7th annual
Queer Narratives Festival
For the 7th year, the Queer Narratives Festival (QNF) is landing stories that mainstream stages overlook.
We are spending all of July and August taking up SPACE across the city, and on Saturday, August 8th, we are coming together inside the neon walls of The Ship in the West Bottoms to close out the summer together.
If you are looking for your people (and YOU LOVE ART!): It is never too late to find your chosen community. Come inside, escape the August heat, grab a drink, and breathe out. You are safe here. Welcome to the Queer Narratives Festival.
Coming Up
August 1 Queers Care: Health & Wellness
Education
Annual Programming
No Divide KC’s arts education program brings free, hands-on workshops led by local teaching artists into schools and community centers. Since its launch, Art Spark has served 700+ youth across Kansas City, using visual, literary, and performance art to build confidence, community, and emotional wellbeing.
A multicultural poetry and publication program offering Spanish/English workshops, mentorship, and an annual anthology that uplifts young writers. The program centers poetry as a tool for cultural connection, healing, and engagement.
A paid fellowship and community concert program created by a cohort of emerging artists. Come As You Are promotes vulnerability on the stage and invites families and first-time audience members into joyful, accessible experiences of music, movement, and storytelling.
An eight-week celebration of queer creativity built to hold and highlight LGBTQ+ voices. The festival showcases visual art, live performance, panels, community workshops, and resource events! QNF aims to create affirming, pay-what-you-can spaces that center queer joy, connection, and local artists across the city.
Schools, nonprofits, community orgs, collaborate with us on poetry, storytelling, or arts-based programming in education and entertainment events.