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The Kitsap Pride Network is gearing up for this year’s pride event. This year’s international theme is “Pride links us together.” This year our event returns to Evergreen Park in Bremerton on SUNDAY, July 22nd and will be kicking off at noon.
We’ll be posting information on how you can be involved in Kitsap Pride 2012 including vendor registration forms in the coming days.
Special thanks to our 2011 Sponsors:
Red Star Events, Pride Foundation, Grindr, St Paul’s Episcopal Church, MOMS Pharmacy, Naturally 4 Paws, Kitsap PFLAG, Positive Solutions, Peninsula Mobile Veterinary Clinic, Kitsap Safe Schools, Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Alternative Community Education Society, Rod Blackburn – Windermere Real Estate, Robert Gelder and Ameriprise Financial Services.
PRIDE Pre-FUNK
Sunday, July 10th, 4pm
The Hi-Fidelity Lounge
Gay Bremerton Pageant – POSTPONED
Kocktails with Katrina
Friday, July 15th
The Hi-Fidelity Lounge
Kitsap Pride 2011
Saturday, July 16th, noon-5pm
Evergreen Park
PRIDE Party
Saturday, July 16th, 9pm
Bremerton Eagles
See our poster on facebook
Thanks to Joanie Reynolds for creating this year’s artwork.
We’re looking for a few good people to help with the 2011 Pride event on Saturday, July 16th at Evergreen Park in Bremerton. It is a fun and rewarding way to get engaged in our local community. We need people to plan in advance, set up the day of the event, coordinate relationships with our sponsors and our vendors, manage the talent on the stage, organize our wonderful volunteers, and of course break down at the end of the day. There is also behind the scenes work (administrative and such) and more.
If you are interested in being a part of the 2011 team click here to submit your name.
We look forward to hearing from you and an awesome event this year.
The date is set for Saturday, July 16th 2011 and Evergreen Park has been reserved. Our vendor application is online and we are looking for sponsors and donors to help make our event a success. We hope to announce a kick off meeting very soon to bring in volunteers for this year’s event. Stay tuned. Contact us if you would like to be notified of the meeting.
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We received a wonderful article in the Bremerton Patriot Check it out.
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/pat/community/99148834.html
Bremerton Patriot Staff Writer
Jul 23 2010
For Thomas Oliver and Jeffrey Chandler, taking their 8-year-old son Zyreal to the Kitsap Pride Festival on Saturday was just another family outing in the park.
“We’re just like an old married couple,” Oliver said of he and his partner, describing weekly church outings and dinners with grandma. “This is probably the most gay thing we do every year.”
That sentiment was shared by other attendees of the Pride Festival at Evergreen Rotary Park, who said the celebration was Kitsap’s only recognition of gays and allies, heterosexuals who support equal rights for gays.
Elaine Priest, who came with friends and children, said the low-key and fun environment is why the Kitsap festival appeals to her.
“You see other people with their families,” she said. “That’s what I like.”
The event marked its sixth year at Evergreen Park — in the early years starting about 13 years ago, the festival was much smaller and took place in Seabeck and Port Orchard. Now the festival includes more than 40 vendors, play space and face painting for children, live music and a drag show and attracts up to 500 people, said Marcie Mathis, an organizer of the event.
Melissa Evans, who came with her daughter Amanda, said gay culture has become more open in Kitsap. About 10 to 15 years ago, people were not as comfortable expressing their identity, she said.
“It’s just not as taboo as it used to be,” Evans said. “I just feel a lot more open than I used to be.”
Nonetheless, the gay culture in Kitsap is not vocal and visible as what might be seen in Seattle, Amanda Evans said.
“We’re pretty open. It’s not to the point where you have to be out and loud,” she said.
Amy Parkhurst, who came with her family, said this was the first year she’d heard of the Kitsap Pride Festival and she wanted to show her support.
Playing with her young neice, Ava Wilson, near the children’s play area, Parkhurst said she also appreciates the family-friendly environment of Kitsap Pride.
“It’s great, we love it,” she said. “We think there should be a lot more.”
Well everyone we did it, this year was another success. We grew our vendorship and our sponsorships. We can’t wait to start on next years event.
The pictures have arrived and are hosted on our Vendor/Sponsorship Coordinators facebook page (please tag yourself or friends and comment all over.)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=200673&l=0143072c17&id=41092787721
Thank you to all our Volunteers that helped make this event a success (we couldn’t have done it with out you.)
Noon – Music from DJ
12:50 – Welcome
Unfortunately Inga Nova had to cancel. Hopefully she’ll be back next year.
1:00– The Jbaum Band – The Jbomb Band plays all original music by Joey Walbaum and is formed with top notch musicians based out of the Seattle and Tacoma area specializing in funk, jazz and pop with hints of Latin and world music. You might describe it as vintage-pop with Influences including Jamiroquai, Sade, Prince, Michael Jackson, Jamie Cullum and Elton John.
1: 50 – Announcements/Speaker
2:00 – Drag Show Pt 1 – Bremerton’s Miss Tory Marchella & Friends
2:20 – Kevin and Shawn dueling pianos. They work at Seattle’s 88 Keys singing and playing your favorite tunes and comedians part time. Kevin been playing since he was 16 and Shawn since birth. Let them know what you want to hear and they’ll play it.
3:10 – Drag Show Pt 2 – Bremerton’s Miss Tory Marchella & Friends
3:40 – Announcements, Drawings etc
4:00 – Boy Blue and The Moon – a brand new band consisting of very talented and diversified veteran musicians including Ricky Schultz who rocked our stage last year!
5:00 – Closing – Thank You!
9:00 – Red Star presents the Pride Party with DJ Dana Dub at the Bremerton Eagles located on 6th at Washington just a few blocks from Evergreen Park. They are expecting close to 400 people this year.
We owe a big thank you to our partnership with the Seattle Men’s Chorus and the Admiral Theatre for a successful concert this past April, which raised much-needed funding for this event.
Also, thanks to Gordon Sound for sound and stage services over these years at Evergreen