Queer Cultural Center

National Queer Arts Festival

QCC stages an annual month-long multidisciplinary National Queer Arts Festival, documents significant Bay Area Queer arts events on our Website, provides fundraising and other technical assistance services to emerging culturally-specific and gender-specific Queer arts groups, and conducts “Creating Queer Community,” a program that to date has commissioned more than 60 San Francisco-based artists to create new work.

This year's Festival took place in May/June 2009.

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 2000 Queer artists including Bill T. Jones, Alice Walker, Robert Rauschenberg, Ester Hernandez, Adrienne Rich, Marga Gomez, Justin Chin, Cherrie Moraga and Dorothy Allison. The 2008 Festival attracted more than 65,000 people.

Krudas Cubensi tearing down the house at NQAF's borderOUT. borderOut is a collaborative of Bay Area based queer immigrant artists. Stay Tuned for more National Queer Arts Festival videos. We will be posting more videos on our YouTube channel.

THREADS (NQAF's Visual Art Exhibition) Opening Reception.
June 7, 2009. SOMArts Gallery, San Francsico
More pictures on the Threads Page

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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.

FOLSOM STREET EVENTS® ANNOUNCES MAJOR AND SUPPORTING BENEFICIARIES FOR 2009 EVENTS SEASON
Net proceeds from upcoming leather and fetish events to benefit local charity work.

San Francisco, CA - February 25, 2009 - The Board of Directors of Folsom Street Events announced the recipients of its Major and Supporting Beneficiary grants today. Net proceeds from four San Francisco fetish events (Bay of Pigs™, Up Your Alley®, Magnitude®, and Folsom Street Fair®) will be donated to local charities working in public health, human services, and the arts. Last year, Folsom Street Events donated over $340,000 to local and national charities in need. The Queer Cultural Center is one of 11 Beneficiaries of the Folsom Street Events organization.