PRIDE
MAY 23 – JUNE 1
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This year’s festivities return with three main stages, a kids’ zone, a job fair, an expanded community zone and a 55+ trailblazer lounge.
BARRY KARLENZIG Photo by Darcy Finley
“We understand that large crowds can be stressful for people. We have a quiet room at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights that has the festival piped in,” he says. “Canada Life Centre has an accessible viewing area inside and an outside barricaded area. Last year we had the Pride parade live-streamed.” From a sustainability perspective, Karlenzig says they encourage the parade floats to keep the greenhouse gases down. In addition, plastic water bottles have been banned, and composting is done with all food trucks.
In partnership with Recycle Everywhere, all garbage is sorted on site. Accessibility is another priority for organizers, and considerable work has been done to ensure that continues to expand. “We are working to try and secure live closed
This year’s festivities return with three main stages, a kids’ zone, a job fair, an expanded community zone and a 55+ trailblazer lounge. Perhaps most notable is that the impacts of Pride season are far-reaching and life-changing for many. Manny Calisto and his husband Bradley West have been attending Pride events for decades. “Our Pride parade has always been, and will always be, a protest march. That is more true today than ever with the never-ending attacks on trans members of our community,” Calisto says.
captioning and have ASL on all events,” Karlenzig says. “For all press releases,
everything is in English and French. We have 40 to 45 per cent French performers; we have Indigenous, queer, people of colour, and it’s very Manitoba-focused.”
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JUST LIKE OPERA, LOVE COMES IN ALL DIFFERENT COLOURS HAPPY PRIDE FROM
WHEN INCLUSIVITY THRIVES,
Happy Pride, Winnipeg!
L-R: Angel Blue (Violetta), La Traviata , 2018. Elliot Madore (Figaro), The Barber of Seville , 2019. Andrea Lett (Zerlina), Don Giovanni , 2018. Ileana Montalbetti (Leonore), Fidelio , 2014. Gregory Dahl (George), Of Mice and Men , 2016. Lara Ciekiewicz (Countess), The Marriage of Figaro , 2015. Photos 1, 2: C. Corneau; Photos 3-6: R. Tinker
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