Queer Cultural Center

The Incandescent Illuminations Artists Showcase is this weekend, and QCC's team is working hard to make it accessible to as many in our community as possible. We have sliding scale tickets, so no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Sunday night (11/10) will have ASL interpretation and the venue is fully ADA-compliant for physical accessibility. We will also be encouraging masks and offering some for any who need them.

This is an important moment for our community to come together and we want the q***r joy and brilliance being shared at our Artists Showcase to be available to as many as possible. Please join us this weekend (Saturday and Sunday) for some q***r and trans creativity that will bring you into the light.
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Now is the time to invite more q***r and trans light into your life - and Incandescent Illuminations, QCC’s Fall Q***r Arts Festival, has got you! Witness the brilliance of 8 emerging LGBTQ+ artists this Saturday and Sunday (11/9 & 11/10) at .house . Our Creating Q***r Communities Lvl 1 Artists Showcase is the culmination of months of work by phenomenal q***r and trans artists, and they’re ready to light you up with music, comedy, performance, installation art, and a whole lot of prismatic delight.⁠
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There is no doubt that we need more LGBTQ+ light and love in this world right now. Tickets are sliding scale so money won’t be a barrier. Come join us for QCC’s Incandescent Illuminations Artists Showcase this weekend! tinyurl.com/CQC1Showcase

Now is the time to invite more q***r and trans light into your life - and Incandescent Illuminations, QCC's Fall Q***r Arts Festival, has got you! Witness the brilliance of 8 emerging LGBTQ+ artists this Saturday and Sunday (11/9 & 11/10) at Monument SF. Our Creating Q***r Communities Lvl 1 Artists Showcase is the culmination of months of work by phenomenal q***r and trans artists, and they're ready to light you up with music, comedy, performance, installation art, and a whole lot of prismatic delight.

There is no doubt that we need more LGBTQ+ light and love in this world right now. Tickets are sliding scale so money won't be a barrier. Come join us for QCC's Incandescent Illuminations Artists Showcase this weekend! tinyurl.com/CQC1Showcase

DEADLINE EXTENDED! The deadline to apply for our 2025 Creating Q***r Communities Level One artist development program. This is a PAID opportunity for emerging q***r and trans artists to grow their skills and create new work!

For over 25 years, Creating Q***r Communities has been an incredibly successful program that gives artists an opportunity to build their knowledge base around their artistic practice by providing small grants, free educational opportunities, and mentorship.

This open call is for the 2025 Level One cohort of Creating Q***r Communities. For this cohort, QCC defines a new or early career artist as someone who has less than 3 credited, published works. The CQC Level One cohort will will be supported in developing work to perform in the Fall of 2025 in a showcase.

Find out more, including how to apply, through the link in bio!
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The Artists Showcase for Incandescent Illuminations, our Fall Q***r Arts Festival, is right around the corner (this weekend, Saturday/Sunday 11/9 & 11/10 at Monument SF) and we’re thrilled to have installation artist Lis Solis as part of the ensemble. There, they will immerse you in a visual arts installation that connects you to their culture, identity, and heritage.⁠
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Born and raised in the Inland Empire, Lis Solis Rico () is a self taught artist that creates art about their family experiences, love, loss, and religion. Their installation and live performance will showcase their loss through the lens of catholicism, and all that they have gained through community. Lis is presenting as part of the Creating Q***r Communities artists cohort, who have been working to create these productions for months. Don’t miss them at this weekend’s Incandescent Illuminations Showcase - tickets at tinyurl.com/CQC1Showcase!⁠
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The Artists Showcase for Incandescent Illuminations, our Fall Q***r Arts Festival, is right around the corner (this weekend, Saturday/Sunday 11/9 & 11/10 at Monument SF) and we're thrilled to have installation artist Lis Solis as part of the ensemble. There, they will immerse you in a visual arts installation that connects you to their culture, identity, and heritage.

