Pride Month may be coming to an end today, but for the next few weeks LGBTQIA+ art will be celebrated across the North East with the return of Curious Festival.
Established in 2016, the award winning festival is an annual celebration of lesbian, gay transgender, queer, intersex, asexual +, with a line up of events running from July 1 - 24. There will be theatre, cabaret and creative workshops, alongside music film and performance in person for the first time since 2019, though it was celebrated online during the pandemic.
Curious Festival aims to be a true celebration of the region's LGBTQIA+ culture, with this year's events highlighting work by trans and non-binary artists, artists of colour and work by young emerging artists, "in a time when visibility has never been more important." Events will take place at venues throughout Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Northumberland including BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Sage Gateshead, Queen's Hall Arts Centre and ARC Stockton.
