FILM SCREENINGS See Pages 9-10 JUNE 16-19 SATURDAY, JUNE 19 Neutral Ground Gallery – 1856 Scarth St
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AUDIBLY OUT! SOUND ART SERIES June 9-10 ALL PERFORMANCES AT NEUTRAL GROUND GALLERY – 1856 SCARTH ST. W/ SNACKS AND CASH BAR Unless otherwise noted, all PERFORMANCES are rated Restricted (R) (People under the age of 18 are not granted entrance to Restricted PERFORMANCES) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9 see pages 6-7 7:30 PM CO-WO-MMAND – Your Other Lover 9:00 PM Pink Noises on the Dancefloor – Analog Tara POST PERFORMANCE RECEPTION THURSDAY, JUNE 10 XTREMENDOUS see pages 7-8 VISUAL ART 7:30 PM Titillations EXHIBITION – Carrie Gates 8:30 PM Doll Daze May 31 – June 10 – Nicky Click and Carrie Gates see page 5 POST PERFORMANCE RECEPTION TUESDAY, JUNE 8 SATURDAY, JUNE 12 5th Parallel Gallery see page 12 Riddell Centre, University of Regina Neutral Ground Gallery – 1856 Scarth St. 8:00 PM Morceaux Choisis – 2Fik 2:30 PM Round Table with artists and Reception for photo exhibit. curators from both Audibly Out! Complimentary refreshments and Performing Out series. and snacks. Artist in attendance. Neutral Ground Gallery – 1856 Scarth St. 2:30 PM Round Table with artists and XTREMENDOUS SCREENINGS curators from both Audibly Out! THURSDAY, JUNE 17 PERFORMING OUT and Performing Out series. see pages 16-17 – DIVERSITY IN QUEER 8:00 PM Semitic Score < O/2Fik #999 PERFORMANCE – 2Fik 7:00 PM XTREMENDOUS ONE 9:00 PM croque-monsieur 9:00 PM XTREMENDOUS TWO June 10-12 – Sarah Williams FRIDAY, JUNE 18 CLOSING NIGHT PARTY FOR PERFORMING Unless otherwise noted, all PERFORMANCES see pages 18-20 OUT AND AUDIBLY OUT! are rated Restricted (R) (People under the age of 18 are not granted entrance to 7:00 PM XTREMENDOUS THREE Restricted PERFORMANCES) 9:00 PM XTREMENDOUS FOUR 11:00 PM XTREMENDOUS FIVE THURSDAY, JUNE 10 FILM SCREENINGS see pages 9-10 JUNE 16-19 SATURDAY, JUNE 19 Neutral Ground Gallery – 1856 Scarth St. see pages 21-23 W/ SNACKS AND CASH BAR ALL SCREENINGS AT NEUTRAL GROUND 7:00 PM XTREMENDOUS SIX GALLERY – 1856 SCARTH ST. 9:45 PM Invocation of the Hidden Secret W/ SNACKS AND CASH BAR 9:00 PM XTREMENDOUS SEVEN – Turner Prize* Unless otherwise noted, all SCREENINGS CLOSING NIGHT PARTY FRIDAY, JUNE 11 are rated Restricted (R) (People under see pages 10-11 the age of 18 are not granted entrance to Restricted screenings) 5th Parallel Gallery TICKETS & PASSES Riddell Centre, University of Regina SPECIAL FREE SCREENINGS TICKETS & PASSES AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR 8:00 PM Brave Seduction WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16 – Adrian Stimson XTREMENDOUS see pages 14-16 9:15 PM Transmission FESTIVAL PASS $50.00 – Dominic Johnson 7:00 PM First Rainbow (Includes all nine performances – Queer Youth Screening POST PERFORMANCE RECEPTION and eight screenings) W/ COMPLIMENTARY REFRESHMENTS this program is rated 14A – the AND SNACKS films are suitable for viewing by AUDIBLY OUT! & $5.00 SINGLE people aged 14 or older PERFORMING OUT PERFORMANCE; SATURDAY, JUNE 12 9:00 PM Freedom Fighters SERIES TICKETS $8.00 DOUBLE BILL see pages 11-13 Regina Public Library Film Theatre FILM SCREENING $6.00 PER – 2311 12th Ave. TICKETS SCREENING; $10.00 DOUBLE BILL; 1:00 PM PerFilmance – film/video $12.00 TRIPLE BILL screening to accompany series WELCOME TO QUEER CITY CINEMA XTREMENDOUS What’s so Xtremendous? Well, there is a lot Speaking of fun…we are very excited Visiting artists from near and far abound this going on out there and as a result there is a to start the festival with a one-person year – another way to ramp things up – so lot going on in here. exhibition of photographic work, then it’s on please take the opportunity to greet and Queer City Cinema marks a new decade with to the inaugural Sound Art Series, Audibly meet and more with our special guests at a new name – The Queer Arts Festival of Out!, then the return of the Performing Art Queer City Cinema Xtremendous. Regina – to reflect the fact that our interests Series, Performing Out, and of course, last Everything is covered in plastic. It is time lie beyond the cinematic and have slowly but not least, the Film and Video Screenings to break the surface. Get your thing on! over the years embraced performance, as the exclamation mark. Film and video Whatever it is, get it! You only have now! visual art and more as part of what the remains the centrepiece of QCC’s focus, with over 65 films and videos from 12 countries Xtremendous…Take it to the limit. Take it to festival offers its audiences and what the the limit. Take it to the limit. One more time… festival is all about. The umbrella name - to stimulate the eye, the ear and the ways in which we view the queer moving image. Queer City Cinema (hey, cant’ get rid of that) Gary Varro – will remain, as does the desire to seek out These four separate but related arenas are Artistic Director and present queer work that is expansive, ways in which to enjoy and immerse the Queer City Cinema ever redefining the notion of identity, and imagination and, in QCC fashion, disrupt May 2010 introduces and challenges new ideas found perception, challenge