The (Out of the) Village Fete
28 August, after the Pride Parade
Our annual post-parade picnic is going to be bigger and better than ever, with free food, performers, live art, stalls, music, and kids' enterainment! Running at the UMIST students' union building (see below), just two minutes walk away from the villlage, we'll head down straight after the parade for a lovely free afternoon of fun for LGBTQ people—and bring your straight friends too!
We still need help on our organising teams, and we need performers and artists to get involved and help make the day even more spectacular. If you want to get involved, we have two organising meetings left—on the 16th and on the 23rd August, both at 6pm. For more information, please see our Pride 2010 events.
If you're on Facebook, please mark yourself as attending on our Facebook event and join our group so we can keep you up-to-date with our events afterward!
We've taken care to have both alcohol-free and alcohol-fuelled spaces, and the venue is wheelchair accessible. If you're planning to come and you have any accessibility requirements, then please send us an email (jennie.b.ohara@gmail.com) and we'll do our best to make our event accessible to you.
Directions
To find us from the village, head away from town along Sackville Street (the road Tribecca is on), until you get to the university campus on your left. Take a left and walk along until you see us! We're going to be putting directions all over the place on the day, but just in case you miss them, there's a map below as well.
View UMIST campus map in a larger map
Press
Press releases:
- 23 August 2010: Reclaim the Scene
- 17 August 2010: Announcing The (Out of the) Village Fete
Any press enquiries should be directed to Alan Bailey via email (alan.bailey@nus.org.uk) or phone (0791 932 3936).
Here's some press coverage we've had so far:
- The Mule: Picnic to Reclaim Pride from Profiteers
- Counterfire: Pride: Too high a Price for our Protest? We think so...
- G7: Alternatives to Manchester Pride happening this month
- BBC Manchester: Manchester Pride has 'dumbed down', says gay group
- Lesbilicious: Reclaim the Scene to tackle "commercialisation" of Manchester Pride this weekend
- PinkNews.co.uk: Manchester Pride Accused of Dumbing Down
- City news in 250 words: Friday 27 August: City news in 250 Words, Friday 27 August
- The Most Cake: Pride and the pink pound: is corporate sponsorship of pride a bad thing?
- Diva Blog: Does Manchester Pride Make You Proud?
About Us
Reclaim the Scene is collective of LGBTQ activists working to create a more accessible, friendly and welcoming space for LGBTQ people in Manchester. We want:
- An accessible, friendly and welcoming 'scene'.
- Pride to be free (are we too poor to be gay?)
- LGBTQ rights to top the Pride and the scene's agenda
