The general OPEN CALL for the 18th annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival 15-23 November 2024 is now CLOSED .
The 2025 Open Call will start in January 2025.
HOW WE PROGRAMME OUTBURST QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL
The festival is a curated week of brilliant new queer ideas in art and culture. We carefully cook up a mix of work that we’ve seen and can’t wait to share, along with shows, publications, events and happenings that we’ve commissioned or co-developed in collaboration with queer artists and other co-conspirators at home and beyond. We also curate events through an Open Call, so that artists who are not already on our radar also have the opportunity to share their work.
All of the work we showcase in the festival is new work, keeping it fresh and vital for audiences and relevant to the moment we are in. We love creative ideas that take audiences beyond the obvious and the normative. So we centre intersectional work that challenges our thinking, asks interesting questions, brings us to unexpected spaces and places and reimagines the possibilities of queer art to transform.
Tender transgressions and beautiful disruptions can come in surprising forms, big and small, loud and quiet, and we’re here for it all.
We always make sure there’s room for as many hidden treasures and exciting new creative voices as possible in Outburst. We accept submissions on a rolling basis until the end of May each year. We especially love work from artists and writers in Northern Ireland / The North Of Ireland / This Place but we programme work from all over the world.
