Flux & Fracture
Queer Spectra Arts Festival 2025
May 15, 16, and 17
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
Festival 2025: Flux & Fracture
“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.”— Maxine Hong Kingston
“Some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea / what this means is that I don't know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt”— Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
“When we speak of systemic change, we need to be fractal. Fractals— a way to speak of the patterns we see— move from the micro to macro level. The same spirals on sea shells can be found in the shape of galaxies. We must create patterns that cycle upwards. We are microsystems.” — adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy
The Queer Spectra Arts Festival is a confluence, an invitation to come together as artists, creatives, and community members. In our times of division and fear, queer spaces are vital to practice expansiveness, participate in generative contradictions, and celebrate fluctuations. As queer creatives, we embrace ruptures and the erosion of barriers to spark queer possibilities.
A person stands looking at a wall filled with visual art from the 2024 Queer Spectra Arts Festival.
As we reflect on Flux & Fracture, we consider:
Attuning to cycles and the fluctuations within these cycles.
Fractals – never-ending infinitely complex patterns
Shifting relationships to the self, time, place
Initiations into new queer traditions, generational practices, shared ceremonies; Rituals that are maintained across time and rituals that are newly created
K'é: a Diné word meaning system of kinship. Reflecting on connection to community and family. Understanding fractures and moments of breaking away from culture.
Embracing experimental ideas and art practices
Boundaries, tipping points, and thresholds
Continuous flow and erosion
The malleability of queerness
Practices of disruption; rupture and repair for liberation
The confluence of rivers, specifically the Three Creeks Confluence where Red Butte, Immigration, and Parleys spill into the Jordan River at the same location, one block from the Sorenson Unity Center.
We invite you to explore the following questions:
How does queerness allow you to imagine new possibilities?
adrienne maree brown asks “Change is coming—what do we need to imagine as we prepare for it?” How does queer art play a role in this change?
How does your relationship to queerness flux and flow?
What cycles or fluctuations do you feel connected to or want to feel connected to?
What convergences and interconnectivity are you embracing in your life? In your queerness?
When have you experienced a flux or a fracture? What was that experience like? How did you recover? What was the same and what had changed?
What fractures from tradition, from community, from ancestors do you experience?
What needs to break in order for regeneration to happen?
How do you continue rituals? Or create new rituals?
How do you hold contradictions in your life? In your art?
How can queer art be a source of disruption? How can art reveal and/or heal fractures?
Two performers dancing, covered in fabric, in a Black Box theater at the 2024 Queer Spectra Arts Festival.
THANK YOU
Queer Spectra Arts Festival is made possible by generous support from the following sponsors:
