Arts - Culture - Films - Music - Theatre - Community
Events
Serving Toronto Ontario since 2001
We are the only Queer Arts Centre in Canada
Building a Community
Strengthening the City
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon
us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups,
alone in races, even alone in genders.
- Maya Angelou .
In the early 1980's many young Gen-Y Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans community
members began leaving the traditional gay village at Church and Wellesley to
live, work and play in other city neighbourhoods. By the late 90's the greatest
concentration of them were living in Parkdale and Dupont South. Where you will
find over 50 art galleries, artist enclaves, hot indie music scenes, celebrity-chic
shopping, all-night dance parties , now known locally as the Queer
West Village. Gay West Community Network (Queer West) was founded in 2001
to meet the needs of this growing community. We were Incorporated as a not-for-profit
charity in 2008. We are small, but growing.
Why visitors came to our 2010 arts festival
"Your strong support for Queers everywhere...
Fun... Different... Alternative....Laid back.... Friendly and some said .(I
or we're excited) about house hunting (or renting) in the Queer West Village,
we love what your doing. "
What we do
We produce Programs for Queer Youth & Young Adults,
Nights of Poetry & Spoken Word, Music Events, Film Festivals, Art Shows,
Arts & Cultural Festivals for the purposes of educating and advancing the
public's understanding and appreciation of performing arts and related workshops.
Organized by Queer West Arts Collective.
We produceshOUT!
. "(Un)Conferences & Workshops Series" For Young adults and Youth. Last Wednesday
of every month in Parkdale. One and All welcome to attend - A Public participant-facilitated
panel discussions on a spectrum of queer/feminist topics, that loosely connect
to the theme of gender and sexuality in the arts and in culture.
We produce the Queer
West Arts Festival Arrives in August 2011, for it's sixth year, with arts
shows, dance, music, poetry, spoken word, stage, laughs, film, community fair,
books, and, of course, cabaret! The largest of three dedicated queer arts festivals
in Canada. A social enterprise of Queer West Arts Centre.. There are now 15
International
Queer Arts Festivals taking place worldwide. Toronto Queer West Arts Festival,
is proud to be one of them.
We produceQueer
West Film Festival Arrives in August 2011, for it's fourth year. Films that
create a dialogue about racialized/trans/queer identity.
We produce OUTeXpression Newspaper City
News and What's
On: Today in Queer Toronto for the past ten years. Pages covering: Art,
Festivals, Films and Theatre. A social enterprise of Queer West Arts Centre..
We host the Gay
West Bicycle Club Now in it's eight year, the only dedicated gay and lesbian
cycling club in eastern Canada 100 members. Now meets weekly June to September.
Are you getting our free? Twice
Monthly eNewsletter Nothing else quite like it in Queer Toronto. Published
by OUTeXpressions Newspaper
Queer West, the little arts centre that's growing-
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, two-spirit and queer
communities and their allies and friends have always found a welcoming place
at QueerWest.org Write, Call or Text us. If we can't help you. We will find
someone, who can. 416-879-7964 queerwestinfo@gmail.com
