NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL 2017
20th Annual
Director’s Welcome
Twenty years ago, a group of artists and activists met to create what would become Qcc The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture. It was our intention to give voice to the under-represented artists of our community. We began with a small SF Queer Arts Festival and a large exhibition called FACE – Queerness in Self-Portraiture.
We wanted this first exhibition to represent who we are, what we can be, and what we can accomplish. We wanted a place to start to begin a serious discourse on queer culture. A beginning that was… a place that celebrated difference as its mode of being and justice as its practice. We wanted to present ourselves not as an abstraction but as an array of unique individuals who share this ‘queerness’. ~ Rudy Lemcke and Lenore Chinn.
The curators’ statement is a good description of what our festivals have tried to achieve for the last twenty years.
But who are we now? We’re back fighting for our most basic rights as women, LGBTQI people, People of Color, immigrants, the homeless, the poor, the disabled; fighting for the right to affordable healthcare, education and to exist as artists.
Knowing that we won’t back down, I asked our artists: How and who do we see and how do we want to be seen? What are our new alliances made of and how will they be constructed? Looking back to our beginnings, what old ideas can be re-examined and what completely new allies, methods and issues will we explore?
Join us on the line to Resist.
Pamela Peniston, Artistic Director
CONNECT
QUEER INSTAGRAM
SHOWS
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From Self to Selfie 2017
2017 From Self to Selfie, NQAF, NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/dykecodes2-300x113.jpg)
Dyke Codes: Coming Out Outside the Bubble
NQAF 2017![invitation to Isreal/Palestine](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Isreal-300x113.jpg)
Israel / Palestine: An Act of Seeing
NQAF 2017![Creating Queer Community logo](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/CQC-300x113.jpg)
Creating Queer Community 2017
CQC, CQC 2017, NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/steamroller-300x113.jpg)
Siamese Dream – Steamroller
NQAF 2017![Ad for femmasculine show](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/femmemasc-300x113.jpg)
#femmasculine
NQAF 2017![Love in Times of Pinatas Ad](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/LoveandtheTime-300x113.jpg)
![photo of Tirza Latimer](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Eccentric-300x113.jpg)
Eccentric Modernisms
NQAF 2017![Invitation to Lenore Chinn's painting show](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Pictureing-300x113.jpg)
Picturing Kinship: Lenore Chinn
NQAF 2017![Queeriosity 2017 logo](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/queeriosity2-300x113.jpg)
Queeriosity 2017
NQAF 2017![Queer Comics Expo 2017 logo](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/QueerComics-300x113.jpg)
Queer Comics Expo 2017
NQAF 2017![Queer Rebels Cast taking a bow](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/rebels-2-300x113.jpg)
Queer Rebels 2017
NQAF 2017![San Francisco Pride logo](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Pride-300x113.jpg)
Pride 2017
NQAF 2017![Dyke March 25 logo](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Dyke-300x113.jpg)
Dyke March 2017
NQAF 2017![photo of Annie Danger with universe painted on face](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/RightaboutNow-300x113.jpg)
Right About Now
NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sexworker-300x113.jpg)
Art AIDS America
NQAF 2017![photo of mirrored](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/mirrored2-300x113.jpg)
Mirror(ed) – Emerging Artists Take Center Stage
NQAF 2017![Rally event photo of 4 singers in front of white house](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/rally2-1-300x113.jpg)
Rally
NQAF 2017![Screen shot of filmmaker and 2 friends](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MrMauri-300x113.jpg)
Mr. Mauri
NQAF 2017![Kreatibo photo of group of asian women](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/keatibo-300x113.jpg)
Kreatibo
NQAF 2017![nigaroo performance Ad](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/nigaroo-2-300x113.jpg)
Nigaroo
NQAF 2017![Fresh Meat Festival Ad](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/freshMeat-300x113.jpg)
Fresh Meat 2017
NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/TypeCaste-300x113.jpg)
Type/Caste 2017
NQAF 2017![photo of celeste chan](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Somethings-300x113.jpg)
Some things you lose, some things you give away
NQAF 2017![brouhaha logo](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Brouhaha_2017_key_image_catalog_2_4x6-300-dpi-300x156.jpg)
Brouhaha 2017
NQAF 2017![photo of man playing guitar](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/queerCountrywest-300x113.jpg)
Queer Country West Coast
NQAF 2017![photo of Trajectory event invitation](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Trajectory-300x113.jpg)
Trajectory: Then and Now
NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Qwocmap-300x113.jpg)
Queer Women of Color Film Festival, 2017
NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Femmespace-300x113.jpg)
Femme Space 2017
NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/vintageQ-300x113.jpg)
Vintage Q: The Singing Bois
NQAF 2017![resilience archive photo](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/resillience-300x113.jpg)
Resilience Archives
NQAF 2017![Invitation to Lenore Chinn's painting show](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Pictureing-300x113.jpg)
FACE 2.0
NQAF 2017![Photo of Still Here group](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/STillHere5-300x113.jpg)
Still Here 2017
NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/dragQueen-300x113.jpg)
Drag Queer Story Hour
NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/YouAreEnough-300x113.jpg)
You Are Enough
NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/queerAncestors-300x113.jpg)
Queer Ancestors Project
NQAF 2017, Queer Ancestors FS![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/artPractice-300x113.jpg)
Art Practice Makes Art Pervert
NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/radar-300x113.jpg)
Radar Superstar 2017
NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/topsy-300x113.jpg)
Topsy-Turvy: Paradise Return to Aja, 2017
NQAF 2017, Topsy Turvy FS![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/QballSmall-300x113.jpg)
Q-Ball 2017
NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sexworker-300x113.jpg)
Sexworker Fest
NQAF 2017![](https://queerculturalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sexworker-300x113.jpg)
From Self to Selfie
NQAF, NQAF 20172017 QCC STAFF
Pamela Peniston, Artistic Director
Jeff Jones, Development Director
Rudy Lemcke, Communications & Education Director
Michelle Miguelez – managing director
Ramona Webb – associate artistic director
Sarah Guerra – production manager
Krista Smith – senior development associate
Vee Jenkins – development associate
LaVette Virden – finance manager
Trevaj Siller – technical director
Den— print catalog design
PSPrint – festival printing
BOARD
Jacqueline Francis, President
Blackberri
Darius Bost
Jaime Cortez
Cheryl Dunye
Jeff Jones
Jordy Jones
Viet Le
Rudy Lemcke
Pamela S. Peniston
Tina Takemoto
Advisory Board
Dr. Marcy Adelman
Juba Kalamka
Mia Nakano
Pratibha Parmar