Pride/Fierté Cornwall

Thank you for visiting Pride Cornwall's website. We hope you'll find it informative and easy to navigate. Please stay tuned for upcoming news and information about our activities.

Merci de visiter le site Internet de Fierté Cornwall. Nous espérons que vous le trouverez informative et facile à naviguer. Rester avec nous pour des nouvelles et des informations sur nos activités.

Our first fundraising event of 2010 will be our Winter Masquerade Ball at the Best Western Parkway Inn. Click on the image above for details.

Also, today's edition of the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder features a front page article written by Kathleen Hay about Pride's plans for 2010. Hit this link to their website to check it out. 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR 2010 ANNOUNCED

After much deliberation and hard work, we're pleased to announce our schedule of fundriasing parties for the coming year which will help fund the staging of Pride/Fierté Cornwall 2010, the annual festival of LGBT diversity in the Seaway Valley. In an effort to give back to the community at large, a percentage of the money made at some these events will be donated to various local charities. Here's what we've got confirmed:

Winter Masquerade Ball
Saturday, January 16, 2010, 9:00 pm
Heritage Room, Best Western Parkway Inn, 1515 Vincent Massey Drive
Music by DJ Alain Merizzi

Blue Valentine Party
Saturday, February 13, 2010, 9:00 pm
Heritage Room, Best Western Parkway Inn, 1515 Vincent Massey Drive
Music by DJ Alain Merizzi

Spring Fling 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010, 9:00 pm
Heritage Room, Best Western Parkway Inn, 1515 Vincent Massey Drive
Music by Polar Sound

Summer Sizzler
Saturday, July 17, 2010, 9:00 pm
Heritage Room, Best Western Parkway Inn, 1515 Vincent Massey Drive
Music by Polar Sound

Pride Gala
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Scheduled as part of Pride Weekend 2010
Venue to be announced
Music by Polar Sound

Halloween Party
Saturday, October 30, 2010, 9:00 pm
Heritage Room, Best Western Parkway Inn, 1515 Vincent Massey Drive
Music by Polar Sound

The details for each of these events (admission prices, charitable donations, etc.) will be made public as their respective dates approach. A number of other events are also tentatively in the pipeline so please stay tuned to this space for developments. If you have any questions, ideas you'd like to have heard or if you want to help out with our work, please send an email to pridecornwall@yahoo.ca.

THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES TO BE STAGED IN CORNWALL

V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls inspired by Eve Ensler's award winning play, The Vagina Monologues. V-Day was incorporated as a non-profit charity in 1998 with the intent of using performances of the play to raise money to benefit female victims of violence and sexual abuse. To that end, a steering committee has been formed to stage a performance of The Vagina Monologues here in Cornwall on Saturday, March 6, 2010.

The show will be staged in the Simon Fraser Ballroom at the Ramada Inn, 805 Brookdale Avenue. Seating will be cabaret style and curtain time is 7:00 pm. Advance tickets are $15.00 each and will be available at these locations beginning Friday, December 18th:

Strung Out Guitars, 601 Montréal Road
Cornwall and Seaway Valley Tourism Office,11 Water Street West

Admission at the door is $20.00. All proceeds will benefit SASS - Sexual Assault Support Services for Women of Stormont, Dundas, Glengarry and Akwesasne.

If you're a theatre lover with a social conscience and want to do your bit to help end violence against women, the organizers of the show invite you to take part in Cornwall's first ever production of this internationally renowned (it's been translated into forty-five languages) and groundbreaking play. Approximately twenty actresses of various ages and types are required as well as all manner of stage crew and pre-production staff.

While the show is obviously aimed at women and their empowerment, men are welcome to come forward, too. Men's mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers, friends, coworkers and other family are all touched by the scourge of domestic violence. It's a human and societal problem of such magnitude that both genders must be involved to end it.

If you'd like to audition for the show or if you're interested in working backstage, please send an email to vdaycornwalltvm@hotmail.com with your name, your phone number and how you'd like to participate. For media inquiries, please phone 613-930-5094.

For more information about The Vagina Monologues, click on this link. For more information about V-Day, click on the V-Day logo. For more information about SASS, visit www.sassforwomen.ca.

PFLAG CORNWALL IN SEARCH OF A NEW CHAPTER LEADER

The Cornwall chapter of PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) is currently looking for a new chapter leader.The following qualifications are required:

1. SKILLS

• excellent listening skills
• most can be learned; ease/comfort in facilitation is a definite asset
• an ability to delegate and share control
• recruit help to assist with the monthly work that goes with running a PFLAG chapter

• a minimum of twelve hours per month (four for a monthly meeting, two hours per week for organizing and/or being a listening ear for callers)
• a belief in the need for education and for family
• a belief in community and individual sexual diversity
• person to person support
• a listening, non-judgmental ear in a safe environment
• a belief in love and acceptance for all

• publicity to bring in new people
• communication with members (ideally to inform them of meetings)
• facilitation
• facility details (opening up and closing, etc.)
• program/education
• fundraising
• snacks/munchies, if desired