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Image credit: Warrior Indigenous, of South America’s Sacred Soil by GeorgeU Littlechild nSettled Curated Visual art Exhibition curator Adrian Stimson 2017 TH UR June 17–SA T 29 Program Guide2017

Dare to be challenged. Risk being changed. program guide Unsettled 1 Table of 03 s About QAF Messages from the Board President 04 PROUD SPONSOR of the and Artistic Director 05 All events Programming 08 (unless otherwise noted) Festival Events Listing 18 QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL Satellite Academy: Workshops & more 22 2017 t t en on Patrons / Donors 29 at the C Roundhouse Tickets available Community Arts & Online at queerartsfestival.com Recreation Centre In person at the QAF Box Office at the Roundhouse Jun 17–Jun 29 on ticketed show nights. Prices vary—please see individual shows for details.

QAF takes place on the Free and Queer Tickets Want to see a show but short on cash? With our Free traditional, unceded territory and Queer Tickets program, QAF offers free tickets of the Coast Salish people, in through our community partners, including Urban Native particular the Youth Association, Catherine White Holman Wellness (Musqueam), Centre, Queer ASL, Rainbow Refugee, and Broadway (Squamish) and Youth Resource Centre. (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. We recognize their sovereignty, as Memberships there are no treaties on these Our licencing requires that all attendees at our lands, and we are dedicated licenced events carry membership cards to the to building a new relationship Pride in Art Society. Memberships are $5 / $2 between our nations based on concession online and at the QAF Box Office at respect and consent. the Roundhouse.

