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# Pride in London anounce biggest ever Pride Arts Festival
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/pride-in-london-anounce-biggest-ever-pride-arts-festival/
- Published: 2015-06-09T08:53:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-06-09T08:53:00.000Z
- Description: Pride in London, the annual festival championing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT+) community in London has announced its biggest ever Pride in London Arts Festival, which will launch with a special Q&A Screening of the award-winning film Pride, starring Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunt
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Arts, Books, Cabaret, Comedy, Exhibitions, Music, News, Poetry, Previews, Pride, Imelda Staunton, London Pride, Peter Tatchell

## Over 25 events will take place over 30 venues across the capital during London Pride Week, June 21 – 28.

![Pride in London Arts Festival](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/web-400.jpg)

****PRIDE in London, the annual festival championing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT+) community in London has announced its biggest ever *Pride in London Arts Festival*, which will launch with a special Q&A Screening of the award-winning film *Pride*, starring Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton, at the Clapham Picturehouse on Sunday, June 21.**

The *Pride in London Arts Festival* will take place between June 21-28, showcasing the diverse artistic and cultural presence that the LGBT+ community has in London.

Spanning over thirty venues, *Pride in London Arts Festival* offers a programme representative of the city’s strong cultural heritage through many genres: from verbatim theatre to the visual arts, classical music concerts to open discussion forum events, cabaret and film screenings, sing-a-longs and much more.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/web-60027.jpg)

The festival will officially launch with the screening of 2014 hit movie *Pride* at Clapham Picturehouse on Sunday, June 21, followed by a Q&A with LGSM (Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners), Wandsworth LGBT Forum and Out at Clapham.

**Other events taking place as part of the festival include:**

♦ The Fourth Choir and Meridian Sinfonia will present Baroque Summer Solstice in Eaton Square

♦ A special offer for Pride supporters to see Flight at Investec Holland Park Opera

♦ Facing East in Concert at Lyric Theatre – a new musical following an upstanding American Mormon couple who unexpectedly meet their son’s partner whilst dealing with his death

♦ Celia Delaney reflects on the desperation of being a 40-something singleton in modern London

♦ The Machine will try to explore what it means to be gay in 2015 at Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden

♦ A queer history quiz will buzz together with the Peter Tatchell Foundation in Southwark

♦ Gender identity workshop for children and parents in Camden

♦ Let’s Talk about Gay Sex and Drugs event will take place again this year at Ku Klub in Chinatown

♦ A free one hour tour of the Victoria and Albert Museum LGBTQ collections

♦ Homage to Marlene Dietrich with Terry Sanderson will be on at the Cinema Museum in Elephant and Castle

♦ The London Gay Symphony Orchestra will present the perfect post-pride event the day after the parade in Holborn

♦ Family Futures in Islington will make an introduction to LGBT adoption

♦ A 50th anniversary *Sound of Music* Sing-Along Party in a fancy dress will be hosted at L’Escargot in Soho

**For a full list of events taking place within the Pride in London Arts Festival, [click here:](http://prideinlondon.org/festival2015/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**