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Antwerp Pride takes place from the 10th to 14th August 2022.
For our fifteenth anniversary, from 10 to 14 August, we are planning a full edition with parade and festivals in new locations. As a theme, we look to the future and look for QUEERTOPIA. What will the ideal LGBTQIA+ world look like in fifteen years?
“A fifteenth birthday is usually a moment to look back on the past,” says Antwerp Pride chairman Bart Abeel. “And although a lot has changed for the LGBTQIA+ community in our city since the first Antwerp Pride in 2007, this year we want to look resolutely to the future.”
The centrepiece in the many Pride events is the Pride Parade. Alongside the Parade we organize and/or welcome cultural, educational, activist, sportive… initiatives. We do this always from a positive, solution and common ground seeking approach. With great empathy towards all minorities and people at risk of exclusion. As a volunteer organization, we take great pride in building community throughout our events. Antwerp Pride originates from the LGBT+ community but actively seeks alliances with all people and organizations within the city that share our passion for a diverse, inclusive and engaged city.
Rainbow Sunday – Free Podium
Sunday, 07 August 2022, 4pm - 11pm
The first Free stage ever on the Grote Markt!
Drags, Show Queens, Drag Kings, Travestie, …
Register or ask for more information; noel@bonaparte.be
Organization; Pancake
Parade
13 August 4pm - 9.30pm
The Happy Crappy Queer Parade
On Friday, we will go back to our roots and take to the streets with a lot of cheerful noise with The Happy Crappy Queer Parade, announced by Den Ambrassband. We will start in the Zomerfabriek with two workshops. Nyiragasigwa Hens lubricates your vocal cords and takes you to vocal highs to make croaking noise and Nessreen Tepeg kicks your inner activist in a workshop where we make queer pancakes for the Parade. We create with the resources we have, but we will be heard! At 7 pm we march through the Zurenborg together with the queers, the outcasts, the weirdos and the misfits and stop at the Draakplaats for a speaker's corner. The Greasy Horses then take you by pedal horse to Onder Stroom where we give the stage to queer musicians and dance into the night. We will take back our Pride and if we can't dance, it's not our revolution!
The Happy Crappy Queers want to protect the free, non-commercial nature of the Parade and rely on the queer community to do so. The space is reserved specifically for them and their allies, and participation is free. We are there for groups that are not given a voice elsewhere, are not represented, or for which participation is made difficult for any reason. De Parade is for and by queers, and we ask political parties and commercial bodies to respect and abstain from this. Of course, everyone is welcome as an individual, without advertising or campaign attributes!
Festival
Saturday, 13 August 2022 11am - 10pm
Sint-Andriesplaats, Antwerp
Pride in Town is new. On the atmospheric Sint-Andriesplaats, Pride in Town invites you to a more relaxed Pride experience, away from the loud beats, the flashing lights and the crowds. You can enjoy one of the literary and spoken word performances with Sarah Bekambo, Inke Gieghase and Maria Darah musically accompanied by Calya J. organized by Hind Eljadid and Johanna Pas, cabaret by Bert van Puymbroeck or discover one of our young DJs from our Queer DJ project.
Pride in Town is something new. Situated on the atmospheric Sint-Andriesplaats, Pride in Town invites you to a more relaxed Pride experience away from the beats, the blinking lights and the noisy crowds. It is a space to enjoy one of the literary and spoken word performances with Sarah Bekambo, Inke Gieghase and Maria Darah musically accompanied by Calya J. curated by Hind Eljadid and Johanna Pas, a bit of cabaret by artist Bert van Puymbroeck or discover one of our young dj’s from our Queer DJ project.
After party
Friday, 12 August - Saturday 9.30pm - 13 August 8am
Onder Stroom, Tavernierkaai 11, 2000 Antwerp
Doors: 21.30
22u DJ Desert
23u The House of Revlon (ballroom, vogue)
24u King Baxter (concert)
1u Furious New Queer Beats
2u DJ Iris
8u Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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