Born and raised in the Inland Empire, Lis Solis Rico () is a self taught artist that creates art about their family experiences, love, loss, and religion. Their installation and live performance will showcase their loss through the lens of catholicism, and all that they have gained through community. Lis is presenting as part of the Creating Q***r Communities artists cohort, who have been working to create these productions for months. Don't miss them at this weekend's Incandescent Illuminations Showcase - tickets at tinyurl.com/CQC1Showcase!
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Another part of the prismatic brilliance that is our Fall Q***r Arts Festival Artists Showcase, Cristina Medrano (), aka Volcanera, is a songwriter who explores spiritual reconnection and ritual with decolonial intention. Born and raised in San Francisco with Salvadoran lineage, she embraces the AfroIndigenous rhythms of cumbia in her songwriting for its history within the q***r Latinx community.

Her songs are alloys of psychedelic rock and Spanish church hymns whose lyrics playfully challenge the colonial legacy of the catholic church on her community’s psyche. These songs transmute their grief into sensual danceable rhythms and to create communal spaces of healing through music.

Cristina has performed as a vocalist at the Starline Social Club as well as for the Communities and Culture celebration at Wilder Ranch State Park. They will be debuting a 5 song musical project at the National Q***r Arts Festival this fall as part of the Creating Q***r Communities Artists Showcase November 9 and 10 at Monument SF. Get tickets through the l!nk in our b!0.
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Our artists who weave words are ready to light you up with spoken word, print, and comedy at this year’s Fall Q***r Arts Festival, Incandescent Illuminations. Esperanza is a q***r Xicana slam poet who creates constellations out of cereal pieces and metaphors. Ann is a q***r Taiwanese-American (occasional) comedian who explores existentialism and identity. Catch both at our Creating Q***r Communities Showcase next Friday and Saturday 11/9 and 11/10 at Monument SF!⁠
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In another life, Esperanza (she/they) was a waterbender. In this one, they’re a Xicana poetry facilitator and event organizer with 10 years dedicated to writing poetry and 2 years of experience teaching seniors, adults, and youth how to express themselves through spoken word. She’s currently an organizer with Rich Oak Events which produces the Berkeley and Oakland Slams, Alchemy Open Mic, and other community arts shows. Despite having made losing their gallbladder in 2019 her whole personality, they currently work as a teaching artist with Bay Area Creative serving youth in the east bay and San Francisco.⁠
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Ann ( ) is a q***r taiwanese-american comic and comic artist who draws silly comics about life that explore themes of existentialism, identity, and everyday observation from a more lighthearted lens. From zines poking fun at astrology and chaotic roommate situations to more contemplative sketchbooks centering favorite SF neighborhoods, Ann’s work aims to share largely inconsequential moments, conversations, and meandering thoughts that are some combination of absurd, humorous, and relatable. Their work has been exhibited at SF Zine Fest, Pride in Panels, Silver Sprocket, and more. Outside of art, Ann can usually be found running between the library, some show, and ping pong practice. ⁠
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Our artists who weave words are ready to light you up with spoken word, print, and comedy at this year's Fall Q***r Arts Festival, Incandescent Illuminations. Esperanza is a q***r Xicana slam poet who creates constellations out of cereal pieces and metaphors. Ann is a q***r Taiwanese-American (occasional) comedian who explores existentialism and identity. Catch both at our Creating Q***r Communities Showcase next Friday and Saturday 11/9 and 11/10 at Monument SF!

In another life, Esperanza (she/they) was a waterbender. In this one, they're a Xicana poetry facilitator and event organizer with 10 years dedicated to writing poetry and 2 years of experience teaching seniors, adults, and youth how to express themselves through spoken word. She's currently an organizer with Rich Oak Events which produces the Berkeley and Oakland Slams, Alchemy Open Mic, and other community arts shows. Despite having made losing their gallbladder in 2019 her whole personality, they currently work as a teaching artist with Bay Area Creative serving youth in the east bay and San Francisco.