Accessibility ASL interpretation will be provided for: Most QAF events take place at the Jun 17 Art Party! Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Jun 18 Curator Panel Centre, which is fully wheelchair accessible. Jun 18 Art Salon Underground pay parking is available with Jun 19 Lay of the Land access on Drake Street. The entrance is Jun 20 MSM [men seeking men] accessible via a street level ramp, and accessible washrooms are on the main Jun 23 Unsettling Colonial Gender Boundaries 2017 floor. Gender-neutral washrooms with Jun 25 Two-Spirit Panel appropriate signage are next to the Exhibition Hall. Please help us maintain a scent-reduced space and refrain from using scented products when you plan to visit the festival. FINE HANDCRAFTED LAGERS & ALES | OFFTHERAILBREWING.COM program guide Queer Arts Festival @QAFVancouver @QueerArts | #QAFVan 03 Pride in Art was founded by Two-Spirit artist Robbie Hong. We dedicate UnSettled to Indigenous art and artists by turning over programming to Two-Spirit and President’s From the queer-identified Indigenous creators. By collaborating with Indigenous arts organizations and artists and taking our lead from them, we aim to counteract the established Welcome Artistic Director power imbalances of colonial privilege, with the recognition that Two-Spirit people are already a part Welcome and thank you When the Canada 150 was announced, Stimson, Cris Derksen, Kinnie Starr, of our communities and organizational mandate. like many of you, I thought, eww, Samantha Nock, Full Circle First Nations for joining Pride in Art ‘celebrating’ 500 years of colonization? Performance, and Vancouver Indigenous On behalf of the board, I would like to welcome new for the 2017 Queer Arts Media Arts Festival. festival staff to the QAF: Robyn K. Weasel Bear, Production As we look back, we look forward and ask, Manager; Lacie Kanerahtahsóhon Burning, Visual Art Festival, UnSettled. Last what’s the best way to build a better future Highlights include QAF’s signature visual Preparator; Gavin Liang, Audience Services Manager; year’s QAF was hailed by for queers? Amplifying the voices of Two- arts exhibition, curated by Adrian Stimson Maggie Holblingova, Volunteer Coordinator; Alecska The Vancouver Sun as Spirit artists was the obvious choice. Many (Siksika), as artists explore historic and Divisadero, Assistant Development Officer; Courtney “easily one of the best contemporary queer struggles focus on contemporary experience of colonial gender Sparks, Digital Communications Assistant; and Emily transforming gender preconceptions — yet imposition; Greed/REsolve, a dance critique Bailey, Artist Liaison; as well as our many wonderful art exhibitions of the year how many know that non-binary gender of commerce, greed, and disenfranchise- volunteers. Welcome to the Queer Arts Family! in Vancouver.” was once the norm here? ment by Circadia Indigena; Unsettling Colonial Gender Boundaries, media art by Cree scholar Harlan Pruden identifies at least Most importantly, I would like thank these individuals for Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival; 130 Indigenous languages with 3-6 gender their hard work and dedication to this festival: Artistic Technical Knockouts, with Kinnie Starr, categories, grouped together under the Director SD (Shaira) Holman, General Manager Elliott SD Holman DJ O Show, and Tiffany Moses; MSM, English word Two-Spirit. It is a specifically Hearte, Director of Development Rachel Iwaasa and lemonTree’s dance deconstruction; and Indigenous term, with cultural implications Arts Administrative Assistant Kimberly Sayson. Cris Derksen’s Orchestral Powwow, in settlers can’t claim as our own. The people which the European orchestra must follow To the Board of Directors, we give a special thanks: who live these genders have been brutally the beat of the Powwow drum. Nicola Harwood, Thierry Gudel, Joseph Bardsley, Alida suppressed by colonial heteronormativity, Kinnie Starr, Karin Lee, Ken Yeung, Ladan Sahraei, and As Leanne Betasamosake Simpson writes: This year, with the generous guidance of Valérie d. Walker. Sadly we say goodbye to Directors artist Tuy’t’tanat - Cease Wyss, Elliott and ...we weren’t “queer”, we were normal. Suzo Hickey, Janine Fuller, and Karen X. Tulchinsky. I visited the (Musqueam), Many of our societies normalized gender (Squamish) and On a personal note, this will be my last festival as variance, variance in sexual orientation and (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, to follow the president. I am retiring from my job and the QAF, all different kinds of relationships as long Indigenous protocol of officially requesting although I am sure to return as a visitor sometime as they were consistent with our basic permission to present the festival on soon. Since its inception, I have been part of QAF. First values of consent, transparency, respect and their lands. as a participating artist in PiA 1998, then as its first reciprocity. We weren’t “queer” until settlers president in 2006, and finally the current president since came into our communities and positioned I can’t start this year without referencing 2015. There are so many memories to cherish, and the “queer” parts of our relationships and last year’s horrifying tragedy. QAF 2016 people to thank! The Queer Arts Festival is an amazing societies as defiant, abnormal and sinful. opened one week exactly after the massacre organization, a queer family I am glad to be part of. at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. Pulse affected So I set out to bring a Two-Spirit and After all, who doesn’t like a well hung show? all of us deeply, giving us a renewed sense Indigequeer* curated festival to you. To not of urgency for art that changes the world. On behalf of QAF we would like to thank our many Jeffery Austin Gibson just program Indigenous artists, but to give 2017 The artists featured this year exemplify sponsors and donors. over curation (control) — to give it back. beauty defiant in the face of hatred. We look forward to continuing to build and nurture Every year, I invite a curator to select this festival, and to serving the needs of queer artists Jeffery Austin Gibson, President artists for our visual art exhibition; for 2017, Welcome to QAF 2017: UnSettled and art lovers in 2017 and beyond. PRIDE IN ART SOCIETY I expanded that to all the disciplines, —SD Holman presenting the works selected by Adrian program guide *with thanks to Thirza Cuthand for coining the word 04 Unsettled 05 June 17SA T I 7PM

