EXETER PHOENIX

As ever we bring an eclectic mix of performers to the Pride stage:

2:00pm Welcome - Messages from Exeter Pride

2:10pm Spectrum - Our local LGBTQ+ choir with songs from around the world.

2:30pm Mama Tokus - Writer, singer, performance poet, MC and jazz, blues’n’soul lovin’ lady.

3:00pm Suthering - Folk music duo Julu Irvine & Heg Brignall will transport you with their exquisite vocal harmonies, cascading piano and delicate, fingerstyle guitar.

3:30pm 15 Years of Protest - Short Film about the history of Exeter Pride combining photos and footage from our newly created audiovisual archive with brand new interviews about peoples memories of Exeter Pride.

4pm-6pm Drag Show and Competition, featuring:

4.00pm Roberta Calamari

The tasty catch with a voice to match! This singing diva queen brings the camp. You’ll never forget the first time you tried Calamari

4.05pm Virina Flower

Ukrainian born and raised Diva, performing around the UK and internationally. You’ll have to experience the moment of Flower to understand the beauty of my Drag, so hop on in and let’s get this party started!

4.15pm Ginnie DaFuq

Ginnie is guaranteed to colour your world and brighten up any day. She never has a dark cloud hanging around her, only blue skies surround her and she’ll fill you with happiness all the way!

4.20pm Itward Gorerouge

Itward Gorerouge is giving immoral vampiric elegance who brings a fun yet dark entertainment for all you mortals. After winning last years drag king competition, Itward has had a warm welcome to the spotlight and cannot wait to be back in it.

4.25pm - 5.00PM DRAG COMPETITION!

5.10pm Cleo Toris

Host of Exeter's Favourite monthly drag show CLIMAX, Cleo Toris is the number one pretty pink drag doll in Exeter, She can dance, she can sing and shes just generally captivating to look at. This 7ft Barbie can be spotted from a mile off!

5.15 Razzle B. Dazzled

Crashing on the the Exeter pride stage once more, this ooky, spooky, cartoony kook is ready to confound and amazing its next unsuspecting victi- er... audience! Prepare yourself to get Razzled and Be Dazzled!

5.30 Darcii Delore

The future is femme meet Exeters diamond diva... Darcii Delore!

With extremely unrealistic beauty standards - this it girl is always dolled up ready to command your attention and serve you captivating lipsyncs to keep you entranced.

5.40 HEADLINER Ernest the Drag King

Ernest is your typical posh boy- government job and all. But this one has a secret: he's got a huge penchant for partying with the queers! Despite being told to stop with all the scandals, he's back on stage to embrace his earnest self and shake everything daddy gave him! After all, it's the important to be Ernest!

5.50pm Drag Competition WINNER ANNOUNCED

The stage will be hosted by the inimitable Roberta Calamari!

Dance Fitness Workshop

Details TBC

The Sing Space Musical Theatre Workshop

Learn “A Million Dreams” with the Exeter Musical Theatre choir! Raise your voice with inspiring choir leader and vocalist Kelly Young, and members of the choir!

The Exeter and Torquay Musical Theatre Choirs are fun, friendly and audition free!

No experience or booking necessary and welcome to all no matter your level or experience.

Self Love Portrait Club

Self Love Portrait Club is a queer-run drawing session held weekly in Cullompton. Led by local artist, Natasha Wysocki-Douglas (pronouns she/her), the sessions are designed to help build self-confidence and self-kindness by viewing your own and others’ bodies in a new and different way: through the lens of art.

Whether you’re a full-time artist or you haven’t drawn since you were six, Self Love Portrait Club is a space to explore your creativity, try drawing from a model, and build your self-confidence by sitting for others. HOW IT WORKS: 1. Everyone poses at some point during the session (clothed, don’t worry!) 2. Everyone gets to create 3. Everyone is welcome, regardless of ‘skill’ or ‘experience’ 4. No need to bring anything, just your wonderful selves!

Book your space by clicking here just turn up on the day!

Section 28 Collage workshop

This creative workshop is part of 'Section 28 and its afterlives', an LGBTQ+ history project that explores the history and legacies of Section 28 in the South West. This workshop will be a safe space to reflect on Section 28 and its legacies, and to engage with this challenging period of recent LGBTQ+ history in a hands-on, empowering way, by using collage to create a personal response to a range of historical material. No background knowledge (or artistic talent!) is required. The session will be facilitated by the project team and Dr Chloe Asker, an expert in creative and mindful participatory methods.

