Upcoming events
We share lots of events here we think our queer community might enjoy. The BQC produces our own events including the Erotic Ball, Hearts Desire Dance, and Queersgiving. We also attend a variety of events around town by showing up as a group to enjoy them together. We also just promote events to bring awareness to our community about things happening Downtown, especially in our arts venues.
Join our private FB group to learn more about events and engage with others. We also use Instragram and our public Facebook page to share some events. When you see “BQC” at the beginning of an event, then a BQC community member will be attending.
We update this calendar often so check frequently. If you would like to ask questions, meet up with a BQC host at an event, or suggest an event be added to our calendar that is aligned with our community email us at: info@bellinghamqueercollective.org
Community Boating Center: Pride Paddle
We take pride in our work and pride in our play here at the CBC! And we certainly don’t wait for pride month to celebrate rainbows!
🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈
Our weekly Pride Paddle Out is back! Every Friday join us from 5:30 - 7:30pm and spend time with your LGBTQIA2s+ community on the water!
You can explore new or existing paddle skills. Paddling boarding, kayaking and rowing are all options. No experience needed!
Ages 18+ and all abilities welcome.
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
Chris Pureka, Lo Pony at the Shakedown
Chris Pureka, Lo Pony, with guests
$18 advance, $20 day of show
Doors at 8:30, music at 9:00
Folk, acoustic
Damn Queer Comedy Hour
Saturday, May 11 at 7.30pm, get your butts on down to Rumors for a brand new comedy show! Bring cash for tips if you can, enjoy a drink, and be ready laugh your ass off. Please spread the word!
House of Wild Presents: SHE/THEY/YOU
Bellingham! 🌟 Welcome to She\They\You, the ultimate music and arts mini festival coming your way, and we're gearing up for a night you won't forget!
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
The Cher Show
Superstars come and go. Cher is forever. For six straight decades, only one unstoppable force has flat-out dominated popular culture, breaking down barriers, pushing boundaries, and letting nothing and no one stand in her way. The Tony Award-winning musical of her story, The Cher Show, is packed with so much Cher that it takes three women to play her: the kid starting out, the glam pop star, and the icon.
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
BQC - a Year of Queer Books May Book: Free People’s Village
Join us at our new Q Center for a a discussion about the book, Free People’s Village by Sim Kern. Bethany Sparkle will facilitate this month is book talk. Please RSVP here
https://forms.gle/KSbC5SEUsyYwfxQFA
Community Boating Center: Pride Paddle
We take pride in our work and pride in our play here at the CBC! And we certainly don’t wait for pride month to celebrate rainbows!
🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈
Our weekly Pride Paddle Out is back! Every Friday join us from 5:30 - 7:30pm and spend time with your LGBTQIA2s+ community on the water!
You can explore new or existing paddle skills. Paddling boarding, kayaking and rowing are all options. No experience needed!
Ages 18+ and all abilities welcome.
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
Dungeons and Drag Queens: a May of Mayhem!
Hear ye, hear ye! The hit drag comedy show rocking the West Coast is coming back to Bellingham's New Prospect Theater! Witness the high-fantasy, high-heeled, high-rolling, high-larity as three drag queens play the legendary tabletop game of Dungeons and Dragons LIVE.
Wild Whatcom Out and About Walk: Honorable Harvest
Out and About is an affinity program developed by, and for, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community. You’re invited to join us for an inclusive outdoor experience with other queer folks to foster community, play outdoors, and nourish our connection with each other and the natural world around us.
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
BQC Late Bloomers Club
Do you identify as coming out late in life? Coming out recently? Please join us for friendship and support.
FLINTA* Night
Our Lesbian Visibility Week event in April was a big success with over 50 queer women showing up between 4-8 pm at the Admiralty Lounge!So, we are holding another event Tuesday, May 21, 4-8 pm at the same place!
We are calling this event a FLINTA Night! That’s a German acronym that includes all the folx we were including in this event.
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
Community Boating Center: Pride Paddle
We take pride in our work and pride in our play here at the CBC! And we certainly don’t wait for pride month to celebrate rainbows!
🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈
Our weekly Pride Paddle Out is back! Every Friday join us from 5:30 - 7:30pm and spend time with your LGBTQIA2s+ community on the water!