: ARt Albrecht Meyer Paul M. Taylor, Linda Anoushka Ratnarajah Minamaye and the O Attila Richard Lukacs whole team at Gordon Bobbi Kozinuk Neighbourhood House T Bruce Munro Wright Paul Wong Party! Cara Seccafien Raven John Join us for the Queer Arts Festival’s Opening Charlene Aleck Ron Wallace Art Party!, one of Vancouver’s hottest summer Cole Alvis Russell Wallace events. This important opening features ravishing Empire Landmark Hotel Sempùlyan refreshments, amazing artwork and queer conviviality. Gavin K Somers Simply Computing Gordon Grant Tilda Berry Moo Art Party! celebrates the opening night of QAF’s curated Graeme Boyd Braveheart Swinton, exhibition, UnSettled, curated by Adrian Stimson; the Hadar Namir Wonderdog of Little Pride in Art Community Show; and is the kick off for Harlan Pruden Dog Nation the incredible exhibitions, performances, and Satellite Inger Iwaasa Trevor Blackman-Wulff Academy outreach initiatives that make up the Queer TH ANKS James Goodman and Trigger Segal Arts Festival. Garry Wolfater Ts’élkwílem Siýam Byron Our opening night galas are one of Vancouver’s best Jamie Lee Hamilton Joseph Tuy’t’tanat - attended visual arts events, making this a party Jocelyn Macdougall Cease Wyss you don’t want to miss! Kara Gibbs Tyler Alan Jacobs Karen Knights and VIVO Urban Fare Ken Gracie and Phillip Whole Foods Waddell lee williams boudakian P ECIAL Lydia Kwa Marie, Andrew, Terry, S Bill, Steve, Percy, Nita, François, KC, Fraser and all the wonderful Roundhouse staff Mette Bach Monica Meneghetti Parker McLean V ERY A 2017 rogram guide p

06 Unsettled 07 curator Adrian Stimson ED W June 17–SA T 28 Roundhouse Exhibition Hall I By donation Gallery hours: 9am-10pm

Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew We live in Unsettling times, the world feels under siege, unsafe, tensions between Curated Visual art Exhibition s Aiyyana Maracle alt-right and social left, neo-liberalism, ongoing wars, Orlando, Chechnya gay purge, addressing power, representation, sexuality, t Barry Ace the US Republican Administration rollback language, body, tradition, memory, colonial of civil and gay rights, fake news, mutual narratives, and knowledge sharing. assured destruction, resource exploitation, Tuy’t’tanat - Cease Wyss identity politics, reconciliation and on and This year’s QAF exhibition UnSettled features is on. For Indigenous peoples, specifically the works of Indigenous artists who identify Dayna Danger Two-Spirited people, endurance of these kinds within the Two-Spirited context yet also t ed of fears has been going on for centuries, our challenge this binary through their own George Littlechild resilience and continued presence is a lesson experience and cultural understandings. r Jessie Short for us all, we have, and will continue into the To honour the past, we have included 3 future unsettle the colonial project. deceased artists: Aiyyana Maracle, Mike John Powell It is more important now than ever before MacDonald and Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew; that we speak up, act out and strengthen we honour those who came before us, who Michelle Sylliboy our social justice systems. We know from paved the way, who took risks, who never history that in times of strife, it is the artists failed in bringing their art forward in an of- Mike MacDonald and intellectuals who are targeted first, like ten hostile world, we are the sum of them. ura t conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa who In the present, Two-Spirited artistic and Raven John put to death male homosexual sodomites intellectual expressions are blossoming; A C dressed as women to the dogs in 1540. we have an explosion of people and ideas. Richard Heikkilä-Sawan Balboa realized where the power of the UnSettled is honoured to present the work community lay, and immediately had them of 18 contemporary Two-Spirit artists; Their Robert Houle rounded up and fed to the dogs, effectively perspectives in exploring contemporary annihilating, silencing and driving the roles and experiences, as well providing a Rosalie Favell diversity of sexual beings of the Americas’ platform for innovation and experimentation underground for centuries. at the intersections between the Indigenous Thirza Cuthand For too long, the absence of representations and queer art milieu are a continuum of Ursula Johnson of Two-Spirit people, art, and being from indigenous knowledge and being. contemporary popular culture has been UnSettled explores the art and being of Vanessa Dion Fletcher endured; it is part of the colonial project, Two-Spirit artists, and in turn, they expose to eradicate, to deny our natural beings, the issues of historical extermination, hetero- 2017 Wanda Nanibush to dominate, assimilate, to ultimately erase normativity, the lack of alternative indigenous our beings and memory from time. UnSettled sexuality and gender in contemporary deploys artistic and critical discourse to Western culture/media, it is a reclamation focus on Two-Spirit resilience with work of Two-Spirit identity, theory and praxis. program guide

