In June 2019, more than 1,000 Chinese LGBTQ individuals and their parents went on a five-day roundtrip cruise from Shenzhen to Da Nang, Vietnam. Organized by the grassroots organization PFLAG China, the "Rainbow Cruise" event became a landmark of queer activism in China. What does this cruise tell us about the resilience of queer activism? How does it navigate the tensions between global LGBTQ+ travel culture, collective coming out, and the experience of being "queer" in China?

You are invited to join the screening of Rainbow Cruise of Love (2020), the documentary on the Rainbow Cruise event directed by Jiang Nengjie. Jiang, currently a resident filmmaker at Blaues Haus Stiftung in Hannover, Germany, is one of China’s foremost independent directors. His works focus on issues faced by migrant workers (Miners, the Horsekeeper and Pneumoconiosis, 2019), left-behind children (Yun Jie, 2018), adults with intellectual disabilities in China (All There Will Be, 2020), and others.

Event Time: 4 October, 2024, 15:00 – 17:30

Venue: Room 0.16, BG1, Turfdraagsterpad 9

Event Program:

15:00 – Screening of Rainbow Cruise of Love (88 minutes), with a short introduction by ASCA PhD student Andy Zhu

16:35 – Post-screening conversation with director Jiang Nengjie and Jeroen de Kloet

The event will be conducted in Chinese and English, with interpreting provided by ASCA postdoc Fan Xiao.

Register: https://forms.office.com/e/sNmA7ckY6a

This event is supported by ASCA, and the ERC-funded project RESCUE (Resilient Cultures – Music, Art, and Cinema in Mainland China and Hong Kong).