With a focus on the Bay Area’s queer arts community, QCC provides professional artistic development cohorts and a platform for artists and culture bearers as we work to advance cultural equity and social justice. Our programs include Creating Queer Communities, Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts, and the National Queer Arts Festival (NQAF), an annual multidisciplinary arts event held throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Since 1998, NQAF has presented more than 800 different events that have featured more than 2,300 LGBTQ+ artists including Bill T. Jones, Heklina, Alice Walker, Robert Rauschenberg, Meredith Monk, Adrienne Rich, Marga Gomez, Justin Chin, Thom Gunn, Cherrie Moraga and Dorothy Allison. NQAF is the largest queer arts festival in North America.

Additionally, QCC supports Bay Area artists through offering fiscal sponsorship. Our current FSP artists are A.B.O. Comix, ArtHandlxrs*, Bay Area Amercan Indians Two-Spirits (BAAITS), Queer Ancestors Project, India Sky Davis, In Lak'ech Dance Academy, Still Here San Francisco, Trans March, and Valerie Troutt Projects. 

Our programs reflect 4 core values: social justice, cultural equity, representation, and cultural connection. The programs and artists we present reflect our community’s racial, sexual, gender, economic, dis/ability, body size, and age diversity, and we have historically always prioritized QTBIPOC artists. As we actively dismantle old systems of oppression and create new visions of being, we believe that community building is key to social change and that we can envision this change through the arts.

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