Underground Absolute Fiction @ QAF 2020

The Pride in Art Society produces, presents and exhibits with a curatorial vision that favours challenging, thought-provoking work that pushes boundaries and initiates dialogue,  through theQueer Arts Festival (QAF), an annual, professional, artist-run, multidisciplinary festival at theRoundhouseand at theSUM Gallery, located in the Sun Wah building in the heart of Vancouver’s Chinatown.We work on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwəta? (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. To these host nations, we say thank you for your stewardship of this land since time immemorial. We recognize their sovereignty, as there are no treaties on these lands, and we are committed to building right relations based on respect and consent.

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An immersive play-meets-punk-concert, inspired by the Polish “home theatre.”

Underground Absolute Fiction is an immersive play-meets-punk-concert, inspired by the apartment theatre of 1980s Poland. It invites audiences into a secret meeting at a post-Communist home. There, they join a queer punk band and Lena, a Polish-Canadian settler.Created by Anais West, the co-writer of Jessie Award Nominated musical Poly Queer Love Ballad, Underground Absolute Fiction asks audiences to grapple with the complex legacies of diaspora, queer rights movements, and white supremacy—in both Europe and Turtle Island (Canada). Directed by Fay Nass as an Associate Project with the frank theatre.Dramaturged by Veronique West. Cultural Consultant: Julia Siedlanowska. Featuring AJ Simmons, Claire Love Wilson, Julia Siedlanowska and Sara Vickruck. Promotional photo by Kimberly Ho, featuring Julia Siedlanowska.This event is ASL interpreted.To preserve the quality of the streaming experience, space in events is limited. Register via Eventbrite today to secure your spot and receive access on the day of the event. All online events at the 2020 Queer Arts Festival are by donation to improve accessibility. We rely on ticket sales and donations to bring you Vancouver&#x27;s only transdisciplinary professional arts festival dedicated to showing the work of 2SLGBTQ+ artists. Now more than ever your donations are critical! Donors who give over $20 will be mailed a charitable tax receipt. -------- Queer Arts Festival: Wicked July 16 - July 26 | Queer Arts Festival 2020QAF’s Wicked reimagines identity politics, exposing the implications of homonormativity as erasure. This past decade has seen the mainstreaming of gay; sexual difference wins approval so long as it is palatable, marketable, and doesn’t stray too far from bourgeois notions of taste and morality. The commodification of queer experience is inextricably linked to the pathologization of the queer body, where medical and sociological interventions adjudicate which anatomies and passions are accepted as authentic.There’s no place like home for the Wicked Witch of the West, green by devilment and through her magical aberrance. QAF 2020 forsakes the yellow brick road that leads only to a man behind a curtain gentrifying our desires. Instead, QAF revels in the quintessentially queer traditions of scandal and excess with visual art, performance, theatre, music, dance and literary events! QAF’s Wicked runs 11 days from our digital hub, coming soon. Highlights include Jonny Sopotiuk’s visual arts curation; choreographer Noam Gagnon’s raucously vulnerable Swan Song, This Crazy Show; Indigenous Burlesque with Virago Nation’s Too Spirited; and the latest offering from non-binary drag collective The Darlings.Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. ― Oscar Wilde

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