derryLIVElist

Launch of Love without Borders - Eden Place Arts Centre, Pilots Row Community Centre

This art exhibition showcases the creative talent of LGBT people, exploring the theme of ‘love without borders’. Artists from Derry, Donegal and beyond are contributing sculptures, paintings, photographs, textiles, pottery and much more. The exhibition will be open from Saturday 22nd August until Friday 4th September. (Not open weekends, apart from 22nd August). Official opening by Eamonn McCann at 2pm

Admission:FREE Time:2pm

Oscar Wilde: Freedom Fighter - Eden Place Arts Centre, Pilots Row Community Centre

Journalist, author and well known human rights campaigner Eamonn McCann looks at the life and tragic death of one of Irelands most famous gay sons. Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, playwright and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.  Eamonn McCann is the author of several books including the seminal War and an Irish Town the classic account of growing up Catholic in Derry’s Bogside in the lead up to the ‘Troubles’.

Admission:FREE Time:2.30pm

Sprinkles and Sparkles Gay Disco - Delacroix Bar, Buncrana Road

The whole theme of the night will be looking back at our gay history in Derry City and the North West.  DJ’S Phil and Bona Bona will spin gay and club classics. Punters will be welcomed by our drag hostesses who will help all attending to enjoy the fun and craic! This event is hosted by Unison in support of Foyle Pride!  

Admission:£5 Time:8pm

Transformation Tree Launch - St.Columb’s Park, House

FOYLE PRIDE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE RAINBOW PROJECT

Transderry will be sharing their stories in this exciting natural art installation using one of the old trees in St Columbs’ Park House, as part of their ‘Heart in the Park’ festival. You will be treated to a poetry reading written by one of the members of Transderry. This installation will be in place for the full week of Foyle Pride 2015.

Admission:FREE Time:2pm

‘Pride in Your Health’ : Health MOT Day - Foyle LGBT Centre

Drop into The Rainbow Project’s Full Day Health Clinic. Get your Blood Pressure, Cholesterol and Blood Sugar tested, as well as HIV and Syphilis testing. No appointment is necessary, however we will be running on a first come, first serve basis. We will also have 3 workshops on offer each lasting 1 hour: 12pm Meditation taster 1.30pm ‘Eat well to feel good’ 3pm ‘What’s your poison?’ Smoking cessation advice will also be available throughout the day. All attendees will be entered into a prize draw.

Admission:Free Time:12noon-3pm

Launch of Foyle Pride - Guildhall

Official launch of Foyle Gay Pride Festival with the Mayor of Derry & Strabane District Council Elisa McCallion and guests Ailbhe Smyth and writer and performer Abby Oliveira . Ailbhe Smyth, feminist, lesbian activist and former UCD academic has campaigned and written on feminist and LGBT issues for many years. She is the former chair of the National Lesbian and Gay Federation and played a key role in the successful Marriage Equality campaign in the South.

Admission:Invite Only Time:7pm

The Monday Night ‘Gay Cure’ - Sandinos

The Monday Night Gay Cure is a wild evening of spoken word performance celebrating LGBTQ lives hosted by the inimitable Abbey Oliveria and including special surprise guests. Stage open for  contributions from local performers and guests on the theme of all things LGBT.

Admission:£5 Time:9pm

Outwrite Creative Writing Workshop - Foyle LGBT Centre

Suitable for new writers as well as for those with more experience, this creative writing workshop will provide you with the opportunity to develop your writing skills and find your own direction as an LGBT writer. The workshop will be facilitated by Hilary McCollum, author of the novel Golddigger and writer of the acclaimed play Life and Love: Lesbian Style.  

Admission:Free Time:12.30-2.30pm

Before Stonewall - Nerve Centre

Using extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections, this awardwinning documentary charts the history of the gay and lesbian community before the Stonewall riots in 1969 which began the modern gay rights movement. Thirty years on from its release in 1985, Before Stonewall remains an insightful and vastly enjoyable account of lesbian and gay life during the twentieth century and is a reminder of how far we have come and how far we still have to go.  

Admission:£3 Time:7pm

Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners Photographic Exhibition - The Social

There will be a slide show exhibition of over 400 photographs, posters, minutes of meetings and correspondence from the LGSM when they were active in 1984/5, showing poignant historical events. We will also have 30 Original images. Courtesy of Mike Jackson and the Peoples History Museum, Manchester. A must see!

Admission:Free (25th - 29th Aug)

N.I. Premiere Call Me Kuchu - The Void Gallery,

Call Me Kuchu is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Malika Zouhali Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright. The film explores the struggles of the LGBT community in Uganda focusing in part on the 2011 murder of LGBT activist David Kato. The film jointly received the 2014 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary.  

