Queertopia

06/19/2019

It's Opening Night and tickets are going fast for all four performances of Queertopia 2019: Sustained EMERGEncy! You can still get yours at the door tonight, or buy online for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights! Over 20 q***r photographers, dancers, technicians, curators, painters, writers, rappers, healers, performance artists, and poets have been working and loving hard and tonight is the night we share it with you. Come. Be with us.

Queertopia is in our fourteenth year of ungovernable q***r art-making during Pride week. This year performances feature Gabriela Santiago, Gabrielle Civil and Moe Lionel, Kl Lisinski, Niara Williams, Sci-Fi, Teighlor McGee, and Venus De Mars. Visual art by Ferox, Ellis Perez, Juliette Myers, and Tor...

06/19/2019

Tickets available at the door!

02/26/2019

Check out our Call for Visual and Performing Artists!!!!

Queertopia is an annual q***r art performance event and exhibition that takes place during Pride. Queertopia is curated by artists who are q***r, Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, Black, Latinx, white, mixed, and multiracial. We are a collectively run q***r and gender-ungovernable art project that values decentering whiteness and toxic masculinity (cuz who has time for all that? not us!).

As we continue to center BIPOC and trans folks in our work, this year we are encouraging to the front q***rs who are trans women, Indigenous, Deaf, disabled, neurodivergent, and elders! We give priority to artists who are new to Queertopia or have not shown work with the project recently. We seek a range of genres, aesthetics, and experiences.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-bhEx-aKbGuaKXTVvmqlM9KU43B9YKJIwg20aWH3jIxxk2Q/viewform?usp=sf_link

Nastalie Wreck Dua Saleh Zeam Porter Asher Æ Edes Erin Sharkey Nathaniel Gonzalez

06/19/2018

Installation Artist Feature: Alexandria Kewitt!

Listen;Digest is an interactive and theatrical offering that gathers us together to stitch our description of consent, illuminate stories of harm, and celebrate needs and desires spoken through the body.

"The body is fierce and resilient. I’ve found incredible moments of healing with my body in community through contact improvisation, butoh, authentic movement, and yoga. Art making and movement are valuable tools in my dialog with trauma. My practice in sculpture, installation, 2D works and dance respond to my interest in how the creative process and movement can foster healing, intimacy, catharsis and play."

Alex's work will be on view in OU(te)R LIMITS on Wednesday 6/20 after the mainstage performance, Saturday 6/23 4pm-6pm and after the mainstage performance!

06/18/2018

Installation Artist Feature: Sami Pfeffer!

Sami Pfeffer is a white q***r performance artist. They write plays, make films, and build installations. They create uncomfortable spaces-- consensually-- to ask for and offer the vulnerability of communal healing.

Sami's work will be on view in OU(te)R LIMITS on Wednesday 6/20 after the mainstage performance, Saturday 6/23 4pm-6pm and after the mainstage performance!

06/17/2018

Installation Artist Feature: Erin Sharkey!

Erin Sharkey is a writer, producer, educator and graphic designer based in Minneapolis. She is the co-founder, with Junauda Petrus, of an experimental arts production company called Free Black Dirt. Erin was a 2016/17 Loft Mentor Series winner in creative nonfiction, 2017 and 2016 VONA/Voices Writing fellow, 2015 Givens fellow, as well as a Coffee House Press in the Stacks artist-in-residence at the Archie Givens Sr. Archive at the University of MN. In 2018 Erin will be studying soil and the stars as an artist in residence at the Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of MN. She also is producer for Sweetness of Wild, an episodic web film project and teaches at the Loft Literary Center and is an educator with the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop.

Erin's work will be on view in OU(te)R LIMITS on Wednesday 6/20 after the mainstage performance, Saturday 6/23 4pm-6pm and after the mainstage performance!

06/17/2018

Performing Artist Feature: Katapult is a collaboration between performance-makers Elle Toni, Kat Luna, and Kat Purcell.

Katapult is a q***r device that we use to launch ourselves into bold creative risk taking. Anxious and brave, Katapult is loaded with serious play, physical struggle, misfit text, audiovisual feats, and only our very best mistakes. You can’t find us online; please come talk to us after the show! We’re thrilled to be Queertopia-ing with you.

Time is running out! Get your tickets to Queertopia today at http://q***rtopia2018.bpt.me