Aberdeen Alternative Pride

Brand new addition to our Festival is a Salsa Class with 2011 Polish Salsa Champion , Chris Winiarski.

The event will be run in Chaplins, 20 Adelphi Aberdeen on Sunday 14 August.

Bring your partners and lets dance away!

The lesson kicks off at 5pm and will run until 8 pm.

FREE ENTRY with ABERDEEN ALTERNATIVE PRIDE TICKETS, free to collect from ONE UP RECORD SHOP on Belmont Street and CHAPLINS NIGHTCLUB Aberdeen!

Hope to see you all there!

MIDSUMMA FESTIVAL, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

Midsumma, Melbourne's annual Queer Celebration, is a federation of arts and cultural events spread over 70 different venues throughout Melbourne. The festival is presented over three weeks from mid January to February and, having been held annually since 1988, is a significant attraction on the Melbourne festival calendar. Midsumma includes Major and Premier events, visual arts, performing arts and film, literature and spoken word, social and community, community sport and parties and nightlife.

Midsumma is committed to presenting an annual arts and cultural festival that, within a safe and healthy environment, celebrates the pride and diversity of Victoria's lesbian, gay and allied communities.

Friday 12th August:

7pm Poetry and Prose Evening in Blue Lamp-FREE ENTRY

Special Event in Chaplins Aberdeen-FREE ENTRY with ABERDEEN ALTERNATIVE PRIDE TICKET

Saturday 13th August:

An Art Exhibition in Aberdeen Arts Centre comprising of local artists-FREE ENTRY

7pm Live Music Gig, followed by Clubbing Night in the Tunnels-FREE ENTRY

Sunday 14th August

8:45 pm Film Screening of ' Gigola' in Belmont Picturehouse Cinema -£1.50 DISCOUNT ON ENTRY WITH ABERDEEN ALTERNATIVE PRIDE TICKET

All profits go to Terrence Higgins Trust Scotland and Broken Rainbow Charities  

Tickets ARE NOW available for collection from ONE UP Record Shop on Belmont Street with suggested minimum donation of £1 to our charity fund

OUR FILM CHOICE: 'GIGOLA'

Screened in Belmont Picturehouse Cinema at 8:45 on 14 August 2011.

http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Belmont_Picturehouse/

Join us for a pre-film discussion in Belmont Picturehouse Cafe!

  It's 1963 and Paris is sizzling with sex. The stylishly butch Gigola spends

her days roaming chic cafés, taking on the criminal underclass, enticing

pretty femmes away from their pimps, breaking hearts and making

enemies along the way. Gigola is based on the cult series of novels from

bad-girl novelist Laure Charpentier, whose original novel Gigola was

banned upon publication in 1972. Starring a host of renowned faces of European cinema, including Eduardo

Noriega (Open Your Eyes, The Devil's Backbone), Marisa Paredes (All

About My Mother, Life Is Beautiful) Thierry Lhermitte (The Dinner Game)

and introducing Lou Doillon, daughter of Jane Birkin, as the eponymous