You can explore new or existing paddle skills. Paddling boarding, kayaking and rowing are all options. No experience needed!
Ages 18+ and all abilities welcome.
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
Generations of Pride Potluck
Join WWU, PFLAG Whatcom and BQC next Wednesday Feb. 28 (last Wednesday of the month) for our intergenerational potluck and storytelling event.
We facilitate intentional discussion to allow queer identified people to share, learn and support in a safe and friendly environment.
Elders are asked to bring the food while youngers are treated to home cooking! Anyone can bring food and we stick to vegetarian and vegan main dishes, appetizers and desserts. Some gluten free options too.
RSVP here
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
Senior Prom
BSAC & Silverado present the 2nd annual Senior Prom! Join us for a fun afternoon of dancing & live music! Tickets are $10 per person and are available in advance at Bellingham Senior Activity Center.
Community Boating Center: Pride Paddle
We take pride in our work and pride in our play here at the CBC! And we certainly don’t wait for pride month to celebrate rainbows!
🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈
Our weekly Pride Paddle Out is back! Every Friday join us from 5:30 - 7:30pm and spend time with your LGBTQIA2s+ community on the water!
You can explore new or existing paddle skills. Paddling boarding, kayaking and rowing are all options. No experience needed!
Ages 18+ and all abilities welcome.
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
Snohomish Pride 2024
Join us for the second annual Snohomish Pride celebration. Come be part of a vibrant parade, bustling Pop-Up Market, inclusive family festival, live music, and dazzling Queer Cabaret.
Our music line-up includes: Sam Cori, Jul!et, Mystery Date, Tin Sprocket and Batbox!
Find more information here!
Whatcom Youth Pride Parade
The Whatcom Youth Pride Coalition proudly presents the 2024 Youth PRIDE Parade and Festival on June 1, 2024 - an opportunity for LGBTQIA+ youth and youth allies to walk together through a short parade route while the community stands along the sidelines and cheers them on! The parade culminates in a festival at Bellingham High School where there will be tables for community organizations to share their resources, music and performances, and food trucks for lunch!
PFLAG Whatcom/ Bellingham Community Support Meeting
PFLAG Bellingham Whatcom County hosts a community support meeting on the first Tuesday of every month. We currently meet in person, from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. If you would like to join our meeting, sign up for our monthly newsletter to get the invite link.
Free First Fridays at the Whatcom Museum
For more details and full lineup descriptions, visit our website whatcommuseum.org/free-first-friday/#mayExhibitions and galleries are open until 9 p.m. on the first Friday of every month, and the Family Interactive Gallery (FIG) is open until 7 p.m.
Headphones and other sensory tools are available at the front desks for guests who require accommodation during their visit.
Community Boating Center: Pride Paddle
We take pride in our work and pride in our play here at the CBC! And we certainly don’t wait for pride month to celebrate rainbows!
🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈
Our weekly Pride Paddle Out is back! Every Friday join us from 5:30 - 7:30pm and spend time with your LGBTQIA2s+ community on the water!
You can explore new or existing paddle skills. Paddling boarding, kayaking and rowing are all options. No experience needed!
Ages 18+ and all abilities welcome.
Pride Anthems
Join MBT as we celebrate Pride Month with a musical journey through the years with Pride Anthems! The story of the fight for LGBTQ+ equality is linked to music, which evokes the struggles, heartache, and liberation of queer lives then and now. From Donna Summer and Queen to George Michael, Erasure, Madonna, Lady Gaga, and many more, these essential songs take us from disco to the present day.
Bellingham Bike Swap
It's that time of year again to shop around for you and your family's new spring and summer wheels or make room in your gear garage with some spring cleaning!
Donate, sell, purchase, volunteer, and enjoy your way through this all-day event taking place at Boundary Bay Brewery on Sunday, June 9th!
Community Boating Center: Pride Paddle
We take pride in our work and pride in our play here at the CBC! And we certainly don’t wait for pride month to celebrate rainbows!
🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈
Our weekly Pride Paddle Out is back! Every Friday join us from 5:30 - 7:30pm and spend time with your LGBTQIA2s+ community on the water!
You can explore new or existing paddle skills. Paddling boarding, kayaking and rowing are all options. No experience needed!
Ages 18+ and all abilities welcome.
