Queer FM Episode August 3, 2021
QueerFM Featured Guests : Anoushka Ratnarajah VQFF Artistic Director /Connor Roff recording artists from the UK & Vancouver
8:00am - 10:00am
ANOUSHKA RATNARAJAH – ARTISTIC DIRECTOR VANCOUVER QUEER FILM FESRTIVAL
Anoushka Ratnarajah is a queer, mixed race femme of Sri Lankan and British ancestry, and an inter disciplinary and transnational artist and arts organizer. She has worked as a producer, performer, writer, facilitator and arts organizer with cultural and arts organizations in Vancouver, Montreal and New York. Anoushka is the Artistic Director at Out On Screen, which produces the Vancouver Queer Film Festival.
This year VQFF is presenting virtually, Thursday, August 12 to Sunday, August 22, 2021. Early Bird Passes are on sale now at www.queerfilmfestival.ca. Tickets range in price from $5 to $21 (+ membership fee). Festival Youth Memberships are $2 and Adult Memberships are $5.
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by Craig Takeuchi on March 6th, 2021 at 10:00 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
A Vancouver organization that helps LGBT people seeking asylum or refugee protection in Canada is undergoing a phase of growth.
On March 4, Rainbow Refugee announced that Aleks Selim Dughman Manzur (who uses the pronouns they/them) has been appointed the organization’s first programming director, who will lead the community nonprofit’s sponsorship, settlement, support, outreach, and advocacy programs.
In addition, Manzur is part of a new two-person leadership team that oversees the organization’s development.
Manzur, who identifies as transmasculine, was born in Palestine and grew up in Chile before immigrating to Canada in 2008, and is a lawyer who specializes in human rights, women’s rights, reproductive and sexual health law, LGBT+ rights, and refugee rights.