Wicked Festival Passes @ QAF 2020

Queer Arts Festival: Wicked July 16 - July 26 | Queer Arts Festival 2020

This festival pass will allow for access to all events for QAF 2020. For each event, a link will be sent to your email 1 hour before the event. If you would like to attend ALL the events without the hassle of registering to each one, grab yourself a festival pass!

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.

Full event listings:

Art Party! | Cinq-à-Sept Festival Opening | Thu Jul 16, 5 - 7PM PST

QAF’s opening: Luxuriate in a cinq-à-sept afternoon delight! Come together for our Visua Art Tour with curator Jonny Sopotiuk, guest artists, and a closing DJ Set with a gallery of intimate friends old and new. Wonderfully Wicked...

Wicked: Curated Visual Art Exhibition | Thu Jul 16 - Sun Jul 26 | Visual Art

Pride in Art Community Exhibition | Thu Jul 16 - Sun Jul 26 | Visual Art

Too Spirited | Fri Jul 17, 7PM PST | Indigenous Burlesque

Embrace your too-muchness with bombastic burlesque brought to you by the badass babes of Virago Nation.

Media Nights with VIVO | Sat Jul 18 & Sun Jul 19, 7 PM PST | Media Art

Rupture Probe (Jul 18) Recent queer shorts rupture normative notions of gender, pleasure, and activism. Return to Sodom North (Jul 19) 90s Queer Video Out & 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.

A Night of Storytelling | Wed Jul 22, 7PM PST | Literary Readings

Curated by Danny Ramadan, readings by local, national, and international writers.

Underground Absolute Fiction | Thu Jul 23, 7PM PST | Speculative Theatre

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.

The Darlings, Uncensored | Fri Jul 24, 7PM PST | Drag Performance

Experience the unexpected with genre-bending non-binary avant-drag collective, The Darlings: Continental Breakfast, PM, Rose Butch, and Maiden China.

A Conversation on Queer Mentorship | Sat Jul 25, 12PM PST | Lunch Discourse

Hiromi Goto and Erica Isomura explore the nuances of intergenerational mentorship as queer POC writers.

This Crazy Show | Sat Jul 25, 7PM PST | Sun July 26, 2PM PST | Dance Performance

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.

Glitter is Forever: Pajama Party | Sun Jul 26 | 4PM PST til late | Closing Binge

Get your dress jammies on, grab a drink and binge-watch the entire Queer Arts Festival with us (take it all in!!). Expect surprises and special prizes.

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QAF’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