08 Unsettled 09 MON June 18 I 2PM June 19MON I 7PM Curator Lay Panel of Curator Adrian Stimson discusses UnSettled the with curated artists Dayna Danger, George Land Littlechild, John Powell, Michelle Sylliboy and Writer readings Vanessa Dion Fletcher. curated by Samantha Nock

Lay of the Land is a night of space taken back and Jessica Wood reclaimed for queer and two-spirit Indigenous poets and writers to call back our sexualities. Through 500 years of Shane Sable colonization, spaces to safely express love, longing, and our Leah Grantham Also check out the Youth relationships to each other and the land have been directly Curator Tour, and Art Salon attacked. Lay of the Land will be a night of learning to Molly Billows on the Satellite Academy love again, through professing our connections to the Samantha Nock page 20. places we are from, the people we love, and how we do so under colonization. We will be exploring topics such as the connection between our bodies and the land, decolonial love, queer Indigenous sexualities, relationship making, Community Partner: Bill Reid Gallery and the wonderful ways reclaiming our spaces is beautiful, messy, vulnerable, funny, and erotic. 2017 Roundhouse Performance Centre I By donation Roundhouse Exhibition Hall I By donation program guide

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Local curators June Scudeler and Lacie Kanerahtahsóhon Burning program an evening of Two-Spirit media art, centering Indigenous experiences of sexuality and gender. Shared and emerging histories are explored through MSM media and performance by Thirza Cuthand Chandra Melting Tallow Chandra Melting Tallow (Cree), Chandra Melting Tallow (Siksika), [men seeking men] Raven Davis (Anishinaabek), and Kent Monkman (Swampy Cree) to highlight discourse within Queered-Indigenous Concept/Direction experience and its intersections. INDRIT KASAPI Unsettling Produced by Premiering Colonial commissioned works by Thirza Cuthand Gender and Chandra Melting JONATHAN SEINEN, Dramaturgy Tallow Community Partner: JOE PAGNAN, Production Design antiago Boundaries the frank theatre company COLE ALVIS & INDRIT KASAPI, Producers Co-Produced with lejandro S lejandro A

Performers Thirza Jean Cuthand is an Indian Within the MSM [men seeking men] is a dance theatre piece inspired by transcripts of online conversations INDRIT KASAPI Meaning of the Indian Act | Thirza Cuthand | video | 2017 between men who seek other men. lemonTree’s RYAN G HINDS Artistic Producer Indrit Kasapi has created a world I Still Believe | Raven Davis | video | 2015 of electronic beats where music is the omnipotent COLE ALVIS power, and through choreography, movement, and RODERIC CHAN Rapture of Roses | Chandra Melting Tallow | media performance | 2017 text, deconstructs online male personas and their personal exchanges with other men. KUNAL RANCHOD Future Nation | Kent Monkman | video | 2005 Panel discussion 2017 to folloW

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12 Unsettled 13 “using older classical tools with Powwow groups is a way I can express the intersections between the old and the new. It brings together both parts of who I am as a Half-Cree,

