Singer songwriter Nicky Mitchell, performance poet, stand up and MC Annabel Pribelszki and the Charity Cabaret team will be hosting the Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Stage at this year’s Brighton Pride Festival in Preston Park.
THE Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Stage will showcase the brightest and best women performers from both Brighton and further afield; with a day of spoken word, stand up comedy, cabaret and a wide variety of musical entertainment.
A platform for (self identified) women performers, within a safe and supportive performance environment, the Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Stage, will be located just north of the community area, is an oasis amongst the trees, away from the thumping bass lines of the dance tents.
Everyone is welcome; it’s not a women only space. The acts will be (self identified) women, but not necessarily LGBT+ making the Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Stage a welcoming and creative space to chill, relax, meet friends and be entertained.
The Women’s Performance stage this year has been named after Sheila McWattie, a journalist and proud supporter of the Brighton Women‘s Centre who helped organise the Women’s Performance Tent at Brighton Pride before her death earlier this year. Naming the tent after her acknowledges the fight she had over the years, along with other women activists, to ensure that women performers had a space to showcase their talents at Preston Park each year during Brighton Pride.
Nicky Mitchell, who worked on many Pride events with Sheila, said: “Sheila was a fearless, community champion and believed that women deserved a space to perform at pride.
“She then set about making sure they got it and brought high standards to the event. These high standards, which she relentlessly administered year on year, ever improving, benefitted and blessed so many women performers, volunteers and members of the community.
“It’s fantastic that Pride are bringing back the women’s area and it’s a lovely and fitting tribute that the space will be named in her honour. Sheila McWattie. Thank you.”
In order to ensure that Pride are able to represent as many of the diverse (self identified) women performers this year, Brighton Pride invite you to apply to perform on the Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Stage at Brighton Pride 2015.
Applications are welcome from any performance genre, the more creative the better!
Spoken word, comedy, cabaret, and musicians, whatever your performance skill, Nicky Mitchell, Annabel Pribelszki and the Charity Cabaret team would love to hear from you.
If you are interested in performing on the Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Stage, click here:
Deadline for applications is Sunday, May 24 2015.
Charity Cabaret, through their promotion of acts, provide a platform for women performers and have run successful fundraisers for Brighton Women’s Centre, RISE and Brighton and Hove LGBT Switchboard.
Event: Pride Brighton & Hove 2015
Where: Pride Festival Preston Park. Preston Road, Brighton
When: Saturday, August 1
Time: 12noon – 10pm
Tickets: Early Birds and £16.00 first release Sold Out. £18.50 Second release now available.
Then £21.00/ £25 on the day.
To purchase tickets online, click here:
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