NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL

An archive of all National Queer Arts Festival Performance shows.

Fresh Meat Festival 2018

June 14-16, 2018
8pm
Z Space, San Francisco

Outrageously popular and finger-licking-good: the Fresh Meat Festival is the nation’s premiere transgender and queer performance festival. Award-winning trailblazers and national LGBT art-stars perform in three programs of modern dance, live music, comedy, aerial dance, theater and much more

Queer Rebels Fest: 10 Year Anniversary, 2018

May 25 & 26, 2018 10th Annual Queer Rebels Festival The Future is Ours: goodbye white supremacy AAACC, 7:30pm Tickets $15-$25 Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/10th-annual-queer-rebels-festival-the-future-is-ours-goodbye-white-supremacy-tickets-45053252491 As…
PARADISE

Paradise 2018

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May 17-19, 2018 Topsy-Turvy Queer Circus presents: PARADISE: Belly of the Beast Brava, 8pm Tickets: $18-45 sliding scale, community comp tickets available for Thursday show Tickets Topsy-Turvy Website This event is co-sponsored…

Dyke Codes: Coming Out Outside the Bubble

June 21 QCC & the GLBT History Museum present Dyke Codes: Coming Out Outside The Bubble Post Disco to Pre Internet GLBT History Museum, wheelchair accessible 7pm Tickets-$5-$15 donation at the door Pre-internet, post-disco, a new…
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June 21 Brava presents #femmasculine BRAVA wheelchair accessible 8pm $15 NOTAFLOF Ticketing Link: https://brava.secure.force.com/ticket/#details_a0S41000001qDZdEAM More Information: SeamanArts.com/femmasculine Discipline: Multidisciplinary…
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Love in The Time of Piñatas

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Right About Now

June 22, 2017 Right About Now: Queer Artists Confront the “New Normal” African American Arts and Culture Complex wheelchair accessible 7:30pm $12-$20 sliding scale NOTAFLF Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/right-about-now-queer-artists-confront-the-new-normal-tickets-33985049197 Performing…
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Mirror(ed) – Emerging Artists Take Center Stage

June 19 Mirror(ed) – Emerging Artists Take Center Stage East Side Arts Alliance wheelchair accessible 7:30pm $12-$20 sliding, NOTA Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mirrored-emerging-artists-take-center-stage-tickets-33984795438 Eric…
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Rally

June 18, 2017 Kentucky Fried Woman & Starr69 Present Rally! Queer Explorations of Resistance and Resilience SOMArts, Doors 7 pm; Show 7:30 wheelchair accessible $15-$20 sliding NOTA Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rally-tickets-33984673072 Discipline:…
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Kreatibo

June 17, 2017 Kreatibo presents Back to the Past: Kreatibo Reunion and Retrospective Eastside Arts Alliance wheelchair accessible 7:30pm $10-20 sliding scale, $8-10 students, disabled and seniors, NOTA Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/back-to-the-past-kreatibo-reunion-and-retrospective-tickets-33983398259 If…
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Nigaroo

June 16, 2017 QCC/NQAF and Bundle Of Sticks present Nigga-Roo Dazié Grego-Sykes The Flight Deck 1540 Broadway, Oakland 94612 wheelchair accessible 8pm $15-20, NOTA Tickets: https://makemeblack.eventbrite.com Performer Website: Daziegrego.com If…
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Fresh Meat 2017

June 15-17, 2017 Fresh Meat Productions presents FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL of trans & queer performance< ZSPACE, 8pm wheelchair accessible Tickets: $15-25 sliding scale Tickets and Info: www.freshmeatproductions.org *ASL Interpretation:…

Type/Caste 2017

June 15, 2017 Type/Caste Flight Deck, 1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612 wheelchair accessible 8pm $15-$20 sliding scale - NOTA Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/typecaste-tickets-33967660186 If you are interested in having this performance…
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Some things you lose, some things you give away

