Queer Family Festival 2023 at Boston Center For The Arts in Boston MA
Events. At Boston Center For The Arts , 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA. United states.
Sunday June 11 2023, 11:00am
Queer Family Festival 2023 at Boston Center For The Arts in Boston MA
Sunday, June 11, 2023 - 11:00AM to 9:00PM EST
Queer Family Festival is an open access festival that accommodates anyone with the dedication to starting dialogues on queerness, being, growing, and becoming yourself. Centering families, community, and theater education, this festival will showcase family centered and queer friendly vendor expo, performers, interactive play stations, facilitated conversations, drag story hours, performances, and more.
The goal of this event is to prioritize queer families caring for queer/allied youth. Unfortunately, because we’re focused on queer families & youth, entry will be denied to those without children and/or youth accompanying them.
Queer Family Festival’s Core Objectives:
Assist the families who come to Queer Family Series to navigate what’s offered.
Celebrate queer friendly family theater and what it stands for in Boston.
Provide content and vendors that celebrate, create, and offer tools for engagement surrounding radical empathy and universal love.
Educational Workshops: Meditations, Creation, and Devising
Queer Family Portraits
Drag Story Hours
Educational Theater Performances
There will be programming available for anyone ages 3-18!
Text (617) 485-0558 to sign up for QFF alerts!
About Queer Family Series
Queer Family Series (QFS) offers produced and presented work centered on exploring all facets of queerness from as early as our first memories to our last. This program focuses on social education & awareness through transmedia productions and intergenerational community engagement– connecting queer children, families and elders with accessible art that captures the rigidness of heteronormativity and imagines a world where people can present as they wish. We wish to uplift the core value and belief that theater is an essential fabric and texture in how we communicate to each other, as well as how we communicate our creativity and desires.
QFS sprouted from a community need from Boston based queer elders that spoke to the lack of accessible, queer family programming during the ongoing pandemic. Our elders voiced their inability to leave their homes amid social and cultural organizing and protesting, but wanted to be involved and kept abreast. In addition to elders requests, during the pandemic we heard from queer caretakers and parents. They spoke about the shift to working from home -- being charged with not only their career workload, but teaching and instructing their children through online classes. Caretakers were looking for a respite in the storm, and reliable online programming to engage their young folks. QFS is TTO’s response to these needs!
Donate to The Theater Offensive & Boston Center for the Arts
Donate today to support us in creating life-affirming spaces for queer communities and in uplifting the cultural community in Boston.
Everyone who donates to TTO and BCA through the Queer Family Festival will be automatically entered to win:
Two (2) tickets to the Boston Art Book Fair Preview Party at Boston Center for the Arts in November 2023,
Two (2) tickets to As You Like It by Actor's Shakespeare Project and The Theater Offensive in June 2023,
Fun merch from BCA and TTO.