Bristol Pride Festival 2015 Programme

BRISTOL PRIDE 2015 FESTIVAL GUIDE

PRIDE DAY

SAT 11 JULY CASTLE PARK DONATION ENTRY FESTIVAL

PRIDE WEEK FESTIVAL 3–12 JULY

FILM FESTIVAL | COMEDY | THEATRE | DOG SHOW | PERFORMANCE ART | WALKS | TALKS | GAYMING | OPEN AIR CINEMA

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pride supporters

contents INTRODUCTION

wednesday 8 july

supporters, partners and causes

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Welcome

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pride theatre night

thursday 9 july thursday 2 july domestic violence talk

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pride comedy night 6

friday 10 july friday 3 july

a midsummer’s time warp

The foundation

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Film festival: in the turn

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power hour

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saturday 4 july

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pride day saturday 11 july pride parade

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pride park map

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main stage

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pride launch party

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cabaret stage

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horseplay: synaesthesia

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family area

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kiki performance & dj hub

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community area

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sunday 5 july pride quiz

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expo & traders

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dog show

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roller disco

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gayming with pride

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pride after party

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film festival: match

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sunday 12 july monday 6 july film fesival: broken gardenias

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bar listings

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PRIDE GMB INTERVIEW

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thank you

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tuesday 7 july film festival: tiger orange

film festival: mala mala

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pride 2015

welcome Well here we are! A year’s gone by very quickly and I’m excited to welcome you to Bristol Pride 2015. We’ve got lots of fun, exciting and engaging events that use The Arts and our culture to showcase the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community and to promote equality, for all. To shout loudly and proudly We Are: Here.

Without dwelling on the fact we were unsuccessful in gaining any core funding but it makes it a very tough job to make Pride happen.

However we’re tenacious, our volunteers hard-working and with support from our sponsors, supporters and you the public I am very proud of this year’s event. Great events in the week, a bigger more visible Parade March and our biggest line-up to date on Pride Day plus we’ve managed to keep Pride Day a donation entry event.

Please get a Pride Supporter Ticket if you can. For just £5 they get you discounted bar, food & skate hire prices plus FREE Pride Day travel on First Buses, an absolute bargain. We also offer £15 Day+Night passes which include the official Pride afterparty at the O2 and free entry to the Queenshilling. Most importantly you’re helping make Pride happen and supporting our 2015 charity, LGBT Domestic Violence organisation, Broken Rainbow.

Pride is still needed, you need only look at hate crime stats, workplace bullying and even challenges to equal rights happening around the world. We work all year round to challenge this discrimination and will continue to do so, look out for our Hate Crime campaign launching in August. This year I also want to remember all those who have worked hard to get us where we are today.

But for now, welcome to what remains one of the best and only free Pride events in the UK and our week of celebrations including award winning film festival, comedy night headlined by Zoe Lyons, our new GaYming event and of course the Pride dog show.

Have a fantastic Pride everyone!

Daryn J Carter Festival Director and Programmer

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Proud to support Bristol Pride

Travelling any other day?

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thursday 2 july

domestic violence talk

Let’s get talking Broken Rainbow, our 2015 charity, offer a lifeline to victims of domestic abuse. It’s easy to overlook serious issues that affect our community and we want to break the taboo. Join our panel featuring Professor Marianne Hester, OBE and host Luke Martin for an open discussion, Q&A and the opportunity to get more information on support services.

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6pm

PRICE Free VENUE Bristol Universiry Students’ Union (Gromit room)

friday 3 july

the foundation

Special Pride Preview

TIME 6–9pm, party till late

New film installation by artist Patrick Staff exploring queer intergenerational relationships negotiated through historical materials. It combines footage shot at the Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, home to the archive of the erotic artist and gay icon, with choreographed sequences shot within a specially constructed set. Open from 4 July to the 20 Sept.

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Visit Spike Island’s website for associated events

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FREE Spike Island

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film: xxx in the turn + bristol roller derby

Opening the festival this year we are very excited to be screening In The Turn, a brilliant sassy and poignant must see documentary.

Crystal, a 10-year-old transgender girl in rural Canada finds a place among the journeys of other queer skaters whose stories are filmed from across the United States. After being denied the right to join local athletics teams due to her gender, Crystal and her mum serendipitously discover the Vagine Regime, an international queer collective of roller derby players. We are also teaming up with Bristol Roller Derby to bring you some local derby action.

