ABOUT NQAF 2013
Welcome to the 2013 National Queer Arts Festival
Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist is a marvelous German word that means the Spirit of the Time. In our case, we asked visual and performing artists to either imagine what people looking back at Queer Date 2013 would feel were the unique spirits of this time; or to look back in history and choose queer movements/spirits from those epochs and re-define them.
Everything from the perception of body & gender in performance & circus and styles of burlesque to examining privilege, immigration, post traumatic stress, ageism, sexism, ecology and racism are gracing our stages and gallery walls and, as usual, in new and queer ways. You’ll laugh and gasp and get all hot & bothered where you least expect to!
We celebrate who we are and who we want to become—and as always, we start the conversation with the arts.
Please join us and support our artists and queer artists everywhere!
Pamela Peniston
Artistic Director
National Queer Arts Festival – QCC stages an annual month-long multidisciplinary National Queer Arts Festival, documents significant Bay Area Queer arts events on our Website, provides fundraising and other technical assistance services to emerging culturally-specific and gender-specific Queer arts groups, and conducts “Creating Queer Community,” a program that to date has commissioned more than 60 San Francisco-based artists to create new work.Since 1998, QCC has organized an annual month-long National Queer Arts Festival. To date, these Festivals have presented more than 400 different events featuring over 1000 Queer artists.
QCC BOARD
Blackberri
Cheryl Dunye
Jacqueline Francis
Jeff Jones
Jordy Jones
Juba Kalamka
Rudy Lemcke
Mia Nakano
Pamela Peniston
Tina Takemoto (President)
Advisory Member
Dr. Marcy Adelman
2013 NQAF STAFF
Pamela Peniston (Artistic Director)
Information about Qcc and National Queer Arts Festival Programs and Curation
[email protected]
Kevin Seaman (General Manager)
Information about the National Queer Arts Festival Co-ordination and all financial matters)
[email protected]
Rudy Lemcke (Communications Director)
Information about the visual arts program, website curation and educational programs
[email protected]
Jeff Jones (Financial Director)
[email protected]
Sarah Guerra (Production Manager)
[email protected]
LaVette Virden (Finance Manager)
DENDESIGN (Graphic Design)
PS Print (Festival Printing)
ZEITGEIST CURATORS
Josh Faught
Jacqueline Francis
Jordy Jones
Rudy Lemcke
Matt McKinley (Exhibit Designer)
Pamela Peniston
Tina Takemoto
Amanda N. Simons (Exhibit Coordinator)
Carter Steinmann (Zeitgeist & Festival Intern)
All Qcc events always have a No One Turned Away policy. (DEN-maybe somewhere near the general BPT ticket info.
Please make preparations to ensure this event is accessible and safe for people with chemical injury and environmental illness. We request you refrain from wearing hair and body products with fragrance or clothing washed in detergent with fragrance.
We need logos for CQC – Creating Queer Community and for HC – Healthy Communities with text saying—
Indicates Creating Queer Community & Healthy Communities programs commissioned by Qcc with the generous support of the San Francisco Foundation, The SF Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The National Queer Arts Festival 2013 Press Photos are on Flickr. Please follow the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/queerculturalcenter/sets/72157633451739670/
For more information about photos contact:
Sarah Guerra (Production Manager)
[email protected]
ABOUT QCC
Qcc Mission Statement
Founded in 1993, Qcc is a multiracial community-building organization that fosters the artistic, economic and cultural development of San Francisco’s LGBT community. We implement our mission by operating programs that commission and present Queer artists, that promote the development of culturally diverse Queer arts organizations and that document significant Queer arts events taking place in San Francisco.
By presenting, exhibiting, screening and documenting queer artists’ work, Qcc contributes to the development of a multicultural perspective on the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender experience.
