The Aks Festival is an international queer minorities festival established in Pakistan in 2014 by community activists seeking to improve the representations of queer and trans* people of colour. The festival has been staged in major cities across Pakistan and twice in Copenhagen. Superbia is very proud to bring the festival to the UK for the very first time.

Over two days, Saturday 22–Sunday 23 July, the festival will take place at No 70 Oxford St, Manchester Met (formerly Cornerhouse) and will screen films and host talks, panels and discussions on Queer Minorities, with a special focus on:

* Race and the 'Black Lives Matter' movement
* Western LGBT Politics and the dynamics for queer and trans people of colour
* Feminism
* Indigenous Transgender communities and Trans lives/experience in a post-colonial World.

Aks means ‘mirror’ in Urdu, and the Aks festival aims to hold up a metaphorical mirror to queer minorities with the aim of improving their visibility. The festival aims to give greater voice to the experiences of some of the most vibrant and most marginalised members of the LGBT+ community.

Tickets for the weekend are only £5.00 and the full line-up will be announced in the coming weeks. 

Find out more here