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After pride

Leicester Pride 2003 a ‘stunning success’

Leicester Pride Press Pack

Leicester Pride has released a Press Pack for media agencies looking to cover the annual lesbian, gay and bisexual festival to be held in the city on Saturday 21st June 2003.

The Press Pack contains information about the Parade and Festival including:

• Latest news about the Pride Parade;
• Running order on the Main Stage;
• Copies of all LP03 Press Releases;
• Background information about Leicester Pride;
• Passes & Parking Permits.
  

PRESS RELEASE 15/06/03

Main Stage Programme Announced for Leicester Pride Festival

PRESS RELEASE 09/06/03

Stars of the Silver Screen Join the Leicester Pride Parade

PRESS RELEASE 19/05/03

Details of Leicester Pride 2003

PRESS RELEASE 22/04/03

Leicester Pride announces its summer programme of launch events

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PRESS RELEASE 13/04/03

Leicester Pride announces its innovative arts programme and “Living Community” video project

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PRESS RELEASE 23/03/03

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From: Leicester Pride Ltd.

Story: Leicester Pride Ltd. announces its new Open Stage policy and invites local performers to participate in this summer’s Pride festival (21/06/03)

Contact: Sal Khalifa, Stage Co-ordinator, Leicester Pride 2003 (mobile: 07813158573, email: info@leicesterpride.co.uk)

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Call for Talent – Leicester Pride 2003

Leicester Pride – the annual lesbian and gay arts festival for Leicester and the East Midlands – invites local performers to participate in this year’s festival on Saturday 21st June 2003.

Announcing the organisation’s new Open Stage policy, Sal Khalifa, the Leicester Pride Stage Co-ordinator, said that:

We would love to hear from local established and aspiring performers in the areas of music, dance and cabaret who are interested in joining the lesbian and gay community on our day of celebration. Leicester Pride is a community arts forum, dedicated to programming the best of local talent alongside artists from across the UK. As we are based in one of the UK’s most celebrated multi-cultural communities, we are also committed to building a unique cross cultural programme. Last year we featured the music of Bollywood, Egyptian dance and Punjabi drumming alongside pop and rock acts and cabaret artists to great success. We hope that the involvement of artists from Leicester’s Black and Asian communities will help build relationships between communities and find new audiences.

Leicester Pride has a number of stages that will be used to showcase local talent at this summer’s festival including moving performance platforms in the Pride Parade, the Main Stage at the heart of the festival arena and the Trade Dance Tent. The one-day festival features approximately 15 hours of live parallel programming giving plenty of scope for the involvement of artists from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines.

Individuals and groups interested in performing at Leicester Pride 2003 are invited to request an application pack from Leicester Pride (Tel: 0116 2541747). Completed applications should be returned with publicity material and sample CDs or other illustrations of work to Sal Khalifa, the Leicester Pride Stage-Co-ordinator: Leicester Pride, 15 Wellington Street, Leicester, LE1 6HH. The deadline for applications is 30 April 2003. Material sent in support of applications cannot be returned.

Leicester Pride’s Open Stage initiative is funded by the Arts Council as part of a wider project to further develop the performance programme at the Festival. The full grant of £25,000 includes capacity to involve Black and Asian artists as well as funding to develop the quality of the performance infrastructure (stage, sound, backstage facilities) at the event.

NOTES FOR EDITORS:

1) Leicester Pride is the annual lesbian, gay and bisexual festival for Leicester and the East Midlands. Taking place in June each year, the festival includes a parade through the city centre and a multi-cultural arts festival on Victoria Park. Attendance at the 2002 festival reached 9,500 - a record for the event. 2) Leicester Pride is organised by Leicester Pride Ltd - a company managed by an executive committee of volunteers - and is staged in partnership with the city’s LGB services, gay venues and arts centres. 3) Leicester Pride is a free non profit-making event and is funded by awards from the Arts Council and Citizenship 21, the event’s sponsors, fundraising by the city’s LGBT venues and income generated from the festival site. 4) Reviews of Leicester Pride 2002 praised the festival for the diversity of its staging, including Bollywood singers, Egyptian dancers and Punjabi drummers to reflect the city’s vibrant mutli-culturalism.

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