ABOUT NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL
Our signature program is the National Queer Arts Festival (NQAF), an annual multidisciplinary Festival held May through July throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Each year we commission over twenty performances, visual arts exhibitions, and interdisciplinary showcases and in the process, we support hundreds of artists and production crews.
Since 1998, NQAF has presented more than 800 different events that have featured more than 2,300 LGBTQ+ artists including Bill T. Jones, Alice Walker, Robert Rauschenberg, Meredith Monk, Adrienne Rich, Marga Gomez, Justin Chin, Thom Gunn, Cherrie Moraga and Dorothy Allison. Many artists find their start at the festival. NQAF is the largest queer arts festival in North America.
2022 NQAF
25TH ANNIVERSARY
This year’s 25th Anniversary National Queer Arts Festival will take place June 9, 2022 through June 23, 2022 and will be a hybrid festival, in-person around the Bay Area and virtual worldwide. The 2022 NQAF theme “Our Destiny” honors the work of artists in the present and all the abundant possibilities for our community in the future. The National Queer Arts Festival centers Queer, Trans, Gender Nonconforming, Intersex, Two-spirit, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTI2SBIPOC artists) and honors their work.
NQAF 2022 CATALOG
Coming soon!
Download The Future Is… 2021 NQAF Interactive Catalog: NQAF_2021
2022 EVENTS
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C Q2022-05-24 04:13:442022-05-24 04:13:44The NQAF & Stud Present: COMMANDO
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C Q2022-05-24 04:02:292022-05-24 04:02:29QUEER PROM: OUR LEGACY!
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C Q2022-05-24 03:49:352022-05-24 03:49:35Vibemuzik’s Ghetto Gospel
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C Q2022-05-24 03:38:262022-05-24 03:38:26Echoes and Resonances
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C Q2022-05-24 03:27:582022-05-24 03:27:58Dare to Love
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C Q2022-05-24 03:09:472022-05-24 03:09:47Stono: An audio-ritual
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C Q2022-05-24 02:54:392022-05-24 04:17:54Unicorn Triggers: A Writing Workshop to Get You Going
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C Q2022-05-24 02:44:262022-05-24 04:22:34Nurture the Land Not the Empire: Stories from a Liberated Future
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C Q2022-05-24 02:33:432022-05-24 02:33:43Drag Story Hour with PerSia
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C Q2022-05-23 06:16:372022-05-24 04:23:23The 45th
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C Q2022-05-23 05:59:592022-05-24 04:18:58Living Altars: Disabled QTBIPOC Writers Transforming Pandemic Grief
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C Q2022-05-23 05:37:502022-05-24 04:25:53MASCellaneous: How We Roll
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C Q2022-05-23 05:27:022022-05-24 04:19:53Forged
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C Q2022-05-23 05:18:412022-05-24 04:26:55AIDS DIVA: The Legend of Connie Norman (2021)
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C Q2022-05-23 04:53:032022-05-27 20:46:28How to Work with Astrology & other Practices to Sustain Your Artistic Discipline
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C Q2022-05-23 04:25:012022-05-25 19:22:29Our Legacy: a QCC Retrospective Conversation
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C Q2022-05-23 04:12:452022-05-24 04:29:31Making an Impression, Leaving Our Mark: A Printmaking Workshop
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C Q2022-05-23 04:03:272022-05-24 04:30:21Resting Between the Waveforms
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C Q2022-05-23 03:51:362022-05-24 04:31:13Femme Rage: A Day of QTBIPOC Femme Centered Rage, Release, and Revival.
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C Q2022-05-20 06:12:462022-05-20 06:13:12Queers of the Fatosphere + BEARPAD
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C Q2022-05-20 05:53:002022-05-20 05:53:274th Annual Queer Afro Latin Dance Festival
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C Q2022-05-20 05:39:002022-05-20 05:41:48Queer Convos with Comedic Creators: Adelina Anthony & D’Lo in Conversation
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C Q2022-05-20 05:03:092022-05-20 05:19:25Vaz A Ver / You Will See – Opening NightPAST 2021 EVENTS
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C Q2021-06-03 07:31:502022-05-20 04:48:44Dwayne Calizo – The Future Is Free
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Sofia bBarahona mena2021-05-27 19:54:182021-05-27 19:54:18Still Here Presents, Mission Pride: An Evening with Vero Majano
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Sofia bBarahona mena2021-05-27 18:33:362021-06-18 19:07:34We Love Like Barnacles: Crip Lives in Climate Chaos, encore performancePAST NQAF 2020 EVENTS
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C Q2020-06-17 18:26:012020-06-24 18:27:05Black Faggotry
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C Q2020-05-20 00:32:462020-06-24 18:27:35Awilda Rodríguez Lora and Cristóbal Guerra Naranjo
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C Q2020-05-18 18:22:092020-06-24 18:28:06Zulfikar Ali Bhutto