Pajama Party Binge

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Glitter is Forever
July 26 | 4 pm

The WICKED-ness wraps up on closing night July 26th with our Glitter Is Forever: Pajama Party, our final marathon binge of the performances featured throughout the 2020 Queer Arts Festival!
Get your dress jammies on and grab a drink(s) for the binge-worthy broadcast of the entire Queer Arts Festival!  With guest hosts and surprises, Pajama Party attendees have one last chance to feast their senses on all the stellar performances of our featured 2020 artists and Interact with friends on the QAF online HUB!

Glitter is Forever: Pajama Party Party
PROGRAM SCHEDULE

QAF’s Closing Binge-fest | Sunday July 26, 4PM – 1 AM

BINGE-FEST PART 1:
Readings and Conversations
4:00-7:00PM (PST)

Underground Absolute Fiction:
An immersive play-meets-punk-concert, inspired by the Polish “home theatre.” Written by Anais West and co-produced by Queer Arts Festival and The Frank Theatre.
A Night of Storytelling:
Curated by Danny Ramadan, readings by local, national, and international writers.
A Conversation on Queer Mentorship:
Hiromi Goto and Erica Isomura explore the nuances of intergenerational mentorship as queer POC writers.

 BOOTY BREAK:
DJ Set from DJ O Show
7:00-8:00PM (PST)  

Things are just getting warmed up at the Party, so let’s have a stretch, shall we? DJ O Show will get your PJ’s playful with an hour of high energy dance!

BINGE-FEST PART 2:
Burlesque, Drag, and Dance
8:00-11:00PM (PST)

Too Spirited:
Embrace your too-muchness with bombastic burlesque brought to you by the badass babes of Virago Nation.
The Darlings, Uncensored:
Experience the unexpected with genre-bending non-binary avant-drag collective, The Darlings: Continental Breakfast, PM, Rose Butch, and Maiden China.
This Crazy Show:
In his Swan Song, contemporary dance legend Noam Gagnon sashays the fine line between pain and pleasure in a fetishization of something glamorous and beautifully twisted: a monster beautified.

BINGE-FEST Part 3:
Midnight Movies: VIVO Media Art Screenings
11:00 – 1:00AM (PST)

Rupture Probe:
Recent queer shorts rupture normative notions of gender, pleasure, and activism.
Return to Sodom North:
90s Queer Video Out & Uncensored. Time travel with the Vancouver Queer media artists who raged back against the malignment and suppression of queer lived realities and representations of desire. Curated in partnership with VIVO Media Arts Centre.

Off the Rail Brewing is also offering a 10% off discount on same-day beer delivery for the duration of the festival – just use code QAF2020 at checkout! Free Delivery