June 14, 2017 “Some things you lose, some things you give away”* African American Art and Culture Complex wheelchair accessible 7:30pm $12-$20 NOTA Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/some-things-you-lose-some-things-you-give-away-tickets-33967494691 Discipline:…
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Brouhaha 2017

June 12-13, 2017 Peacock Rebellion presents Brouhaha: Trans People of Color Comedy Festival EastSide Arts Alliance & First Congregational Church wheelchair accessible See website for more details: http://www.peacockrebellion.org/ Get…
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Queer Country West Coast

June 11, 2017 Queer Country West Coast Eli Conley & Secret Emchy Society Joint CD Release Show The Backroom, 1pm - 4pm Tickets: $15 http://backroommusic.com (Cash Only at the door) Performing Arts (Music) Why queer country music?…

Precarious Lives Performance, Curated by Micia Mosely

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! that have shaped the Bay Area’s arts activism scene for an evening of resistance and transformation through performance. Featuring Marga Gómez, The Lady Ms Vagina Jenkins, and Sr. Solas B. Lalgee

BIOGRAPHIES



Micia Mosely, a comedian and educator…
March 19, 2019/by C Q

Performing Visible Resilience

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 of comedy, drama, and resilience are featured in this unique performance and visual arts showcase. A cast of LGBTQ APA artists share personal narratives on stage, while the…
March 19, 2019/by C Q

Confronting the Ghost of Willie Lynch

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
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Discipline: Theater

Inspired by the immersive experiences of haunted houses, this work-in-progress showing of Confronting The Ghost of Willie Lynch follows…
March 19, 2019/by C Q

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 works written and performed by member of GAPA Theatre. This compilation of vignettes, personal narratives and short plays reflect the lived experiences of Gay and Queer Asian and Pacific Islander men.



The event is being presented by the API Cultural Center-…
March 19, 2019/by C Q

Appendix Art

 



May 10, 2018
Appendix Art Collective </3
Co-sponsored by API Cultural Center, SF LGBT Center & Qcc
LGBT Community Center, 6 - 9pm - Opening Reception

FREE
VISUAL ART

Opening night (May 10th! See you there) features local QTPOC dj’s, </3 food from the artists and curators, and live readings and happenings. Through </3, Appendix Collective provides a space specific to the experiences of API womxn and GNC, queer and allied artists who pull from their experiences…
March 29, 2018/by C Q

Global Masquerade Parade

June 21 (Masquerade street performance)
The Global Street Dance Masquerade, AAACC & Qcc present
Dontuntrah: The Afro-Queer Masquerade
Masquerade – GLBT, 5 - 7pm - donations welcome

June 21st: (Street Performance & Procession) The Afro Queer Masquerade - Dontuntrah, reveals its dazzling spectacle for all to see in the heart of the Castro! Affirming the African and black American queer ancestors who have paved the way in San Francisco and beyond. Informed by the Afrofuturist movement,…
March 10, 2018/by C Q

Global Masquerade Program

June 20 (Werk!shop-Dance Party)
The Global Street Dance Masquerade, AAACC & Qcc present
Dontuntrah: The Afro-Queer Masquerade
Werk!shop – AAACC, 7:30pm $5-10
Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dontuntrah-the-afro-queer-masquerade-werkshop-tickets-45227438486

June 20th: (GSDMQ8: Multi-disciplinary presentation & Dance Werk!Shop) Join artistic director Rashad Pridgen of The Global Street Dance Masquerade - GSDMQ8 for a multi-disciplinary performance presentation. An exploration…
March 10, 2018/by C Q

Performing Visible Resilience

May 31, 2018
Doors Reception Opening: 7pm
Show: 7:30pm
Humanist Hall, Oakland
Performing Visible Resilience is an immersive visual arts exhibition and performance showcase featuring the stories and works of LGBTQ Asian Pacific American artists.
March 10, 2018/by C Q
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