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Coming up in Albany, WA - March 2023:

Albany Pride is excited to announce the launch of the Albany Pride Festival 2023 program – featuring an impressive and diverse lineup of events.

Albany Pride Festival will return in 2023 from Friday, 3rd – Sunday, 12th March. The theme for this year’s Pride Festival is “Let’s Get Visible”, with visibility and inclusion being a guiding focus for the program – and providing a fun, ‘80s-esque design theme.

The Pride Festival will bring the usual mix of frivolity and celebration, drag, arts events, active games and competitions, and family and youth events, but the upcoming festival has had a particular concentration on providing a more diverse range of events, and a focus on accessibility and inclusion.

As well as providing a time of celebration and community for the region’s local LGBTIQA+ community, the Albany Pride Festival has grown to become a tourist event for the region, bringing in hundreds of visitors providing a boost for the local economy – and a time to show off everything Albany/Kinjarling and the surrounding regions have to offer as a place to visit, and indeed, live.

Grab your tickets, learn more and see the full line up at www.albanypridefestival.com.au

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This event is not run or managed by AusPride. Contact the event organiser listed above for details and more info. Info correct at time of publication.

Upcoming in Marrickville, NSW:

'Nails Must Be Kept Short: The Warm Up'
Book and Lyrics by Sophie Davis and Laura McDonald
Music by Harry Collins

Proudly Supported by Inner West Council.

Developed through Fruit Box Theatre’s RIPE Development Program and presented during Sydney WorldPride 2023.

It’s not what’s on the bib that matters, it’s who’s underneath it.

Nails Must Be Kept Short: The Warm Up is the premiere showcase of music from new Australian musical by Sophie Davis and Laura McDonald, with music by Harry Collins.

This cutting-edge comedy satirises the damaging ideologies often present in religious institutions through the guise of a netball cult.

Worlds collide when The Untouchaballs, a q***r social team, get promoted to the big time - an elite league in Sydney's North. The league's golden girl, Bec, finds herself at a crossroads when the new players shake up the strict culture of the netball scene. As things heat up, both on and off the court, Bec must confront some uncomfortable truths. Can she take the heat? Will she be able to respect the 'no contact' rule when a new player in the opposition catches her eye?

Meanwhile, the q***r players are on a ride of their own, thrust into a world that doesn’t accept them. The pressure is on as the desire to belong turns a great sporting opportunity into a nightmare.

With a banging repertoire of contemporary rock-pop numbers, Nails Must Be Kept Short uses music and humour to dismantle the dangerous effects of oppressive ideologies. It's a chaotic, outrageous and unforgettable celebration of being exactly who you are.

Don't miss your shot.

When and where:
Performance Dates: 1 March - 3 March
Venue: Factory Floor, Factory Theatre
Time: 7:30 - 8:30pm
Link: https://www.factorytheatre.com.au/event/nails-must-be-kept-short-the-warm-up/

Credits and people:
Book and Lyrics / Directors Sophie Davis and Laura McDonald
Music Harry Collins
Music Director Zara Stanton
Producer Sarah Carroll
Executive Producers Madeleine Gandhi and Sean Landis
Designer Isobel Sanby
Dramaturg Rowan Brunt
AV Matthew Miceli Photography

With Addy Robertson, Cypriana Singh, CJ, Jack Francis West, Katelin Koprivec, Kayla-Rose De Sousa, Laurie-Ann Wooley, Madeleine Wighton, Marissa Saroca and Sinead Cristaudo.

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This event was submitted to AusPride by the event organiser, Fruit Box Theatre. This event is not run or managed by AusPride.

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Coming up in Darlinghurst, NSW:

'Comfort, Spin, Travel'
A Play by Lu Bradshaw

Developed through Fruit Box Theatre’s RIPE Development Program and presented during Sydney WorldPride 2023.

“I carry with me an illustrious history of anger”

It’s 11:00pm and our trans-masculine narrator is in a deserted Officeworks. They are playing “Comfort, Spin, Travel”, a game designed to test the efficacy of wheely chairs.

A playful exploration of family, community, and gender identity, Comfort, Spin, Travel explores the responsibility placed on trans people to advocate, educate, and be endlessly patient. How do we measure the usefulness of a person? And what happens when you stop playing the game?

When and where:
Performance Dates: 24 February - 11 March 2023
Venue: Main Stage, Meraki Arts Bar
Link: https://events.humanitix.com/comfort-spin-travel?_ga=2.64445039.1770021937.1670146338-37408148.1641355307

Credits and people:
Writer Lu Bradshaw
Director Emma Burns
Producer Em Small
Executive Producers Madeleine Gandhi and Sean Landis
Lighting Designer Thomas Hicks
Sound Designer Georgia Condon
Dramaturg Rowan Brunt
AV Matthew Miceli Photography

Performer Hadrian Conyngham
Worker Rachel Seeto

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This event was submitted to AusPride by the event organiser, Fruit Box Theatre. This event is not run or managed by AusPride.

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