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!
Executive Director Anand Kalra Announces November Departure from QCC
NewsAfter 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
CQC 2024, News, Uncategorized
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…
Announcing Our Creating Queer Communities Level 2 Cohort!
CQC, CQC 2024, CQC Current, News, UncategorizedThis 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
CQC, CQC 2024, News, UncategorizedQueer 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
NewsWe 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!
CQC, CQC 2024, CQC Current, NewsWe want to give a warm welcome to our new Creating Queer Communities Level 1 Cohort <3!
2024: JOURNEY TO THE JOYPOCALYPSE!
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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’…
OPEN CALL – 2024 Creating Queer Communities – First Level
CQC 2024, News
What is Creating Queer Communities?
Queer Cultural Center is thrilled to relaunch Creating Queer Communities, our beloved professional development training program for queer and trans artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. For over…