NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL

An archive of all National Queer Arts Festival Performance shows.

SAFEhouseArts NQAF

June 5, 6, 12, 13, 15, 20, 2019
Or Could Say: Selected dates from June 5 - 20, 2016
SAFEhouse Arts, San Francisco

Safehouse Arts performances curated for the National Queer Arts Festival feauring Europa Grace, Kevin Wong, Bahiya Movement and more.
View full list of artists and show info

In This Body

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June 24, 2019
Show: 7:30pm
Eastside Arts Alliance, Oakland

Blending video, poetry, song and music, these artists tackle being In This Body. What are the obstacles to making their journey toward an integrated life? Fresh performances examine Issues of gender, queerness, love, bisexuality and the steps they will take to be entirely In This Body.
Get tickets here

#femmasculine Cabaret

June 8, 2019
Show: 8pm
Brava Theater, San Francisco

Kevin Seaman / LOL McFiercen debuts a new solo drag and performance cabaret #femmasculine. Featuring an all star cast of the Bay Area performers, this two act cabaret will take a wrecking ball to gender norms, leaving no binary intact, save one: be there, or be square!
Get tickets here

The Queer Intifada

Overlooked Latinas

Overlooked Latinas

June 5, 2019 The Marsh & Qcc present Overlooked Latinas MARSH, 7:30pm Tina D’Elia TIX: $15 https://themarsh.org/civicrm/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/register&reset=1&id=3092 Butch dyke Angel Torres, thinks she’s…
Sprint

Nana Duffour – Sprint

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June 20 & 21, 2019 Nana Duffour & Qcc present SPRINT East Bay Community Space, 7:30pm Tickets: $15 - $25 sliding scale, NOTA Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sprint-tickets-60916944220 www.sprintmovement.com East Bay…
The Crooked Room

The Crooked Room

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June 28 & 29 BATCO and Qcc present The Crooked Room AAACC, 8pm-Fri/Sat & 2pm-Sat. Jerrie Johnson TIX: $15/Students-Seniors; $20/Genl; $35/Center Seating; $50/Support the Artist! NOTA Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-crooked-room-tickets-61086005888?aff=ebdssbdestsearch A…
Emerging Artists Showcase

Emerging Artists 2019

June 24, 2019 Emerging Artist Showcase East Sides Arts 8pm tickets: MULTIDISCIPLINARY This program features Emerging Artists who have been commissioned by QCC's Creating Queer Community program. 2019. QCC began operating “Creating…
Manifesto

Manifesto

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June 21, 2019 MANIFESTO Rotimi Agbabiaka Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe AAACC, 7:30pm $15 - $20, NOTA Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/manifesto-tickets-62458746793 THEATER What do you do when your Nigerian drag queen goddess…
Mother The Verb

Mother the Verb

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June 19, 2019 Mother the Verb (Opening Performance by Dazie Grego-Sykes) FLIGHT DECK, 7:30pm TIX: $12-$20, NOTA Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mother-the-verb-tickets-60916555056 THEATER Honoring the labor and heart of mothers…
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Baruch Porres-Hernandez

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June 13, 2019 All My Friends Are Depressed! With Tiny Baruch! Brava Cabaret 7pm Baruch Porras Hernandez Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/all-my-friends-are-depressed-with-tinybaruch-tickets-60915417654 Baruchporrashernandez.wordpress.com Instagram:…

How to Have a Body

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June 12, 2019 How To Have A Body Written & performed by Gina Stella dell’Assunta San Francisco LGBT Center, 1800 Market Street, 7:30pm Written & performed by Gina Stella dell’Assunta Tickets: $12 - $25; sliding scale tickets…
Precarious Lives Performance

Precarious Lives Performance, Curated by Micia Mosely

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June 11, 2019 Precarious Lives: Performance Event Curated by Micia Mosely SOMArts, 7:30pm $10 - 15 NOTAFLOF Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/precarious-lives-performance-event-tickets-60916422660 Join some of the !powehouses!…
Performing Visible Resilience

Performing Visible Resilience

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May 31 Visibility Project & Resilience Archives, Qcc, APICC & CIIS present Performing Visible Resilience CIIS, 6pm/art opening; 7pm/performance Art Exhibition: May 1 – June 8 Tickets/Donations: $5 - $25 NOTA Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/performing-visible-resilience-2019-tickets-59616039178 Stories…
Confronting the Ghost of

Confronting the Ghost of Willie Lynch

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May 17 & 18, 2019 Confronting The Ghost of Willie Lynch: A Tale of Exorcism in Six Parts Humanist Hall, 5/17 7pm; 5/18 2pm & 7:30pm Lisa Evans Tickets: $12- $20 sliding scale: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/confronting-the-ghost-of-willie-lynch-a-tale-of-exorcism-in-six-parts-tickets-60858266714 www.instagram.com/confronting_g.w.l Discipline:…

GAPA 2019

May 10 – 12, 2019 GAPA Theatre and GAPA-Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Finding Your Voice: A Collection of New Works by GAPA Theatre Bindlestiff Studio Friday & Saturday 8pm; Sunday 2pm Finding your Voice is a collection of original…

SAFEhouseArts NQAF

June 5, 6, 12, 13, 15, 20, 2019
Or Could Say: Selected dates from June 5 - 20, 2016
SAFEhouse Arts, San Francisco

