Creative Works

Quirk-e members’ creative expression in every form – writing, painting, drawing, film, and more.

Awareness of elder abuse – 2016

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Quirk-e helped develop a series of posters and public service videos to raise awareness about abuse of LGBTQ2S+ elders. We ...

video: wayson choy – introduction to quirk-e collections

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Award-winning Canadian author Wayson Choy introduces the fifth volume of anthologies published by QUIRK-E. Wayson was a mentor and editor ...

video: the bridge generation

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Four queer elders look at their lives within the framework of unprecedented social change. This video project became the basis ...

video: memory in two voices

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A POEM BY BRIDGET COLL AND CHRIS MORRISSEY Bridget and Chris read a poem about dealing with a diagnosis of ...

Baja Haiku

Don Martin

For many years my husband John Konovsky and I have driven 3,400 km to Loreto, Baja California Sur for winter ...

Shining a Light on Rainbow Life – 2023

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This zine spotlights what is relevant to us, past or present, through the written word and evocative images. The writing ...

video: i am hungry for . . .

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Quirk-e is an alumni group of the Arts and Healthy Aging program of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation ...

video: zoom greeting to the annual idahotb gathering in 2021

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The COVID pandemic prevented us from attending the annual IDAHOTB gathering in Vancouver in 2021, so Quirk-e made this short ...

Book cover designs

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Some of the imaging work of Quirk-e involves book cover designs. Several covers were designed by Quirk-e members. Some have ...

Pride and Joy 2023

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Joy in our rainbow lives and the importance of the Pride Movement inspired this edition. There is creative writing,  historic ...