June sat 24 I 7PM Half- Mennonite Classically Trained Cellist.” June SUN 25 I 4PM — Cris Derksen Cris Derksen’s Artist-Led Afternoon Site-specific and culturally- Orchestral focused teaching through storytelling from local media artist and ethnobotanist Indigenous plant diva Tuy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss. Powwow Wyss will lead participants through In this chamber symphonic work, classically- the history of the land, weaving trained Allegra Chamber Orchestra follows the lead of storytelling, and a yarn/bombing The Chippewa Travellers’ Powwow drumming as they artist activity. Bring your stories create new forms of music in cellist/composer Cris and comfy shoes. Derksen’s Orchestral Powwow. Bringing Indigenous music

to the centre of the European model, Cris Derksen, Wyss ease C The Chippewa Travellers, hoop dancer Nimkii Osawamick, and percussionist Jesse Baird Community Partner: Community Partner: 2017 perform this Juno-nominated composition Canadian Music Centre T’uy’t-tanat- grunt gallery outdoors as part of the 2017 Queer Arts Festival.

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14 Unsettled 15 Poetry, DJ, hip hop and electronic

music by technical knockout warrior ED UE W T June MON 26 I 7PM women Kinnie Starr, DJ O Show and June 27– 28 I 7PM Tiffany Moses, performing with guests DANCE from QAF’s young artist program. Artistic Collaborators: Jerry Longboat, Byron Chief-Moon, TechnicalKnockouts Olivia C. Davies, Kinnie Starr is a genre-defying artist Damien Eagle Bear, and blazing her own influential trail. Self-trained, Starr moves from hip hop to art-pop, folk to Luis G Canton. spoken word to EDM with eclectic grace. Her music is fearless, intuitive, politically charged and melodic, challenging listeners while making them bounce and nod. Starr is a Juno Award winning producer, one of the 5% of female producers worldwide – a growing populus solve she spearheads by example. Greed / RE Orene Askew aka DJ O Show explores Greed examines our exploitative REsolve embodies taking control many genres of music but remains true to stock market system and the of one’s own destiny, by challenging her love for hip hop and R&B, incorporating crippling effects of corporate and our present economic slavery and different beats to ensure you never want to personal greed, results of the false physiological bondage and poisoning. leave the dance floor. DJ O Show is the Head ego. This work juxtaposes traditional There are transcendent moments of Instructor at the School of Remix and an Indigenous harmony with the natural realization and awakening where inspirational speaker who travels across the environment while consequences one must stand up for freedom, act country to bring ambition and drive to youth. of greed, causes personal and to determine one’s identity and path. biospheric destruction. Affecting the living balance of self, community Tiffany Moses is a vocalist and audio and our planet. Community engineer currently living in Vancouver, BC. Partner: Inspired by a love of music she has been singing since she was a young girl following her grandfather into the bush. Musical influences These companion works consider First Nations world views, however, we are all include jazz singers such as Billie Holiday and affected by the occurring challenges physically, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally. Nina Simone as well as classical composers The resulting tensions from the juxtaposition of radically opposed world views is such as Vivaldi and later trip-hop bands inscribed on the individual and the collective, then the challenge in presenting a Portishead and Massive Attack. stand, a point of view comes into focus. As one may journey through the commodity exploitation of individual from birth 2017 Presented with the support of to death. A roller coaster of ideas and images for the audience emerge. Roundhouse Radio

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Art Party! Gala Opening Reception | June 17 | 7pm 07 THE GRID [a workshop] | June 24 | 4:30pm 23 Art and conviviality converge at the grand opening of the Queer Arts Festival. Indrit Kasapi of lemonTree leads dance and theatre artists through 08 lemonTree creations’ process The Grid, based on Viewpoints. UnSettled: | June 17–28 | 9am–10pm Visual art exhibition curated by Adrian Stimson. Cris Derksen’s Orchestral Powwow | June 24 | 7pm | 14 Cris Derksen, The Chippewa Travellers, Allegra Chamber Orchestra, and more perform cellist/composer Derksen’s Juno-nominated composition. Pride In Art Exhibition | June 17–28 | 9am–10pm 21 Open visual art exhibition honouring our founder, Two-Spirit artist Robbie Hong. Talking Two-Spirit | June 25 | 2pm 21 A panel of artists and arts presenters on questions of a Two-Spirit aesthetic, | June 18 | 2pm 10 Curator Panel the influence of Two-Spirit identity on artistic practices. Stimson and curated artists lead audiences through the visual art exhibition.