Safehouse Arts performances curated for the National Queer Arts Festival feauring Europa Grace, Kevin Wong, Bahiya Movement and more.
View full list of artists and show info
 
 
 
 
May 31, 2019/by C Q

In This Body

June 24, 2019
Show: 7:30pm
Eastside Arts Alliance, Oakland

Blending video, poetry, song and music, these artists tackle being In This Body. What are the obstacles to making their journey toward an integrated life? Fresh performances examine Issues of gender, queerness, love, bisexuality and the steps they will take to be entirely In This Body.
Get tickets here
April 29, 2019/by C Q

#femmasculine Cabaret

June 8, 2019
Show: 8pm
Brava Theater, San Francisco

Kevin Seaman / LOL McFiercen debuts a new solo drag and performance cabaret #femmasculine. Featuring an all star cast of the Bay Area performers, this two act cabaret will take a wrecking ball to gender norms, leaving no binary intact, save one: be there, or be square!
Get tickets here
April 17, 2019/by C Q

The Queer Intifada

April 16, 2019/by C Q

Overlooked Latinas

June 5, 2019
The Marsh & Qcc present
Overlooked Latinas
MARSH, 7:30pm
Tina D’Elia
TIX: $15

https://themarsh.org/civicrm/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/register&reset=1&id=3092



Butch dyke Angel Torres, thinks she’s having one of the best days of her life.  She’s gaining buy-in from an NBC producer to sign onto her show she’s directing with her buddy Carla Garcia. The TV show would highlight legendary Latinx movie stars during the McCarthy era. Enter the femme…
April 12, 2019/by C Q

Nana Duffour – Sprint

June 20 & 21, 2019
Nana Duffour & Qcc present
SPRINT
East Bay Community Space, 7:30pm
Tickets: $15 - $25 sliding scale, NOTA
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sprint-tickets-60916944220

www.sprintmovement.com

East Bay Community Space website: https://eastbaycommunityspace.org/



Presented by Nana Duffuor and directed by Dazié Rustin Grego-Sykes, Sprint is a powerful  stage performance blending film, theater, poetry, music, and dance to tell the coming of age story of…
April 12, 2019/by C Q

The Crooked Room

June 28 & 29
BATCO and Qcc present
The Crooked Room
AAACC, 8pm-Fri/Sat & 2pm-Sat.
Jerrie Johnson
TIX: $15/Students-Seniors; $20/Genl; $35/Center Seating; $50/Support the Artist! NOTA

Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-crooked-room-tickets-61086005888?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

A Queer Black woman fasting alone in a room attempts to take vows silence but is plagued by the loud thoughts that surface. Brutality at the core of the American Dream and the generational debris that…
March 19, 2019/by C Q

Emerging Artists 2019

June 24, 2019
Emerging Artist Showcase
East Sides Arts
8pm

tickets:

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

This program features Emerging Artists who have been commissioned by QCC's Creating Queer Community program. 2019. QCC began operating “Creating Queer Community” in 2000 by awarding 5 small commissions ranging from $500 to $1500. Since then, QCC has commissioned approximately 120 LGBT artists to create new works that authentically express our community’s diverse experiences. The vast majority of…
March 19, 2019/by C Q

Manifesto

June 21, 2019
MANIFESTO
Rotimi Agbabiaka
Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe
AAACC, 7:30pm
$15 - $20, NOTA
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/manifesto-tickets-62458746793

THEATER

What do you do when your Nigerian drag queen goddess instructs you to tell a new story? You summon your artistic ancestors to help you craft a tale that'll stem the rising tide of fascism. And you make sure your community is with you every step of the way.

A call to arms, a spectacular reckoning, MANIFESTO…
March 19, 2019/by C Q

Mother the Verb

June 19, 2019
Mother the Verb
(Opening Performance by Dazie Grego-Sykes)
FLIGHT DECK, 7:30pm
TIX: $12-$20, NOTA
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mother-the-verb-tickets-60916555056

THEATER

Honoring the labor and heart of mothers of all genders, Mother the Verb wrestles with the toxicity of our relationships in this post-colonial apocalypse.

“Because our nursing infants are at the top of the food chain, they inherit a body burden of industrial contaminants from our blood by way…
March 19, 2019/by C Q

Baruch Porres-Hernandez

June 13, 2019
All My Friends Are Depressed! With Tiny Baruch!
Brava Cabaret
7pm
Baruch Porras Hernandez
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/all-my-friends-are-depressed-with-tinybaruch-tickets-60915417654

Baruchporrashernandez.wordpress.com
Instagram: @baruchporrashernandez
Twitter: @baruchisonfire

PERFORMANCE

All My Friends Are Depressed With Tiny Baruch! In this solo show, written, performed and illustrated by Baruch Porras Hernandez we see the world through the small black doodled…
March 19, 2019/by C Q

How to Have a Body

June 12, 2019
How To Have A Body
Written & performed by Gina Stella dell’Assunta
San Francisco LGBT Center, 1800 Market Street, 7:30pm
Written & performed by Gina Stella dell’Assunta
Tickets: $12 - $25; sliding scale tickets & NOTAFLOF (down to zero) available!
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-have-a-body-tickets-60858715055

How To Have A Body is a multi-media solo theatrical show, based upon Gina Stella dell’Assunta’s highly-anticipated forthcoming book of…
March 19, 2019/by C Q
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