Congratulations to Janine Gaduzo, a wonderful OT, who has been awarded a British Empire Medal in the Queens birthday honours list this year for services to improving the lives of special needs children and their families in Gibraltar. Well deserved.
“Gibraltar Pride 2014” will celebrate the togetherness we enjoy in Gibraltar along with our diversity and equality. Our vision is to include at various events as many different sectors of the community as possible, in a celebration for all, that places Gibraltar on the map as an example of a community that co-exists with strong ties and solidarity. Our events will be focused not on measures which may contribute to greater isolation but, rather, to greater togetherness. We want to make this a celebration of our individualities whilst embracing and sharing pride in our older generations, our physically and mentally challenged citizens, our young, our diverse cultures, our ethnic groups, our LGBT communities, our different faiths, and other sectors who may wish to come forward to celebrate in peace and understanding. With the aim of not only reinforcing cohesion, we move forward with optimism on openly having fun under the slogan ‘We Are One!’ In July there will be a series of events taking place under the “We Are One” banner, which will lead up to a main public event on Saturday 12th July which is the start of Summer Nights. The Ministry of Culture has awarded “Gibraltar Pride 2014” the right to co-host the first summer night event with the theme of “Diversity and Equality – We are One”. We will mark the start of Summer Nights with a proud Gibraltarian Street Parade from Piazza at 20:15, to which we invite you to join us and participate in. Together we will march towards Casemates showing our pride, sharing our awareness, and demonstrating our togetherness.
We would like to extend a formal invitation to all your members to formally join as in the parade and respective public event.
Participants in the parade will need to assemble at Piazza between 19:30 and 20:00, ready for a 20:15 start. We would be delighted to count on your participation joined together with family and friends. The evening at Casemates will then guarantee an entertaining array of performances that will appeal to all ages whilst capturing the diversity we find in a civil and modern society like Gibraltar. For this event there will seating areas in Casemates for less mobile members of our community and also access to viewing areas for wheelchair users. There are other events planned and we will keep everyone informed via the media and in particular our Facebook page which we invite you to “like”.
We are also delighted to announce that Francesca Martinez, highly acclaimed tv personality, comedian, author and disability rights activist will be performing in Gibraltar on the 11th July 2014 as part of “Gibraltar Pride 2014”. Francesca will be bringing to Gibraltar her well known comedy show “What The **** Is Normal?!” which will take place at 22:00 in the Aurora Ballroom onboard the Sunborn Hotel. Information regarding tickets will be made available over the forthcoming weeks.