| June 25 | 4pm 15 | June 18 | 4pm 22 Artist-Led Afternoon Art Salon Site-specific and culturally-focused teaching through storytelling from local A casual salon with artists and curators and you to discuss art. media artist and ethnobotanist T’uy’tanat-Cease Wyss.

| June 19 | 4 pm | 25 Youth Curator Tour | June 26 | 7pm 16 Tour of the visual arts exhibition with curator Adrian Stimson for youth. Technical Knockouts Poetry and electronic music by Kinnie Starr, DJ O Show and Tiffany Moses, performing with guests from QAF’s young artist program. Lay of the Land | June 19 | 7pm 11 A Night of Indigenous Erotica: Samantha Nock curates writer readings. Greed / REsolve | June 27-28 | 7pm 17 12 Commerce, greed, and disenfranchisement are key themes in these MSM [men seeking men] | June 20 & 21 | 7pm two paired dance works by Circadia Indigena - Indigenous Arts Collective. A dance deconstruction piece inspired by online ‘hook-up’ culture from lemonTree creations.

Glitter is Forever: Queeraoke Closing Party | June 29 | 7pm 27 Technical Knockouts | Drop-in Lab | June 22-25 | various times 26 QAF’s final blowout—revel in community, effervescent refreshments, A female-centred music production, tech, songwriting and DJ drop-in lab and karaoke with glitter at The Junction. for queer Indigenous and allied youth. 2017 Unsettling Colonial Gender Boundaries | June 23 | 7pm 13 VIMAF’s June Scudeler and Lacie Kanerahtahsóhon Burning program media art including All events at the Roundhouse unless otherwise noted. new commissions. program guide

18 Unsettled 19 dialogues discourse outreach ED W June 17–SA T 28 Satellite The Satellite Academy Pride In Art Academy is inspired by Sarah Schulman:

“In June 2008, I started a project I call “The Satellite Academy.” This is composed of two monthly writing exhibition workshops I run out of my apartment ... In my class, they don’t have to defend queerness, aesthetic invention, or racial or cultural points of view. And alyssa anne they don’t have to take out loans. Once the burden Artists: Katherine Atkins of defending is reduced, we can concentrate on craft. Tim Bauer They get the same experience as the dominant culture Margaret Briere worker (writer in an MFA program): their lives are Vince Denault assumed to be important ... My dream is that other Robin Field queer and non dominant culture worker (writers), Jeffery Austin Gibson regardless of what they do for a living, will join the Kathryn Jean Satellite Academy and start their own groups.” jono noble Plastic Pam —Sarah Schulman Sister Fancy Pants Terra Poirier Jackson Photografix Paladin ‘Lil Randy Sister Bodice Rippa Ladan Sahraei Ladan SAhraei

From the roots of the Queer Arts Festival, 2017 this uncurated visual art exhibition honours our founder, Two-Spirit artist Robbie Hong.

