Click to enjoy the latest deals and coupons of midsumma festival and save up to 30% when making purchase at checkout. Check out sports displays, get poochsmooched at the famous dog show, or test out your favourite songs in the lipsync limelight competition. Midsumma gay festival melbourne 2015 cambrehm duration. Australias premier 22day queer arts experience, midsumma festival, have launched the 2020 program. National post fly is a fine foil for hages funny and acerbic observations on everything from religious hypocrisy to aberrant sex. Thanks to the support of our principal partner, city of melbourne, carnival 20 will once again be a free celebration for the entire community to enjoy. Midsumma festival news newspapers books scholar jstor august 2019 learn how and when to remove this. Commission staff members had another fantastic day at the annual midsumma carnival event on sunday 15 january. With a diverse lineup of djs and performers across two stages. The shows title originally used an exclamation point. Alga will again be having an information table in two locations. More than 100,000 flocked to midsumma carnival on january 18 in alexandra gardens, but midsumma. The 2018 midsumma festival program brings a diverse mix of artists, performers, communities and audiences together under a single umbrella for a celebration and innovative presentation of queer.
Midsumma carnival opens the festival on sun 15 jan. Biggest queer outdoor party of melbournes queer calendar from 6pm, midsumma carnival morphs into t dance, hosted by your favourite trio of subversive drag, the beastie girls, as well as every foodies wet dream, aysha buffet. The appropriately named midsumma festival takes over the city every january with an explosion of lgbtqia pride. Following the midsumma carnival, the festival program will be unleashed, with no less than 167 different events. This carnival, we suggest a fun and creative experience, inspired in 4 stories and its famous characters. Led by professional artists and arts workers, this program will be. We specialize in mysteries, suspense and author events, a. The festivals performing arts program includes musicals, theatre, cabaret, film, spoken word, music events and dance parties.
This years festival is punctuated by three signature outdoor events. Discover the best new music, travel, film, gaming, arts, food, culture and book content on australias premiere independent online publication. Book a table, or take a chance to get hooked up with a team. Midsumma reveals 2019 festival program australian arts. Queer unsettled is presented by midsumma, and the major project for the 2020 festival provocative and unearthing, queer unsettled celebrates stories from pacific womxn of colour, indigenous perspectives, drag race darlings from thailand, dance stars from taiwan, asylum seekers from iran and queer diaspora communities as they take up space through storytelling, live music, multidisciplinary. The 2019 midsumma festival runs 19 january 10 february. Midsumma carnival day january 19, 2018 by chris what a buzz. The largest and one of the longestrunning lgbt celebrations in melbourne. John caldwell chair of midsumma on midsumma, the carnival, the diversity and variety of the 2019 midsumma program and its venues, the midsumma extravaganza, the bar at malthouse and team melbournes sporting precinct at. Midsumma festival reveals 2018 program australian arts. Be environmentally conscious and bring your reusable vessels and paper or stainless steel straws and party into an evening of dance, a fantastic lineup of. There are many opportunities for you to be involved.
Program guide midsumma festival 2020 midsumma festival. Dan rochefort president of globe on their midsumma presence, their community awards and community grants program. Midsumma carnival midsumma festival midsumma festival. Midsumma pride march new stories of the familiar summa pride stage pg 29 pg 75 23 jan, 6pm 2 feb, 12pm archer magazines first nations nocturnal x midsumma.
Midsumma festival beautiful women midsumma festival midsumma pride march midsumma festival midsumma carnival and tdance midsumma festival midsumma horizon. Midsumma festival kicks off with midsumma carnival on sunday 19 january in alexandra gardens and pride march returning to st kilda on sunday 2 february 2020. Midsumma festival, melbourne gay festival travel gay. Midsumma festival 2017 runs from jan 15 feb 5 and will highlight a variety of queer. Deaf, draws, drinks midsumma carnival main stage pg 78 pg 74 6 feb, 7. Info australias premier 22day queer arts experience, midsumma festival, have launched the 2020 program. Kickstart the celebrations with the midsumma carnival on sunday 20 jan 2019 from 11am to 10pm at alexandra gardens, st kilda rd, melbourne. Be environmentally conscious and bring your reusable vessels and paper or stainless steel straws and party into an evening of dance, a. Midsumma festival reveals 2018 program australian pride. Its largely known for its killer parties and pride march, but theres also an. In 20 midsumma will celebrate its 25th anniversary, so come and join us on sunday january at birrarung marr for the single biggest event in midsummas program carnival. Midsumma carnival is a glassfree event, so bring your own sustainable cups and paper straws. The 2018 midsumma festival program by midsumma festival issuu.