8:30pm

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£8 / £6.50 Watershed

Tickets from The Watershed box office Tel: 0117 927 5100 or www.watershed.co.uk

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xxx power hour

Live performance from Zoe Alexander as PINK Our popular monthly fundraiser will feature Pride Day artists plus as it’s 00’s this month, expect just that with live performance from Zoe Alexander as our Power Hour artist P!nk. Just £3 donation entry on the door, so join us and raise your glass with Pride and let’s get this party started!

10pm

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£3 donation Queenshilling

Entry on the door

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saturday 4 july

pride launch party

Help us celebrate the launch of Bristol Pride 2015 Life is a cabaret old chum, so come to the cabaret! Celebrate as we transport you back to 1930s Berlin in our special underground cabaret bar.

In the 1920s to early 1930s Berlin was a liberated hotbed as artists from around the world all arrived to witness and experience the wild erotic sexual freedom along with curiosity seekers, voyeurs, and… homosexuals. You join us in 1931 where everything is changing.

The gin is cold and the piano is hot as we bring you cabaret and jazz inspired performances through the night with our own flamboyant, amoral mistresses, pineapples and workshops from Bristol Swing Festival… but shhh! swing tanzen ist verboten.

Be our canvas and dress up: think hedonistic, androgyny, swing kids, flappers, short skirts but more importantly forget the outside world and be yourself.

The Secret Square Club under the Berkeley Hotel for one night only.

Tickets from The Ticket shop on High Street or online at: pridebristol.co.uk

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7:30pm £8 Square Club

saturday 4 july

Horseplay: SYNAESTHESIA

Pride Week Opening Party Horseplay collaborate with AV artist Panther Panther to create a unique synaesthetic club experience bringing sound and vision together with live performance and sensory intervention.

11pm

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PRICE Early bird £9 VENUE Projekt, Baldwin Street

Synaesthesia’s a neurological phenomenon which involuntarily links senses. People often see music as colours or shapes, and can sometimes taste or smell words.

Tickets from The Ticket Shop on High Street or online at: pridebristol.co.uk, part of the proceeds will go to support Pride

sunday 5 july

pride quiz

Test your knowledge and win prizes

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Our monthly Quiz continues in Pride Week, expect the usual mix of fiendish questions, picture and music rounds and ridiculous spot round prizes. Brush up on your Pride knowledge for a special Pride round with extra prizes this month.

PRICE £1 VENUE Old Market Tavern

6:00pm

£1 entry all going to support Pride with thanks to the OMT

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Overall, UNISON has more than 1.3 million members who work in the public sector, the community and voluntary sector and for private companies delivering public services.

UNISON campaigns for a fairer society and defends public services. We want to see people put before profit and public interest before private greed. We are committed to campaigning for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality at work and in how public services are delivered.

Join us in UNISON! In UNISON, we have a flourishing network of LGBT members who meet locally and nationally. UNISON advice and publications on LGBT equality are on our website, where members can find information about regional and national events and sign up for monthly LGBT e-bulletins and for our newsletter ‘Out in UNISON’.

To find out more, visit www.unison.org.uk/out or email us at out@unison.co.uk . To join UNISON, go to www.unison.org.uk/join.

Unison Concorde Health, Unison Central Bristol Health and Unison Bristol Local Government are proud to be supporters of Pride Bristol 2015 For More information contact Dayley Lawrence Branch Secretary, Concorde Bristol Health 0117 4140445 or concordehealth@unison.co.uk

sunday 5 july

Dog show

Making Sunday Special The Pride Dog Show returns and is bigger and furrier than ever, expect pawbiting rounds such as waggiest tail, most groomed and best family pet! Register from 11am, Show starts at 1pm.

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PRICE Free / £1 contest VENUE Corn Street

Prizes and Rosettes to win! With kind support from Platinum Petcare and DAWG Greyhound and Lurcher rescue.

For more information go to: pridebristol.co.uk

sunday 5 july

GAYMING WITH PRIDE

HADOUKEN!

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Join Pride for our first ever GaYming event. Expect Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Retro Classics and more multiplayer madness! Oh and those into Pokemon bring your DS’s for battles! With further events around the year follow us on Twitter @BristolGaymers.

PRICE Free VENUE Kong’s of King Street

3pm

With kind support from BVGS (Bristol Video Games Social)

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sunday 5 july

match

Staring Patrick Stewart as a Juilliard professor who is interviewed by a woman and her husband for her dissertation on the history of dance in 1960’s New York.

It soon becomes increasingly clear that there are ulterior motives to the couple’s visit and things shift quickly and get out of hand.

