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News Release
Sept. 26, 2006
Boise State University Co-Hosts Queer As
Film Festival, Art Exhibitions
The fourth annual “Queer as Film Festival: Queer Cinema Comes to Boise” will be
held at the Boise State University Student Union Special Events Center on Oct.
19-21. The festival will be held in conjunction with the Queer ID conference at
Boise State from Oct. 18-20.
Films will be screened on Oct. 19 at the Flicks, 646 Fulton St., Boise, and on
Oct. 20-21 at the Special Events Center. Parking is free at both venues. For the
full movie schedule, visit
www.queerasfilmboise.org; a four-page program insert will be included in the
Oct. 18 issue of the Boise Weekly.
• The “Queer as Film Festival” features independent shorts, documentaries,
feature-length films and a panel discussion. The festival seeks out independent
cinema to provide the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community
with positive and multi-faceted representations of their lives. This year’s
festival will include juried shorts selections.
• The “Queer ID National Juried Exhibition” and the “We Are Family” installation
and exhibition will be held in conjunction with the film festival and
conference. “We Are Family” will be on display from Oct. 18-Nov. 18 in the Boise
State Student Union Gallery. It explores and expands the traditional
representations of family, incorporating family portraits, interviews, video and
sounds. “We Are Family” is a collaboration of artists, photographers, writers
and regional community participants. For more information or to contribute or
participate, call Boise State art professor Laurie Blakeslee at
pokadot@cableone.net.
• The juried exhibition will be held from Oct. 2-27 in the Visual Arts Center
Gallery 2 in the Hemingway Center. A closing reception will be from 5-7 p.m.
Oct. 20.
Juror John Paul Ricco selected 25 works by 16 artists for the QueerID National
Juried Exhibition. The exhibition will feature works by artists from Boise,
London, Illinois, Massachusetts, California, Arizona and more.
Ricco is a critical theorist, curator and performance artist who is an assistant
professor of contemporary art, media theory and criticism at the University of
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. He also coordinates the program in visual culture
and communication and is the author of “The Logic of the Lure.” In 1994 he was a
contributing author to “Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History,” the first
anthology of its kind. His curatorial practice has primarily concerned issues of
gender, sexuality and AIDS.
For more information, call Blakeslee at (208) 345-9784 or e-mail
queerasfilm@cableone.net.
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Contact: Laurie Blakeslee, Queer ID, (208) 345-9784,
queerasfilm@cableone.net
Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540,
juliehahn@boisestate.edu
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Idaho. For the ninth time in the last 10 years, Boise State University has set
an all‑time state record with a fall enrollment of 18,876 students. Since 1996,
Boise State’s student population has increased 25 percent.
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