Portals - Queer Arts Festival
Mark your calendars for “Vancouver’s” only festival dedicated to the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities during Pride Month! The QAF invites you to celebrate 18 years of transdisciplinary art in all its forms: visual, music, performance, media, and drag.
🗓️ June 6–28, 2025
📍 Various locations
🎟️ FREE / PWYW
🔗 queerartsfestival.com
Portals are gateways to transformation—liminal spaces of transition, possibility, and change. For the 2025 Queer Arts Festival, Portals explores queer and trans experiences of crossing thresholds, stepping into new identities, and imagining futures beyond imposed boundaries.
Presented in partnership with Centre A, this year’s curated visual exhibition examines the Portals theme through diasporic journeys, highlighting the intersections of queerness, migration, and belonging. Our QAF 2025 lineup also includes incredible music performances, film screenings, our queer printmakers exhibition, and of course the QAF Community Art Show, which returns home to SUM gallery.
In a time of rising anti-trans and anti-queer rhetoric, Portals is a call to reimagine the world, celebrating art’s power to forge new paths, challenge oppression, and open doors to liberation.
Step through—what’s on the other side? 🚪✨
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Image credit: Christian Yves Jones, Still from Where Are You From? (2025)
Centre A | and locations throughout the city
Portals are gateways to transformation—liminal spaces of transition, possibility, and change. For the 2025 Queer Arts Festival, Portals explores queer and trans experiences of crossing thresholds, stepping into new identities, and imagining futures beyond imposed boundaries. Presented in partnership with Centre A, this year’s curated visual exhibition also examines diasporic journeys, highlighting the intersections of queerness, migration, and belonging. In a time of rising anti-trans and anti-queer rhetoric, Portals is a call to reimagine the world, celebrating art’s power to forge new paths, challenge oppression, and open doors to liberation. Step through—what’s on the other side?
