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qcc staff stand in a row, smiling. left to right are vienna, anand, sarah, and ali. bright sparkly gold text reads "queer cultural center wishes you JOY in 2024" on top, with staff names at the bottom

Job Posting: Finance & Operations Manager

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QCC is seeking an experienced Finance and Operations Manager with anticipated start date late November or early December 2024. The Finance and Operations Manager is a central role in ensuring the financial health and operational efficiency…
2025 Fall Queer Arts Festival poster

NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL MAIN

Mark your calendars for this year's 27th Anniversary National Queer Arts Festival, taking place October 25, 2024 through November 10, 2024 and in-person for all events. It’s time to move our minds and hearts towards the light! Our Fall 2024 National Queer Arts Festival, Incandescent Illumination, will be an experience of transmutation and intentional collective change to bring us into the daylight. Get tickets and learn more through the link!
QCC’s executive director, Anand Kalra, pictured in February 2024 with NQAF 2024 anchor artist L. Frank Manriquez. Photo by Rachel Lozada.

Executive Director Anand Kalra Announces November Departure from QCC

After more than two years of service, Queer Cultural Center’s (QCC) Executive Director Anand Kalra has announced he will be transitioning from the organization at the end of November 2024. As members of the Board of Directors, we express our immense gratitude for the incredible hard work and deep care Anand has shown in his stewardship of the organization.

OPEN CALL – 2025 Creating Queer Communities – First Level

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What is Creating Queer Communities?  Queer Cultural Center is thrilled to announce the next round of Creating Queer Communities, our beloved professional development training program for Queer and Trans artists in the San Francisco…
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Announcing Our Creating Queer Communities Level 2 Cohort!

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This is an exciting moment - we are announcing the first Creating Queer Communities (CQC) Level 2 cohort, designed to help local LGBTQ2IA+ artists advance their technical and creative production skills. This is our first ever level 2 cohort, a new aspect of our artists development program designed to help local LGBTQ2IA+ artists hone their ability to devise and produce original artworks for our community. We’re excited to welcome Deon Brown, Tiara Amar, Esotérica Tropical, Grupo Chuqui Chinchay, Lyn Patterson, Sagaree, and Yanni Brumfeld. Read their full bios through the link!

OPEN CALL – 2024-25 CREATING QUEER COMMUNITIES – SECOND LEVEL

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Queer Cultural Center will select 5-7 applicants for the CQC2 cohort. CQC2 cohort members will receive professional development workshops and will produce an individual cultural event as part of QCC’s 2025 Spring Queer Arts Festival.  The artistic theme for the 2025 Spring Queer Arts Festival is “Pleasure in the Storm”. We invite projects that address queer approaches to sustaining ourselves and our communities through cultivating inner joy, community connection, and sensory pleasures amid the ongoing political, cultural, public health, and climate crises that shape our current material conditions.

QCC Teaches: Budgeting for Artists Workshop

We invite artists and creatives of all disciplines to join us on March 16th as we walk through the most important parts of drafting a budget for your upcoming project or production. 

QCC Selects Eight Artists for 2024 CQC Level 1 Cohort!

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We want to give a warm welcome to our new Creating Queer Communities Level 1 Cohort <3!
qcc staff stand in a row, smiling. left to right are vienna, anand, sarah, and ali. bright sparkly gold text reads "queer cultural center wishes you JOY in 2024" on top, with staff names at the bottom

2024: JOURNEY TO THE JOYPOCALYPSE!

Daoism teaches that 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows fill a life. If you ask us, lately humanity’s collective sorrows seem to be piling up way too fast to keep the balance. Too much trauma, too little recovery. Too much need for our communities’…

Queer Cultural Center promotes social justice through the artistic and financial development of queer art and culture. Queer Cultural Center promotes social justice and the creative and financial development of queer artists and culture makers. We steward artists whose programs nourish, connect, and mobilize trans & queer communities in San Francisco and its diaspora.  

Our Community Values

Queer Cultural Center has long played a prominent role in the frontlines of queer culture in the Bay Area. We are inspired and informed by the generations of LGBTQ2S+ artists and activists who lead the charge for equality and inclusion.

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Queer Cultural Center supports hundreds of LGBTQ+ artists, producers, and local venues because of supporters like you. We thank you for enabling us to thrive. Queer Cultural Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and all donations are tax deductible.

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