Rigid Heddle Weaving
Looking for a great way to use yarn besides knitting and crochet? Sign up for this rigid heddle weaving class! In this one day introductory class, Heather Seevers will show you how to warp the loom, weave, and discuss finishing methods. Don't have a rigid heddle loom of your own? Northwest Yarns has rigid heddle looms available to rent.
If you would like to bring your own loom, please bring it into the shop prior to class so that we can confirm that it functions correctly. For the sake of time, we will be using worsted weight yarn, a dent of 8-10 EPI and attempting to finish our weave before class is over. Let's party!
Materials: 2 balls of worsted weight yarn.
Class dates and time: June 15th, 11:00 am -1:00 pm
Cost: $50
Maximum weavers: 3
BQC Day at Neko Cat Cafe!
Come join us at the Neko Cat Cafe here in Bellingham! On June 18th, all of the proceeds from that day will be donated to the Bellingham Queer Collective.
Stop by and grab a coffee or make a reservation to spend time with their cats! NEKO is a sanctuary for rescue cats and humans to relax and enjoy each others company.
If you want to book a session to spend time with their cats, you can use this link:
https://nekocatcafe.com/reservations-bellingham
Pride at the Pickford: What ever Happened to Baby Jane
Come watch what ever happened to baby Jane at the Pickford!
Community Boating Center: Pride Paddle
We take pride in our work and pride in our play here at the CBC! And we certainly don’t wait for pride month to celebrate rainbows!
🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈
Our weekly Pride Paddle Out is back! Every Friday join us from 5:30 - 7:30pm and spend time with your LGBTQIA2s+ community on the water!
You can explore new or existing paddle skills. Paddling boarding, kayaking and rowing are all options. No experience needed!
Ages 18+ and all abilities welcome.
Wild Whatcom Out and About Walk: Pride at Low Tide
Out and About is an affinity program developed by, and for, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community. You’re invited to join us for an inclusive outdoor experience with other queer folks to foster community, play outdoors, and nourish our connection with each other and the natural world around us.
Best of SECS Fest 2023 Short Films
NET PROCEEDS DONATED TO BELLINGHAM QUEER COLLECTIVE
The Best of SECS Fest features the best short films from the 2023 edition of SECS Fest. Founded by the Seattle Erotica Cinema Society in 2016, SECS Fest features a diverse range of sexually explicit representations (focusing on work by queer and feminist filmmakers), finding beauty in erotic difference and inspiring adult conversations about sex. (Contains sexually explicit material. Adults (18+) only.)
Generations of Pride Potluck
Join WWU, PFLAG Whatcom and BQC next Wednesday Feb. 28 (last Wednesday of the month) for our intergenerational potluck and storytelling event.
We facilitate intentional discussion to allow queer identified people to share, learn and support in a safe and friendly environment.
Elders are asked to bring the food while youngers are treated to home cooking! Anyone can bring food and we stick to vegetarian and vegan main dishes, appetizers and desserts. Some gluten free options too.
RSVP here
Community Boating Center: Pride Paddle
We take pride in our work and pride in our play here at the CBC! And we certainly don’t wait for pride month to celebrate rainbows!
🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈
Our weekly Pride Paddle Out is back! Every Friday join us from 5:30 - 7:30pm and spend time with your LGBTQIA2s+ community on the water!
You can explore new or existing paddle skills. Paddling boarding, kayaking and rowing are all options. No experience needed!
Ages 18+ and all abilities welcome.
Pride in Bellingham Parade
Parade starts at Waypoint Park, up Chestnut St left on Cornwall Ave, right on Champion St, Right on Railroad Ave through the middle of Downtown Bellingham ending at the Festival in Depot Market Square.
Pride in Bellingham Festival
Parade starts at Waypoint Park, up Chestnut St left on Cornwall Ave, right on Champion St, Right on Railroad Ave through the middle of Downtown Bellingham ending at the Festival in Depot Market Square.
Generations of Pride Potluck
Join WWU, PFLAG Whatcom and BQC next Wednesday Feb. 28 (last Wednesday of the month) for our intergenerational potluck and storytelling event.
We facilitate intentional discussion to allow queer identified people to share, learn and support in a safe and friendly environment.
Elders are asked to bring the food while youngers are treated to home cooking! Anyone can bring food and we stick to vegetarian and vegan main dishes, appetizers and desserts. Some gluten free options too.
