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Serving the Toronto Queer Community since 2001
We are the only Queer Arts Centre in Canada
Building a Community
Strengthening the City
During our 10 years. "First they
ignore us , then they laughed at us, then they fought us. Now they're joining
us. The Queer West Arts Centre is a pioneer, in everything we do!" ---
Michel F. Paré, founder.
Queer West Arts Centre's Mission: To
produce performing arts festivals for the purposes of educating and advancing
the public’s understanding and appreciation of performing arts and to educate
artists through participation in such festivals and related workshops. Including
outreach programming for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual,
questioning and two-spirited (queer community).
What's up at Queer West?
August 2010 will mark the 5th annual QUEER
WEST ARTS & CULTURE FESTIVAL– To mark this historic event, Toronto's "West
End" will be (re)claimed, (re)presented and (re)named as "queer"
over the course of 9 days (Saturday August 7 to Sunday August 15, 2010).
This year QUEERING BOUNDARIES
will be the vision to initialize a wide-scale community reinvention. 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. Artistic and cultural productions in a
multidisciplinary range of forms will be 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.
What we do
We produceAlternative
Events Unconferences, Nights of Poetry & Spoken Word, Music Events,
Film Festivals, Art Shows, Arts & Cultural Festivals for the purposes of
educating and advancing the public's understanding and appreciation of performing
arts and related workshops. Organized by Queer West Arts Collective.
We produceshOUT!
. "Unconferences series" For Young adults and Youth (18-27) Last Wednesday
of every month in Parkdale. One and All welcome to attend - Public participant-facilitated
panel discussions on a spectrum of queer/feminist topics, that loosely connect
to the theme of gender and sexuality in the arts and in culture.
We produce the 5th Annual Queer
West Arts Festival This year arrives for eight days in August 7 to 15, 2010
on the Theme: QUEERING BOUNDRIES with arts
shows, dance, music, poetry, spoken word, stage, laughs, film, community fair,
books, and, of course, cabaret! The largest of three dedicated queer arts festivals
in Canada. A Historic event this year: Rebranding and spatializing our Queer
identity.
We host the Gay
West Bicycle Club Now in it's eight year, the only dedicated gay and lesbian
cycling club in eastern Canada 100 members. Now meets weekly June to September.
Why your business logo should be on Queer West as a community partner
Our Web Site Traffic Statistics - Page Views
by Month - January (2009) 47,721, February (2009) 48,886,
March (2009) 79,049, April (2009) 109,138, May 2009) 198,805,
June (2009) 142,345, July (2009) 67,558, August (2009)
58,530, September (2009) 53,734, October (2009) 51,197, November
(2009) 49,169, December (2009) 61,256.
Queer West - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual,
transgender, two-spirit and queer communities and their allies and friends have
always found a welcoming place at QueerWest.org PH:416-879-7954.
Mail: Box 204 Stn C. Toronto ON M6J 3M9 queerwestinfo@gmail.comQueer West family of websites gets an average of 4,382
unique visitors a day
