Vancouver: Visions of Queertopia find expression
The Roundhouse Community Centre might seem like a queer place to find Utopia, and it is.
For the next 2½ weeks, the centre is home to the Queer Arts Festival, a heady melange of fine art, music and theatre, affectionately dubbed Queertopia by its organizers.
“We thought we’d try to create a place where queer was the norm,” says producing director Sean Cummings. “But we’re not advocating one particular vision. All art is about questioning. We asked individual artists to present their view of what Queertopia would be, and we’ve had a lot of different takes on it.”
Cummings, who is also the Artistic Director of Vancouver Theatre Company Screaming Weenie Productions, has ensured that Queertopia includes actors, and plenty of them.
“In the past, this was primarily a visual art event,” she says. “But since last year there has been a strong performance component. We are running a workshop series called Clean Sheets, the only one of its kind in Canada. The goal is to provide opportunities for playwrights to develop their writing.”
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