This year’s Queer Arts Festival runs from June 17 to 28, taking place at multiple venues across the city. The festival celebrates the innovative and diverse work of 2SLGBTQIA+ artists across a wide variety of disciplines, including visual arts, literature, burlesque, and song.
The Queer Arts Festival (QAF) has its roots in an earlier grassroots visual arts event called the Pride in Art Community Show, which began in 1988. “A group of queer artists got together and realized that there wasn’t a lot of visibility for artists who wanted to create queer art so they put together a community show at the Roundhouse Community Centre,” says Mark Takeshi
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