Ann is a q***r taiwanese-american comic and comic artist who draws silly comics about life that explore themes of existentialism, identity, and everyday observation from a more lighthearted lens. From zines poking fun at astrology and chaotic roommate situations to more contemplative sketchbooks centering favorite SF neighborhoods, Ann's work aims to share largely inconsequential moments, conversations, and meandering thoughts that are some combination of absurd, humorous, and relatable. Their work has been exhibited at SF Zine Fest, Pride in Panels, Silver Sprocket, and more. Outside of art, Ann can usually be found running between the library, some show, and ping pong practice.

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While news about the climate may be dire at times, Satchi is ready to move us through grief and into self-discovery with their music. Satchi (they/them/silly/twenty/something) is a climate anxious q***r who ruminates on what it means to exist and subsist off the climate crisis. They move through their grief and cut to the absurd with their tender, self-aware lyrics and melodies. ⁠
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A 2024 Creating Q***r Communities Artist and Aspen Future Climate Leader, Satchi blurs taxonomies within and across q***rness and climate work. They frequent stages (and farms and living rooms) that center environmental justice, workers rights, and q***rness. ⁠
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Currently, Satchi is unpacking the absurdity of applying to climate jobs during a genocide, and the systems that are designed to leave us precarious, unsafe, disconnected, and divided. ⁠
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Satchi will be performing at the Creating Q***r Community showcase November 9 and 10 at Monument SF alongside their cohort of fellow q***r creatives. You can follow their music and politics at on Instagram and Spotify. ***rartsfestival ***rartisq***rjoy

While news about the climate may be dire at times, Satchi is ready to move us through grief and into self-discovery with their music. Satchi (they/them/silly/twenty/something) is a climate anxious q***r who ruminates on what it means to exist and subsist off the climate crisis. They move through their grief and cut to the absurd with their tender, self-aware lyrics and melodies.

A 2024 Creating Q***r Communities Artist and Aspen Future Climate Leader, Satchi blurs taxonomies within and across q***rness and climate work. They frequent stages (and farms and living rooms) that center environmental justice, workers rights, and q***rness.

Currently, Satchi is unpacking the absurdity of applying to climate jobs during a genocide, and the systems that are designed to leave us precarious, unsafe, disconnected, and divided.

Satchi will be performing at the Creating Q***r Community showcase November 9 and 10 at Monument SF alongside their cohort of fellow q***r creatives. You can follow their music and politics at on Instagram and Spotify. ***rartsfestival ***rartisq***rjoy

Weaving Spirits: Seeding Native Fires is this weekend and the production team is working hard to ensure the productions are accessible to all. The venue is fully ADA-compliant and accessible, masks will be provided and encouraged, and ASL and Spanish interpretation will be available on different nights.

Friday October 25 the show will feature ASL interpretation and Saturday October 26 will feature Spanish interpretation. Both nights are held at Brava Theater in San Francisco, a fully accessible venue. And, masking continues to be supported so that audience members can attend without fear of germs being spread. Plus, did you know that tickets are available sliding scale? We don't want money to be a barrier either.

The lineup includes: Brush Arbor Gurlz, Chuquimamani Candori, United Against Colonization and Lexi Adsit.

Flyer by Vreni Michelini Castillo & Cherish Chang

Solar luminescence is reaching a fervor (just ask NASA!) and it couldn't be more clear (pronounced q***r) than with our upcoming Creating Q***r Communities Showcase, part of "Incandescent Illumination", this year's Fall Q***r Arts Festival. Deon Brown (music and composition) and Demi Alex Ayuna (movement and video artist, dancer) are two of the stunning flares of light beaming through the showcase, and you'd best be prepared to be moved to your feet to catch them this November 9 and 10!

Los Angeles-born Deon Brown (he/him) is a transcendent R&B/Hip Hop artist, renowned for his magnetic presence and multi-dimensional storytelling. With comparisons to Kanye West and Frank Ocean, his debut album "HOME" captivated audiences, blending spiritual depth with audacious creativity. Brown's music and visuals redefine boundaries, offering profound narratives on black identity and culture.

