What Haunts You? QAF 2022: Hauntings June 18-Jul 8

QAF 2022: Hauntings - JUN 18 - JUL 8 | 2022

What haunts you? Fear? Insecurity? Longing? In a Queer context, our very existence is haunting ― a reminder of what colonial culture attempted to erase and an ephemeral suggestion of what future lays in wait across generations.

QAF 2022 explores Hauntings in both playful and profound ways with a dynamic suite of visual art, performance, music, and literary events. For three weeks, Queer Arts Festival comes to you live and in-person rom the depths of the Sun Wah Centre, up through Centre A Vancouver International Centre For Contemporary Asian Art, On Main Gallery, and SUM gallery, to the rooftop overlooking historic Chinatown.

QAF 2022: Hauntings exclusive festival pass gives you access to all (save for one*) of our entire festival lineup, for a cheeky and discounted price of just $69. That’s a savings of nearly 50% off regular price admission to our ticketed events.

**Double your $69 Pass Option** This festival pass option includes a $69 donation (with a tax receipt). All donations collected for this year’s festival will be matched by a generous group of supporters, up to $15,000, in honour of Hauntings QAF’s 15th annual festival. To help us realize this goal, we invite you to contribute to the campaign by doubling your 69 (!!) — double your impact, and double our joy

The Queer Arts Festival is a non-profit society that relies on contributions from public, private and governmental funders to be able to bring audiences our cutting-edge programming. Full details on the 15/15 matching campaign and our donor group will be announced following this soft launch.

FULL FESTIVAL LINEUP:

ArtParty! | Sat Jun 18 | 7 pm | Festival Opening Reception | Sun Wah Centre Rooftop What better way to kick off QAF 2022 than from the rooftop of our Chinatown digs! Stunning views, phenomenal performances, delicious food and drink, and three floors of art to explore in Sun Wah Centre.

Vanishing Act : Curated Visual Art Exhibition | Sat Jun 18 - Fri Jul 8 | Visual Art | Sun Wah Centre Curated by Adwait Singh and directed by SD Holman, QAF’s signature curated visual art exhibition is what the festival is anchored upon and explores our Hauntings festival theme.

Pride in Art Community Show | Mon Jun 20 - Fri Jul 8 | Visual Art | James Black Gallery Our first partnership with James Black Gallery, the community arts show features outstanding artists from our local 2SLGBTQIA+ communities at all stages of their careers.

Pride in Art Community Show Opening Reception | Mon Jun 20 | 7 pm | Reception | James Black Gallery QAF gives their community artists a loving welcome at this opening reception at the James Black Gallery. Come see what haunts the artists amongst us.

Catalina La O Presenta: Now With Me | Thu Jun 23 & Sat Jun 25 | 7 pm & 2 pm | Theatre Performance | Roundhouse Community Centre Winner of the 2020 Fringe New Play Prize and created by the duo jk jk (khattieQ, musician/performer; Jenny Larson-Quiñones, director/writer), Catalina La O is a clown show, protest, and cabaret for the Queer communities, for the colonized body, and for Puerto Rico.

Adria Kain + Janette King* | Fri Jun 24 | 7:30 pm | Musical Performance | Performance Works, Granville Island QAF partners with the Vancouver International Jazz Festival for the first time to present Toronto-based R&B singer-songwriter Adria Kain, along with Montreal’s Janette King.

Reel Eerie | Sun Jun 26 | 7 pm | Media Art Screening | Roundhouse Community Centre An evening of the queerest of horror shorts, curated by CS Fergusson-Vaux and Ben Siegl. Hold on to your popcorn, there may be jump scares!

Bijuriya: Gabriel Dharmoo | Tue Jun 28 | 7 pm | Drag Performance | Roundhouse Community Centre Bijuriya, aka Gabriel Dharmoo, is a celebrated experimental drag artist who engages her Desi heritage while confronting larger issues of heritage, decoloniality, and Queer intersectionality.

Vanishing Act : Curator Tour | Sat Jul 2 | 3 pm | Visual Art Tour | Sun Wah Centre An exploration of Vanishing Act led by Founding Artistic Director Emeritus SD Holman, Guest Curator Adwait Singh, and visiting guest artists.

Vanishing Act: Centre A Opening Reception | Sat Jul 2 | 5 pm | Reception | Centre A: Vancouver International Centre For Contemporary Asian Art Join us as our visual art exhibition Vanishing Act multiplies from SUM gallery and On Main Gallery, expanding into Centre A: Vancouver International Centre For Contemporary Asian Art.

Queerotica | Wed Jul 6 | 7 pm | Literary Readings | Sun Wah Centre Rooftop Vancouver/Edmonton writer and activist Berend McKenzie curates an evening of queer writers whose works will inspire, provoke and titilate while conjuring the theme of The Masc & Femme We Wear.

Glitter is Forever | Fri Jul 8 | 7 pm | Closing Party | Sun Wah Centre Rooftop Our 15th Queer Arts Festival closes as it opened: with the breathtaking views from the rooftop of the Sun Wah Centre. Catch the art one final time and join us for revelry, special guest DJs and all the bubbles you can handle.

*not included in the QAF festival pass. Tickets must be purchased through coastaljazz.ca .