🌈✨ SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT ✨🌈

We’re absolutely THRILLED to celebrate @kneticclub as the exclusive sponsor of our most provocative night - FAIRY TALES AFTER DARK! 🔥🎬

📅 FRIDAY THE 13TH | 9:30 PM

🎭 “Love, Lust & Liberation” + “Carnage for Christmas”

Get ready for an absolutely WILD night of sensual storytelling and queer horror! KNetic’s sponsorship brings you eight boundary-pushing short films curated by the legendary @mskatesinclaire , PLUS a deliciously twisted holiday slasher that’ll make you rethink going home for Christmas! 💀🎄

From shibari photo shoots and witchy rituals to trans heroines and candy-cane carnage - this is cinema that celebrates sexuality, power, and queer desire in its rawest forms! ✨🔥

KNetic Club is Calgary’s “Nightclub with a Twist” - a sex-positive, ultra-inclusive lifestyle space where exploration and authenticity reign supreme! Their support makes our most daring programming possible! 👑

This adults-only showcase promises ethical smut, dreamy cinematics, camp horror, and unfiltered self-expression. Stick around - it gets JUICY!

Tickets in bio! 18+ only! 🎫

#KNeticClub #FairyTalesAfterDark #LoveLustLiberation #CarnageForChristmas #QueerHorror #AdultsOnly #FairyTales2025 #CalgaryQueerArts #SexPositive #QueerCinema #YYCNightlife

🌈✨COMMUNITY PARTNER SPOTLIGHT✨🌈

We’re absolutely HONOURED to announce @blackprideyyc as a community partner bringing you a night of fierce ballroom culture and Black queer excellence! 🏆💃🏿

📅 SATURDAY, JUNE 14 | 9:30 PM 🎭

🎬”This Is Ballroom” with opening short “Shall We Meet Tonight”

LIVE PERFORMANCE:

Get ready to GAG as Calgary`s IV from the International Iconic Kiki House of PinkLady SERVES you EXCELLENCE! This ballroom icon is about to bring PURE FIRE to the stage! 🔥👑

PRE-FEATURE SHORT:

“Shall We Meet Tonight” - A young woman arranged to marry an aristocratic benefactor discovers her passionate affection for a townswoman, creating a heart-wrenching choice between duty and desire! 💕⚡

Get ready for a powerful night featuring a special pre-show by Black Pride YYC followed by this award-winning documentary that takes you inside Rio de Janeiro’s electrifying ballroom scene where voguing, shade, and pure artistry collide! 🔥✨

Experience stunning performances, intimate stories, and the power of chosen family in this internationally acclaimed film that’s been slaying festivals from Portugal to Norway! This isn’t just dance - it’s resistance, identity, and JOY all rolled into one unmissable experience! 💫

Directors Juru and Vitã have created something MAGICAL that celebrates transformation, community, and the fierce power of self-expression! 🎥

Black Pride YYC champions safe spaces for Black 2SLGBTQ+ folks in Calgary through cultural celebration, education, and advocacy. We’re beyond excited to showcase their incredible curation!

Tickets in bio! This one’s going to be ICONIC!

#BlackPrideYYC #FairyTales2025 #ThisIsBallroom #BlackQueer #Voguing #QueerCinema #2SLGBTQIA #CalgaryQueerArts #BallroomCulture #YYCArts #CommunityPartner

🌈✨ COMMUNITY PARTNER SPOTLIGHT ✨🌈

We’re EXCITED to welcome @coloresyyc as our community partner celebrating Latinx 2SLGBTQI+ stories and culture! 🏳️‍🌈💃

📅 FRIDAY, JUNE 13 | 7:00 PM 🎥 “Streets of Gloria”

Get Ready for a FESTIVE EXPLOSION featuring a special Brazilian dance performance by Colores Del Alma! 💥 Incredible performers from Dance Fusion Calgary and Samba Queen will be bringing the heat with authentic Brazilian styles - from Estilo Urbano to Axé and Samba!