6:30pm

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£8 / £6.50 Watershed

Great performances from Stuart and Carla Gugino with the most exquisitely paced script from this original theatre piece adapted by writer/director Stephen Belber, this film is eloquently crafted.

Tickets from The Watershed box office Tel: 0117 927 5100 or www.watershed.co.uk

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monday 6 july

broken gardenias

A Dark Comedy about Jenni, an orphaned semi-savant. With the help of a street hustler named Sam, she steals a car and heads to Los Angeles to find Jenni’s father, whom she hasn’t heard from since she was six.

Humour is the balm of life and this film has a wonderfully free flow about it and the many experiences Jenni encounters on her search for her father where ultimately she finds herself.

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8:30pm £8 / £6.50 Watershed

Alma S Grey Writer, Producer, Art Director and lead character creates a film that stands out in a fresh and exciting way.

Tickets from The Watershed box office Tel: 0117 927 5100 or www.watershed.co.uk

tuesday 7 july

tiger orange + Wham bam Mr Pam

A gentle film situated in a small Central California town where two estranged gay brothers struggle to reconnect after the recent death of their father.

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8:30pm £8 / £6.50 Watershed

With a good performance from onetime porn star Johnny Hazzard now acting under his real name Frankie Valenti this film is very charming and picking up awards along the way.

Wham Bam Mr Pam, a unique look at a female videographer who has spent the past fifteen years making some of the most explicit and award winning gay films.

Tickets from The Watershed box office Tel: 0117 927 5100 or www.watershed.co.uk p r i d e f i l m f e s t i va l

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wednesday 8 july

pride theatre night

Showcasing Pride through diverse performances Proudly teaming up with the Bierkeller to bring local talent to the stage. Pride has commissioned pieces to represent the spectrum of LGBT Pride, we invite you to enjoy: They Beat the Girl Out of the Boy (Eve Ensler) First performed as part of the Vagina Monologues this brings a fresh new trans perspective that celebrates being a woman.

Home (David Lane) A man reflects on his relationship with his wife and his inner turmoil when an old flame reappears online.

Julien Scary (Michael Monkhouse) This fabulous host chats to the winner of a celebrity gameshow, but is he trying just a bit too hard?

The Elephant (Samantha Coughlan) On a boozy night out in the 80s two female friends discuss coming out, gay bars and female attraction.

A Whole New Me (Inma De Reyes) Backstage, two drag queens prepare for another show, passing the torch from one generation to the next.

Also: An interpretive piece highlighting domestic violence in LGBT relationships.

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pride comedy night

It’s back and it’s bigger, funnier and more exciting than ever, the Comedy Night is always one of the highlights of Pride Week, this year our line-up includes:

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7pm £10 / £8 The Bierkeller

Jayde Adams Winner: Funny Women Awards 2014 and 2014 London Cabaret’s Audience Award, Bristol’s own Jayde is our host for the evening. She’s a regular at several major comedy and arts festivals across the UK.

Joe Sutherland A fresh faced stand-up who brings camp cattiness. Described as “Kenneth Williams without the Histrionics” Joe’s been selected for the Pleasance Comedy Reserve at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015.

Zoe Lyons She’s been “selling her comedy wares” on the circuit since 2004. Performing worldwide and a familiar face on TV including Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC1) and Mock the Week (BBC2) we are excited to have Zoe headlining our comedy night.

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You YOU have the chance to perform at the Bristol Pride Comedy night! We want to hear from budding local talent. email: info@wearefest.com Tickets available from The Bristol Ticket Shop or Via Bristol Pride website

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friday 10 july

A Midsummer’s Time Warp

Shakespeare meets this cult classic

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Let us take you, if we may, on a Time Warp back to a day where fairies tricked and bottoms fooled - high jinx, chaos and mayhem ruled. Bristol Pride and The Shakespeare Festival team up for this special night, merging a Midsummer Night’s Dream with a genderbending cult classic.

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This year, lending more than their ears, a talented troupe of Circomedia graduates bring you interactive and acrobatic Midsummers Night’s Dream characters who get caught up in a whirlwind of shenanigans and turn into those iconic party guests.

As well as specially curated and created theatre performances the team from Pride will also be running a best dressed competition as they pay homage to 40 years since the release of that cult classic.

Dressing up is actively encouraged, throwing items prohibited.

Screening R15, tickets limited and only available in advance.

Tickets from The Ticket Shop on High Street or online at: pridebristol.co.uk

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7pm £7 Castle Park

sunday 12 july

mala mala + trucker pam

An exuberant documentary of gender expression despite adversity.

