Thank you to the participants, instructors, volunteers, hosts, performers, directors, and everyone involved - for a wonderful and inspirational 2011 festival!

QueerTango and QueerTango Cafe of San Francisco are proud to have hosted the third International QueerTango Festival San Francisco in June-July 2011. The festival workshops were held at La Pista, 768 Brannan Street, in the SOMA district of San Francisco.

We are grateful to Queer Tango in Hamburg, Germany for initiating this type of event in 2000 and for their support in creating an international affair. Our appreciation also goes out to TangoQueer, Buenos Aires, who had their first festival in 2007 and showed us how it's done.

We seek to encourage a vibrant, inclusive group of same sex alternative tango dancers, and provide a space in which to explore the unlimited possibilities of dancing Argentine Tango when the ordinary roles attached to gender are unhooked.

We are thrilled to bring people together from around the world . .  . to dance, learn and explore tango, as well as to share different cultural experiences.  We hope that you will be excited to learn tango from many talented and amazing instructors.

We enjoy hosting this festival and sharing with you San Francisco's unique flavors of tango, as well as our beautiful City by the Bay. Thank you!