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9-594: The festival is produced by the Pride In Art Society (PiA). The mission of the Pride in Art Society, a not for profit organization, is to promote the production and exhibition of queer art. The Pride in Art Society creates opportunities for dialogue between queer artists from different disciplines, encourages visibility and appreciation of queer art and artists through the presentation of events, including

18-557: A collective of LGBT visual artists mounting a community art exhibition. In its early years, PiA focused primarily on the visual arts, occasionally presenting performing arts as well within the exhibition space. In 2006, the festival expanded into other disciplines and art forms presented as part of the Queer Arts Festival. The current Artistic Director is Mark Takeshi McGregor who succeeded co-founder SD Holman in 2021. The Pride in Art Society fosters inclusion, equality and

27-495: A number of local and international guest performers. Screaming Weenie Frank Theatre Company , formerly known as Screaming Weenie , is a professional theatre company in Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada committed to the production, promotion and development of queer and sex positive arts and artists. The company defines 'queer' as individuals and groups outside of sexual and gender norms. Frank Theatre Company

36-545: A strong political voice for the local queer community, including the historical contributions of queer artists. We combat homophobia by building greater public awareness and acceptance of individuals and groups outside sexual and gender norms. The theme for the visual art in the 2010 Queer Arts Festival was "Queertopia: The Best Place On Earth?". Artists were asked to imagine the ultimate queer community. Performing artists include pianist Sara Davis Buechner ; JODAIKO taiko drummers; comedians James Howell and Morgan Brayton; and

45-518: A wide audience - I'm interested in reaching those who are disenfranchised by art". Original creations by Screaming Weenie in this period included The Bacchae - an electronic opera , The Sound of Disco and The Wizard of Glam . The company also produced the plays Belly by Dawn Wendy McLeod, Clue in the Fast Lane by Ann Marie MacDonald and Beverley Cooper, The Well of Horniness by Holly Hughes and Lounge by Tanya Marquardt. Seán Cummings

54-440: Is a non-profit society and a federally registered charity. Incorporated in 2003 with co-founder and original artistic director Ilena Lee Cramer at the helm, the company established itself by staging new plays and creative collaborations at Vancouver night clubs. While Screaming Weenie was a self-described 'queer company', a descriptive quote from Cramer from the on-line magazine Word Play in 2004 reads, "The Weenies do theatre for

63-476: The 2013 Lambda Literary Award . Cummings left the company in 2012, and was succeeded by Gatchalian. In 2016 Gatchalian, as Artistic Producer of the company, co-founded and co-produced Q2Q: A Symposium of Queer Theatre & Performance in Canada, one of the first ever national conferences focused on queer theatre and performance in Canada, in partnership with Simon Fraser University . In late 2017, Gatchalian left

72-581: The Queer Arts Festival. The QAF started as a small community art exhibit and has grown to include components from theatre, cabaret, erotica, dance, music, spoken word, and comedy. The Queer Arts Festival programs events in partnership with other Vancouver LGBT groups including Screaming Weenie Productions, the Vancouver Pride Festival and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival . Pride In Art (PiA) began in 1998 as

81-527: Was hired as the company's artistic director in 2008. Cummings had previously worked with other theatre companies in Vancouver on seminal queer-themed works as Martin Sherman's Bent , Brad Fraser 's Poor Super Man and Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out . Under Cummings' leadership, the company produced the highly acclaimed world premiere of C. E. Gatchalian 's Falling In Time , which was nominated for

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