Women on Women

The WoW drop-in will be closed just for 31st July-Pride Day! but we’ll be there with the stallhoders at the Forum, so come and see us there.and here’s a few of the other things that will be happening:
Sing and Dance with Pride, Millennium Plain, 10-1pm
Open Sessions for everyone outside the Forum:
10am Pride Choir: wonderful harmonies with Stephanie Anderson
11am Latin American Dance lesson with Miller Dance Studio
12noon Line Dancing with Applejax

Family-friendly Fun at the Norwich Arts Centre, 10.30-12pm
Join the Rainbow Families for a morning of facepainting, music and storytelling and help your children get ready for the Pride Parade. Free.

Speakers and Discussions, The Curve , from 11am
Pride Tshirt Printing, Theatre Plain (next to the Forum), 10am
Artists from Stew Gallery will be screen-printing Pride t-shirts while-u-wait. Only 100 tshirts available on the day so come early to avoid disappointment.

Future Radio, Theatre Plain (next to Forum) 12 – 3pm
Norwich’s community radio station will be doing live broadcasts and interviews.

Pride Picnic, Chapelfield Gardens, 12-2pm
You bring the picnic, we’ll provide the entertainment. There’s loads of things happening on the bandstand and around the park: DGAS drummers, Ukulele Society, Jess Morgan, Golden Star Morris Dancers, Porta-party and the Warhol Factory Rejects, Poetry Corner, the Gay Play, The Human Library, Wendy’s Treasure Hunt, face painting and storytelling. Please note – Chaplefield Gardens is an alcohol-free zone.

Pride Parade, leaves Chaplefield Bandstand at 2pm
The Norwich Samba Band will lead the Parade along Theatre Street, Gentlemans Walk and up to Millennium Plain, outside The Forum. Everyone is welcome to join in – be loud, be proud, be yourself.

Celebration, Millennium Plain (outside The Forum), 3-4.30pm
Showcasing the talent of a range of local acts including: The Killer Queens, Jessica Todd, Vince Laws, Pequlia Bigtopp, Angie Bannister (winner of LGBT History Month Talent Show), our Pride Choir, Eileen Mascoll, Bispatial and Crude Apache. Also joining us on Millennium Plain will be the Rainbow Bus, the ‘biggest, gayest bus in the world!’ The Rainbow Bus comes from Pink Punters Night Club in Milton Keynes and supports national LGBT issues/events/ campaigns and charities.

Jojo’s at Marzanos, from 4.30pm
DJ No Nombre takes us through the afternoon from 4.30pm. Latin/ afro bar grooves, warming up for guitarists/singers,and Sean Seraphim. No Nombre also welcomes Guest DJ IS -“real feel good music soulful funky house-chillstyle-ish!!” – to kit us out for parties across town later!

Pride Interfaith Service, Octagon Chapel, Colegate, 6pm
Unitarianism has a history of celebration of diversity, and was one of the first denominations in the UK to openly accept gay people into ministry. You are very welcome to stay for tea and coffee after the service

More events and info, and leaflet to download www.norwichpride.org.uk

Friday 30th July, Zoe Lyons, Miss Machismo, Norwich Playhouse, 8pm, £10 (or 4 tickets for the price of 3 if you say the magic word “Pride” when booking your tickets)

If.Comedy nominee and multi-award winning comedienne Zoe Lyons presents an hour of punchy comedy that explores amongst other things, arming the elderly, human soup, and the Pope’s remarks about the blurring of the genders. Zoe thought this was a curious comment from a man who insists on wearing a frock with pretty red shoes, but then people do say the strangest things. According to one audience member she encountered this year all lesbians pee standing up and you need balls to be a comedian. Well… OK then, Ladies and Gentlemen please welcome… Miss Machismo.

Friday 30th July, Hocus Pocus Theatre’s CARNIVAL CABARET, Norwich Arts Centre, 8pm-midnight, £10
Come and join the Carnival as Hocus Pocus Theatre launch PRIDE with a wondrous show of magnificent proportion. Prepare to be amazed as they unveil some special side show oddities and present a host of top class cabaret acts. An all singing all dancing spectacular with a healthy dose of comedy and a few naughty bits too. Plus DJ JazzLord will be spinning a sublime mix of 50’s jump jive blues, ska, calypso and Latin American Jazz in the café bar.

Thursday 29th July, La Cage Aux Folles, Cinema City, 9pm, various prices

The most successful French film of the 1970s, based on a long-running boulevard farce which went on to enjoy an ’80s afterlife as a Broadway musical. Gay cabaret owners Renato and Albin are persuaded by Renato’s son (the product of a fleeting heterosexual relationship) to act straight in an attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of his fiancee’s parents, the epitome of stuffy bourgeois rectitude. Immensely superior to its two sequels. Introduced by George Pearce, Chair of Norfolk Constabulary Independent Advisory Group.

Tuesday 27th July, Kick-off to Pride, Eaton Park, 7pm (free)

A friendly kickabout organised by Claire “Waggsie” Chapman for Norwich Pride. We’ll be the ones having fun with a pink football near the rainbow flags. If it rains, we’ll go to the Coach and Horses, Union St for a drink.

Monday 26th July, Coffee with Councillors, St Gregorys Centre for the Arts,pottergae, Norwich 11am-1pm (free)

Have some tea, coffee and cake with County Councillors and find out the results of their consultation with over 350 LGBT people about what it’s like to be LGBT in Norfolk today.