Feminist Horror Festival

Join us for The Feminist Horror Festival, a series of events running from September 26 to Halloween that consists of a set of film screenings, art activities, a speaker series, book club, activist roundtable, music, dance, and theatre.

Special guests include filmmakers Ariel Baska and Karen Lam, podcast host Chelsey Weber-Smith of American Hysteria, and Johanna Isaacson, author of Stepford Daughters.

Event venues vary and include: Kelowna’s Okanagan Regional Library, Kelowna Art Gallery, the Rotary Centre for the Arts, UBC Okanagan and Okanagan College campuses, and The Towne Community Theatre in Vernon.

Thank you to our partners: Okanagan Regional Library, Kelowna Women’s Shelter, Queerphoria, Bernie’s Supper club, the Gather, HorrorFest, Greater Vancouver Horror Writers’ Association, Final Girl Festival Berlin, and a handful of others.

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September 24-30

Sept 26, 7 pm: Carrie, 1976, UBCO Student Union Theatre, UNC 106

Sept 28: 6 pm Public Talk: Welcome to the Feminist Horror Funhouse, Downtown ORL Library

 

October 1-7

Oct 3: 7 pm Teeth, 2007, UBCO Student Union Theatre, UNC 106

Oct 4: 6 pm Book Club: White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi, Downtown Library

Oct 5: 6 pm Public Talk: Corpse in the Machine, Downtown Library

Oct 7: 2 pm American Hysteria, Downtown Library

Oct 7: 7 pm Freak Scene vol 2 Live Music, 702 Bernard, Kelowna

 

October 8-14

Oct 10: 6 pm Draw By Night, Kelowna Art Gallery

Oct 10: 7 pm Ginger Snaps, 2000, UBCO Student Union Theatre, UNC 106

Oct 11: 4 pm Frankenstuffies, Downtown Library

Oct 11: 6 pm Our First Priority film screening and conversation with Director Ariel Baska, Okanagan College Theatre

Oct 12: 6 pm Public Talk: Watch out it Bites with historian of science Margaret Carlyle, Downtown Library

Oct 13: 3 pm Horror Writing Workshop and Roundtable, Downtown Library

 

October 15-21

Oct 17: 7 pm Black Swan, 2010, UBCO Student Union Theatre, UNC 106

Oct 19: 6 pm Public Talk: Mommy Dearest with gender scholar Heather Latimer, Downtown Library

Oct 20: 6 pm Film screening Curse of Willow Song and interview with director Karen Lam, Okanagan College Theatre

Oct 21: 6 pm Queerphoria Into the Haunted Dream House Drag show and party, Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

 

October 22-28

Oct 22: 2 pm Haunted Theatre tours Short Film Festival, The Towne Community Theatre, Vernon

Oct 24: 7 pm The Craft, 1996, UBCO Student Union Theatre, UNC 106

Oct 25: 6 pm Horrors of Care Work Activist Roundtable, Okanagan College Theatre

Oct 26: 6 pm Johanna Isaacson author of best-selling book on contemporary horror films Stepford Daughters, costumes welcome, Downtown Library

Oct 26: 7 pm Red Dot Players present The Haunting of Hill House, Okanagan College Theatre

Oct 27: 7 pm Red Dot Players present The Haunting of Hill House, Okanagan College Theatre

Oct 28: 7 pm Red Dot Players present The Haunting of Hill House, Okanagan College Theatre

 

October 29-November 4

Oct 29: 12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm, and 3 pm Make your Own Monster Workshop, Kelowna Art Gallery

Oct 29: 7 pm Red Dot Players present The Haunting of Hill House, Okanagan College Theatre

Oct. 30: 6 pm Witches 101 with Francisco Peña, UBCO Student Union Theatre, UNC 106

Oct 31: Halloween!