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.
COVID-19 PROTOCOLS AND ACCESSIBILITY
To honor community care and wellness, this year is our very first hybrid festival with in-person and virtual gatherings. Our aim is to produce a festival where each of you can participate in a manner that feels safe and good to you. Our in-person events range from small workshops to large concerts. At all our events, proof of vaccination and masking is required. In addition, we have masks and hand-sanitizer on-hand and are providing testing for our artists and team.
Request ASL interpretation for in-person events a week before the event. Please send request to [email protected]
NQAF 2022 EVENTS
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C Q2022-06-01 05:03:092022-06-25 22:23:10Vaz A Ver / You Will See – Opening Night
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C Q2022-05-20 05:39:002022-06-25 22:28:52Queer Convos with Comedic Creators: Adelina Anthony & D’Lo in Conversation
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C Q2022-04-10 05:53:002022-06-25 22:32:354th Annual Queer Afro Latin Dance Festival
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C Q2022-04-04 06:12:462022-06-25 22:53:15Queers of the Fatosphere + BEARPAD
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C Q2022-04-01 03:51:362022-06-25 22:44:30Femme Rage: A Day of QTBIPOC Femme Centered Rage, Release, and Revival.
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C Q2022-03-28 04:03:272022-06-25 22:48:26Resting Between the Waveforms
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C Q2022-03-24 04:12:452022-06-25 22:56:56Making an Impression, Leaving Our Mark: A Printmaking Workshop
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C Q2022-03-20 04:25:012022-06-05 04:38:37Our Legacy: a QCC Retrospective Conversation
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C Q2022-03-11 04:53:032022-06-26 00:38:56How to Work with Astrology & other Practices to Sustain Your Artistic Discipline
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C Q2022-03-06 05:18:412022-06-26 00:41:20AIDS DIVA: The Legend of Connie Norman (2021)
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C Q2022-03-04 05:27:022022-06-26 00:43:17Forged
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C Q2022-03-01 05:37:502022-06-26 00:46:16MASCellaneous: How We Roll
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C Q2022-02-27 05:59:592022-06-26 00:48:03Living Altars: Disabled QTBIPOC Writers Transforming Pandemic Grief
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C Q2022-02-23 06:16:372022-06-26 00:50:30The 45th
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C Q2022-02-14 02:33:432022-06-26 00:52:38Drag Story Hour with PerSia
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C Q2022-02-11 02:44:262022-06-26 00:56:29Nurture the Land Not the Empire: Stories from a Liberated Future
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C Q2022-02-08 02:54:392022-06-26 00:58:50Unicorn Triggers: A Writing Workshop to Get You Going
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C Q2022-02-06 03:09:472022-06-26 01:01:36Stono: An audio-ritual
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C Q2022-02-04 03:27:582022-06-26 01:04:08Dare to Love
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C Q2022-02-01 03:38:262022-06-26 01:05:50Echoes and Resonances
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C Q2022-01-20 03:49:352022-06-26 01:08:11Vibemuzik’s Ghetto Gospel
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C Q2022-01-04 04:02:292022-06-26 01:10:22QUEER PROM: OUR LEGACY!
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C Q2022-01-01 04:13:442022-06-26 01:13:02The NQAF & Stud Present: COMMANDO2022 CO-SPONSORED EVENTS
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C Q2022-06-03 04:52:282022-06-03 04:52:28Queer Rebels Fest 2022 Metamorphic Horizons – Shifting Realities
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C Q2022-04-13 02:43:242022-06-05 04:23:12Hearts & Minds
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C Q2022-04-11 03:00:102022-06-05 04:22:5518th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
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C Q2022-04-09 03:18:282022-06-05 04:22:37RAW (resident artist workshop) Pride Showcase
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C Q2022-04-07 03:30:102022-06-05 04:22:21FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL of trans and queer performance
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C Q2022-04-05 03:41:002022-06-05 04:21:58Queerly Beloved Pride Bazaar
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C Q2022-03-05 03:51:162022-06-05 04:21:35Mirror Touch
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C Q2022-02-05 04:01:122022-06-05 04:21:21AIRspace and RAW (resident artist workshop) Showcase
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C Q2022-01-05 04:12:342022-06-05 04:20:32There’s a Chicken in the Pit! A Trans- and Queercore EggstravaganzaAUDIENCE SURVEY
To help Queer Cultural Center (QCC) get a better idea of who is in our audience and the impact of our shows, after attending an event we would be grateful if you could please answer a few questions about the event you attended and yourself: Audience Survey
If you would like to share additional comments about the Festival or an event you attended, please do so by emailing [email protected]!
FUNDERS
Thank you to Queer Cultural Center Funders:
Bill Graham Memorial Foundation
California Humanities
California Arts Council
Fleishhacker Foundation
Horizons Foundation
Minnesota Street Project Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Hum
San Francisco Arts Commission
San Francisco Arts Reopening Fund
San Francisco Grants for the Arts
Sankofa Fund for Cultural Preservation
Tegan and Sara Foundation
Trans Justice Funding Project
Walter & Elise Haas Foundation
WESTAF
Zellerbach Family Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
PAST 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