Be Illuminated by the 2024 Fall National Queer Arts Festival!
Save the Dates!
| Date & Time | Event Name | Location | Tickets |
| September 8 to October 5 | Weaving Spirits Pre-Festival Events | SF Bay Area | Find out more here! |
| October 25th | Weaving Spirits Two-Spirit Performance Festival | Brava Theatre | Find out more & get tickets here! |
| October 26th | Weaving Spirits Two-Spirit Performance Festival | Brava Theatre | Find out more & get tickets here! |
| November 9th
5 – 9 PM |
Creating Queer Communities Lvl 1 Artists Showcase | Monument, 140 9th St. SF | Learn more & get tickets here! |
| November 10th
5 – 9 PM |
Creating Queer Communities Lvl 1 Artists Showcase | Monument, 140 9th St. SF | Learn more & get tickets here! |
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.
This festival is a space to mobilize, celebrate, and commune in a time of social upheaval, where we can envision this moment not as an end, but rather an opportunity to illuminate the potential of limitless change for ourselves and our communities. Join us as we build beauty, transformative joy, and loving reckoning, together in community with you.
The National Queer Arts Festival centers Queer, Trans, Gender Nonconforming, Intersex, Two-spirit, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTI2SBIPOC artists) and honors their work.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL
Our signature program is the National Queer Arts Festival (NQAF), a twice-a-year multidisciplinary festival held in the Spring and Fall seasons 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, Heklina, 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 longest continuously-running queer arts festival in North America.
2024 Spring National Queer Arts Festival Catalog
The Fall Queer Arts Festival is more than just our two anchor events – we have a brilliant variety of Community Partner events ranging from queer choral celebrations to non-binary performance cabarets throughout the months of October and November. Find out about the full spectrum of the 2024 Fall Queer Arts Festival’s offerings through our Festival Catalog below!
COVID-19 PROTOCOLS AND ACCESSIBILITY
QCC’s aim is to produce a festival where folks can participate in a manner that feels safe and good to each individual preference. Our in-person events range from small workshops to large concerts. At our events, masking is required for all in-door experiences. In addition, we have masks and hand-sanitizer on-hand.
ASL interpretation available for only specific in-person events and by request. Check each event’s individual Eventbrite for their accessibility information. If you are interested in attending an event and require ASL interpretation, please send your request to [email protected].
FUNDERS
Queer Cultural Center would like to thank our 27th Annual National Queer Arts Festival sponsors and community partners:
National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission and Bill Graham Memorial Foundation
Queer Cultural Center can offer vital support to LGBTQ2S+ communities in the Bay Area thanks to the generosity of:
Ruth Foundation for the Arts
Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation
Fleishhacker Foundation
The Walter & Elise Haas Fund
Individual community members like you!