QCC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Blackberri
Cheryl Dunye
Jacqueline Francis
Jeff Jones
Jordy Jones
Juba Kalamka
Mia Nakano
Rudy Lemcke
Pamela Peniston
Tina Takemoto (President)
PROGRAMS
National Queer Arts Festival
QCC stages an annual month-long multidisciplinary National Queer Arts Festival, documents significant Bay Area Queer arts events on our Website, provides fundraising and other technical assistance services to emerging culturally-specific and gender-specific Queer arts groups, and conducts “Creating Queer Community,” a program that to date has commissioned more than 60 San Francisco-based artists to create new work.
Since 1998, QCC has organized an annual month-long National Queer Arts Festival. To date, these Festivals have presented more than 400 different events featuring over 1000 Queer artists including Bill T. Jones, Alice Walker, Robert Rauschenberg, Ester Hernandez, Adrienne Rich, Marga Gomez, Justin Chin, Cherrie Moraga and Dorothy Allison. The 2006 Festival attracted more than 65,000 people.
Creating Queer Community
QCC’ began operating “Creating Queer Community” in 2000 by awarding 5 small commissions ranging from $500 to $1500. Since then, QCC has commissioned approximately 60 LGBT artists to create new works that authentically express our community’s diverse experiences. Over the past seven years, the vast majority of these commissions have been awarded to culturally-specific and gender-specific individual artists whose work expresses the experiences of queers of color, Lesbians and Transgendered people. The commissioned work has broadened the Queer community’s understanding of the fluid nature of racial and gender identities and has provided many insights into what people of different races, gender identities and ages actually think. QCC has received major grants from the Haas Foundations’ Creative Work Fund, the Gerbode Foundation and the San Francisco Foundation to expand our commissioning activities.
Queer Multicultural Arts Development (QMAD)
In 1999, when QCC initiated the Queer Multicultural Arts Development (QMAD) program, almost all City arts funds went to LGBT groups founded during the seventies by gay white men; Lesbian artists received less than two-tenths of one percent of the City’s arts dollars; arts organizations presenting work expressing the lives and experiences of Queers of color and transgendered people received no public funding at all. Since its inception, QMAD’s affordable grantwriting assistance program has enabled Lesbian, Transgender and Queer arts organizations of color to secure government and foundation grants exceeding $725,000. The diversification of San Francisco’s LGBT arts community has significantly changed the City’s cultural landscape: it has built bridges across the many divides that formerly separated our inherently diverse community and has moved formerly marginalized Queer artists of color, Lesbians and Transgendered people into the mainstream of LGBT cultural production.
QueerCulturalCenter.org
www.queerculturalcenter.org, one of the most heavily visited non-profit arts websites in the Bay Area, documents important Queer arts events taking place in San Francisco and heightens the international, national, statewide and local visibility of the Bay Area’s Queer arts community. For the past nine years, Website Director Rudy Lemcke has developed on-line content that makes the creative work of the City’s Queer artists accessible to audiences throughout the world. The Website currently contains over 11,000 pages of material that traces the emergence, diversification and ongoing evolution of Queer arts and culture in San Francisco over the past 9 years. The website is now a major on-line resource for information about Queer art and artists; last year, the website attracted over 720,000 international visitors.
Healthy Community Arts Program
QCC launched our first season of year-round presentations and staged a series of approximately 25 arts programs in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco, exploring medical and mental health issues such as living with life threatening diseases, amphetamine abuse and working in the sex-industry.
Queer Converstions on Culture and the Arts (QCCA)
Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts brings together locally and nationally renowned artists, writers, filmmakers, and scholars for a series of conversations to discuss a broad range of LGBTQI topics in the humanities and the arts.
Pamela Peniston (Artistic Director)
Information about Qcc and National Queer Arts Festival Programs and Curation
[email protected]
Kevin Seaman (General Manager)
Information about the National Queer Arts Festival Co-ordination and all financial matters)
[email protected]
Rudy Lemcke (Communications Director)
Information about the visual arts program, website curation and educational programs
[email protected]
Jeff Jones (Financial Director)
[email protected]
Sarah Guerra (Production Manager)
[email protected]
