Cape Town Pride 2010 Launch: Fasion.Food.Furnishings

With the Cape Town Pride Festival scheduled to commence on 26 February and run until 7 March 2010, the build-up to the event has commenced. The Board of Cape Town Pride, which organises this annual queer festival in the Mother City, is proud to announce that the official launch will take place on Sunday, 13 December.

With international queer media focused on South Africa, and on Cape Town in particular due to the World Cup, the city is set to host a rich, varied and dynamic 2010 Pride Festival that will embrace and showcase the diversity of our queer community.

The Board of Cape Town Pride has been restructured in order to augment capacity and to ensure inclusive community representation. Says Glenn de Swardt, chairperson of the non-profit organisation: “The spotlight will certainly be on us during 2010, with Cape Town being seen as the gay epicentre of Africa. We’ve brought in additional skills to ensure that next year’s festival is the best ever and we’re proud to have appointed the very dynamic and well-known entertainer Odidi Mfenyana as our Festival Director”.

The Pride Festival theme for 2010, ‘Uniting Cultures of Cape Town’, reflects the inclusive and encompassing ethos of the event. Says Odidi Mfenyana: “In addition to the festival being a celebration of our wonderful diversity, we’ll also create awareness around issues impacting on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities locally and throughout Africa.”

Inspired by the spirit of unity and inclusivity, the Board is proud to officially launch the Cape Town Pride Festival 2010 in association with ‘FASHION. FOOD. FINE FURNISHINGS.’, a collaborative Sunday tea-dance event, drawing together the diverse creative flavours of fashion, interiors, cakes and deserts, plus art photography to create an installation concept space. The event will thus be a symbolic uniting of divergent tastes, crafts and sensibilities incorporating several individuals, groups and enterprises. Simultaneously it will celebrate queer icons and individuals.

Cape Town Pride welcomes community participation. Says de Swardt: ”We actively encourage individuals and groups, as well as organisations and the business sector, to join us. The festival offers unlimited opportunities for engagement and active participation through a rich and varied programme.” Mfenyana explains that in addition to several celebratory parties and a parade through the city, the festival will incorporate seminars, art, literature, sport, film screenings and religion.

Participants in the FASHION. FOOD. FINE FURNISHINGS. launch event will be as follows:

GREED CAKES AND DESERTS by Olivier Wagener
BRAZILIAN STYLE by Alex Trindade
ART PHOTOGRAPHY by Melissa Van Zyl
NICOLA TOWNSEND INTERIORS
M4S by Luiz ‘DeLaja

Various items will be on sale at discounted prices and prizes will be handed out. In addition, a silent auction will be conducted to raise funds for Cape Town Pride, a registered non-profit organization.

Funds raised by Cape Town Pride are awarded to their beneficiary, the Pride Shelter Trust, another registered non-profit organization raising funds to establish a shelter for lesbian, gay and transgender people during crisis periods. To date this organization has raised over a million Rands and is awaiting premises offered by the City of Cape Town.

Issued by: The Board, Cape Town Pride

Contact person: Dehan Lombard 083 376 0044 (Marketing)
Glenn de Swardt 071 671 5975 (Chairperson)

Website: www.capetownpride.co.za
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Begin the Summer Season with a bang looking forward to an inspiring Cape Town Festival 2010.

THE CAPE TOWN PRIDE 2010 LAUNCH: FASHION. FOOD. FURNISHINGS.
A decadent collaboration of the arts inspiring uniting the cultures of Cape Town
DATE: 13TH DECEMBER 2009
VENUE: ADAM AND EVE, NAPIER ST, GREEN POINT
TIME: 5.30 PM- LATE

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