This pre-show celebration will transport you straight to the streets of Rio! 🔥🕺💃

Then settle in for a passionate Brazilian love story that will leave you BREATHLESS! Follow Gabriel, a young literature teacher, as he discovers Rio’s underground queer scene and falls into an explosive romance with Adriano, a magnetic male escort! 🔥💕

This stunning film explores love, obsession, chosen family, and finding your place in the world through the vibrant streets of Rio de Janeiro! Director Felipe Sholl has crafted something truly beautiful and raw! 🎬✨

Founded in 2018 by Cesar Altamirano and Melvi Alvarado, Colores del Alma has been making HISTORY representing Latino 2SLGBTQIA+ voices in Calgary with love, dignity, and respect! From bringing the first Latino float to Calgary Pride to creating safe spaces for our community - they’re absolute ICONS! 👑

We’re so grateful to showcase their incredible curation that celebrates our diverse Latino queer experiences!

Tickets in bio! ¡Vamos!

#ColoresDelAlma #FairyTales2025 #StreetsOfGloria #LatinoQueer #BrazilianDance #Samba #Axe #EstiloUrbano #QueerCinema #2SLGBTQIA #CalgaryQueerArts #BrazilianCinema #YYCArts #CommunityPartner #LatinoLGBTQ

🌈✨ COMMUNITY PARTNER SPOTLIGHT ✨🌈

We’re THRILLED to announce @rangdepride as a community partner for an incredible evening of South Asian queer storytelling! 🎬💕

📅 THURSDAY, JUNE 12 | 9:30 PM

🎬 “Tangled Hearts & Quiet Revolutions” Shorts Package

Get ready for a powerful night featuring a special pre-show by Rang De Pride followed by four stunning films that explore the beautiful complexity of Desi queer experiences! From secret crushes to family tensions, these stories will have you feeling ALL the emotions! 😭💖

Featured films include:

🎥 Aadat (Pakistan)

🎥 Elijah (USA)

🎥 U for Usha (India)

🎥 Shame (Lebanon)

Love rarely arrives quietly, and neither do these incredible stories! This is representation that MATTERS! 🔥

Rang De Pride creates safe spaces for South Asian LGBTQIA+ folks in Calgary through advocacy, cultural celebration, and community building. We’re honored to showcase their curation! 🙏

Tickets in bio! Don’t sleep on this one!

#RangDePride #FairyTales2025 #DesiQueer #SouthAsianPride #QueerCinema #2SLGBTQIA #CalgaryQueerArts #RepresentationMatters #YYCArts #CommunityPartner

We’re excited to spotlight one of the incredible artists featured at this year’s Fairy Tales Queer Art & Film Festival! ✨🎬

Meet @blakemcleodd - Artist in Residence! 🎨

Blake is an interdisciplinary artist and storyteller of Nehiyaw + settler descent, living and creating on Treaty 7 territory in Mohkinstsis/Calgary since 2013.

As Creative Director of @cinicstudio, Blake masterfully weaves together narratives of Indigiqueer identity through writing, illustration, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and music! 🌈📸🎬

Their vision shaped the ENTIRE visual identity of #FairyTales2025 - from our marketing materials to promotional imagery that captures pure queer celebration! ✨🏳️‍🌈

Blake’s multidisciplinary art creates space for authentic narratives that challenge frameworks while celebrating the resilience of marginalized communities. Through their work with CQAS, they’re building bridges between artistic expression and community building! 🌉

We’re SO grateful for this incredible artistic collaboration, ensuring diverse voices find platforms for authentic representation!

Join us for four days of unapologetic storytelling, fierce creativity, and pure queer magic as we celebrate our 27th year of amplifying 2SLGBTQIA+ voices! Experience 21 screenings, connect with 16 incredible artists, dance to 2 amazing DJs, dive into creative workshops, enjoy electrifying drag performances, and discover so much more!