Mala Mala looks at the Puerto Rican transgender community, candidly showcasing nine very different trans people that morph into empowering solidarity and collective activism without ever losing sight of the individuals.

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3:30pm £8 / £6.50 Watershed

A wonderful honest and respectful documentary, very much led by those featured, it is never reductive or exploitative.

Trucker Pam, a trans women, talks candidly and with humour about her life passing as a women and her realisation, she must “come back out” to her friends as transgendered.

Tickets from The Watershed box office Tel: 0117 927 5100 or www.watershed.co.uk p r i d e f i l m f e s t i va l

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Feel Better Energy

proud to be green

We’re working hard to be the greenest festival we can be, not just for Green Capital year but for our future, we hope that you can support us.

We’ve teamed up with First Bus to offer free travel on Pride Day if you have a supporter wristband or why not walk.

EDF have helped us go generator free for our stages and we’re reducing the overall power consumption on the day, saving nearly 1 tonne of carbon!

We’ve installed a free water station, so

please bring your own water bottles to fill up and help save on hundreds of plastic bottles that get thrown away.

We’ve improved recycling and are reducing waste with any food containers being biodegradable if used at all. Unused food will be donated to charity food banks.

Eco-friendly reusable cups on the bar, saving on thousands of throwaway plastics. Pay £1 deposit on your first drink and bring your special cup back to the bar each time. When your done return it and collect £1 back, which you can donate to support us if you want.

saturday 11 july

pride parade

Be part of the largest Parade yet!

We’ve been working hard to make the Parade even more visible, so this year we are taking a longer route and want as many people as possible to come make a bold statement for equality and show that prejudice and hate have no place in our city!

Along with a Green Rainbow theme for Green Capital we want to see lots of signs, flags and banners to show solidarity for LGBT+ communities around the world. Let’s make this the most vibrant march Bristol has ever seen. Check out the website on how to get involved with placard and outfit making sessions.

Businesses and large groups please contact info@wearfest.com to book in and remember the parade will leave on the dot so make sure you arrive in good time. Wristband exchange from 10am.

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main stage

Boogaloo Stu Host

A Showbiz multi-tasker Stu is a performer, pop star, DJ, presenter and costume designer. His theatre shows Crimplene Millionaire, Pop Magic and Puppet Paramour have toured nationally. Expect silly games and hi-jinx!

Dolly Rocket Host

International superstar whose presence and personality are as big as her assets!

With decades of cabaret and television performances under her belt Dolly is one of the UK’s most easily recognised and loved cabaret artistes bringing effortless charm and wit.

Miss Match 12:15 Banned from almost everywhere in Bristol, she’s decided to change her ways and bring something fresh to the stage with some boys she has managed to buy from eBay!

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SingOut 12:30 Bristol’s LGBT choir, a regular Pride favourite.

With over 50 members regularly performing throughout the year.

It’s been a tradition for them to join us at Pride with pop and contemporary classics, enjoy!

Sazzey 12:50 Winner of our Battle of The Bands competition Sazzey impressed judges to win this performance slot at Pride. Only 19 years old she’s a rapper singer/songwriter from Bristol who’s been songwriting since a young age.

Twisted Rio 13:10 Essex singer/songwriter and club performer is no stranger to performing for a crowd. Album title track ‘Small Town Boy’ is about his relationship with his dad after coming out, expect sledge-hammering dance beats and pumping party tunes.

JSMV 13:30 Touted as the new Rizzle Kicks and fresh from supporting Bars and Melody on their UK tour, this London based dynamic duo have been bringing down the house with their urban dance fusion.

Working with some of Europe’s top dance music producers they are excited to bring their live show to Bristol Pride.

Salute 13:45 Developed by Groupboxx at The Famous Company, these 4 Bristol girls have been together just 6 months, writing and recording an EP of original tracks inspired by artists like Paloma Faith and The Noisettes. Their infectious nu-jazz infused pop has won them support slots with Scouting for Girls, Union J and Stooshe.

NINA 14:10 Synth Pop described as ‘Lana Del Rey meets Robyn’, track We Are The Wild Ones featured on the US Series of Being Human. Fresh from touring across the USA with Erasure.

Nicki French 14:35 Pride favourite Nicki was a worldwide smash with her dance reworking of Total Eclipse Of The Heart. A three times winner of US Dance Music Authority Magazine awards she’s represented the UK in Eurovision, performed at EuroPride, Sydney Mardi Grad and recently starred in musical Annie.

