljubović Published: November 22, 2013 by INFOTEKA Zenica, B&H Edition: Lilith 2 ISBN : 978-9958-9576-7-3 Format : 128 x 210. 159 pages Portraits of RealLlife We are proud to present the new publication “Portraits of Real Life : Literary – illustrative collection of essays…

QUEER PROPHESIES – Call for Entries

Press release QUEER PROPHESIES Call for Entries Deadline: December 13, 2013 Debuting at the 2014 National Queer Arts Festival, QUEER PROPHESIES is a multidisciplinary event featuring performances and an art exhibition that will explore queer visions of the future, queer futurity and queer utopia(s). We need submissions from YOU (the…

New York: Dresscode – You are what you wear!

Press Release by Heidi Lunabba Dresscode – You are what you wear! A community based art project by: art duo Tärähtäneet ämmät / Nutty Tarts (FI) and artist Heidi Lunabba (FI) New York City, USA 2013 and Helsinki, Finland 2012 Part of “Fashion Interactions” -exhibition November 11 – December 11,…

Kickstarter Project by Kim Leutwyler

Kickstarter Project by Kim Leutwyler Become a backer and get original art & cool stuff by Kim Leutwyler. Free Shipping around the world. Congratulations to Kim Leutwyler. This project is 100% funded!   The Project After moving to Australia, my work caught the eye of two amazing galleries that would…

Proud Queer Women Artists

Text: Birthe Havmoeller / Feminine Moments Photos: Elinore Lindén Strand and Birthe Havmoeller Artists Frida Isotalo, Elinore Lindén Strand, Pipi Sanchez and Sofie Elsta, Berlin July 2013. Photo by Birthe Havmoeller. NO FEAR a group exhibition by Pipi Sanchez, Frida Isotalo, Elinore Lindén Strand and guests, July 24 – 27,…

Kill Joy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House

Press release by Allyson Mitchell & AGYU, July 17, 2013 Forget the dead this Hallowe’en Feel the pulsing throb of something larger than life in Kill Joy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House. Opening this October in Toronto. Holey Hell House! Each Hallowe’en radical evangelical groups all over the USA…

The Nordic & Baltic Queer Art Network

Join Us! The Nordic & Baltic Queer Art Network is for individual artists, queer political organizations and professional venues & institutions who wish to program queer content. It is free to join the network and it does not require any work or activity from you side – unless you wish…