Queer Arts Festival
Friday, 06 June 2025 until Saturday, 28 June 2025
The Queer Arts Festival (QAF) taps into the visceral power of the arts to build a better world. We bring our diverse communities together in the intimate act of sharing as artists and audiences, as we dispel hatred through the visibility, recognition and celebration of lives that transgress sexual and gender norms.
Portals
June 6 – 28, 2025 | Queer Arts Festival
Centre A | and locations throughout the city
Portals are gateways to transformation—liminal spaces of transition, possibility, and change. For the 2025 Queer Arts Festival, Portals explores queer and trans experiences of crossing thresholds, stepping into new identities, and imagining futures beyond imposed boundaries. Presented in partnership with Centre A, this year’s curated visual exhibition also examines diasporic journeys, highlighting the intersections of queerness, migration, and belonging. In a time of rising anti-trans and anti-queer rhetoric, Portals is a call to reimagine the world, celebrating art’s power to forge new paths, challenge oppression, and open doors to liberation. Step through—what’s on the other side?