There is a limit of 12 participants, so we advise booking your place in advance though there will be places available on the day on a first come first served basis.

Section 28 Booking Form

X-Plore runs youth groups for young people in Devon who are identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity.

They will be running a drop-in space for young people with a mocktail bar, discussion space on topics relating to young people, and a range of fun activities.

Our family space will be situated on the ground floor in the workshop, and can be reached by steps or a step free ramp.

LGBT+ charity Intercom will be running our family zone. There will will have arts and crafts activities such as colouring, origami, collage etc.

They will also have some activities about LGBT+ history including matching flags to their definitions, and placing communities with different genders on a world map.

There will be Intercom Trust staff available if you just want to pop in for a chat or to meet other families.

You can pre-book activities using this link.

We are delighted to be hosting the university’s Section 28 and Its Afterlives project exhibition exploring the effects of Section 28 and the often long term effects on the lives of those who lived through it.

This will be displayed alongside photos memorabilia and stories from our very own Exeter Pride Heritage Project.

After the success of our drag king competition at the Rainbow Fayre in 2023, we are delighted to be holding another drag competition at Exeter Pride 2024! But this time it’s open to EVERYONE – kings queens and everything in-betweens – just be fabulously dressed, fantastically enthusiastic and sickeningly talented and you can have a shot at the first prize of £75, and an Exeter Pride merch goody bag for the winner and a lucky runner up.

Our judges will be our very own homegrown Alex Ambiguous, Ginnie Da Fuq, Razzle B. Dazzled and Bristol posh boy about town & Exeter Pride 2024 headliner Ernest the drag king. They will be giving feedback to all our performers, but it is YOU my dear queers and allies who will be picking the winner!

Fancy taking part? Go to https://linktr.ee/exeterpride for the competition rules and how to apply!

15 Years of Protest: A History of Exeter Pride

Exeter Pride turns fifteen this year, and we’re celebrating with the release of the short film 15 Years of Protest directed by Simone Einfalt, telling the story of Exeter Pride, and showing why we need it now more than ever.

The film weaves together retrospective interviews with attendees and organisers, as well as drawing from material courtesy of the Exeter Pride’s new digital audio-visual archive, spanning the charity’s long history.

Threesome

Exeter Pride presents a celebration of three Queer shorts by local Award-winning Queer Film Maker, Lois Norman.

This 30 Minute screening, which includes the world premiere of Lois’ latest short Crave, will be followed by an informal Q & A with Lois & members of the cast & creatives of Crave: please stay & join us!

Swivel (6 mins 39 secs)

A gender fluid dance story, starring the trailblazing Iron&Sparks.

What if, you can be all of who you are and still allow another? That just for one night, judgement no longer exists. What if, an intimacy of touch, a truth of want, Swivels around your doubt and trusts? What if, love is not a gender, it is a swivel of the heart?

She Is Juiced: Ope Lori (13 mins 37 secs)

This short creative documentary explores the work on Pleasure & the Female Body by British Nigerian Visual Artist, Ope Lori, as she highlights the dark corners of online Pornography and the Erotic, re-frames racial and Lesbian stereotypes and lets the concept of desire, the body and pleasure nurture her creativity.

This film Premiered at Tate Britain in 2017, at their first ever Queer Exhibition, Queer Britain.

Please note, this film contains scenes of nudity & transcripts from internet forums that some people might find offence.

Crave (length approx. 6 mins TBC)

World Premier

‘a lick away from love now’

Late at night, her bed still warm from her lover leaving, a painter dips her brush into her own imperfect past & parts of her: a lost truth drips through…

South West artists include Artwork by Cornish artist Nina Gow, music by Exeter’s Lydia Kaye, Exeter actor Naomi Turner & Totnes, editor Beccy Strong.

Tickets are free, but will need to be reserved through the Exeter Phoenix Box Office.

There is a lift in the Phoenix as well as a ramp entrance to the side of the building. There is ale a disabled toilet on site which is accessible with a RADAR key.