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NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL 2021

Since 1998, QCC has curated and produced 24 National Queer Arts Festivals (NQAF) that have featured more than 2,300 LGBTQ+ artists in over 920 different arts and cultural events. The festival has become a bay area cultural institution bringing to life hundreds of performances, visual arts exhibitions, literary readings and film screenings.

Our Creating Queer Community (CQC) program has commissioned over 400 LGBTQ+ artists to create, produce, commission, promote, and document original works examining LGBTQ+ social justice and civil rights issues that debut at the National Queer Arts Festival.

THE FUTURE IS…

This year’s theme, The Future is… allows us to collectively embody the future. This year’s festival honors QCC artists and our art as it is today, while also opening the door to imagination and manifestation of the future through the eyes of the artists centering Queer, Trans, gender nonconforming, Intersex, Two-spirit, Black, Indigenous, people of color (QTI2SBIPOC artists) and giving voice to the truth we know – the future is already here, an the future is us. 

Over the years, our Creating Queer Community (CQC) program has commissioned over 400 LGBTQ+ artists to create, produce, comission, promote, and document original works examining LGBTQ+ social justice and civil rights issues that debut at the National Queer Arts Festival.

-Natalia Vigil, Executive Director

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NQAF 2021 CATALOG

This year, all elements of the festival are virtual/digital including our catalog.

Check out the NQAF interactive catalog to see the details of all 25 festival shows! You can click on links to find descriptions, ticket links, social media and more!

Download The Future Is… NQAF Interactive Catalog: NQAF_2021

SHOWS

Dwayne Calizo – The Future Is Free

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Still Here Presents, Mission Pride: An Evening with Vero Majano

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We Love Like Barnacles: Crip Lives in Climate Chaos, encore performance

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BIPOC Trans Pride & Resilience

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Queer AF & Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center proudly presents: Radical Joy

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The 45th

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The Song Sanctuary

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Queer Rebel Fest Image

Queer Rebels Fest 2021 Juneteenth Edition: Say It Loud

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Fresh Meat Artists

20th Anniversary FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL

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Central American Unicorns in Space! A Queer Digital Cabaret

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So The Darkness May Glitter: Queer & Trans Arab Futures

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Tiny Baruch and His Amazing Friends!

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Crossbones on My Life

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An evening with Skywatchers and Oysterknife

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Future Is Queer Country

The Future is Queer Country

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