Mon 8 to Fri 19 Nov 2010
\nHampstead Town Hall \/ InterChange Studios
\nThe Atrium, Hampstead Town Hall
\n213 Haverstock Hill
\nLondon NW3 4QP, UK (Entrance from footpath on Haverstock Hill)
\nOpen 10.30AM to 5.30PM (Saturday & Sundays closed)
\nEntry Free<\/p>\n
GFEST is a platform for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and queer artists, organisations and venues to promote LGBT and queer arts. The\u00a0GFEST 2010 Visual Arts Exhibition, which features works of art by gay artists from UK and other countries, is curated by Ajamu: photographer and Black LGB & T community archivist. Ali Zaidi: artist moving fluidly between different artforms and artistic director of motiroti. Campbell: accomplished filmmaker and programmer who runs BlackmanVision. Julie Bindel: well known writer, feminist and co-founder of the group Justice For Women. Julie Lomax: Director of Visual Arts, Arts Council England, London. Paul Burston: author, journalist and editor of Time Out Gay & Lesbian section. And Niranjan Kamatkar: artistic director of GFEST.<\/p>\n
The selection panel wrote in their call for entries, art works ‘focusing on challenging LGBT and queer themes will be given preference’. The 2009 GEFEST art show had a strong presence of works of art made by women. This year seven women was selected for the 2010 exhibition.<\/p>\n
GFEST 2010 Visual Arts Exhibition features works of art by the following artists: Helena Janecic, Croatia, Silvia Ros<\/a>, USA, Corrine Bot<\/a>, Holland, Helen Churchill, UK, Jan Morley, UK,\u00a0Kimi Tayler, UK, Be Kosc,\u00a0\u00a0and gay male artists: David Ortega,\u00a0Colin Hampden-White, Peter Gerrard, Maitree Siribon, Mike Bliss, Matthew Stradling, and Simon Croft.<\/p>\n This year the GFEST programme\u00a0also features short film screenings,\u00a0performances, workshops, talks and parties. For detailed info: www.gaywisefestival.org.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GFEST 2010 Visual Arts Exhibition Mon 8 to Fri 19 Nov 2010 at Hampstead Town Hall \/ InterChange Studios, The Atrium, Hampstead Town Hall, 213 Haverstock Hill, London NW3 4QP, UK. Free entrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[424,408,409,407,410,421,353],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festival","tag-beata-kosc","tag-corrine-bot","tag-helen-churchill","tag-helena-janecic","tag-jan-morley","tag-kimi-tayler","tag-silvia-ros"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t