Queer Arts Festival 2019 Welcomes You To The rEvolution!

The annual Queer Arts Festival (QAF), Vancouver’s artist-run, professional, transdisciplinary roister of queer arts, culture and history, presents their 2019 festival rEvolution with a stellar line up of queer arts programming and celebrations!

This year’s festival theme rEvolution gathers together artists who dissemble, push and transgress; art as the evolution of the revo- lution, and QAF has assembled nearly 100 artists and more than 20 events showcasing a variety of differing media on exhibit at the Roundhouse Arts Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews) in Vancouver, BC.

Tickets for QAF 2019 rEvolution are available on Eventbrite or on the queerartsfestival.com website.

Don’t be left feeling SOLD OUT, get your passes or individual tickets for the 2019 rEvolution featuring opening and closing galas, tours, visual art installations, theatre musical performances and much more.

 

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

Art Party! | Gala Opening Reception | Jun 18 |Fun and conviviality converge at the grand opening of the 2019 QAF.

Relational Revolutions | QAF’s Signature Curated Visual Art Exhibition | Jun 17 – Jun 26 | curator Elwood Jimmy posits a rumination on the theme of revolution and extends an invitation to recalibrate

A Night of Storytelling | Literary Reading | Jun 19 | Danny Ramadan brings his much-loved nights of readings to the Queer Arts Festival. Featuring Kai Cheng Thom, Tash Mc- Adam, Monica Meneghetti and Michael V. Smith.

The Queen in Me | Multidisciplinary Performance | Jun 22 | Exploding operatic expectations, soprano Teiya Kasahara笠原貞野 explores the constraints of conventional opera roles combining original text with classic arias.

Technical Knockouts | Jun 23 | Multidisciplinary Music Electronic with Performances by young artists from QAF’s music Lab, mentored by Kinnie Starr, DJ O Show and Tiffany Moses

Jesse | re:Naissance Opera | Jun 24 | A staged reading of A workshop reading of a new ASL Opera that explores Deaf culture, queerness and the rhythms of being human

Diaspora| Jun 24 | | Devised theatre production, led

by Frank Theatre Artistic Director Fay Nass that works with community members, addressing their views and the experiences of queer refugees and immigrants in Canada.

The Wide Open | Jun 26 | media art project

Curated by Lacie Burning fearlessly focuses on intersectional LGBTQ2S+ narratives

Queer Songbook Orchestra | Jun 28 | Celebrated national chamber ensemble Queer Songbook Orchestra, weaves together stories told by local narrators with arrangements by Canada’s foremost composers.

Followed by Stonewall 50: Glitter is Forever. On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots that launched modern-day Pride, QAF›s final blowout gathers our communi- ties together to revel in a half-century of queerevolution. Stonewall was a riot — now, we dance!

The Queer Arts Festival (queerartsfestival.com) is an annual artist-run professional multi-disciplinary arts festival in Vancouver, BC. Recognized as one of the top 3 festivals of its kind worldwide, QAF produces, presents and exhibits with a curatorial vision favouring challenging, thought-provoking work that pushes boundaries and initiates dialogue. QAF’s programming has garnered wide acclaim as “concise, brilliant and moving” (Georgia Straight), “one of the best exhibitions of the year in Vancouver” (Vancouver Sun), and “some of the most adventurous of any local arts festival” (Vancouver Province).

The Vancouver Queer Arts Festival recognized as one of the top five festivals of its kind in the world (Melbourne Herald Star) returns June 17th – 28th to the Roundhouse Arts Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver).

This year’s theme rEvolution gathers together artists who dissemble, push and transgress; art as the evolution of the revolution and will tie together nearly 100 artists and more than 20 events and programming including: receptions, curated visual art exhibition, performing arts series, workshops, artist talks, panels, and screenings, parties and more! Tickets & info available at www.queerartsfestival.com

QAF’s programming has garnered wide acclaim as “concise, brilliant and moving” (Georgia Straight), “easily one of the best exhibitions of the year in Vancouver” (Vancouver Sun), some of the most adventurous of any local arts festival” (The Province) and “on the forefront of aesthetic and cultural dialogue today” (Xtra). 

Media release and image provided by Barb Snelgrove, megamouthmedia Consulting. Feature image: Teiya Kasahara Summer Works, TQIM, photo Henry Chan

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