Queer City Cinema and Performatorium Festivals

Name: Queer City Cinema and Performatorium Festivals
Start: 2025-09-10T11:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-09-13T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Dunlop Art Gallery

Schedule

Wed, 10 Sep, 2025 at 11:30 am to Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 at 09:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Dunlop Art Gallery | Regina, SK

https://www.queercitycinema.ca/2025/?home
The theme of this year’s festival comes from thoughts around ‘identity’ and how we humans ‘identify’ through nationalism/citizenship, indigeneity, ethnicity, religion/belief systems, culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. and the positive and negative complexities of asserting and claiming space for individual and collective identities.
For this year’s theme, FIRE is meant to conceptually suggest both a destructive and constructive force - how identity can create disruption, conflict and violence and that perhaps metaphorically destroying it all - ‘burning it ALL down’ - is a necessary step to bring about freedom, resolution, safety and peace…an imaginary, fantastical way to move forward with a new utopian landscape - not unlike the ‘phoenix from the flames’ mythology.
In the context of a Queer event like QCC/Performatorium, IdentiFIRE might also suggest how 2SLGBTQIA+ artists, more than ever, are the sparks that are needed to grow the fires to counter and battle the flames that are increasingly directed towards us - fighting fire with fire - flame throwers against injustice, racism, transphobia, xenophobia, and hate.
IndentiFIRE is a metaphorical framework to consider this year’s films, performances, workshops and artist talks - to stimulate and engender radical new ways of looking at how we identify and perhaps dismantling and reassembling concepts of identity to bring about renewal, revision, transformation, resilience, and hope.