📅 June 12-15, 2025

📍Contemporary Calgary Atrium

701 11 St SW, Calgary, AB

🆓 Free Entry

🔗 FOR FESTIVAL TICKETS VISIT OUR LINKTREE

#FairyTales2025 #YYCArts #QueerArt #2SLGBTQIA #CalgaryQueerArts #QueerFilm #ContemporaryCalgary #CalgaryEvents #QueerStories #YYCQueer #FairyTalesFilmFest #QueerCinema #CalgaryArt #QueerMakers #2SLGBTQIA+

We’re excited to spotlight one of the incredible artists featured at this year’s Fairy Tales Queer Art & Film Festival! ✨🎬

Zia Stolbie (she/her/they) is a mixed race, lesbian creator, mystic & experience artist based between Canada & Jamaica, where she holds dual citizenship. Her creative journey is shaped by deep curiosity and a desire to question the paradigms carved for us and to make space for ever-evolving expansion. Creating to feel and guided by cravings for exploration, discovery and a deeper awareness of self and her surroundings. Zia’s creations reflect a reality filled with depth and duality, freedom and function, love and lightwork, humour and harmony.

Her art explores the ongoing balance between belonging and othering, always rooted in the belief that nature is innately queer if you’re paying attention. Living at the intersections of multiple cultural & embodied identities, Zia is committed to honoring her truth through visual storytelling and creative expansion. She expresses herself through photography, motion, functional art & immersive experiences that invite others to connect with their own authenticity, and to feel empowered to live fully and holistically.

Join us for four days of unapologetic storytelling, fierce creativity, and pure queer magic as we celebrate our 27th year of amplifying 2SLGBTQIA+ voices! Experience 21 screenings, connect with 16 incredible artists, dance to 2 amazing DJs, dive into creative workshops, enjoy electrifying drag performances, and discover so much more!

📅 June 12-15, 2025

📍Contemporary Calgary Atrium

701 11 St SW, Calgary, AB

🆓 Free Entry

🔗 FOR FESTIVAL TICKETS VISIT OUR LINKTREE

#FairyTales2025 #YYCArts #QueerArt #2SLGBTQIA #CalgaryQueerArts #QueerFilm #ContemporaryCalgary #CalgaryEvents #QueerStories #YYCQueer #FairyTalesFilmFest #QueerCinema #CalgaryArt #QueerMakers #2SLGBTQIA+

We’re excited to spotlight one of the incredible artists featured at this year’s Fairy Tales Queer Art & Film Festival! ✨🎬

Wes is a mixed-media artist working with photography, painting, sculpture, and 3D printing to explore shape, form, and the spaces where reality intersects with the fantastical. Drawing on influences of horror, fantasy, realism, and queerness, his work challenges conventional boundaries, offering a space for both wonder and curiosity. Utilizing mixed-media he is able to utilize his talents and offer a unique lens through which he examines both the tangible world and the realms of fantasy. All works are made in his home studio by him.

Join us for four days of unapologetic storytelling, fierce creativity, and pure queer magic as we celebrate our 27th year of amplifying 2SLGBTQIA+ voices! Experience 21 screenings, connect with 16 incredible artists, dance to 2 amazing DJs, dive into creative workshops, enjoy electrifying drag performances, and discover so much more!

📅 June 12-15, 2025

📍Contemporary Calgary Atrium

701 11 St SW, Calgary, AB

🆓 Free Entry

🔗 FOR FESTIVAL TICKETS VISIT OUR LINKTREE

#FairyTales2025 #YYCArts #QueerArt #2SLGBTQIA #CalgaryQueerArts #QueerFilm #ContemporaryCalgary #CalgaryEvents #QueerStories #YYCQueer #FairyTalesFilmFest #QueerCinema #CalgaryArt #QueerMakers #2SLGBTQIA+

We’re excited to spotlight one of the incredible artists featured at this year’s Fairy Tales Queer Art & Film Festival! ✨🎬

Yiyo is a talented Plastic & Scenic Artist, Multidisciplinary Creator, and Nature-Inspired Storyteller. This multidisciplinary Mexican artist’s work celebrates nature, identity, and cultural heritage through vivid visual art, performance, and media. Born and raised in a small town in Mexico where nature surrounds him, it was normal for Yiyo to live with animals and plants every day. For him, animals and plants and all nature itself is the purest form of art made by the universe, and that’s what he tries to convey in his pieces where vibrant color reflects the intensity of what he wants to express.

