Queer Open Stage Downtown | Next Event - QUEERAOKE - Wed, Dec 17th
Schedule
Wed Dec 17 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-08:00Location
the Dock | Victoria, BC
Bring your favourite sing-along (or non-sing-along) and a friend, and we'll bring the snacks, tea, art supplies, fidgets, fairy lights, and karaoke supplies :)
We wanted to provide everyone some time to be social in a lower pressure setting than a quiet audience, so that we can all get to know each other and relax during a stressful, sometime lonely time of year. The usual Queer Open Stage will resume in January.
⌚Show up at 6:30 pm to sign up, or e-mail for early sign-up.
Light snacks and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided! Yum 🙂
(please review accessibility info for theDock below, regardless of your needs)
This event is presented by the Victoria Downtown Residents Association (https://www.victoriadra.ca/), and is hosted by Sara Rose Hébert (they/them).
💛 NOTE: Allies are welcome as audience members but performance spots are reserved for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks.
We also need VOLUNTEERS! Just a bit of set up, door, and tear down. The more hands we have, the lighter the workload for all of us! You can find more details by following the sign-up link below.
Here's a link to sign up:
https://victoriadra.getcommunal.com/volunteer-opportunities/1329
This is a free event, however, we will be collecting donations to purchase items for the Lekwungen Community Toolshed, so bring cash if you are able:
https://www.facebook.com/CommunityToolShed/
Accessibility details:
-🚌 Bus tickets available for those facing financial barriers to attending
-🖍️Sensory corner (with fidgets, and colouring supplies)
-👂Ear plugs available
-🛗Elevator to 3rd floor, even floor throughout 3rd floor, no stairs
-🚽Bathrooms gender friendly (single stalls)
-👃Reduced-scent space
- Event space is carpeted
-⛔No peanuts
- Masks recommended (provided at door if forgotten)
For more accessibility and parking info, email us at [email protected]
About your host:
Sara Rose (they/them) is a local queer, neurodivergent singer-songwriter and vocal coach who is passionate about community and increasing accessibility.🙂 ❤
INFO IS FOR *JANUARY'S* QUEER OPEN STAGE:
Are you an 2SLGBTQIA+ performer? ✨✨
Do you need a safer space to showcase your
talent, find community, and network
with other queer artists?
Bring your performance to our...
~~~🏳️🌈QUEER OPEN STAGE!!! 🏳️🌈~~~
Music, drag, poetry, dance, comedy, or magic, 🎵🎭🪄
if you can do it in 10 minutes or less - we want to see it!
Each month there will be a featured performer:
January's featured performer will be singer-songwriter Elbow Kiss!
~About Elbow Kiss~
Elbow Kiss is an experimental folk project by Em Boreen (they/them), based in lekwungen territory (Victoria BC Canada). Elbow Kiss humbly draws inspiration from classic country and folk, as well as modern folk, indie and pop. Em plucks guitar, harp, and heart strings, gently dredging up deep seeds of queer yearning, nostalgia, heartbreak. Love songs to ghosts. They also appear on vocals in local dream punk band, Ghost Darling.
~Preview Elbow Kiss~
https://elbowkiss.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/elbow.kiss
bio.site/elbowkiss.
⌚Show up at 6:30 pm to sign up, or e-mail for early sign-up.
Light snacks and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided! Yum 🙂
(please review accessibility info for theDock below, regardless of your needs)
This event is presented by the Victoria Downtown Residents Association (https://www.victoriadra.ca/), and is hosted by Sara Rose Hébert (they/them).
💛 NOTE: Allies are welcome as audience members but performance spots are reserved for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks.
We also need VOLUNTEERS! Just a bit of set up, door, and tear down. The more hands we have, the lighter the workload for all of us! You can find more details by following the sign-up link below.
Here's a link to sign up:
https://victoriadra.getcommunal.com/volunteer-opportunities/1310
This is a free event, however, we will be collecting donations to purchase items for the Lekwungen Community Toolshed, so bring cash if you are able:
https://www.facebook.com/CommunityToolShed/
Accessibility details:
-🚌 Bus tickets available for those facing financial barriers to attending
-🖍️Sensory corner (with fidgets, and colouring supplies)
-👂Ear plugs available
-🛗Elevator to 3rd floor, even floor throughout 3rd floor, no stairs
-🚽Bathrooms gender friendly (single stalls)
-👃Reduced-scent space
- Event space is carpeted
-⛔No peanuts
- Masks recommended (provided at door if forgotten)
For more accessibility and parking info, email us at [email protected]
About your host:
Sara Rose (they/them) is a local queer, neurodivergent singer-songwriter and vocal coach who is passionate about community and increasing accessibility.🙂 ❤
Where is it happening?
the Dock, 722 Cormorant St, Victoria, BC V8W 1P8, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:









