VISUAL Q - Resistance, Defiance, Protest, Action

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Screenings: Thirza Cuthand Retrospective, QTIBPOC, Trans, and Experimental 

As a way to confront racism directed towards First Nations, Métis, Black, Latinx and Asian identified individuals and communities in Saskatchewan, Canada and beyond, Queer City Cinema Film Festival and Performatorium Festival of Queer Performance will program performances and films by queer persons of color.

Being both queer and a person of color engages two sets of social marginalisation and identification and as such, has overlapping, parallel, and intersecting representations. How does this dual identification inform artistic practice? What is the process involved in incorporating visual signifiers in performance as a queer person of color, if at all? How and when does art become and act of resistance, defiance, protest and action?

Screenings at Queer City Cinema Film Festival will provide much needed public exposure and representation by queer persons of color and will assist in a dialogue to further address racism and the impactful role that art and artists play in advancing social insight, activism and change.

For more information on artists, schedules, and ticket information, please visit www.queercitycinema.ca. 

Thirza Cuthand, Just Dandy, 2013, video, 7:38. Image: courtesy of the artist and Vtape.