The “Queer as Political” Exhibition with its reinterpretation of Irish Queer figures continues in The Other Place, LGBT Resource Centre. And today’s Pride Film Festival movie at 8pm is the 2004 documentary “Saints and Sinners” about Edward and Vincent, a couple a of devout Catholics who want to get married, as in “The Holy Sacrament of Marriage”. “Saints and Sinners” is being shown in the...
This is the Cork Pride audio guide for Monday May 30th 2011 After a lengthy launch night, things get a little gentler on Monday 30th May 2011. The “Queer as Political” Exhibition with its reinterpretation of Irish Queer figures continues in The Other Place, LGBT Resource Centre. The LGBT Film Festival also continues at 8pm in the Camden Palace Hotel with the 1999 German documentary “Gendernauts” in which Monika Treut...
Sunday opens the official Cork Pride 2011 with a very traditional sounding LGBT Pride service at the Princes Street Unitarian Church at 11am. However this is a Queering Spirituality event led by Davey Shanahan, so maybe this free event is not that traditional at all. Things go a little quiet until 8pm where a multitude of bookings arrive. The Film Festival continues in Camden Palace Hotel with the 2001 Danish film “Shake It”. It...
Tomorrow is the first day of the Cork Pride festival, but tonight is the first day of the LGBT Film Festival running in the Camden Palace Hotel on Camden Place. By the way, no idea why its not Camden Quay. The opening party is at 7pm with the film itself starting at 8pm. The first film is the 1999 German drama “Aimée & Jaguar”. Set during the 1943/44 “Battle of Berlin”. We find Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish...
We’ve had a few questions as to why there is a “Join the Parade” form. Well, if you still wish to join, either with a float, vehicle or as a marching group of 10 or more people, then its is important that you fill in the online “Join the Parade” form. See the update below. If you’re a group and you do not fill in the form then you will not be able to join in the parade. Why the form? Why all the questions? We...
