2024 FESTIVAL: GROUNDED

FRIDAY, MAY 17 & SATURDAY, MAY 18

SORENSON UNITY CENTER

1383 S 900 W, Salt Lake City, UT 84104

Transportation: UTA bus line 9 (California Ave / 900 W - Stop ID: 198489900) Plenty of places to chain up bikes and park

SCHEDULE FOR QSAF 2024

*ASL interpretation available
**ASL interpretation and other accommodations available upon request. Please email us to let us know your requirements before Saturday, May 11.

“does the ground have to authenticate itself to the feet? does water have to substantiate itself to the tongue?

i have nothing to prove my dignity is not up for debate”

— ALOK in “your wound is my garden”

The Queer Spectra Organizing Team is thrilled to welcome you to our sixth annual festival, Grounded. It is such a joy to see this space be filled with a community invested in queer art. We are delighted to have 46 artists presenting  and we are grateful for the time and energy they have dedicated to this festival. Art calls us to consider how we desire to connect and relate to our land, to ourselves, and how our sense of belonging depends on the ground we move in.

We as queer people are embedded into the land and into stories. We have been here. We have withstood erosion and disturbances. We have built roots and connections. We are soil. We are breath. We are rooted. 

QSAF acknowledges that we are grounded on the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Goshute, Shoshone, Paiute, and Ute peoples. We recognize that Indigenous peoples, the original stewards of this land, have been living, working, and residing on this land since time immemorial. We acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this land, and we honor and respect the Indigenous peoples still connected to the land on which we gather. 

There are so many people involved in bringing Queer Spectra to you. Thank you to Justin Ellsworth and Sean Martin at the Sorenson Unity Center for your incredible support. Thanks to Umbrella Theater for equipment and technical assistance. Thanks to SLC Covid Ed and Blankets by Brian for providing materials and support. Thanks to all of our generous sponsors. Thank you to our amazing team of volunteers: Emma Sargent, Sophia Keo, Ava Kostia, Anne Arendt, Bryn Watkins, Madi Sudweeks, Moriah Henning, Amelia Diehl, Matthew Heckmann, Jenna Gardner, and Charlotte Stehmeyer. Thank you to our adjudicating committee, keynote speakers, workshop hosts, and our presenting artists.

We’d like to thank you for attending the festival and being part of our queer community. Queer Spectra is grateful to be contributing to the queer dialogue here in Utah and thankful for our audiences of the past five years who have sustained this organization. We invite you to make a donation to support our growth into the future. Thank you for your support and we hope you enjoy the show!

-Rae Luebbert, Rosa Bandeirinha, and Tori Meyer

THANK YOU

Queer Spectra Arts Festival is made possible by generous support from the following sponsors: