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Pride in London anounce biggest ever Pride Arts Festival

Graham Robson June 9, 2015

Over 25 events will take place over 30 venues across the capital during London Pride Week, June 21 – 28.

Pride in London Arts FestivalPRIDE in London, the annual festival championing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT+) community in London has announced its biggest ever Pride in London Arts Festival, which will launch with a special Q&A Screening of the award-winning film Pride, starring Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton, at the Clapham Picturehouse on Sunday, June 21.

The Pride in London Arts Festival will take place between June 21-28, showcasing the diverse artistic and cultural presence that the LGBT+ community has in London.

Spanning over thirty venues, Pride in London Arts Festival offers a programme representative of the city’s strong cultural heritage through many genres: from verbatim theatre to the visual arts, classical music concerts to open discussion forum events, cabaret and film screenings, sing-a-longs and much more.

 

The festival will officially launch with the screening of 2014 hit movie Pride at Clapham Picturehouse on Sunday, June 21, followed by a Q&A with LGSM (Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners), Wandsworth LGBT Forum and Out at Clapham.

Other events taking place as part of the festival include:

♦  The Fourth Choir and Meridian Sinfonia will present Baroque Summer Solstice in Eaton Square

♦  A special offer for Pride supporters to see Flight at Investec Holland Park Opera

♦  Facing East in Concert at Lyric Theatre – a new musical following an upstanding American Mormon couple who unexpectedly meet their son’s partner whilst dealing with his death

♦  Celia Delaney reflects on the desperation of being a 40-something singleton in modern London

♦  The Machine will try to explore what it means to be gay in 2015 at Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden

♦  A queer history quiz will buzz together with the Peter Tatchell Foundation in Southwark

♦  Gender identity workshop for children and parents in Camden

♦  Let’s Talk about Gay Sex and Drugs event will take place again this year at Ku Klub in Chinatown

♦  A free one hour tour of the Victoria and Albert Museum LGBTQ collections

♦  Homage to Marlene Dietrich with Terry Sanderson will be on at the Cinema Museum in Elephant and Castle

♦  The London Gay Symphony Orchestra will present the perfect post-pride event the day after the parade in Holborn

♦  Family Futures in Islington will make an introduction to LGBT adoption

♦  A 50th anniversary Sound of Music Sing-Along Party in a fancy dress will be hosted at L’Escargot in Soho

For a full list of events taking place within the Pride in London Arts Festival, click here:

 

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