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5th annual Queer West Arts Festival, 2010
Presented by: Queer West Arts and Culture Centre
Discover The Queer West Arts Festival this summer August 7 to 15, 2010
Queer West Arts Festival this summer: Spatializing our new Queer identity
(By Parul Pandya, Queer West Media Spokesperson and Casey Reid Program Director, Queer West Film Festival.)
August 2010 will mark the 5th annual QUEER WEST ARTS FESTIVAL - this year QUEERING BOUNDARIES will be the vision to initialize a wide-scale community reinvention. Though it is certainly important that gay, lesbian, bi & trans individuals express individualities, uniqueness and differences, this year’s festival will promote a central platform to create inclusiveness and communication between these groupings. Limits typically placed on a queer identity will be explored and re-explored in an effort to move away from "Queer" as a singular, often fixed, and essential identity.
The Queer West Toronto community is committed to ushering in a necessary and more contemporary attitude in reaction to the ever-changing threads of fiber that fashion the notion of “queer” in its entirety. The festival will view the complexity of queer identity beyond set places, spaces and community settings and bring diversity to the forefront of all programming. Art and performance will be utilized as the vehicle to show queer identity as a contested space. Though the theme is QUEERING BOUNDARIES, where and how those boundaries are formed is subjective. The Queer West community emphasizes a sharing of space and the exchanging of ideas as a political act, within and outside of the Queer West Village.
Though queers may converge and diverge on particular spaces to create a community, the heart of the festival is to emphasize however different our identities, we all share our humanity. To mark this historic event, Toronto's "West End" will be (re)claimed, (re)presented and (re)named as "queer" over the course of 8 days (Saturday August 7 to Sunday August 15, 2010). Artists and performers will convey genuine and relative ideas across multi-disciplinary forms to entertain, educate and enlighten.
Starts: Aug 7, 2010 Ends: Aug 15, 2010
At: Parkdale - Various Locations , Starts @ S.E.ast corner of Gladstone and Queen,
Playing: Saturday
Times: various
Cost: free
Getting there:
For more information contact:
Michel F. Paré
Phone:
416-879-7954
Email:
infoSPAMFILTER@queerwest.org
