Name: QALEIDOSCOPE – QUEER FILM AND PERFORMANCE ON TOUR 2023 • Edmonton
Start: 2023-02-18T18:30:00-07:00
End: 2023-02-18T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Art Gallery of Alberta

QALEIDOSCOPE – QUEER FILM AND PERFORMANCE ON TOUR 2023 • Edmonton

Queer City Cinema Inc. (based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) was initiated in 1996 as a biennial film and video festival and has, over the years, come to program both film and performance art. The organization now presents one festival annually - a combination of Performatorium: Festival of Queer Performance and Queer City Cinema: Film Festival.These two festivals comprise the main activities of the organization. Other act ivities that occur are tours of film programs since 2000 with the most recent being a coast-to-coast tour in Canada in 2011, and curating annual film programs for Pitos Waskochepayis, a Two Spirit/Queer Film and Media Festival in Prince Albert Saskatchewan.

Queer City Cinema Inc.

QALEIDOSCOPE will feature Queer and QTBIPOC film that explore diverse ways of looking at sexuality, gender and race.

Art Gallery of Alberta

SCREENINGSSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18SCREENING 1 / 6:30 PMART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (2 Sir Winston Churchill Square)www.youraga.caADMISSION - PAY WHAT YOU WANT/PAY WHAT YOU CANEACH SCREENING IS COMPRISED OF DIFFERENT FILMSRESTRICTED - 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDERFor more information - please visit www.queercitycinema.caAs the titles suggests, QALEIDOSCOPE – will be a well-textured assemblage of images, ideas, and realities that collide in fantastical, personal, and playful ways to produce an ever-changing, multi-faceted queer film and performance art viewing experience.Some of the films focus on image, sound and abstract narratives; others present information, facts, and queerforward realities; while others share the pleasure and pain of individual and collective identities. Even though experimental and artistically rigorous artworks are in abundance, and heavy hitting and thoughtful issues and topics such as feminism, race, racism, class, identity politics, community, colonization, conceptual art, politics, religion, violence, popular culture, gender and of course sexuality are provided for their important role in providing awareness and insight on many levels, transgressive and subversive play is also an important characteristic of several of the films on the tour. This is in keeping with Queer City Cinema’s mandate to reflect hallmarks of queer image making — in this case, film with a decidedly tongue-in-cheek disposition and sensibility; injecting the programming with moments of intelligent, incisive humour – film that pleases and appeases.QALEIDOSCOPE was conceived to promote the artistic vision of queer Canadian filmmakers whose work might not otherwise be shown within these urban centres in Canada. These works, though falling under the banner of ‘queer’, remain relevant to the broader artistic communities in each of the five cities, not only because of the subject matter broached but also because many of the artists represented float amongst multiple disciplines within the context of the film, visual and performance art. In this sense, artistic rigour and the fluidity of experience are paramount in the programming for the tour.This will be the eighth tour of Queer City Cinema’s programming. This tour follows QALEIDOSCOPE – Queer Film On Tour 2022 to the UK/Ireland and the 2020 tour to Ottawa, Montreal, Sackville, St. John’s and Winnipeg. Upcoming – Qaleidoscope 2023 – The Balkans – Zagreb, Croatia; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Belgrade, Serbia; Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina; Podgorica, Montenegro.Gary Varro Executive &amp; Artistic Director Queer City Cinema and Performatorium

QALEIDOSCOPE – QUEER FILM AND PERFORMANCE ON TOUR 2023 • Edmonton

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