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NEW Date! Pride Flag Raising Ceremony
9:30am |
At the request of Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis who wants to participate in our annual flag raising, it has been moved forward.
NEW Date! Friday, July 31st at 9:30 a.m.
The tradition that kicks-off our annual festival each year, this symbolic ceremony brings to light why our annual festival of diversity is so important. Be there to celebrate as local dignitaries and community leaders come together to show their support for this important community, cultural and tourist attraction in Windsor-Essex. |
City Hall Square ? Downtown Windsor |
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
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Pride Bowling Night
6:30pm |
Cost: FREE!
This annual tradition continues to be fun for the entire family. Featuring great door prizes, food and drink specials? oh, and bowling! Bumper bowling available for the kids? and adults too! |
Rose Bowl Lanes, 2482 Dougall Ave. |
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Friday Night OUT! ?featuring legendary comedienne Sandra Bernhard
Doors open at 7pm |
Cost: $25, $35 and $45
We?ve got two words for you? Sandra Bernhard. The legendary comedienne who got her break in 1983 in Martin Scorcese?s film The King of Comedy and countless other film and television credits like Roseanne and more recently The L Word and The Queer Edge takes the stage as part of Friday Night OUT! Sponsored by Caesars Windsor, Friday Night OUT! also features very special guest Trevor Boris. You know Trevor from his rounds as Producer and star of MuchMusic?s Video on Trial and from performances on CTV?s Comedy Now and at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. He?ll act as our emcee for this night of uproarious comedy. Also appearing... Voted Q107?s Funniest Person With A Day Job ? 2007 and arguably NBC?s Last Comic Standing?s favorite loser, fast thinking and quick witted Richard Ryder takes the stage with a refreshing energy and ?no holds barred? attitude that audiences welcome again and again.
To get your tickets now, click here: (http://www.ticketscene.ca/promoters/128) |
Caesars Windsor, Augustus Ballroom
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
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Essex County Wine Tour
10:30 a.m. Sharp returning approximately 3:30pm |
Cost: $35
Enjoy the richness of area wines as we visit three of the regions best wineries, including Colchester Ridge Estate Winery, Muscedere and Sanson Estate. Taste the best of each winery, enjoy a light lunch and pick up a few bottles for your collection. The best part is you?ll get dropped off right at Riverfront Festival Plaza where an exciting evening awaits. |
Bus departs from and returns to Riverfront Festival Plaza |
Next Top Drag Superstar
Site opens at 4 p.m., event kicks off at 5pm
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Cost: $5 at the gate all evening
Drag diva Miss Conception will be your emcee for Windsor Pride?s version of a true talent competition. Queens (and kings) from Ontario and parts of the U.S. will battle it out for an outlandish cash prize of $1,500. What would a competition be without judges and we?ve pulled out all the stops to bring some extraordinary celebrities, including Sunny Fong, winner of Project Runway Canada and Ambrose Price, host of HGTV?s The Decorating Adventures of Ambrose Price. Three finalists will go on to compete the very next day to see who will be crowned Windsor?s Next Top Drag Superstar. |
Riverfront Festival Plaza |
Saturday Night Dance Party
8:30pm |
Cost: $5 at the gate all evening
When the drag is done, the party will have just begun. Back under the big top for a second straight year, this event features world renown DJ Shawn Riker and DJ Jamal (Toronto), Windsor?s own up and comer DJ Josh Karmin and a show-stopping performance from International Drag Superstar Sofonda and her hot male dancers. |
Riverfront Festival Plaza |
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MCC Service
9:30am |
Come join MCC Windsor on the Riverfront Stage for a worship celebration of God's love for all God's people! Joy, hope, promises fulfilled, special music, and the power of gathering with our sisters and brothers as we honour the diversity of divinity! |
Riverfront Festival Plaza |
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Pride Brunch
10am
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Mick's Irish Pub Presents - The Official Pride Brunch
Cost - $11.95 + tax - $2 from each brunch purchase will be donated to Windsor Pride!
Brunch includes frittatas, bacon, sausage, potatoes, bread, coffee and juice. Mimosas & Caesars will be available at a discounted price.
On the evening of Friday Night OUT!, Mick's will offer 15% discount off food if patrons show their tickets to the show.
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Mick's Irish Pub
28 Chatham St E
519 252 3111 |
Parade
12pm
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Bring the entire family to Riverside Drive for our annual parade of diversity through Downtown Windsor. Features Joey Wright, graduate of Walkerville Collegiate who this past February, worked diligently to secure our area?s first Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) within the Greater Essex County District School Board. Riding alongside Joey will be Walter Cassidy and Amy Tessolin, Walkerville teachers and sponsors of the GSA at their school. Joining Joey will be two dozen other not for profit groups, marchers and floats in what promises to be a parade to remember.
PARADE HAS NEW STAGING AREA
Due to the ongoing municipal strike, our parade will no longer stage at the parking lot on Caron Ave.
Instead, we will stage right on Riverside Drive between Campbell and Sunset Ave beginning at 10 a.m.
Participants are asked to enter the staging area at Sunset Ave onto Riverside Drive. From there, Windsor Pride volunteer will assemble you in the parade order.
Parade will begin from Campbell & Riverside Drive at 12:00 p.m. sharp
Heading east on Riverside Dr towards Downtown, the parade will turn left onto Ouellette Ave towards the Detroit River. Then quick right into the Riverfront Festival Plaza site
Want to participate? Simply email Joselynn Crosby, Parade Coordinator at
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Starts at city parking lot on Caron Ave between University and Riverside Drive. Heads north on Caron Ave, then east on Riverside Drive to Riverfront Festival Plaza. |
Pride Day ? Shout OUT! Looking Back, Moving Forward
1pm
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Cost: Suggested donation at the gate
Windsor Pride comes to a close with a day of activities for the entire family. Featuring delicious food, merchant and not-for-profit vendors and more world-class entertainment, featuring Kelly & the Kellygirls (Toronto), The Joys (London) the finals of our Next Top Drag Superstar competition and much more! Take a trip down memory lane and walk through an interactive display cataloguing some of the history of the LGBTT experience in Windsor-Essex over the last 40 years.
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Riverfront Festival Plaza
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Pride After Party
9pm |
Official Pride After Party at the Boom Boom Room only $5 Cover!
click here for details |
Boom Boom Room
315 Ouellette Ave
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