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ABOUT NQAF 2018

NQAF, NQAF 2018

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 120 San Francisco-based artists to create new work.

Since 1998, QCC has organized an annual month-long National Queer Arts Festival. Since 1998, QCC has organized an annual month-long National Queer Arts Festival. To date, these Festivals have presented more than 800 different events featuring over 1000 Queer artists including Bill T. Jones, Alice Walker, Robert Rauschenberg, Meredith Monk, Adrienne Rich, Marga Gomez, Justin Chin, Thom Gunn, Cherrie Moraga and Dorothy Allison. The festival is the largest queer arts festivals in North America.

Artistic Director’s Welcome

The 2018 National Queer Arts Festival

#Resist

This year’s theme—#Resist—for the National Queer Arts Festival seems a natural progression. With the systematic cruelty, hate speech and “fake facts” that are besieging all of our communities, it was time to both withstand and take action: the very definitions of Resist.

Associate Artistic Director Ramona Webb and I challenged the artists working with the theme to queer this definition; to value stillness and/or create action. We felt action is more productive than simply as a reaction. That’s what we want for our community: To apply the arts & activism (artivism) to move forward, while protecting ourselves and reaching out to connect other communities who are being systematically harmed by this administration’s practices.

The programs our artists have created reflect the genius, resilience, strength and beauty of our community and share our vision of equitable living and loving through artistic community engagement.

We hope to see you at the festival!

Pamela Peniston – Artistic Director

Board of Directors

Blackberri, Cheryl Dunye, Storm Miguel Florez, Jacqueline Francis (President), Jeff Jones, Juba Kalamka, Việt Lê, Rudy Lemcke, Pamela S. Peniston, Maria Rangel, Tina Takemoto

Advisory Board – Dr. Marcy Adelman, Mia Nakano, Darius Bost

2018 NQAF Staff

Pamela Peniston – artistic director
Ramona Webb – associate artistic director
Rudy Lemcke –communications & education director
Krista Smith – development director
The Lady Ms Vagina Jenkins – development associate
LaVette Virden – finance manager
Sarah Guerra – production manager
Den— print catalog design
PSPrint – festival printing

 

March 12, 2018/by C Q
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⚡ Meet Sean Dorsey (@SeanDorseyDance), the first ⚡ Meet Sean Dorsey (@SeanDorseyDance), the first openly transgender modern dance choreographer who has brought his trans-positive performances to cities across the U.S. His powerful works blend contemporary dance, queer partnering, music and spoken word. And this year, his organization Fresh Meat Productions / @FreshMeatSF celebrated its 20th anniversary of fostering #trans creative expression, advocacy and education. #TRANSformDance⁠
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⚡ The “Lost Art of Dreaming” is a new, audacious work from @SeanDorseyDance that invites trans and queer communities to imagine expansive Futures –– full of joy, love and liberation –– as anti-trans legislation and violence against trans people continues to escalate.⁠
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⚡ Experience Sean Dorsey Dance in @KQEDArts new episode of #IfCitiesCouldDance 👇 Link in bio!⁠
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Sean Dorsey Dance dancers in episode:⁠
Sean Dorsey, Héctor Jaime, Nol Simonse and Will Woodward⁠
@hector.jaime09⁠
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Directed by: Lindsay Gauthier @lulutrublu
And it's a wrap! ❤ Thank you to everyone who mad And it's a wrap! ❤ Thank you to everyone who made our first hybrid in-person and virtual 2022 National Queer Arts Festival a success! 🥰

A special thank you to everyone behind the scenes at QCC who made this festival possible @nataliam.vigil @saranflas @aracelestial @gwenniecakes @ashantibeats Vienna Alvarez, den / ARC & TYPE design, @sammyypeace and @mer.aldao photography, our sponsors and funders, and thank you to everyone who attended an event 🎉

A BIG thank you to the amazing 2022 NQAF Artists and Curators 😍
@ines_ixierda @xtal.azul 
@adelinaanthonyxicana @dlocokid Sharon Bridgforth
@queer_afro_latin_dance_fest @aimathedrmr @baruchporrashernandez @mammyisdead @femmasculine @bearpadart 
@p33kabo0_ GG Torres @kashigoodfriends Pam Peniston,Jeff Jones @lenorechinn  @floreciendo77 @dalencastre @electricfl0wer 
 @tavis_gaming_collective @hplovehandles @nickishimaru @nostalgiajunki3 @hollys.graphics 
@leahlakshmiwrites @missyfuego @istamulier @jubakalamka @naimalowe Lucia Leandro “LL” Gimeno, Stacey Park Milbern @daziegrego @per_sia  @maya_chapina @cosmicfloral @creative_mudafukah 
@bamtamerson 
Jari Bradley, @hoodsnax and Alexis De Veaux @valvoice Solas B. Lalgee, @audaciousiam  @anyxmeans @honest_in_10land @lunchboxx___ @sunflowerbaybee @muzik_ra @wearefluidsf 
@commandosucks @jubakalamka @lynneeboy @drewtrapgirl @krylon_superstar @honeymahogany @queerrebelsbayarea @gapachorus @qwocmap @safehousearts @freshmeatsf @scorpio_ascension @thehomobiles 

Click the link in bio for a full list of shows, artist bios, and contact info! 😊

More photos and videos from the 2022 NQAF shows coming soon 🙌🏾

#NQAF #NQAF2022 #QCC #QueerCulturalCenter #Pride #Festival #Performance #QueerArt #QueerCulture #QueerArtist #LGBTQ #QTBIPOC #BayArea #Worldwide #SanFrancisco #PrideMonth 

📸 slides 1, 3, 4, 6, 7: @sammyypeace 
📸 slides 2 and 5: @mer.aldao 

[image descriptions: a series of photos taken at some of the 2022 NQAF shows]
Thank you @saltandstraw ❤️ Enjoy some deliciou Thank you @saltandstraw ❤️ Enjoy some delicious ice cream this weekend and help support your local queer org 🙌🏾 

Repost: 🌈 LOVE ALL FLAVORS 🌈 ⁠
In honor of #GlobalPrideDay, we're donating 5% of all shop proceeds this weekend (June 25th and 26th) to local LGBTQ+ orgs chosen by our Salties:⁠
❤️ Bay Area - @qcc_sf⁠
🧡 Florida - Equality Florida⁠
💛 Los Angeles - @lalgbtcenter⁠
💚 Portland - ⁠@newaves4youth⁠
💙 San Diego - @lgbtcenter⁠
💜 Seattle - @equalrightswa⁠

Come see us and close out #Pride month with a scoop🍦

#QCC #NQAF #QueerArt #QueerCulture #IceCream #Pride #LGBTQ #QueerArtist #Support #ThankYou #PrideMarch #BayArea #PrideWeekend #QTBIPOC
Arts Impact Endowment (AIE) | First-Time Grantee I Arts Impact Endowment (AIE) | First-Time Grantee Initiative Applications Now Open! ‼ Join the San Francisco Arts Commission @sf_arts_commission this Friday, June 24th from 12pm to 1pm PST to learn more. Link in bio for more details and to apply ☺️

The grant aims to reach individuals and arts organizations who have never received grant funding from the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) or Grants for the Arts (GFTA). The First-Time Grantee Initiative prioritizes arts organizations and individual creators + makers deeply rooted in Black, Indigenous, POC, LGBTQI+, and/or Disabled San Francisco communities.

Image Credit: Fresh Meat Festival @freshmeatsf , Photos by Kegan Marling

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