Admission:Free Time:2pm

Terrible Queer Creatures - Homosexuality in Irish History by Brian Lacey - Tower Museum

The ‘love that dare not speak its name’ was as common in Ireland throughout all stages of its history as it was in other parts of the world. Under certain cultural and historical conditions the expression of homosexuality in Ireland, as elsewhere, became more accepted or, at least, more visible than at any other times. This book attempts to describe some of that visibility from early Ireland to the late 20th century. But it is clear that, like an iceberg, a far greater part of the story remains, and will almost certainly always remain, invisible. That is not just because homosexuality was often a deliberately concealed or secret thing. On the contrary, for some periods of our history its very absence from the record may in fact be a reflection of how ordinary, commonplace and unremarkable its expression was.  Brian Lacey has held numerous positions in Universities and Museums in Ireland and has directed a number of archaeological digs, particularly in the North West of the country. He is the author and editor of numerous books including Terrible Queer Creatures, The Story of Derry (1990) and A Pocket History of Irish Saints (2003). Followed by Q&A.

Admission:Free Time:7.30pm

Creativity and Activism Workshop - Void Gallery

The Rainbow Project have the pleasure of hosting this innovative workshop with special guest Mike Jackson (a founding member of ‘Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners’). Learn how can we make resistance and change enjoyable, effective and irresistible, a form of resistance that embody the movements’ principles of diversity, creativity, horizontality and direct action.

Admission:Free Time:2pm

Pride and the story that inspired it! - Omniplex Cinema, Strand Road 

Award-winning film by Steven Beresford inspired by the true story of a group of gay and lesbian activists who raised money to support mining communities during the 1984 miners’ strike. Local man Mark Ashton founded Lesbians and Gays support the Miners (LGSM) with Mike Jackson; Mike will attend and speak at this event. He will be joined by Miners wife, and later MP Sian James, and Michael Kerrigan author of the play ‘Pits and Perverts’ which looked at the same subject from an Irish perspective. Chairing the panel will be former MP and well known human rights activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. Pride was an unexpected box office hit that received standing ovations from audiences across Britain and Ireland. This irresistibly uplifting story of building community and friendship in hostile times will make you laugh and cry. 

Admission:Suggested donation £5 Time:6.30pm

Football vs Homophobia - Old Library Trust, Creggan

A 5-a-side football tournament that is open to all communities, celebrating diversity and tackling LGBT discrimination in sport. There are 2 age categories for teams: 14-17 and 18+. Each team must have a gender mix with a 3/2 split. There will be a prize for the winning teams for each age category

Admission:Free Time:1.30pm

Life and Love: Lesbian Style - The Playhouse

Sole Purpose Productions presents Winner of the Eva Gore Booth Award for Best Female Performance! A hit at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2014! Live and Love: Lesbian Style is an award winning, fast paced and wildly entertaining play based on true stories collected from lesbian and bi women of all ages in Ireland and England. Sassy and moving, funny and frank, it’s a brilliant queer take on The Vagina Monologues that will have you laughing and crying in equal measures. Performed by Abby Oliveira, Michelle Wiggins, Claire Dooher and Mel Bradley

Admission:£7 Time:8pm

Parade Day and Healthy Brunch - Foyle LGBT Centre

Start the day with a healthy brunch in The Rainbow Project’s centre. Food will be provided and fun is guaranteed.

Admission:Free Time:11am

Foyle Pride Presents DJ Uncle Margie - Sandinos

Pride is seriously delighted to introduce the very renowned and sought after DJ Uncle Margie! Founder of feminist DJ collective Corporal Pike, Brighton-based DJ Uncle Margie has played alongside the likes of JD Samson and Don Letts and performs across the UK and internationally; her record collection encompasses post-Punk, distorted Disco, Soul and Balearic styles for eclectic and diverse dance floor action. Highly recommended!

Admission:£5 Time:8pm

Foyle Pride Parade - Assemble at the Railway Station, Duke Street, Waterside

Five years on from Derry’s first gay pride March and thirty years since Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) led the London Gay Pride parade in 1985, the Foyle Pride committee continues in that tradition of protest and celebration. Get on your glad rags, bring your whistles and drums and join in to celebrate our achievements so far and the continued campaign for full equality.  The parade leaves at 2pm sharp and makes its way to the Guildhall square where patrons will enjoy music and craic from 3pm.  The party will be hosted by the highly entertaining Claire Dooher.  

Admission:Free Time:departs 2pm for Guildhall

LGBT Family Picnic - St Columb’s Park

Here NI and In Your Space invite LGBT families to a picnic in St. Columb’s Park as part of this year’s Carnival of Colours. Food will be provided.

Admission:Free Time:2pm

Pride Ball and Disco with Mirenda Rosenburg Band and DJ Ann Harley - City Hotel

Admission:£10 Time:8pm-late