Queer Arts Festival (QAF) is returning for 2021 with Dispersed – it’s not easy being green, opening July 24, 2021. After a digital-only festival last year, the easing of COVID restrictions allows Vancouver’s premiere artist-run festival to return for its first hybrid format festival. For its 13th year, QAF 2021 Dispersed: it’s not easy…
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SUM gallery Welcomes Time-Lapse: Posthumous Conversations — A Geoff McMurchy Retrospective
SUM gallery, Vancouver’s queer mandated visual art gallery is welcoming its newest exhibition – Time-Lapse: Posthumous Conversations — A Geoff McMurchy Retrospective – opening October 29th. Running until December 1, 2020, Time Lapse: Posthumous Conversations is a memorial retrospective of visual art by Geoff McMurchy. The founding Artistic Director of Kickstart Disability Arts, McMurchy was a…
VQFF Returns For 2020 – Virtually
Vancouver’s second largest film festival is readying its return to screens, at-home. Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) presented by Out On Screen is returning in a virtual format this summer from Thursday, August 13 to Sunday, August 23, 2020. Recently announced new VQFF and Out On Screen Interim Executive Director, Brandon Yan says, “I am…
Tune In TONIGHT – Virtual Drag Show – West Coast Edition
With the closure of most bars, clubs and cabarets due to COVID-19 restrictions, the self-employed queer artists who grace the stages are facing a difficult financial situation. It’s a drag but these artists are taking matters into their own hands, putting on their faces and giving up a show to remember – Virtual Drag Show…
Yellow Peril; The Celestial Elements, Comes to SUM Gallery
SUM Gallery, is welcoming a new exhibition, “Yellow Peril; The Celestial Elements”, opening February 1, 2020. Curated by the queer arts collective, Love Intersections, “Yellow Peril” is a visual art exhibit inspired by the Chinese Five Elemental forces, seized by the urgent tensions between Queer Chinese diasporic identities. The exhibition features a collection of multichannel…
VQFF Opens August 15
The 31st Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) opens this Thursday, August 15th at the Vancouver Playhouse with the Canadian Premiere of Leon Le’s Song Lang (Vietnam/U.S.A.), Le’s first feature is set in the richly imagined and dilapidated streets of 1990’s Saigon. Song Lang is a tribute to the golden age of c?i l??ng (a form…
Help a Rainbow Refugee Resettle in Canada
As we head into Pride Weekend in Vancouver, we reflect on the privileges and freedoms afforded to Canadian citizens. While not perfect, they’re far better than many places around the globe, especially for those identifying as LGBTQ+. Rights have been extended in more and more countries but unfortunately, there are still at least 14 countries…