RSVP here
Generations of Pride Potluck
Join WWU, PFLAG Whatcom and BQC next Wednesday Feb. 28 (last Wednesday of the month) for our intergenerational potluck and storytelling event.
We facilitate intentional discussion to allow queer identified people to share, learn and support in a safe and friendly environment.
Elders are asked to bring the food while youngers are treated to home cooking! Anyone can bring food and we stick to vegetarian and vegan main dishes, appetizers and desserts. Some gluten free options too.
RSVP here
Generations of Pride Potluck
Join WWU, PFLAG Whatcom and BQC next Wednesday Feb. 28 (last Wednesday of the month) for our intergenerational potluck and storytelling event.
We facilitate intentional discussion to allow queer identified people to share, learn and support in a safe and friendly environment.
Elders are asked to bring the food while youngers are treated to home cooking! Anyone can bring food and we stick to vegetarian and vegan main dishes, appetizers and desserts. Some gluten free options too.
RSVP here
Shoshana D. Kerewsky, Cancer, Kintsugi, Camino: a Memoir and 50 days in May
Join us in celebrating local author Shoshana D. Kewersky as she shares her two books!
Community Mixer/ Meat & Greet
Kick off the weekend's "hotel takeover" with a Friday evening with a mixer in the Hotel Leo’s Amendment 21 Lounge — a Prohibition-era cocktail lounge serving craft cocktails, local brews, fine wines, and a shareable bites menu. All community members 21 and over are welcome to attend the no-host mixer; no registration or purchase needed.
For additional details on this and other weekend festivities go to https://www.bellinghamqueercollective.org/bellingham... or contact us at events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
Bellingham Erotic Ball
The Bellingham Queer Collective is hosting it's 2nd annual Erotic Ball!
This year’s theme is “Leather and Lace" and will be hosted at the historic Hotel Leo in Downtown Bellingham on Saturday, October 19, 2024. This year’s event will be a “hotel takeover”! This allows us to use all the public spaces of the hotel for Erotic Ball events and entertainment.
For tickets and additional information, check out our website: https://www.bellinghamqueercollective.org/bellingham...
Have any questions or concerns? Please contact events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
Drag Variety Brunch
The Bellingham Queer Collective is hosting it's 2nd annual Erotic Ball!
This year’s theme is “Leather and Lace" and will be hosted at the historic Hotel Leo in Downtown Bellingham on Saturday, October 19, 2024. This year’s event will be a “hotel takeover”! This allows us to use all the public spaces of the hotel for Erotic Ball events and entertainment.
For tickets and additional information, check out our website: https://www.bellinghamqueercollective.org/bellingham...
Have any questions or concerns? Please contact events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
Here & Queer: Out of the Archives | A Queering Research Event
This year's Queering Research series theme is "Here and Queer" and this event will bring local LGBTQ+ history to life by engaging artifacts and documents in Western Libraries Archives & Special Collections. Brief introductions of the materials will be followed by the opportunity to view and touch a range of sources relating to LGBTQ+ life and politics on campus, in our local community, and across the country. Space is limited so you can reserve a spot in advance (link to RSVP). This event is a partnership between Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, LGBTQ+ Western, the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, University Archives, and Special Collections.
PFLAG Whatcom/ Bellingham Community Support Meeting
PFLAG Bellingham Whatcom County hosts a community support meeting on the first Tuesday of every month. We currently meet in person, from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. If you would like to join our meeting, sign up for our monthly newsletter to get the invite link.
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
BQC Fiber Arts Extravaganza!
All through May!
Sign up here
Drop by and learn basic weaving and crocheting or use your skills to help create Pride merch for our June Fundraising Campaign!
Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings 6:09-8:00 pm and Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm.
No need to register. If you have questions please email:
events@bellinghamqueercollective.org
Margaret Cho Live and Livid
The BQC reserved a block of tickets for this show! If you want to sit with our group call the MBT ticket office and ask for a seat with the BQC and enjoy a bit of a group discount!
We will create a dinner event as well if you want to join us at the Admiralty next door!
