Curious Festival 2020

Aim

Curious Festival celebrates it's fifth year of queering the North East in 2020, support us to reach more young people and community members!

Curious Festival is 5!

Celebrating its 5th year of queering the North East in 2020, Curious Festival has seen over one hundred events, hundreds of artists and thousands of participants and audience members contribute to our ongoing aim that LGBTQIA+ people are represented in the North East's cultural offer.

Curious Festival began in 2016 as we believed that everyone should be able to access high quality LGBTQIA+ arts activity and with your and our partners' support, every year the festival continues to grow and develop very quickly, responding to the interest and need across our region and picking up a few awards on the way!

In 2020, we are back and even bigger with events from Northumberland to Teesside, celebrating and championing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer + culture and continuing our mission to develop LGBTQIA+ arts, audiences, artists and participation opportunities. 

Your support is crucial to Curious Festival's development and resilience - if you're able to support us this year, here's just two of the ways you'd make a huge difference...

Queer Creative Challenge (Young People)

In 2018 we worked with 14-25yr olds based in Newcastle Gateshead to explore what its like to be young and LGBTQ in the North East. The young people worked with Artists to develop creative responses which were showcased at Live Theatre is Curious, creating an incredibly powerful launch to Curious Festival 2018. 

So powerful that in 2019, we did it all over again! With the help of our Crowdfunder supporters we were able to supply workshop materials, engage visiting Artists and cover the support of our Festival Young Peoples Co-ordinators. The image above shows Northern Stage's Young Company on the Live Theatre stage kicking off Curious Festival 2019.

Your support will help us do it all again in 2020 at our Young People's Showcase on the 11th July!

Pay-it-forward

In 2016 we successfully crowdfunded for community groups including LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Group 'Rainbow Home' and 'MESMAC' Young Peoples Group to attend Curious Festival activities. 

In 2019, our Crowdfunder pay-it-forward scheme allowed Rainbow Home's service users to attend Curious Festival performances including Rent Party at Northern Stage and our biggest Curious Vogue Ball yet at Dance City. 

Your support will help us to continue to remove barriers to participation including ticket costs and supporting people to comfortably attend with their groups/with a support worker where appropriate.

THANK YOU (Don't forget about your reward!)

Thank you for supporting Curious Festival 2020.

Don't worry we know you chose to support Curious Festival because you believe in its message/ethos/work/you're a good person but we really want to recognise your support so don't forget to choose your donation reward before you hit send!

If you're not in a position to support financially at the moment we'd really appreciate it if you could share our campaign - we wouldn't be here without the people who shout about our work!

About Curious Arts

As a not for profit organisation we aim to promote visibility, recognition and discussion of LGBTQ issues and culture. Through producing and promoting high quality arts activity, we celebrate, raise awareness, encourage dialogue, promote understanding, answer questions, pose new ones and invite everyone to be comfortably curious about LGBTQ Culture in the North East. 

For more information on what we do visit www.curiousarts.org.uk or follow us on social media...Facebook: @teamcuriousarts, Twitter: @CuriousArts and Instagram: @curious_arts.

This project successfully funded on 6th April 2020