The lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans charity in Milton Keynes. Visit us on the web at http://www.qalliance.org.u
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- Founded:
- 2007
Are you all geared up for Celebr8 next Monday? It'll be a fabulous parade celebrating diversity in Milton Keynes.
There'll be people from lots of different communities and backgrounds including Q:alliance and Rainbow, the biggest, gayest bus in the world!
The parade kicks off at 4:30 in Campbell Park, but there'll be an opportunity to join the parade at 6pm just outside Christ the Cornerstone Church (opposite Marks & Spencers in CMK) if you can't make it to the start.
The parade will finish with some speakers and lots of live entertainment.
For more details, visit the Facebook group.
There'll be people from lots of different communities and backgrounds including Q:alliance and Rainbow, the biggest, gayest bus in the world!
The parade kicks off at 4:30 in Campbell Park, but there'll be an opportunity to join the parade at 6pm just outside Christ the Cornerstone Church (opposite Marks & Spencers in CMK) if you can't make it to the start.
The parade will finish with some speakers and lots of live entertainment.
For more details, visit the Facebook group.
PARADE TIMINGS
4:30pm - Gather at Campbell Park to allow for schools to join the parade.
5:00pm - Parade moves off led by the ION Puppett, along the designated route, cordoned where necessary and stewarded.
6:00pm - Staging post at Church of Christ the cornerstone, allowing people who have been working to join the parade.
6.30pm - Parade leaving for Station Square.
7.15pm - Parade Arrives at station Square.
7.30pm - Guest speakers and launch of 2009 Festival.
8:00pm - Entertainment.
8.30pm - Event ends.
4:30pm - Gather at Campbell Park to allow for schools to join the parade.
5:00pm - Parade moves off led by the ION Puppett, along the designated route, cordoned where necessary and stewarded.
6:00pm - Staging post at Church of Christ the cornerstone, allowing people who have been working to join the parade.
6.30pm - Parade leaving for Station Square.
7.15pm - Parade Arrives at station Square.
7.30pm - Guest speakers and launch of 2009 Festival.
8:00pm - Entertainment.
8.30pm - Event ends.
[Posted on behalf of Charlotte Cooper]
Coming Soon!
London's fat queers and their pals are coming together to challenge the greed of the diet industry and body fascism within the gay community by producing a food festival that celebrates body diversity.
The Fat of the Land: A Queer Chub Harvest Festival is a DIY food fest, synthesizing interest in slow food, recession-busting, sustainable food, 'make-and-do' and craft culture with a fat queer sensibility. It is intended as a secular fat queerifying of a traditional harvest gathering, and the organizers positively
welcome multicultural interpretations of the theme.
The Fat of the Land is child friendly and open to people of all sizes and sexualities.
It will feature:
• Activities: crafting, traditional games, competitions for best jam, best chutney, best cake, best produce, best vegetable monster and more
• Stalls, refreshments, and information about Health At Every Size
• Art: Allyson Mitchell's grotto will be open for visits
• Evening Performance: including a group rendition of
• The Fat Queer Harvest Hymn, written especially for the event, and special surprise act by Chopin Gard
Visitors are encouraged to bring along a tin of unwanted food to be donated to a prominent diet guru – the respondent will be chosen on the day.
Co-organiser and fat queer activist Charlotte Cooper explains:
"We see The Fat of the Land as a celebration of the abundance of harvest time and our connection to the rhythms of nature and creativity, albeit executed in our own idiosyncratic, outsider, warped, prankish, punk, 21st century, Wicker Man style.
"It is a defiant celebration of abundance and plenty amidst a 'healthy living' agenda in the UK that is often reductionist, fatphobic and mean, and is thus health-enhancing for people of all sizes."
Details
The Fat of the Land: A Queer Chub Harvest Festival
Saturday 3 October 2009
St Anne's, 55 Dean Street, Soho, London.
This is an accessible venue.
