THIS YEAR WE'RE GOING TO DO IT WITHOUT UNDERWEAR
The 2009 Exposure Festival
After a second successful presentation, Exposure: Edmonton's Queer Arts and Culture Festival returns November 13 to 21, 2009, for nine provocative days of programming pertaining to the theme The Queer Body.
This year Exposure will follow two veins: Sexing Queer Bodies and Sizing Up Queer Bodies concentrating on the representation of our queer bodies: all sizes, shapes, colours, and configurations; how we have been liberated and empowered. Exposure 2009 seeks to explore queer views for and of the body in personal, sexual, and spiritual terms.
Chair of the Exposure Festival Board of Directors, Jennifer Alabiso, comments; "We are extremely excited about the 2009 Exposure Festival's bold programming which will afford a unique opportunity for Edmonton’s diverse queer communities to see themselves exposed in a variety of events that are seldom depicted or even discussed in mainstream culture."
Through the literary arts, the visual arts, the performing arts, film and video, the festival will expose Edmonton audiences to new art and speak to the notion of what it is like to live life in a queer body.
Exposure is one of only three such Festivals in all of Canada that showcase queer artists, cultural producers, and activists for queer and queer-friendly audiences. Exposure is creating awareness internationally about the contributions of queers to the art world and cultural life in Edmonton and around the world.
The 2008 Exposure Festival presented: an unheardof visit to a bathhouse; 10 visual art exhibits; a queer youth art show; a reading and lecture by poet Eli Clare; a Transgendered Day of Remembrance; two academic lectures featuring legendary artist A. A. Bronson and peace activist James Loney; screening of eight queer films; three-all ages events, a PFLAG sleigh ride; three local live bands; staged readings of two Edmonton writers; two nights of Loud & Queer Cabaret; and NOIR, a masqueerade ball -- all in nine days, 18 venues, to more than 3,000 people. This year's programming promises to be equally ambitious and exciting.
Exposure Festival gratefully acknowledges funding from: Edmonton Arts Council; Provost, University of Alberta; TD Bank Financial Group; and the Stollery Foundation.
Expose Yourself!
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