Glitter is Forever: Pajama Party @ 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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A Closing Binge-Watch of QAF 2020's programming.

The WICKED-ness wraps up on closing night July 26th with our Glitter Is Forever: Pajama Party, our final marathon binge of the performances featured throughout the 2020 Queer Arts Festival!QAF’s Closing Binge-fest | Sunday July 26, 4PM - 1 AMGet your dress jammies on and grab a drink(s) for the binge-worthy broadcast of the entire Queer Arts Festival! With guest hosts and surprises, Pajama Party attendees have one last chance to feast their senses on all the stellar performances of our featured 2020 artists and Interact with friends on the QAF online HUB!<h3>**Glitter is Forever: Pajama Party Party Program Schedule**</h3>Binge-fest Part 1: Readings and Conversations | 4:00-7:00PM (PST)<ul><li> Underground Absolute Fiction: An immersive play-meets-punk-concert, inspired by the Polish “home theatre.” Written by Anais West and co-produced by Queer Arts Festival and The Frank Theatre.</li><li> A Night of Storytelling: Curated by Danny Ramadan, readings by local, national, and international writers.</li><li>A Conversation on Queer Mentorship: Hiromi Goto and Erica Isomura explore the nuances of intergenerational mentorship as queer POC writers.</li></ul> Booty Break: DJ Set from DJ O Show | 7:00-8:00PM (PST) <ul><li>Things are just getting warmed up at the Party, so let’s have a stretch, shall we? DJ O Show will get your PJ’s playful with an hour of high energy dance!</li></ul>Binge-fest Part 2: Burlesque, Drag, and Dance | 8:00-11:00PM (PST)<ul><li>Too Spirited: Embrace your too-muchness with bombastic burlesque brought to you by the badass babes of Virago Nation.</li></ul><ul><li>The Darlings, Uncensored: Experience the unexpected with genre-bending non-binary avant-drag collective, The Darlings: Continental Breakfast, PM, Rose Butch, and Maiden China.</li></ul><ul><li>This Crazy Show: In his Swan Song, contemporary dance legend Noam Gagnon sashays the fine line between pain and pleasure in a fetishization of something glamorous and beautifully twisted: a monster beautified.</li></ul> Binge-fest Part 3: Midnight Movies: VIVO Media Art Screenings | 11:00 - 1:00AM (PST)<ul><li>Rupture Probe: Recent queer shorts rupture normative notions of gender, pleasure, and activism.</li><li>Return to Sodom North: 90s Queer Video Out &amp; Uncensored. Time travel with the Vancouver Queer media artists who raged back against the malignment and suppression of queer lived realities and representations of desire. Curated in partnership with VIVO Media Arts Centre.</li></ul>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'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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