Call for Stories
Tipi Confessions, Toronto Queer Film Festival, and the Indigenous Curatorial Collective / Collectif des commissaires autochtones (ICCA) are curating stories and performances for a pre-recorded edition of our Tipi Confessions production launching February 2022.

Join us as a performer by submitting your story to:

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Become a Tipi Confessions performer. We seek diverse voices, especially if stories like yours often go untold. We are an all-inclusive enterprise: we welcome storytellers and performers of all genders, races, sexualities, and abilities. And for this online production, all locations.

We encourage you to submit sexually-themed stories and performances. Your performance doesn’t need to be “erotic” (although we love well-crafted erotica), but it should pertain positively to sex and sexuality. Consider telling your story from a political, humorous, creative, decolonial, feminist, and/or educational perspective. We want stories that fit our mission of ethics, education, and entertainment around sex, sexuality, and gender. Our shows have featured spoken word readings, personal narrative, memoir, fiction, burlesque, live musicians, stand-up comedy, short theatre performances/stage readings, short films.
 
How to propose a concept. DEADLINE November 20. Please complete the submission form. Describe and explain your proposed performance, but also include some context for us such as motivation and intent.

Please note that proposed concepts should be 10 minutes and under as a final recording. If you have specific questions about our expectations, please ask. Email attachments to tipiconfessions@gmail.com.

The Review Process. DECISION by November 27. Acceptances may be contingent upon an audition/interview (via Zoom/Google Hangouts).

We will provide a performance honorarium.

About us

The Toronto Queer Film Festival is a collectively-run, artist-centered, not-for-profit festival that showcases contemporary, innovative, queer and trans film and video art. We are especially interested in supporting formally experimental films and/or social justice-themed projects that center the experiences of Indigenous people, people of color, people with disabilities, transgender people, sex workers, porn makers, and other communities often marginalized in contemporary LGBT cultural programming and spaces.

Tipi Confessions is produced by three Indigenous women: University of Alberta professor Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate), McMaster University professor Tracy Bear (Nehiyaw'iskwew from Montreal Lake Cree Nation), and University of Alberta PhD student, Kirsten Lindquist (Cree-Métis). We are an offshoot of the popular Austin, Texas show, Bedpost ConfessionsTM, founded in 2010. For more information, visit tipiconfessions.com.

The Indigenous Curatorial Collective / Collectif des commissaires autochtones (ICCA) is an Indigenous run and led non-profit organization that aims to support and connect fellow Indigenous curators, artists, writers, academics, and professionals through various methods of gathering. The ICCA engages in critical discourses, increases professional opportunities for our members, develops programming, and most importantly works to build reciprocal relationships with Indigenous curators, artists, communities and the institutions we engage with.

This project is funded by Heritage Canada.
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