If you’re up for some midweek madness look no further than today’s PrideFEST activities! Here’s what you can get involved in today!
International Micro Film Festival
The James Street Ampitheatre will be hosting an LGBTI film per day throughout PrideFEST, screening at midday and midnight. Today the film is ‘Lipstick’.
Take Me To Your Leader Pick of the Day!
This community forum presented by OUTinPerth delves into leadership in the LGBT community and how we can make sure we have advocates and spokespeople representing us in the future. 6pm at Hotel Northbridge’s Fuse Bar.
3rd Wednesday
This informal social group of LGBT friends and allies is a chilled out way to meet new people. From 6:00pm at the Brisbane Hotel.
Lesbian Mud Wrestling
Everyone’s favourite night for getting down and dirty returns to Connections, sure to be a rowdy and radical night out this Pride. Entry from 8:00pm, wrestling from 1:00am till dawn at Connections Nightclub.
A Saucy Little Secret
This cabaret production follows the lives of five strong women who influenced the development of queer lifestyle, modern blues and racial acceptance. 8:30pm at Connections Nightclub.
Conversations with the Dead
WAAPA’s Aboriginal Theatre program presents this daring theatre production based on playwright Richard Franklin’s experience as a field officer with the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. 7:30pm at WAAPA’s Geoff Gibbs Theatre.
Joey the Mechanical Boy
Based on an article published in 1959’s Scientific American, this play tells the story of a boy who loves machines so much he wants to be one, as well as the psychologist tasked with his care. 7:00pm at The Blue Room.
Those Who Fall In Love Like Anchors Dropped Upon the Ocean Floor – Pick of the Day!
This beautiful new play explores love in different forms, times and places. Check out our interview with actor Renee Newman-Storen here, or our review of the show here. 8.30pm at The Blue Room.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
This fun and adventurous night explores the musical tastes of celebrities. Will it be Mozart or Madonna? Gluck, or Gilbert and Sullivan? You’ll have to head to WAAPA’s Roundhouse theatre at 7:30pm to find out.
Synchronicity
WAAPA’s classical dance program presents a restaging of Bourneville’s classic tale which tells the story of Teresina, a young girl who falls in love with Gennaro the poor fisherman despite her mother’s wishes. At WAAPA’s Geoff Gibbs Theatre at 7:30pm.
Adam Peter Scott’s Trivia Death Match: Queer Edition
A priest, a drag queen, a political activist and a comedian walk into a bar and face off for the ultimate queer pop trivia challenge! Who will be victorious as the biggest LGBT know it all? 8:30pm at Lazy Susan’s Comedy Den Upstairs at the Brisbane Hotel.
