Festivities Feature More Than a Dozen Exhibitions, Performances, Parties, and Panels, Giving Platform to Often Unheard Voices and Stories Vancouver, BC – Queer Arts Festival (QAF) marks its landmark tenth anniversary with the multidisciplinary summer celebration DECADEnce, running June 16 to 28, 2018 at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre. The annual festival, which also ...

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Binding Us Together and Celebrating the Arts It’s hard not to get a bit chocked up upon hearing that two prominent women from Vancouver’s LGBTQ2+ community have new directions taking place in their lives. Women who played an important part in shaping Vancouver’s LGBTQ2+ landscape. This week we got news that Dr. Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa ...

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Queer Arts Festival @Roundhouse, Davie St at Pacific Blvd. The Signature Exhibition of QAF 2017: UnSettled The Queer Arts Festival’s two spirit curated exhibition entitled UnSettled, by Siksika visual art curator Adrian Stimson, continues each night starting at 7pm. UnSettled shows until June 28. The art truly tells a story and will cause you to ...

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It’s Going to be Amazing: June 24 The Queer Arts Festival (QAF) will feature the coming together of the Chippewa Travellers’ Powwow drum and the classically trained Allegra Chamber Orchestra. The collaboration aims to create new forms of music as the Allegra Chamber Orchestra follows the lead of the Chippewa Travellers in composer Cris Derksen’s ...

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Exploring Two-Spirit Identity The annual Queer Arts Festival (QAF) begins on June 17 with the opening of UnSettled and the Art Party: Gala Opening Reception in the Roundhouse Exhibition Hall. Exploring issues through art addresses the historical extermination of two-spirit people and the lack of alternative aboriginal sexuality and gender in contemporary western culture and ...

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The arts community is waiting for you! Will you let your creative self out of the closet in 2017? The beginning of every new year invites us to indulge in a bit of dreaming. Will you play in a band? Act in a play? Sing in a choir! Or maybe you will help out in ...

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They’re both being presented by the Queer Arts Festival, but ask composers Allison Cameron and Lyle Chan if their work expresses a queer aesthetic and you’ll get two very different answers. “I don’t know,” says B.C.–born, Toronto-based Cameron, on the phone from her home. “I can say that I have a certain sensibility that is ...

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June 21 – June 29 Exhibition Hall | Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews (Corner of Davie & Pacific)   At the centre of this year’s festival is Drama Queer: seducing social change, a visual art exhibition curated by Jonathan D. Katz. This exhibition explores the role of emotion in contemporary queer ...

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