Cheryl, Mike & Jay formally of Bucks Fizz 15:00 Our afternoon headliners are one of the biggest UK bands of the 80s. Selling over 15 million records in the UK alone and scoring 3 UK No1s with “My Camera Never Lies”, “Land Of Make Believe” and of course, their Eurovision winning “Making Your Mind Up”.

Original members Cheryl, Mike and Jay joined by Bobby McVay make a special stop at Bristol Pride during their worldwide Paradise Regained tour. Skirts at the ready!

Justin Utley 15:50 Four times OUTMusic nominee and winner of Best Folk/Country Song of the Year Justin’s an ‘out’ ex-mormon and survivor of gay therapy who speaks candidly about experiences through his inspiring and powerful music.

Ryan dolan 16:20 Irish singer/songwriting launched onto the European music scene in 2013 representing Ireland in Eurovision with ‘Only Love Survives’ an instant smash charting in 32 countries. His ballad ‘Start Again’ highlights issues affecting young teenagers including bullying and suicide.

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gmb cabaret stage

Again kindly sponsored by GMB Union the Cabaret Stage boasts some of the best cabaret acts in the country. It’s flamboyant, at times risqué and always unpredictable….be warned!

MISS BEAVER Your hostess Winner of Miss Retreat 2012 and 2014 Drag Idol finalist this Queen will keep everything running smoothly – if that’s possible.

Quick witted with loveable charm she’s a firm favourite on the scene so join her and the rest of the acts and have an absolute blast!

Bambi Boo 12:05 From Bath our second Bambi has gone from strength to strength.

Recently holding a residency in London’s famous Halfway II Heaven after winning ‘It’s a Knockout Competition’.

Bambi Violet 12:15 Chippenham’s favourite Queen is certainly not to be missed. A unique look which pushes the boundaries of androgyny, her sublime vocal abilities would raise the roof, if we had one.

Stephanie Von Clitz 12:30 Another from the South West, Stephanie has now cemented herself onto the London Cabaret circuit. This will be her first time at Bristol Pride so be gentle with her.

Demeanor McCall 12:45 Winning the Bristol heat of Drag Idol 2013 she’s no longer the new girl in town with residencies at the BBB and is certainly no stranger to the performance circuit.

MISS PENNY 12:50 We said we have some of the best in the UK and coming to us from the heart of the Midlands she brings comedy and music like you’ve never seen before.

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TINA SPARKLE 13:10 Host of OMG’s weekly student night and S4C Wales TV Star this Welsh wonder’s been entertaining audiences all over the UK and abroad for 12 years.

She’s the ultimate diva.

DIVINA DE CAMPO 13:25 Having worked all over the UK before spending 2 years in Ibiza entertaining Divina now heads up the Show Team for Staffordshire’s biggest and best nightclub, The Factory.

Miss Thunderpussy 13:45 Award winning comedy act with unique style. Expect super sharp wit with a loveable approach a real breath of fresh air with this act!

CHERRY POPPIN 14:10 Starting life in Brighton 9 years ago and now based in Bristol at The Palace in Old Market but Cherry’s still performing up and down the country.

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MARY GOLDS 14:15 A firm favourite in Cardiff, Newport and Bristol she’s delighted audiences across the UK and abroad. She brings camp humour, quick wit and catchy up beat songs.

Mona Lotte 14:35 Witty and downright sassy she’s got the voice of a mamma diva and will have you singing along whatever the occasion.

Jolene Dover 14:55 Bursting onto the cabaret scene with an explosion this Cardiff Queen is brassy, witty and slightly off-the-wall. Electrify stage presence and voice will leave you begging for more.

BelleFleurs 15:15 Bath trio who take Pop, Metal, Rock and Punk songs and give them a good spanking. Vintage harmonies but no Vintage tribute act. They are slowly re-writing The Andrew’s Sisters songbook.

Mis Match 15:40 Retreat Resident but banned from most public venues in Bristol she is a definite favourite here with the locals who will not let her get away without singing Super Bass.

LoUis CYfer 15:45 Most recent Drag Idol winner and the first ever Drag King to do so. Louis is the sassy sexuality offending, gender bending, sheriff of Soho aka the Wild Westminster.

CANDY SLAG IN DRAG 16:05 International acclaimed artist with years on the scene, quick witted tongue and a plethora of parodies you’ll be shouting for more.

Be warned this one is not for the easily offended!

