National Equality March

Equal protection for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states. NOW.

Our hearts are in Washington DC this weekend for the National Equality March.

Visit the Equality Across America website for more information and great resources.

Exclusive Offer available to the Exposure Festival

A Chorus Line
Nov 10 to 15, 2009
Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium

Exclusive Offer available to the Exposure Festival.

Attend the Wednesday November 11th performance at a discounted price + receive an exclusive Exposure Festival post show Q&A with some cast members.

Click here to order your tickets online and enter the password: Exposure

Don't delay! Order your tickets today for best seating!

The 18th Annual Loud & Queer Cabaret

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Consider this your personal invitation to gather up your writing, your ideas, your music, your creative sparks, your stories, your pride, your passion for justice, and your ability to make Art, and let Loud & Queer showcase it to the world!

Co-produced by Guys In Disguise and Workshop West Theatre, L&Q is an inter-arts celebration of all that is emerging and fabulous in the world of Queer culture. This annual showcase has debuted brand-new material every November since 1991, giving Edmonton LGBTQQ audiences a preview of what’s to come in the world of the written, the spoken, the sung/played/danced/filmed Queer word. Join the community of artists that makes L&Q beat at the heart of the cultural scene of Western Canada. And now, as part of the Exposure, Edmonton’s Festival of Queer Arts, the scope and breadth of opportunity to get your work seen is expanding annually!

Submit any format (play, story, poem, song, novel, bellydance routine) – maximum time in the show will be 15 minutes, but feel free to send more!

Work included in the L&Q Cabaret will receive dramaturgical support, and will be performed by our stellar cast of professional actors.

Send all submissions to kevin@guysindisguise.com

We will be contacting all creators personally once the submissions have been received.

Looking forward to seeing what you’re working on…

- Darrin Hagen, Director/Curator, Loud & Queer Cabaret.

Fundraiser this Sunday!

Come down to Woody’s and Buddy’s for an exciting night of pre-festival fun and sneak peeks!

Silent Auction full of great products and services from Exposure Artists and Supporters is from 8-11pm at Woody’s.

Underwear fashion show featuring sexy styles starts at 12:30 down at Buddy’s. Get stamped by attending the Silent Auction and get into the Underwear Fashion show for free!

Get Exposed and support your community’s Exposure: Edmonton’s Queer Arts and Culture Festival. Money from silent auction sales and tips from the underwear fashion show will go towards Exposure.

www.exposurefestival.ca

Love Letters To Feminism

Students from the University of Alberta wanted to know:

What kind of relationship do you have with feminism?

Are you in a long-term relationship?
Is it unrequited love? A love triangle?
Are you in love or in lust?
Do you have a crush on feminism?
Perhaps you are having a lovers’ quarrel?

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The exhibition begins this weekend:

Love Letter To Feminism
Mail art from Lovers Everywhere
Women’s Studies Program Gallery
Assiniboia Hall, University of Alberta

Oct 4- Dec 24, 2009
Monday – Friday 7am -7pm

For more information and to get a sneak peek, visit the official blog

Youth Curators in the news!

Vue Weekly's Queermonton columnist, Tamara Gorzalka, catches up with Jolanda Thomas, one of the festival's youth curators.

One of the coolest things about Edmonton is the way our queer culture has so wholly embraced art. I know that every town has its share of art fags, but ours is a true community, a vibrant and diverse one that seems dedicated to not just creating and sharing art, but to making sure the ways to view and create it are available to everyone. It's hard to believe that the Exposure Festival is only entering its third year, as it seems already such an entrenched and invaluable cornerstone of Edmonton's gay art scene.

More at Vue.

Make sure to check out Printed Matters: Creating & Curating Queer during the festival at both the Art Gallery of Alberta and SNAP.

Join us!

image from toothpastefordinner.com


Have your Queer Voice heard, your Queer Writing read, your Queer Expression entered into the ether.

Be a volunteer blogger for the 3rd Annual Exposure: Edmonton's Queer Arts and Culture Festival happening November 13-21 2009 in and around central Edmonton.

Exposure Bloggers are asked to write and share their thoughts, feelings and impressions of Exposure events in order to provide diverse perspectives and analysis of the festival as well to animate the events for those who cannot attend.

Exposure Bloggers receive free tickets for the events they cover. Writing will be given a brief edit for mechanics and then published within 24 hours on the Exposure Blog.

As it evolves the Exposure Blog is becoming a hub of queer art, culture, events and thought. Please be part of the Exposure community. For more information or to start blogging contact cato@exposurefestival.ca or karen@exposurefestival.ca. Please let us know if you would also be willing to take photos!