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20 Unsettled 21 SA T June SUN 18 I 4PM June 24 I 4:30PM THE GRID Art [a workshop] THE GRID The Grid is a creation process that lemonTree creations has been using to generate material for several of their productions including MSM [men antiago Salon seeking men]. Indrit Kasapi (Artistic Producer) derived Bring your open minds and hearts to this process of creation from Viewpoints by Anne lejandro S lejandro Bogart. The Grid takes its name from the most basic A reflect on the curated exhibition. principle of the process, which is that the participants Michelle Sylliboy are asked to move around the space through an imaginary grid. Other elements are introduced during the workshop that attempt to allow the participants After a long history of silencing, ignoring, and erasing to create from a more instinctual place rather the culture and history of Indigenous people, settlers seem Bursaries available. Please than intellectual. This physical and vocal exploration to be ready to listen and learn. As always, it is the artists contact Kimberly Sayson at opens the door to a way of generating material that lead the way, bringing us work that challenges, [email protected] for for performance makers that is not overly thought more information. or analyzed but rather is raw, guttural and often exposes, informs, and changes the way we see and hard to explain. participate in the world around us. Join us to actively Produced by: engage with the work of queer Indigenous artists reflecting The workshop is ideal for performers their Indigeneity, personal histories and experiences, led who have experience with movement by Lacie Kanerahtahsóhon Burning. (dancers, movers, physical performers 2017 Community Partner: etc). However, all levels are welcome. Community Partner: Daily Xtra the frank theatre company

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22 Unsettled 23 QAF youth events are reserved

June SUN 25 I 2PM for youth ages 15-24.

Art Song Lab: th In partnership with Directions Youth Services, Breaking Barriers Broadway Youth Resource Centre (BYRC). Meals will be provided onsite for each event by Directions Youth Services. Need help getting

Talking Y ou to the venue? Contact BYRC for transit tickets. Two-Spirit

Two-Spirit Programs Conversations Exploring Connection between Two-Spirit and the Arts

Join us for an afternoon conversation of

what is Two-Spirit and who is Two-Spirit June MON 19 I 4:00PM from a pre-contact/traditional context and Youth what is being done today to revitalize these Each year the QAF Visual Art Curator time-honored ways. Also addressed is how sets aside time to present a tour this discussion and work is different from specifically for street-involved Curator the broader western LGBT/Queer framing. queer youth. UnSettled is no This conversation will be followed by an exception, and QAF is proud to interactive panel discussion of distinguished partner with Directions Youth Tour Two-Spirit and Aboriginal artists and performers Services and Broadway Youth who will examine how their identity influences and Resource Centre for this tour. intersects with their art, led by Harlan Pruden. If you are no longer a youth, Chris Randle please respect this space and Community Partner: attend the public Curator Panel with 2017 Adrian Stimson instead. See Page 10

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24 Unsettled 25 I doors at 7PM The Junction I FREE Technical June Thu 29

Youth Knockouts Kinnie Starr I DJ O Show I Tiffany Moses A female-centred music production, tech, songwriting and DJ drop-in lab for queer Indigenous and allied youth. Programs

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Drop-in Times Thu Jun 22 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Open to all genders, all nations, all affiliations. Fri Jun 23 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Come hover, hang or create with us. QAF’s final blowout—revel in community, No experience necessary. Fri Jun 23 5 pm - 7 pm effervescent refreshments, and karaoke Snacks and drinks will be there too! with glitter at The Junction. Sat Jun 24 3 pm - 5 pm Workshop participants will have an optional paid performance opportunity with Starr, Sat Jun 24 7 pm - 9 pm O Show, and Moses on Monday June 26. See page 16. Sun Jun 25 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

In partnership with Broadway Youth Resource Centre (BYRC), Directions Youth Services, Qmunity, Urban Native Youth Association (UNYA)

