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Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Come out and play at the 22nd Annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival!

Vancouver’s second largest film festival presents 90 diverse films from over a dozen countries, August 12–22. Dive into provocative documentaries, stunning dramas and spicy romances. Then join in this summer’s most outrageous parties and find out why #2 is way more fun than #1.

Join us for some fun at a screening of Watercolours on August 20, 6:30 PM at Empire Granville, 855 Granville Street!

Tickets go on sale July 17. For tickets, contests, films and more, visit queerfilmfestival.ca.

An Evening with S. Bear Bergman

Join us for a reading from The Nearest Exit May be Behind You (Arsenal Pulp Press., Fall 2009) followed by a discussion with the author on November 9, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm, in the Lillooet Room (301), Chapman Learning Commons

S. Bear Bergman is known as a writer, a theater artist, an instigator, and a gender-jammer. Ze is the is the author of Butch is a Noun (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2006) and three award-winning solo performances, and a frequent contributor to anthologies on all manner of topics.

For more information about the author please visit http://www.sbearbergman.com

Co–sponsored by Access and Diversity, Critical Studies in Sexuality, The Equity Ambassadors, UBC Pride and The Gender Performances Research and Reflection Group