Deeply inspired by his upbringing surrounded by nature, Yiyo channels its energy and beauty into bold, emotionally resonant creations. With a background in communication and cultural studies, he has performed in over 14 theatrical productions and hosted national TV and radio programs. His art and collaborations reflect a commitment to inclusivity, self-expression, and the transformative power of creativity.

Join us for four days of unapologetic storytelling, fierce creativity, and pure queer magic as we celebrate our 27th year of amplifying 2SLGBTQIA+ voices! Experience 21 screenings, connect with 16 incredible artists, dance to 2 amazing DJs, dive into creative workshops, enjoy electrifying drag performances, and discover so much more!

📅 June 12-15, 2025

📍Contemporary Calgary Atrium

701 11 St SW, Calgary, AB

🆓 Free Entry

🔗 FOR FESTIVAL TICKETS VISIT OUR LINKTREE

#FairyTales2025 #YYCArts #QueerArt #2SLGBTQIA #CalgaryQueerArts #QueerFilm #ContemporaryCalgary #CalgaryEvents #QueerStories #YYCQueer #FairyTalesFilmFest #QueerCinema #CalgaryArt #QueerMakers #2SLGBTQIA+

We’re excited to spotlight one of the incredible artists featured at this year’s Fairy Tales Queer Art & Film Festival! ✨🎬

TR is a queer artist based in Mohkinstsis (Calgary, Alberta) who is obsessed with all things fibre. She learned to knit at a very early age, taught by her mother and grandmother, and cannot remember a time when she didn’t have a set of needles and yarn in her hands. She dabbles in other fibre arts, but knitting is her true love. TR is passionate about social and environmental justice and believes this consciousness extends to making informed decisions about our consumerism and the clothing we put on our bodies.

Born Under Leo offers slow-fashion hand-knit garments made with sustainable, humanely sourced, 100% certified Canadian fibres. Each piece is carefully crafted by hand, with intention, with zero waste.

Join us for four days of unapologetic storytelling, fierce creativity, and pure queer magic as we celebrate our 27th year of amplifying 2SLGBTQIA+ voices! Experience 21 screenings, connect with 16 incredible artists, dance to 2 amazing DJs, dive into creative workshops, enjoy electrifying drag performances, and discover so much more!

📅 June 12-15, 2025

📍Contemporary Calgary Atrium

701 11 St SW, Calgary, AB

🆓 Free Entry

🔗 FOR FESTIVAL TICKETS VISIT OUR LINKTREE

#FairyTales2025 #YYCArts #QueerArt #2SLGBTQIA #CalgaryQueerArts #QueerFilm #ContemporaryCalgary #CalgaryEvents #QueerStories #YYCQueer #FairyTalesFilmFest #QueerCinema #CalgaryArt #QueerMakers #2SLGBTQIA+

We’re excited to spotlight two of the incredible artists featured at this year’s Fairy Tales Queer Art & Film Festival! ✨🎬

Theo and Benji are two queer, trans artists who are trying to raise awareness for environmental protection, trans rights, and queer acceptance. Through their art practices they tie themes of nature into experiences of overcoming hardships. They would like to encourage other queer folks to embrace their connection with nature with their creations.

Join us for four days of unapologetic storytelling, fierce creativity, and pure queer magic as we celebrate our 27th year of amplifying 2SLGBTQIA+ voices! Experience 21 screenings, connect with 16 incredible artists, dance to 2 amazing DJs, dive into creative workshops, enjoy electrifying drag performances, and discover so much more!

📅 June 12-15, 2025

📍Contemporary Calgary Atrium

701 11 St SW, Calgary, AB

🆓 Free Entry

🔗 FOR FESTIVAL TICKETS VISIT OUR LINKTREE

#FairyTales2025 #YYCArts #QueerArt #2SLGBTQIA #CalgaryQueerArts #QueerFilm #ContemporaryCalgary #CalgaryEvents #QueerStories #YYCQueer #FairyTalesFilmFest #QueerCinema #CalgaryArt #QueerMakers #2SLGBTQIA+