Fiesta de Lagers at El Suenito Brewing
It’s light beer 🍻 season which means it’s the season to celebrate & drink lagers! With Cinco de Mayo quickly approaching, we decided to pay homage to Mexico’s favorite beer style by hosting our first Fiesta de Lagers (Lager Festival) happening on the weekend of Cinco de Mayo all day from Friday to Sunday, May 3-5.
Free First Fridays at the Whatcom Museum
For more details and full lineup descriptions of the May 3 Free First Friday events, visit our website whatcommuseum.org/free-first-friday/#mayExhibitions and galleries are open until 9 p.m. on the first Friday of every month, and the Family Interactive Gallery (FIG) is open until 7 p.m.
Headphones and other sensory tools are available at the front desks for guests who require accommodation during their visit.
Spring Fling Formal
CRYSTAL QUEER Events presents 'Spring Fling', Your Springtime LGBTQIA+ (Semi) Formal Social Gathering. Dancing, Cocktails, Mocktails, & more on this Wednesday evening. Entry Fee is a Suggested Donation of your choice amount to Sean Humphrey House. Come Gather with us in a Twinkling Faery Garden and Welcome in the Season.
BQC ENM Mixer
Annnnnd here's our 5th one.We are so excited about this and have been loving the turn out and all the lovely humans showing up. Everyone and anyone welcome. Come meet other hoomans with other relationship structures outside of monogamy. We will be in the sitting room and will have name tags!
Let us know if you're thinking about coming so we have an idea of a head count.
A Year queer books: April Discussion-On Community
A Year of Queer Books: April Discussion: On Community by Casey Plett
2024 Cascadia Official Directors Party
Tickets: $35: (Included with Festival’s All Access Pass.)
Individual party tickets are available through CASCADIA. Advance purchase suggested but not required.
Open to the public. Attendance at film is not required.
Kerf Apartments Grand Opening Event
You're invited to the Kerf Grand Opening Party on 4/27 from 1pm - 5pm!
Throw some axes 🪓 or take a swing in our virtual golf Swing Suite🏌️. Grab a bite at our food truck roundup🍽️, join our scavenger hunt 🔎, adopt a pup 🐶, & take a tour of our brand new property✨!
+ Win $700 worth of prizes! Each attendee gets 1 free raffle ticket, and you can earn extra tickets for every $10 donated to @bellinghamqueercollective.
WWU Queer Con Community Event
WWU QueerCon is an annual student-organized LGBTQIA2S+ art, comics, society, and media fan convention and conference held at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA on the last Saturday of April. This will be our 8th year running!
Our all-ages convention hall hours and vending will be from 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Selected 18+ only after-hours events from 5 – 8 pm include drag show, planetarium show, and queer horror documentary screening and discussion.
https://wp.wwu.edu/wwuqueercon/
Dancifer and Written in Sand
Written in Sand and Dancifer are bringing the sparkle and sway north to Ferndale this April. Join us and rock out with your neighbors to the north!
An Evening with Catherine Hardwicke
CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival presents “An Evening with Director Catherine Hardwicke" as its 2024 Honored Guest program. Learn how Hardwicke prepares before she ever says "Action" during a 90-minute presentation with clips from her films to illustrate her filmmaking process.
A ticketed meet and greet dessert reception, with cash bar, for Hardwicke will take place immediately after the presentation in Mount Baker Theatre's Encore Room
2024 Cascadia Opening Night After Party
Join CASCADIA for a red carpet reception for Featured Filmmaker Jules Arita Koostachin / Canada. CASCADIA Directors, Panelists, CASCADIA Board and Audience Members will celebrate and kick-off the festival at this ticketed event to continue conversation with Director Jules Koostachin with fabulous late night bites and a glass of bubbly.
Cascadia International Women’s Film Festival
Passes are now on sale for this premier PMW women’s film festival! Cascadia International Film Festival is an exciting opportunity to engage with women directors and other film lovers from around the world!
Buy your pass here
Generations of Pride Potluck
Join WWU, PFLAG Whatcom and BQC next Wednesday Feb. 28 (last Wednesday of the month) for our intergenerational potluck and storytelling event.
We facilitate intentional discussion to allow queer identified people to share, learn and support in a safe and friendly environment.
Elders are asked to bring the food while youngers are treated to home cooking! Anyone can bring food and we stick to vegetarian and vegan main dishes, appetizers and desserts. Some gluten free options too.
RSVP here
Lesbian Visibility Week Celebration!
