2025 Fall Queer Arts Festival poster

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.

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.

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 […]

Headshot images of seven diverse LGBTQ artist

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!

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.

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. 

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

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 […]

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 […]

Graphic displays faded image of a forest of trees, overlayed with a picture of white and yellow flowers. White highlighted text at the top of graphic reads “27TH ANNUAL NATIONAL QUER ARTS FESTIVAL” with “SPRING 2024” and “FALL 2024”in the middle of the doc. For SPRING 2024, white curved lines are connected to three seperate green text bubbles: the first reads “Season Anchor L. Frank Manriquez,” the second reads “Season Anchor Xtal Azul & Bloom Collective QTBIPOC Visual Art Exhibit,” and the third reads “call for artists and volunteers coming soon!” For FALL 2024, white curved lines are connected to three seperate purple text bubbles: the first reads “Creating Queer Communities Emerging Artist Showcase,” the second reads “Season Anchor: Stay tuned for announcement!” and the third reads “CQC application information coming soon!”