notions of identity and in art. Artists making queer noises, queer representation, and provide and suggest a images, and a queer presence is what its all new way of looking at and feeling about the about. world in which we all have to navigate. Consequently, Xtremendous is also a way A lot to take in, but, hey, it isn’t to signify the approach we are taking with called Queer City Cinema this year’s festival offerings…colorful, Xtremendous for demanding, playful, unforgettable, unsettling, nothing. thoughtful, whimsical, non-narrative, experimental, smart, unyielding, inventive, sweet, sorrowful, joyful, kind, rude, raw, dissonant, happy, sour, sassy, personal, tremendous, extreme and, of course, queer. These are the distinctive, noticeable and perhaps incongruous ingredients that make up things that will be seen, heard and, most importantly, felt during our and your time in June, 2010. Queer City Cinema has always made room and a space for representations abject, contradictory, instead of the expected, against the flow, and all the while with an informed sense of understanding, humour, humanity, and affection. Here in Regina? Yes, it has been the inspiration from the beginning in oh so many ways. And we have fun doing it. 2 FUNDERS COMMUNITY ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION SPONSORS SPONSORS SPONSORS THEATRE DEPARTMENT VENUE SPONSOR MEDIA PRODUCTION AND STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ART CO-PRESENTER HOTEL SPONSOR holophon.ca PUBLICATION SPONSOR MEDIA SPONSOR FUNDERS AND SPONSORS FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVALS QUEER CITY CINEMA 8 STAFF Michele Stanley; Suzanne Plouffe – Canada Out On Screen – Vancouver Queer Film Gary Varro – Artistic Director Council For the Arts • Doug Townsend; Festival • Image + Nation – Montreal David Geiss – Festival Coordinator Noreen Neu – Saskatchewan Arts Board • International LGBT Film Festival • MIXNYC: Jeff Morton – Technical Director Rhonda Mailander; Barbara Zieger – City of The New York Queer Experimental Film Regina • Joel Frohman – Canadian Heritage Festival • TIFF – Toronto International Film QUEER CITY CINEMA • Brenda Cleniuk – Neutral Ground/Soil Festival BOARD OF DIRECTORS • Gordon Pepper; Tricia Martin; berny hi; Yvonne Abusow – Saskatchewan FilmPool DISTRIBUTION Sarah Abbott Cooperative • Dr. Christine Ramsay; Mark Bradley Wanda Vanderstoop; Erik Martinson Andrea Stachowich – Department of Randal Rogers – V-Tape • Larissa Fan – CFMDC • Liliana Media Production and Studies, University John Hampton Nunez; Anne Golden – Groupe Intervention of Regina • Joanne Shannon – Common Anna Hanson Video • Alex Muir – Video Out • Hope Weal Community Arts • Katherine Boyer; Peterson – Video Pool • Denis Vaillancourt Michelle Brownridge – Fifth Parallel Gallery QUEER CITY CINEMA – Vidéographe • Mary Scherer – Video • Bradley Young – Prairie Dog • Elwood XTREMENDOUS TRAILER Data Bank • Ralph McKay; Michaela Grill Jimmy – Sakewewak • Dr. Sheila Petty – Sixpack Film Americas • Jeffrey Winter Jackie Dzuba and Kim Wall – Dean of Fine Arts, University of Regina – New American Vision • Aida LiPera; Ryan Carle Steel • Jamie Cooper • Dr. Christine Ramsay; Marie Dmytrow Kampe – Visit Films • Rose Chang – – Department of Theatre, University of Indiestory • Philippine Steininger – Epicentre CATERING SPONSORS Regina • Ranjan Thakre; Fabian Contreras Films • Oliver Ike; Shane Griffin – Seventh Art – SCN • Dr. Allison Hayford – Department La Bodega • Italian Star • A La Carte • Releasing • Angelika Ramlow – Arsenal of Visual Art, University of Regina • Fainting Goat • Copper Kettle • Andrew Markle; Belinda New – Regina Erin Laing Catering Public Library • Megan Slinn – SaskTel • holphon.ca Keith Colhoun – 91.3 FM CJTR Regina Erin Gee; Charlie Fox; Eric Powell QCC volunteers, supporters, fans, and Community Radio • Wayne Styles – Matrix queer performers and film and video Video Communications • V-Tape • CFMDC GUEST CURATORS AND makers everywhere. • Video Data Bank • Russell Portigal – Rio PARTICIPATING PERFORMERS Saxon Design • Tannis MacDonald – Hotel Saskatchewan Raddison Plaza Dr. Charity Marsh; Michael Toppings, Jeannie Straub; Beth Curry; Tara Rodgers; Carrie Gates; Nicky Click; John Hampton; Blair Fornwald; Jason Cawood; Adrian Stimson; Dominic Johnson; 2Fik; Sarah Williams VISUAL ART EXHIBITION – MAY 31 - JUNE 10 5th Parallel Gallery Morceaux Choisis (Chosen Pieces) TUESDAY As a French-Canadian, 2Fik is a Riddell Centre; multidisciplinary visual artist. His My work is about identity, integration and immigration. JUNE 8 University of Regina work deals with identity – it may What make us different? Can we have identity issues? If so, be sexual orientation, religious how can we get out of this situation? I try to answer those aspects or physical appearance. Queer City Cinema kicks off its Queer questions by creating a whole photo-soap-opera where He’s the director, photographer Arts Festival with a reception for the people from different cultures meet and evolve in Montreal. and model of his visual creations. photo exhibition by Montreal artist 2Fik. Being the only person playing all the characters, I also Artist in attendance.