21+
The theme for this year is:
“United, not Uniform”
All queer women are invited to join in this mix and mingle event at The Admiralty Lounge!
Please RSVP here so the Lounge can have enough staff for us!
Please invite your queer, sapphic, lesbian, bi, pan, dyke, butch, trans, non- binary friends! Women loving women. What identities are we forgetting?
This is a no host event so you can choose to buy drinks and food, or not.
Let’s fill up the Lounge! Kat is expecting us!
Come early to take advantage of happy hour prices!
BQC Queer Writes
Come write with us, come write, come write away! Join us at our next meeting of BQC: Queer Writes on Monday, April 22, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Northwest Yarns and Mercantile in downtown Bellingham. No matter what you're working on or where you are in the process, we offer space and community to support creativity. We open with introductions, optional sharing about our projects, general writing tips, etc. (If you need a queer related writing prompt, just ask me for one!) We then spend the majority of the time writing quietly, then wrap up with more optional sharing about our work and/or writing suggestions, etc. BTW: for those of you who find evenings during the week difficult (like I do), I'm hoping to move this to a weekend morning or afternoon time once we can relocate to the new BQC community center. So more to come on that for future gatherings! If you have any access needs for this event, please let me know and I'd be happy to address them. See you on April 22!
WWU 32nd Annual Drag Show
Let’s support our WWU friends up on the hill! Buy tickets here
April’s Live Story Share!
Join us for a special SATURDAY Story Share at The New Prospect Theatre! Hard to ignore a theme that feels so right: It’s High Time! We’ve got a great lineup of storytellers for you and a special recreation of anonymously written stories serenaded to you as slam/song/performance art. Snack bags available for purchase as well!
Doors at 6:30pm and the show starts at 7:00pm!
Skagit Drag Show Spring Edition
Hello Skagit Drag friends! We had an epic time with y’all at Skagit Drag “Live Singing Edition” and we are ready to bring the LOVE back again!
We are excited to be at the historic Lincoln Theatre again to bring you another Spring Edition of the Skagit Drag Show!!
We invite you to celebrate creative expression and love of community as we showcase a multitude of talent from across the PNW!
Author Event: Subhaga Crystal Bacon
Grounded in protest and solidarity, Subhaga Crystal Bacon's Isabella Gardner Award-winning Transitory is a collection of elegies memorializing 46 transgender and gender-nonconforming people murdered in the US and Puerto Rico in 2020.
Epistolary in nature, these commemorative poems are "gleaned sketches" attempting to reconstruct lives and deaths from the typically scarce information made available on the internet. Interspersed with the elegies are personal explorations of gender identities and sexualities from a Queer elder who has lived through the post-Stonewall years of sexual liberation, the second wave of feminism, and the recent rapid increases in awareness about gender and sexualities met almost equally with anti-trans and anti-Queer violence.
SECS Fest California Creamin’
The program will open with a selection of short "beaver" films, set to a psychedelic soundtrack.
The feature is a rarely-seen Golden Age film from 1978--and even more rare as an early example of a hardcore film written and directed by an adult film actress. In this low-budget sex thriller, Sugar is hired to track down a man, played by the hunky Mike Ranger (INSATIABLE, TABOO). But when she finds him, she must decide if her loyalties fall with the criminals that hired her or with a man for whom she has found affection. [Content notice: This feature contains a fictional rape scene.]
BQC Movie Night
Tonight is a no host night.
If you go to see a film be sure to ask for the BQC Ticket discount!
BQC Rainbow Elders Discussion Group
The BQC is partnering with several organizations to open a BQC community center space in our Downtown Arts District!
We want your ideas and suggestions for operating our new gathering space!
A Very Queer Ballet (Not a Love Story)
In person support meeting facilitated by the Northwest Washington Gender Alliance. All identities welcome 😁Let's support our youth dancers of Bellingham!
This performance will be held on April 12th and 13th at 7pm at the New Prospect Theatre.
For more information, check here: https://newprospecttheatre.org/.../a-very-queer-ballet.../
Wild Whatcom Out and About Walk: Beaver Prowl
Out and About is an affinity program developed by, and for, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community. You’re invited to join us for an inclusive outdoor experience with other queer folks to foster community, play outdoors, and nourish our connection with each other and the natural world around us.