Welcome to the 2024 Spring NQAF!
At a glance!
| Date & Time | Event Name | Location | Tickets |
| SAT 6/1, 3PM – 5PM | Art, Activism & Equity:
A Retrospective on San Francisco’s Cultural Evolution |
SF Public Library Hispanic/Latino Community Room |
FREE |
| FRI 6/7, 6PM – 9PM | NQAF Opening Reception & Gallery Opening Ceremony | SOMArts
934 Brannan St SF |
Sliding scale, NOTAFLOF |
| FRI 6/7, 7PM | Erotic Resistance: Performance, Art, and Activism in San Francisco Strip Clubs | GLBT Historical Society Museum
4127 18th St SF |
$10 |
| FRI 6/14 to SUN 6/16 | 20th Annual Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project Film Festival | Presidio Theater
SF |
FREE |
| FRI 6/14 to MON 6/17 | 6th Annual Queer Afro-Latin Dance Festival | DoubleTree Hotel, San Jose | $100 – $400 |
| SAT 6/15 10AM – 4PM | ‘Eyoomkuuka’ro Kokomaar Canoe Launch Celebration | Aquatic Cove Park, SF | FREE; Register here |
| SUN 6/16 12PM – 5PM | Palestine Solidarity Teach-In | SOMArts
934 Brannan St, SF |
Sliding scale, NOTAFLOF |
| THU 6/20 6PM – 8PM | Straight for the Money: Interviews with Queer Sex Workers | GLBT Historical Society Museum
4127 18th St, SF |
$10 |
| FRI 6/21 6PM – 9PM | Rebellion by Candelight | ABO Comix
2520 Telegraph, OAK |
By donation |
| FRI 6/21 – SUN 6/23 | FreshMeat Festival of Trans Performance | Z Space
450 Florida St, SF |
Sliding Scale |
| THU 6/27 6PM – 8PM | Gallery Closing Ceremony/Reception | SOMArts
934 Brannan St, SF |
Sliding scale, NOTAFLOF |
| FRI 6/28 11AM – 8PM | Trans March | Dolores Park, SF | FREE |
| SAT 6/29 5PM | Dyke March | Dolores Park, SF | FREE |
This year’s 27th Anniversary National Queer Arts Festival will take place June 1, 2024 through June 30, 2024 and will be in-person for all events. The 2024 NQAF theme “JOYPOCALYPSE” lifts up the need for collective liberatory queer joy during this time of ongoing cascading collective trauma. 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 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, 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
You can click through the program catalog below, or open it as a PDF on your computer.
COVID-19 PROTOCOLS AND ACCESSIBILITY
To honor community care and wellness, QCC is producing a hybrid festival with both in-person and virtual gatherings. Our 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 and are providing testing for our artists and team.
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
Thank you to Queer Cultural Center Funders:
Thank you to our community partners, sponsors, and venues!