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26 26 Unsettled 27 A heartfelt thank you to all of our faithful donors! You help QAF incite, inspire and bring diverse In Memoriam: Aiyyana Maracle PATRONS communities together through the visceral power of art. Addon Creative Dora Ng Lau Mehes Rodney Sharman Adrian Stimson Dora Ng Lawrence Paul Ron Regan Sovereign Alexander Globe Douglas Coupland Yuxweleptun Rosedale on Robson Angela Grossmann DOXA Documentary Film Leigh Matthews Suite Hotel Haudenosaunee Arlene Tully Festival Michael Prout SD Holman trans woman, Attila Richard Lukacs Elisabeth W Tajcnar Monica Meneghetti SD Holman barbara findlay Elliott Hearte Nada Vuksic Stephanie Kellington artist, activist. Barry Truax Frédérik Robert Nicola Harwood Suzo Hickey Brian Jones Friends of Chamber P. Myer Leach Sylvia Machat Rest in Power. Bruce Munro Wright Music Paul Larocque The Cultch Celso Mendoza Ileana Pietrobruno Paul Wong Thierry Gudel Connie Sabo Inger Iwaasa Peter Cheng Vancouver Opera Dana Claxton J Andrews Piper Vancouver Queer David Brown James Goodman Provence Marinaside Film Festival David C. Jones Jason Hutchison Rachel Iwaasa Vancouver Recital David Metzer Jennifer Butler Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa Society David Yadlowski John Anderson Raven & Hummingbird

Photo: belle ancell Photo: belle Denis Walz Law Kathy Atkins Tea Don Stuart Kelly Tweten Regina Solomon HUGE THANKS TO ALL We couldn’t do it without you! Not all volunteer names were available McGrane Pearson Foundation OUR VOLUNTEERS! at time of printing, but they include: If you found your QAF experience mean- To make your tax-deductible gift, please Alison Watts-Grant Eric Kristensen Katie Sly Quintin Chung ingful, please support queer artists with use the cards provided, or visit us at Anais West Erika Wang Kazz Leskard Roland Gwan a donation. Pride in Art is a registered queerartsfestival.com/donate Angela Bailey Eroca Zales Kelly Tweten Sam Champagne charity, and every donation of $20 and Arthur Lorenzo Eva Caldieri Ki Benson Sergi Pie more receives a charitable tax receipt. Charitable Registration #83998 8326 RR0001 Bobbi Kozinuk Evens Zhang Laub Catherine Shiraz Ramji Brandon Sayson Fortunity Chisandure Lu Lam Sophie Lampron-de Breanna Wallace Freddie/Maria Tetzlaff Marco Fratarcangeli Souza Camila Yuri Itchikawa Hadar Namir Marielle Rosky Takuto Kojima Candace Chan Janet Shaw Martina Holblingova Terri Ray Cara Seccafien Jean-Philipe Wilmshurst Matthew Trish Wallis Charlotte Twanow Jeffery Gibson Matthew Whitford Vannessa Sprung Christopher Wolff Jessamine Liu Melanie Kim Veldine Catcheway Christopher Chang Joe Wang Michelle Ma Vincent Sayson Cindy Lau Johanna Clark Nicole Terry Wahkee Ting 2017 Daniel Williamson Kaen Seguin Noreen Valezuela Darnell Stager Karen Tulchinsky Noushin Nabavi David Lewis Kari O’Donovan Oluwakemi Enyika Emma Radulski Kathy Atkins Quinn Thibault program guide

28 Unsettled 29 BOARD OF DIRECTORS STAFF Jeffery Austin Gibson, President Nicola Harwood, Vice-President Year-round Thierry Gudel, Treasurer SD Holman, Artistic Director Joseph Bardsley, Secretary Elliott Hearte, General Manager Alida Kinnie Starr Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, Director of Development Karin Lee Kimberly Sayson, Arts Administrative Assistant Ken Yeung Miyra Olney, Bookkeeper Ladan Sahraei Valérie d. Walker Seasonal Robyn K. Weasel Bear, Production Manager ADVISORY BOARD Lacie Kanerahtahsóhon Burning, Visual Art Preparator Bernard Sauvé Odette Hidalgo, Graphic Design Coral Short Richard Forzley, Media Relations David Pay Gavin Liang, Audience Services Manager Glenn Alteen Maggie Holblingova, Volunteer Coordinator Karen Knights Alecska Divisadero, Assistant Development Officer Paul Wong Courtney Sparks, Digital Communications Assistant Rob Gloor Emily Bailey, Artist Liaison Rodney Sharman Abigail Bueno, Intern

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