Demi Alex Ayuna (he/they) is an agender, trans, disabled, 2nd generation Taiwanese dancer based in unceded Ohlone Land (so called Oakland, California). Their work meanders through grief, spirituality in nature, transness, and disability. They are currently working on pieces that integrate covid grief and rage while building collective survival.

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Have you ever heard the sounds of the first aurora? Or the call of the morning star? You will when you witness Chuquimamani-Condori at Weaving Spirits, a festival of Two-Spirit performance taking place October 25 and 26 at Brava Theater in SF.⁠
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Chuquimamani-Condori makes music by combining the traditional drum and ceremonial music from their Pakajaqueño family, with caporales, kullawada, and huayño. They describe their music as “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”. ⁠
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This year’s Weaving Spirits, Seeding Native Fires, is one of the anchor events of the Fall Q***r Arts Festival and is being co-produced by QCC.⁠
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Flyer designed by Cherish Chang and Vreni Michelini Castillo.⁠
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Have you ever heard the sounds of the first aurora? Or the call of the morning star? You will when you witness Chuquimamani-Condori at Weaving Spirits, a festival of Two-Spirit performance taking place October 25 and 26 at Brava Theater in SF.

Chuquimamani-Condori makes music by combining the traditional drum and ceremonial music from their Pakajaqueño family, with caporales, kullawada, and huayño. They describe their music as "the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.

This year's Weaving Spirits, Seeding Native Fires, is one of the anchor events of the Fall Q***r Arts Festival and is being co-produced by QCC.

Flyer designed by Cherish Chang and Vreni Michelini Castillo.
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A brilliant multimedia artist with deep roots in her Mexican-American heritage, we’re thrilled to have the amazing Angela Zamora lighting up the Creating Q***r Communities Level One Showcase with her magical, multimedia creations!⁠
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From stop-motion magic to sculptures crafted from second-hand metal, wire, and wood, Angela’s work is a stunning blend of self-healing, childhood nostalgia, religious iconography, and familial love. Using second-hand metal, wire, and wood, she’s creating worlds that glow with love for her culture and family.⁠
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Catch her on November 9th & 10th at Monument in SF as part of this year’s Fall Q***r Arts Festival. Catch the link you know where. ***rartsfestival ***rjoy ***rCommunities

A brilliant multimedia artist with deep roots in her Mexican-American heritage, we’re thrilled to have the amazing Angela Zamora lighting up the Creating Q***r Communities Level One Showcase with her magical, multimedia creations!

From stop-motion magic to sculptures crafted from second-hand metal, wire, and wood, Angela's work is a stunning blend of self-healing, childhood nostalgia, religious iconography, and familial love. Using second-hand metal, wire, and wood, she’s creating worlds that glow with love for her culture and family.

Catch her on November 9th & 10th at Monument in SF as part of this year's Fall Q***r Arts Festival. Catch the link you know where. ***rartsfestival ***rjoy ***rCommunities

Our latest Creating Q***r Communities artists cohort is ready to dazzle you at their Showcase, one of the anchor events for this year's Fall Q***r Arts Festival. Taking place November 9 and 10 at Monument in SF, the CQC Level One Showcase will introduce you to the emerging BIPOC q***r and trans artists whose brilliance is sure to light up your life for many years.

So, go ahead and meet them - the artists who have been part of this year's level one artists development programs and are now ready to shine for you as part of Incandescent Illuminations! Through music, comedy, dance, storytelling, spoken word, and visual installations, they're bringing spectrums beyond the rainbow and visible light itself. Don't miss Angela Zamora, Ann Chen, Demi Alex Ayuna, Deon Brown, Esperanza Cabrales, Lisbeth Solis Rico, Satchi, and Cristina Medrano.
Get tickets now through out website!
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