MARTHA D’ARTHUR 16:25 As a performer with a background in comedy, theatre and musical theatre she’s an amalgamation of the many divas and starlets she’s worked with over the years.

Meth 16:45 The doyenne of Meth Lab, a night that brings the stars of Ru Paul’s Drag Race to London she’s the driving force behind Familyyy Fierce. Professional, alternative show with sharp wit.

SON OFA TUTU 17:15 Award winning act, truly one to be seen.

Self proclaimed Illegal Immigrant from Lagos Nigeria as well as singalong songs expect the insights of a wanted woman integrating into British multiculturalism.

MARY MAC 17:45 Famous floating corpse from Scottish crime drama Taggart but she won’t die on stage.

Mac’s working the scene all over the UK we just hope that you can understand her accent.

Sandra 18:15 We welcome Drag royalty. Her show is a mix of hit songs interspersed with sharp wit and audience participation, in fact the more responsive the audience, the more excited she becomes - so keep a damp cloth handy.

DRAG WITH NO NAME 18:45 Closing the show this year is one of the most versatile drag artists on the cabaret scene and firm favourite at Pride events.

She strives to make you chuckle and keeps her show fresh. With satirical characterisation of famous ladies, from Susan Boyle to Lady Gaga expect live vocals, impressions coupled with stand up and visual comedy.

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There will also be a bouncy castle for 2-16 year olds, magicians, face painters along with performances and workshops from Bristol Swing Festival – everything to keep kids (and kids at heart) entertained all day.

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THE KIKI PERFORMANCE & DJ HUB

LET US SHOW YOU WHERE THE PARTY IS AT A special collaboration with local businesses, artists, DJs and performers to show you a completely different and unique side to Bristol. There will also be an eclectic mix of local DJ’s to prepare you for the afterparty, playing mostly disco, funk & house to keep you groovin’.

Level Cuts and Treasure Tribe Glitter provide festival chicness with creative styling and glitter that you will be shaking off for weeks and we also host local fashion brands Puckoo Couture, Loot, Native and Dutty so shop ‘til you drop and be sure to catch their clothes at The Ki Ki catwalk.

Drag troupe: “national handbag” bring roaming performance and audience participation events, guaranteed laughter and sassiness.

1pm & 6pm: Special performance from Kinetic Theatre Arts 2pm & 4pm: Performers Dance & Musical School bring exciting and visually stunning performance 4:30pm: Swing Festival Performance and Workshop We also showcase art and performance, Freedom Youth provide decor and live art painting all day (auctioned off at a later date to raise awareness and funds) This is a new exciting project for Pride made possible with thanks to: The Queenshilling, Level Cuts, Puckoo Couture, Freedom Youth, Amour Ami & Switching Lanes.

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COMMUNITY Area

Local Services, Support Groups, Networks and LGBT Charities – All here for you.

Community is at our heart and we are proud to be able to showcase the great work and services that exist across the South West - often our unsung heroes! Kindly sponsored by UWE whose support helps us keep delivering this vital area.

Be sure to also visit out market and businesses stalls across the festival and check our Expo stalls (p.38).

Rainbow Community Tent: Action for Children Alcoholics Anonymous Amnesty Bristol Avon Transwomen Avon Wildlife Trust Bivisible Brigstowe Project Bristol Family Placement Broken Rainbow Cycle Out DHI Diversity Role Models Each

Eddystone Trust BCC Equalities unit Excel Fostering Fflag Gaywest Green Party Hate Crime Services Indigo Leatherwest LGBT Bristol Stride Fitness LGBT Mental Health Liberal Democrats Next Link and Safe Link

North Somerset Fostering Outstories Pink Herrings BCC Rainbow Group Refuge rights Rethink RSPB Second Step Swiis Foster Care THT USDAW Unite UWE

List is correct at the time of Print, please check pridebristol.co.uk for the latest.

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Expo and Traders at Pride Day

From our partners and supporters to cupcakes Pride can only happen through support and engagement from many different groups, so be sure to visit our expo stalls dotted around the park. Their teams will be ready to have a chat, show the great work they do and see how you can get involved! Be sure to visit Labour who will be signing up a petition for the council on funding for Pride and EDF energy who have signed up to support Pride for 3 years and will be doing Karaoke with Zingy!

Expo Army Avon Fire Service Avon & Somerset Police Barefoot wines Bristol Zoo

EDF Energy Enterprise Foster Care Associates GMB Union Irwin Mitchell

Labour MOD Network Rail Bristol Drug Project Environment Agency

Food and Traders by St Peter’s Church: Burger Joint Sausagefest Yellow Turban Curry One Luv Kitchen

Mmm Coffee!