Midsumma carnival will serveup a tasting plate of performances and personalities from the festival program in one giant showcase with something for everyone. Carnival is the showcase of all the queer culture thats to come over the 3 weeks of midsumma. In 2018, the program featured 170 cultural, social and community events across 100 different venues around melbourne and wider victoria. The midsumma carnival will serve up a tasting plate of performances and personalities from the festival program in one giant showcase with something for everyone. Greek and gay support network will have a stall at midsumma carnival this sunday 14th january 2018. More than 100,000 flocked to this years midsumma carnival, but donations were few and far between. Greeks at midsumma carnival 2018 greek and gay greek. All performance events cabaret circus comedy dance interactive performance musical spoken word theatre variety. Chill out in the sun to live music, djs and acts from the festival to come. Held annually since 1988, midsumma festival has been championing diversity. Midsumma festival 2020 launches program the movie boards. Carnival is a rich and compelling read, a testament to a daring and talented novelist. Midsumma festival program guide midsumma festival 2020. Each year, midsumma festival hosts an excellent program of events, shows, activities and parties including the carnival, pride march, t dance, film screenings, comedy shows, sports, family events, etc.
Its an allday, allnight party with bite sized performances for you at this glassfree event. Food and drink enjoy affordable food from melbournes best food trucks as well as. Midsumma festival 2020, melbourne concrete playground. Midsumma carnival 2020 melbourne sunday 19 january in alexandra gardens the most fabulous queerdayout presented by midsumma festival biggest event of melbournes queer calendar fun in the sun for an allday and allnight party to celebrate the beginning of another fabulous midsumma festival. Anne gave the store a bright, clean makeover and has been rewarded by authors and customers loyal to the store. Our stall saw lots of foot traffic, giving us great opporunities to chat with community members about the issues that are important to them, as well as the work we do to tackle discrimination.
These performing arts events are largely produced by the community. Pride in diversity is australias first and only notforprofit workplace program designed specifically to assist australian employers with the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex lgbti employees. Rd asia pacific outgames, darwin, 14 may coming events sunday 12 january 2014, from 11am. Midsumma carnival 2020 whats on melbourne only melbourne. Kirsty webeck australias premier 22day queer arts experience, midsumma festival, have launched the 2020 program. Midsumma festival 2020 is now over, but you can still read about the fabulous precovid19 program that was such a success. On sunday 19 january 2020 you can find us at the midsumma carnival in alexandra gardens, melbourne attending a stall alongside other neighbouring councils between 11am5pm. Get 9 midsumma festival coupon codes and promo codes at couponbirds. The massive program kicks off with a bang at the midsumma carnival, on sunday, january 19, in alexandra gardens. Carnival marks the official opening of the midsumma festival each year and 2017 was an amazing day for it. Midsumma curated events also include midsumma australia post art prize. Check out the important dates on this page for all your key dates. The 30th midsumma festival opens with a party at melbournes alexandra gardens.
Large print, plain text and screen reader versions of the program can be downloaded on the midsumma website. With the three week festival finishing up for another successful year, total attendance for the 2020 midsumma festival are expected to exceed 255,000 attendances across aread more. Midsumma festival never fails to attract over 150,000 individuals from around the globe annually and the 2017 season is sure to be no different. Join us at the midsumma carnival on sunday 19 january. Midsumma festival reveals 2018 program november 23, 2017 festivals, latest news midsumma festival returns to melbourne in all its wild finery this summer, bringing a wave of preeminent queer arts and cultural festivities from 14 january to 4 february 2018. In sept 2010, book carnival was purchased by longtime customer, anne saller.
We hope you enjoy our diverse festival program, made up of visual arts, theatre, spoken word, cabaret. Come visit and say hi and find out about our preparations for pride. Midsumma reveals 2019 festival program australian pride. Financial worries cloud future of midsumma carnival.
Midsumma festival will open on sunday 17 january 2021, with midsumma carnival in the alexandra gardens and midsumma pride march returning to st kilda, probably on sunday 31 january 2021. The musical is based on the 1953 film lili, which again was based on the novel love of seven dolls by paul gallico. The best events at midsumma festival time out melbourne. Midsumma has a proud history of celebrating and championing all things queer. Bent bollywood is a queer dance show that combines the technical rigour of classical indian dance, the camp theatrics of bollywood and everything that is weird and wonderful about queer performance art. Therell be 11 hours of live music and entertainment on the main stage, heaps of food stalls and bars, plus the return of. Waacking, power and diaspora among the reveal of midsumma. Check out sports displays, get poochsmooched at the famous dog show, see some amazing queer creations at the new fashion design competition, or test out your favourite songs in the lipsync limelight. Midsumma festival 2020 wrapped up in a blaze of glory this sunday 9 february with one of australias biggest vocals, and a force to be reckoned with, kira puru.
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