£5/£2.50 concessions.
2-5pm stalls and activities
5-6pm competition judging
6-8pm performances
Notes:
3 October 2009 is the weekend of this year's Harvest Moon.
We are seeking volunteers.
The Fat of The Land is being principally organised by Charlotte Cooper, and Naz Jamal and Jason Elvis Barker of The Queer Institute. It has been made possible by a Small Projects Across the Land loan by
NOLOSE, the US organisation for fat dykes and their allies.
The Fat of the Land seeks to capitalise on the success of the Chubsters event at the 2009 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, which witnessed a fierce outpouring of fat-queer activism in the
UK and a hunger expressed by many of the participants for more events of such a nature.
Contact
Charlotte Cooper mail@charlottecooper.net 07908 746931
Jason Elvis Barker, Nazmia Jamal: queerinstitute@gmail.com
Blog http://queerchub.blogspot.
Twitter http://twitter.com/thebeef
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ev
Please feel free to help spread the word!
Coming Soon!
London's fat queers and their pals are coming together to challenge the greed of the diet industry and body fascism within the gay community by producing a food festival that celebrates body diversity.
The Fat of the Land: A Queer Chub Harvest Festival is a DIY food fest, synthesizing interest in slow food, recession-busting, sustainable food, 'make-and-do' and craft culture with a fat queer sensibility. It is intended as a secular fat queerifying of a traditional harvest gathering, and the organizers positively
welcome multicultural interpretations of the theme.
The Fat of the Land is child friendly and open to people of all sizes and sexualities.
It will feature:
• Activities: crafting, traditional games, competitions for best jam, best chutney, best cake, best produce, best vegetable monster and more
• Stalls, refreshments, and information about Health At Every Size
• Art: Allyson Mitchell's grotto will be open for visits
• Evening Performance: including a group rendition of
• The Fat Queer Harvest Hymn, written especially for the event, and special surprise act by Chopin Gard
Visitors are encouraged to bring along a tin of unwanted food to be donated to a prominent diet guru – the respondent will be chosen on the day.
Co-organiser and fat queer activist Charlotte Cooper explains:
"We see The Fat of the Land as a celebration of the abundance of harvest time and our connection to the rhythms of nature and creativity, albeit executed in our own idiosyncratic, outsider, warped, prankish, punk, 21st century, Wicker Man style.
"It is a defiant celebration of abundance and plenty amidst a 'healthy living' agenda in the UK that is often reductionist, fatphobic and mean, and is thus health-enhancing for people of all sizes."
Details
The Fat of the Land: A Queer Chub Harvest Festival
Saturday 3 October 2009
St Anne's, 55 Dean Street, Soho, London.
This is an accessible venue.
£5/£2.50 concessions.
2-5pm stalls and activities
5-6pm competition judging
6-8pm performances
Notes:
3 October 2009 is the weekend of this year's Harvest Moon.
We are seeking volunteers.
The Fat of The Land is being principally organised by Charlotte Cooper, and Naz Jamal and Jason Elvis Barker of The Queer Institute. It has been made possible by a Small Projects Across the Land loan by
NOLOSE, the US organisation for fat dykes and their allies.
The Fat of the Land seeks to capitalise on the success of the Chubsters event at the 2009 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, which witnessed a fierce outpouring of fat-queer activism in the
UK and a hunger expressed by many of the participants for more events of such a nature.
Contact
Charlotte Cooper mail@charlottecooper.net 07908 746931
Jason Elvis Barker, Nazmia Jamal: queerinstitute@gmail.com
Blog http://queerchub.blogspot.
Twitter http://twitter.com/thebeef
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ev
Please feel free to help spread the word!
Q:alliance's Notes
Celebr8!Sep 15, 2009
Celebr8 Timings...Sep 14, 2009
The Fat of the Land: A Queer Chub Harvest FestivalSep 8, 2009
Have your say on Transport Gateways in MK!Sep 7, 2009