Olives ‘n’ Stuff Bry’s Cupcakes Chameleon Jewellery

Gem Trading Rainbow Trade Shrinking Violet

List is correct at the time of Print, please check pridebristol.co.uk for the latest and check the site map for locations.

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Pride roller disco

Festival Fun on Roller Skates Thankfully with better ground conditions we are pleased to be able to install a special Roller Disco into Castle Park. Bristol Roller Derby will be on hand for some pointers an expect disco Djs, performers and plenty of glitter! ÂŁ4 / ÂŁ3, get reduced skate hire with the Pride Supporter Wristbands.

Tickets from The Ticket shop on High Street or online at: pridebristol.co.uk

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Listings PRIDE SUPPORTING CLUBNIGHTS

OTHER BRISTOL VENUES Cont

CLUB: QUEENSHILLING Voted ‘Best Nightclub’ 3 years in a row (ShoutOut Awards) proudly supporting Pride and other LGBT events all year round with fundraising and charity club nights. For Pride night DJ Craig Law (Gaydio) plays the very best dance, urban, old skool and chart with special outside area opened. Giving back whenever they can, all the door goes to Pride, which is no doubt why they are loved and respected by customers.

OPEN: 8pm – Late.

TICKET PRICE: Free entry with Pride Day+Night Supporter Wristbands or £4 on door all donated to Pride.

BAR: BENT BAR Bristol’s most modern cocktail bar! Great venue with a great atmosphere. Light up your night on the dancefloor, mingle at the bar or get cosy in one of their many booths.

OPEN: 8pm till late.

CLUB: HUSH at BASEMENT 45 Popular ladies night HUSH create a special afterparty for all you brilliant LBTQ+ women.

Taking over Basement 45 on bustling Frogmore Street for the first women’s Pride Night featuring the best DJs in the city, expect flirts, friends, laughter & unstoppable tunes.

Open: 9pm – 3am.

TICKET PRICE: £10/£15 Women’s Pride Day+Night Supporter Wristbands available.

OTHER BRISTOL VENUES BAR: THE PINEAPPLE Bristol’s longest established gay bar, located on St Georges Road, just a stone’s throw from OMG! The Pineapple is a friendly, buzzing bar. OPEN: 5pm till late.

CLUB: OMG Offers a spacious dancefloor and 2 bars.

Expect lots of lighting, including HUGE LED wall, CO2 cannons that knock you of your feet & the BEST sound system.

OPEN: 10pm – Late TICKET PRICE: £10

BAR: THE PHOENIX Classy décor with large beer garden the Phoenix is an urban oasis next to Cabot Circus (behind Future Inns Hotel).

Open: 12:30pm – 12am.

BAR: THE OLD MARKET TAVERN Traditional pub serving a good range of ales & food 7 days a week. The OMT has a fantastic beer garden and a friendly, laid back atmosphere and home to our monthly quiz. OPEN: 11:30am till 2am.

BAR: PROUD BAR Bristol’s newest LGBT+ bar celebrate their first Pride with a Glitter-Kiki. Expect everything and everyone to sparkle, Karaokiki, and a message of love & community.

OPEN: 12 – 3am.

BAR: THE PALACE Offers outrageous nights of camp fun, cabaret. Pride night see’s La Voix performing. OPEN: 5pm til late.

BAR: BRISTOL BEAR BAR Eclectic music policy & lively atmosphere with DJ Daddi on Pride Night, free entry with all donations on the door and collection going to Pride. OPEN: 8pm til 6am.

BAR: THE RETREAT A fun night of commercial dance, pop, R&B & party anthems. The Retreat is the largest gay bar to ever open in Bristol. OPEN: 7pm till 2am.

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official after party

International headline acts and Bristol clubnights together for one night only A sell out night for the last two years, Pride takeover the O2 Academy hosting a spectacular fundraiser for Pride Day with dance + aerial performances from Circomedia.

10:00pm

TIME PRICE VENUE

£10 / £15 O2 Acadamy

ROOM 1/ MAIN ARENA

Room 2 // The Attic

Room 3 /// The Parlour

Opening Set from D-T-Y-M

EuroFest

BRISTOL CLUBNIGHT DJ’s

Smokin’ Jo Still the only women to be crowned International DJ of the year, cutting edge sounds and resident in Space, Ibiza.

