THE FESTIVAL

Inhabiting and traversing queer, trans and non-binary subjectivities, Queerteenth: Black is Queer is Freedom Performance Art Festival artists engage with time travel, radio transmission, radical loving, ancestral futures and durational performance.

Works by digital artist and afro-fractalist, Char, experimental sound and durational performance artist, Mina Barden, dance and spoken word duo Nia and Ness, OluShola Cole as their time-traveling avatar, Pirate Jenny and afrofuturist filmmaker and storyteller, storäe michele. Ritual performance artist, Jaguar Mary X will open the festival with a mugwort initiation on Friday, June 18th. That evening, a portal will be opened for communing with benevolent ancestral energies. The portal will be closed the morning of Juneteenth by dream teacher and Ministry of Maat founder, IONE. 

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Thank you to our supporters, 0+ Festival, Radio Kingston, Three Phase Center and the Newburgh LBGTQ+ Center for their assistance with this year’s festival.