Queer Cultural Center

Each June since 1998, QCC has organized an annual month-long National Queer Arts Festival. To date, these Festivals have presented more than 400 different events featuring over 1000 Queer artists including Bill T. Jones, Alice Walker, Robert Rauschenberg, Armisted Maupid, Adrienne Rich, Cathy Opie, Justin Chin, Cherrie Moraga and Dorothy Allison. The 2009 Festival attracted more than 65,000 people.

Please stay tuned for News about our next festival: MAKING HISTORY - 2010

Qcc - Public Programs - 2010

SAFE Exhibitions:
The Queer Cultural Center presents “Safe Exhibitions,” a workshop followed by a public meeting for the visual artists’ community with guest speaker Elizabeth Cornu.

Qcc wants to obtain feedback from the visual arts community with regards to its annual exhibitions and exhibits done in concert with the LGBT Community Center. Help us learn how to better notice and serve the community.

February 20th, 2010
2pm
Femina Potens Gallery
2199 Market Street, San Francisco

Elisabeth Cornu, Objects Conservator at the DeYoung, will present a workshop on How to Stage Exhibitions Safely: Protecting Art from light damage, deterioration due to poor humidity, and other precautions to make art on exhibit safe as well as securing art from theft and damage.

Safe Exhibitions invites all artists and curators who are interested in learning techniques for the proper care and handling of art to come to this workshop and participate in a public meeting that will follow the presentation.

This event is presented by the Queer Cultural Center as part of its ongoing series of public programs and public meetings that support and promote queer art. [ more information ]

The Queer Cultural Center
From A to Z

This short video includes a selection of artists who have performed during the National Queer Arts Festival. The artists include: Dorothy Allison, Bernice Bing, Colombian Soul, Diane Di Prima, emael, Fresh Meat, Marga Gomez, Thom Gunn, Imani Henry, Natalie Ilum, Isaac Julien, Rhodessa Jones, Rocco Kayiatos, Bill T. Jones, Rudy Lemcke, Meredith Monk, Cherrie Moraga, Na Lei Hula I Ka Wekiu, Cathy Opie, Barry Purves, Carol Queen, Robert Rauschenberg, Jonathan D. Katz, Annie Sprinkle, Michelle Tea, Kirya Traber, Ulali, Genesh Vasudeva, Alice Walker, SFinX, Gina DeVries, Marilyn Yu, Circo Zero, Keith Hennessey.

Call for Entries
International - LGBTQI Artists
National Queer Arts Festival 2010
Queer Cultural Center @ SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco
CHRONOTOPIA: The Past, Present and Future of Queer Histories
June 2010
Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2010
All Media including video, installation, net art, performance

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In keeping with the theme of this year’s National Queer Arts Festival, “Making History,” the Queer Cultural Center announces the Call for Entries for its Visual Arts Exhibition Chronotopia, which will take place in June 2010 at SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco.

Chronotopia will present work that engages Queer History as its catalyst. This exhibition explores the past, present, and future temporalities of queer people and records our histories in new and challenging ways.

We are looking for work that captures the multiple dimensions of time and place; that locates the self or selves in relation to communities; and that remembers historical moments that are framed and/or re-framed by our present. We encourage alternative approaches to the historical record that challenge a fixed chronology of events. We seek a multidimensional vision of our queer history that is open to limitless potentialities and vantage points where conflicting desires and narratives coexist, where ghosts converse with the living, where we imagine impossible possibilities, and where we explore meaning and purpose--Chronotopia.

Submissions may include documentary and autobiographical work as well as fictional or fantastic representations of past, present and future queer communities. We encourage artists to submit real or imaginary documentaries, archives, genealogies, memorials, queer(ed) histories, time capsules, collages, remixes, mash-ups, irreverent reenactments, salacious secrets, fabulous fabrications, messy misinterpretations, unspeakable things unspoken as well as utopic, dystopic and chronotopic visions of queer history.

CHRONOTOPIA curatorial committee includes: Cheryl Dunye, Tirza True Latimer, Rudy Lemcke, Matt McKinley, Pamela Peniston, and Tina Takemoto.

Founded in 1993, Qcc is a multiracial community-building organization that fosters the artistic, economic and cultural development of San Francisco's LGBT community. We implement our mission by operating programs that commission and present Queer artists, that promote the development of culturally diverse Queer arts organizations and that document significant Queer arts events taking place in San Francisco.

By presenting, exhibiting, screening and documenting queer artists' work, Qcc contributes to the development of a multicultural perspective on the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender experience.

Qcc's website was launched in 1998 to expand our audience world-wide and to promote the work of significant LGBT artists.

The Queer Cultural Center operates 5 major programs that support, nurture and fund over 1,000 artists each year.

The National Queer Arts Festival

Queer Multicultural Arts Development Project (QMAD)

Creating Queer Community

Healthy Community Arts Program

Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts (QCCA)

Queer Cultural Center On-line Programs

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