Maze and Master One of London’s strongest soundtrack providers with residencies worldwide including XOYO, Ministry of Sound and Fire.

Nathan Thomson Head of Music for KISS FM Nathan cut his teeth DJing Bristol’s gay scene.

UK’s biggest clubnight dedicated to Eurovision, Europop and Italo Disco with live performances from: NICKI FRENCH worldwide smash with dance reworking of Total Eclipse Of The Heart, three times winner of the US Dance Music Authority Magazine.

FREDERICK [Euroband] Iceland’s technopop entry to Eurovision in 2008 with This Is My Life Euroband have gone on to be firm favourites at Pride events and festivals around the world.

We bring together Bristol LGBT Clubnight Djs for one night only including DTYM, Psycho Drama, Revenge of the 90s and DJ SJB.

TREASURE TRIBE GLITTER Shiny explosions of happiness bringing fresh fantasy festival fabrications PLUS Roaming performances and performance installations. With suggested dress code: Wild With Pride.

£10 or £15 Day+Night Supporter Ticket Pride Day+Night Supporter tickets offer discounts on Pride Day and entry to the Queenshilling. ALL proceeds go to Bristol Pride and funds the free Pride Day Festival.

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A word with GMB’s Jeff

Your tips for being out in the workplace You don’t have to wear a badge! Just be yourself and if asked about your sexuality admit it, if you feel you can.

Why is it important to GMB to support Pride?

Tell us more about GMB Union GMB was formed in 1889 and has nearly 700k members. The Country is split into nine Regions with Bristol part of Wales and the West. The membership is split by three work areas, Commercial, Manufacturing and Public Services.

I am the President of Avon and Wessex Public Services Branch which covers Bristol, South Gloucester, BANES and North Somerset. As well as supporting our members in the workplace we also are involved in national campaigns such as, The Living Wage, Bedroom Tax, Black listing of workers and LGBT issues, which has its own campaign group: GMB SHOUT!

Are people still experiencing homophobia, transphobia and biphobia at work?

Yes – it’s not all about name calling, times have changed and discrimination can be far more subtle, being passed over for promotion, not invited to social activities and bring treated differently by work mates.

What should they do if they are?

Don’t retaliate! If they are in a UNION seek help from them. Make detailed notes of what’s happened, if you have supportive colleagues ask them if they will be a witness for you and speak to the HR Department.

If Management don’t support you contact ACAS to mediate on your behalf and if all else fails seek legal advice.

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You don’t have to wear a badge! Just be yourself, if asked about your sexuality admit it, if you feel you can. We have the right to live life as the person we are, but not the right for everyone to like us for that.

Lastly what was your first Pride? What are you looking forward to this year?

London, when it was in Kennington Park, as part of Lambeth Labour group I organised an evening event at Lambeth Town Hall. I hope to see more people support a fantastic event and the goodwill generated create a better climate for us all.

BE THE FORCE BEHIND THE FORCES. MOD – DEFENCE EQUIPMENT & SUPPORT Various Opportunities Abbey Wood, Bristol

The Ministry of Defence, Defence Equipment & Support are currently recruiting for various roles in many different departments at the Abbey Wood site in Bristol. Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) is a bespoke trading entity and arm’s length body of the Ministry of Defence. We are engaged in multi-billion pound procurement and support of defence equipment, and aspire to provide world-class support to a world-class defence force.

Within DE&S, we believe that only a diverse workforce can bring the talent and qualities that will help us be successful and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all our employees can thrive.

We run a number of networks and initiatives to ensure that the needs of all employees, regardless of age, race, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, disability or any other dimension of diversity are considered.

Employees are free to join any network and are encouraged to bring their fresh ideas to make DE&S a better place to work.

You will enjoy an impressive range of benefits, including first-class training and development, on-site fitness centre, support for flexible working, and a competitive pay and pension’s package. We have an on-site multi-faith room and four employee support networks: Pride – our newly launched network for our LGBT employees and their straight allies The MOD Women’s Network – South West Contact-Ability – The networking group for all issues relating to Disability EMC² – Ethnic and Multi-Cultural Community The Civil Service is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. We also offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet our minimum selection criteria.

To apply, please visit www.civilianjobs.mod.uk. From the advanced search option, select “Ministry of Defence” from the departmental field and search using the other criteria available.

Please ensure you follow the instructions on how to apply as all applications must be supported by a comprehensive CV and supporting statement.

The MOD is an Equal Opportunities employer and seeks to reflect the diverse community it serves. Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the stated requirements

A Force for Good.

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