Parking
As an added bonus to QFest attendees for the duration of the festival, park after 5pm for only $9, offer valid seven days a week. Just a short walk or cab ride to the Ritz Theaters while you have secure parking. There is an ample parking garage located underneath the North End of the Philadelphia Visitor Center at 6th and Market St. You will have no problem finding a spot.
AxD Gallery, 265 South 10th St.
QueerArt?, a group exhibition explores the state of queer sensibility in art today. The self-identified LGBT artists a wide range of approaches from the satiric to the sublime, the wide range of approaches from satiric to the sublime, the whimsical to the erotic. Tickets are $20 at the door only. Portion of the proceeds benefit Philadelphia QFest, and includes open vodka, wine and water bar, complimentary appetizers and door prizes.
Sponsored by: a-x-d.com.
Liberty View Ballroom & Terrace, Independence Visitor Center (N.E Corner of 6th and Market St.)
Come celebrate 16 years of Independent GLBT films with an evening under the starts at the marvelous Independence Visitor Center (6th & Market St.) with breathtaking views from the Liberty View Ballroom and Terrace on Independence Mall and city’s skyline. Festival goers will mix and mingle with the stars, directors, crew and other special festival quests. Dance and celebrate the night away with DJ Stephen Durkin while enjoying the generously stocked bar with products from our sponsors (three complimentary drinks with admission). Discount Voucher Parking will be available to you in the lot underneath the Independence Visitor Center.
Opening Night Admissions:
Combination Ticket: for Film & Party, $50 for Public, $45 PCA Members, 21+, ID required.
Film Only: $15, sold day of show at Ritz East based on availability, cash only, all ages
Party Only: $40 at the door, 21+, ID required
Film and Party are FREE with your festival badge!
Tabu Lounge and Sports Bar
Second Floor, 200 S. 12th St.
FREE EVENT
Bears and their friends unite for a party, with $5 specialty brand drinks, complimentary food all night, and music, second floor, with a percentage of all sales in the Lounge that night benefiting QFest.
Twenty percent off all food to festival ticket and badge holders during QFest. Visit www.tabuphilly.com.
RUBA Club, 414 Green St.
The evening begins at 8:30 with a RUBA Club produced nudist-themed episode of "FRIDAY NIGHT SHORTS" 90 minutes of live skit comedy (very SNL) with Christa D’Agostino as the head writer and host. Following will be the 10:00 screening of 1933 Vintage 16mm film screening of The Nude World presented by The Secret Society. All at the RUBA Club, one of newest hot spots in Northern Liberties. Drink specials and more!
Cost is $10 per person.
For details www.StimulusPhilly.com
Dance the night away with hundreds of beautiful women, amazing drink specials and killer music. Celebrate the screenings My Normal and The Four-Faced Liar with Kathy Wolfe, CEO and founder of Wolfe Releasing and the recipient of our 2010 Barbara Gittings Award.
Cost is $6 per person.
National Mechanics, 22 S. 3rd St.
FREE EVENT!
With host Needles Jones, curator A.D. Amorosi, comedian Danny Ozark and special guests tearing down film classics – along with live burlesque performers, erotic monologists, vaudevillian singers and comics. We’ll take film clips new and old and investigate and detonate their implied gayness with mirth and torture. Bitchy Mystery Science Theater will look at clips from films such as The Odd Couple, Citizen Kane and more for possible romantic endeavors between its members. The performers will hopefully be as outrageous and spectacular and spontaneous as the funny cultural commentators take on the films.
Voyeur, 1221 Saint James St
Come celebrate all things Barbra at Voyeur for a night of karaoke – Streisand is the main event, but if your wigs at the cleaners and that gown in tatters, any classic show tune will work! Like last year’s phenomenally successful karaoke night, the evening will feature celebrity judges, singers of varying talent, booze and a vocally supportive audience.
Cost is $5 per person.
For details www.StimulusPhilly.com
The official after-party celebration for Artistic Achievement Award recipient Cheryl Dunye and her film The Owls. Dance the night away with hundreds of women, beautiful shot girls, amazing drink specials and music that will blow you away
Voyeur, 1221 Saint James St.
Come join us at Voyeur for UltraPorn where you can party with Lucas Entertainment star Michael Lucas as well as porn stars Junior Stellano and Rafael Alencar. With free drinks for badge holders and great music it’s a night you won’t want to miss.
Free Smirnoff drinks for badge holders from 10pm - 12am.
Free till 1am with ticket stub or badge.
Loews Philadelphia Hotel, 33rd Floor, 1200 Market Street
Enjoy the breathtaking panoramic views of the city as festivalgoers, guests and award winner’s return to the top of the Loews Philadelphia Hotel, 33 Floor as we dance the night away to the vintage music from the fabulous DJ Jimmy DePre, share ntoes on the best of the 125 films screened at QFest 2010, meet new as well as veteran VIP badge holders, and enjoy the libations generously supplied at out well stocked bars (three complimentary drinks with admission).
Cost is $35 per person free with badge.
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