NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL 2015
Queer Cultural Center stages an annual month-long multidisciplinary National Queer Arts Festival, documents significant Bay Area Queer arts events on our website, provides fundraising and other technical assistance services to emerging culturally-specific and gender-specific Queer arts groups, and conducts Creating Queer Community, a program that to date has commissioned more than 60 San Francisco-based artists to create new work. Since 1998, QCC has organized an annual month-long National Queer Arts Festival. To date, these Festivals have presented more than 400 different events featuring over 1000 Queer artists.
CONNECTIONS
The theme for this year’s National Queer Arts Festival is Connections. As LGBTQ+ people, we make connections across many so-called borders of ethnicity, gender, ability, and economic status as well as physical borders across cities, states and countries to assemble a family, to create art, to provoke commentary, to weave social justice issues into our practices, to explore spirituality and to have a hella good time.
Individually, Queers are constantly forging new ways to connect within and outside of our perceived communities. We asked artists to explore the connections we make internally, individually, collectively and in community and to investigate the sinews that hold them together and the forces that break them apart.
When the Festival kicks off on May 29, 2015 with QUEER REBELS FEST, you will have 40 + opportunities to see the amazing artistic responses to that theme!
See you at the Festival!
Pamela Peniston, Artistic Director
CONNECT
QUEER INSTAGRAM
SHOWS
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SAFEhouse Arts: June 2015 Calendar
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Stories of the Spectrum Photo Exhibition
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For Sizakele: A Performative Excerpt
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The News
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This is What I Want
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GAPA: In Light & Love the 25th Anniversary Concert
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Glitter Bomb 2015
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Marga Gomez – Pound
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Queer Comicon
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Outside the Frame
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FRAMELINE 2015
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Pride 2015
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Dyke March
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Trans March, 2015
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FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL 2015
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RADAR – Queer Fail
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Axis
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Queer Women of Color Film Festival, 2015
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Queeriosity
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Roots in Resilience
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Blackmail My Love
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Queer Rebels Fest
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Mangos with Chili
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No Tears for the Creatures of the Night
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Still Here 2015
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Pants: The Musical
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Black Don’t Crack
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Hanky Code: The Movie
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Body of Work
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Y’all Come Back
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Brouhaha: A QTPOC Comedy Uprising
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Boomtown
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Topsy-Turvy: MAJESTY ABLAZE, 2015
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The Q-Sides
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A LESBIAN’S GUIDE TO SELF CARE!!
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Macho Menos
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Dorian Katz
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Aron Kantor
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Katie Kaapcke
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Jon Henry
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Angela Hennessy
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Wesley Harvey
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Helle Grøndahl
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Katie Gilmartin
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Chrysta Giffen
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Zeph Fishlyn
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Caity Fares
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Eliana Cetto
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Jessica Burke
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Heather Buechler
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Hugh Buck
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Joe Bruns
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Austin Boe
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micah bazant
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Crystal Barr
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Association Les Dégommeuses
2015 Glitter Bomb, NQAF 20152015 STAFF
Pamela Peniston, Artistic Director
Rudy Lemcke, Website Director
Jeff Jones, Financial Director
Kevin Seaman, General Manager
Sarah Guerra, Production Manager
LaVette Virden, Finance Manager
DENDESIGN, Graphic Design
PS Print, Festival Printing
Curators: Glitter Bomb
Darius Bost
Việt Lê
Melorra Green
Jacqueline Francis
Rudy Lemcke
Matt McKinley, Exhibit Designer
Pamela Peniston
Melonie Green, Exhibition Coordinator
BOARD
Blackberri
Cheryl Dunye
Jacqueline Francis
Raquel Gutierrez
Jeff Jones
Jordy Jones
Juba Kalamka
Rudy Lemcke
Pratibha Parmar
Mia Nakano
Pamela Peniston
Tina Takemoto (President)
Advisory Member
Dr. Marcy Adelman
VENUES
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FUNDERS & SPONSORS
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