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The new SHOUT festival will be hitting Birmingham in November with a month long programme specifically for the LGBT community. The festival has four main strands; Visual Arts, Sports, Performance Arts and Community Events including workshops and taster sessions. More information will be posted shortly along with links to the festival website. Highlights include Dorian Gray @ Hippodrome A major retrospective of the work of Del LaGrace Volcano Nice Time, Tough Time @ REP Claire Dowie @ Patrick Centre Birmingham Queer Open Street Sports Day Peter Tatchell, the Unfinished Battle for LGBT Equality Fear of Queer, an edgy, contemporary look at gay life DIVAs @ Glee Club, a night of comedy and cabaret plus much, much more The launch night will be at the Nightingale on 30th October and we invite you all to our 'BIG FAT GAY WEDDING', so come and get 'married' to kick the festival off !! There are several open submissions events for artists both locally, nationally and internationally please contact davidviney@blgbt.org for competition details
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David I think you and your team who have put this lgbt festival together should be congratulated. Whilst Pride events are important it is very reassuring to see something rather more diverse like this SHOUT festival. It is even more interesting that you have combined both performance and art together with sports which is so often overlooked.
Where can I find information about the actual events? Is there a website yet or brochure, or do budgets not extend to that in its first year?
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Hi Cheers, we have worked very hard and hope it captures the imagination of the LGBT population here... The festival website will be launching next week, I will post full details on these forums when its up In the meantime www.facebook.com/getreadytoshouthas news and some listings... Cheers Dave
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Hey The SHOUT festival website is now online www.getreadytoshout.orgIt includes full festival listings Check it out
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Shout will be at arts fest this weekend. Meet the team at our stall on new street and see preview performances of 'the fear of queer' at the library theatre. Www.getreadytoshout.org
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Dear David,
I picked up the SHOUT brochure last night at the Loft Lounge and it looks excellent. The way you guys have struck a balance between community, arts, sport, and also involving the gay village as well is to your credit. It's really good to see Birmingham getting its act together and promoting such a diverse cultural event.
The presentation of the brochure and website certainly looks superb, you've obviously worked very hard to get it all together. So I'm looking forward to the month of November to enjoy some of your activities, particularly your version of BBC Question Time with Peter Tachell. Well done to all involved.
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Many thanks, we have a great team and have worked really hard. We are all lookign forward to November and hope that there is something for everyone in the festival. www.getreaytoshout.org 
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Well done David it all looks fab should be really good  xx
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Many thanks, I'd love to take all the credit, but we have a dedicated team working hard to ensure the festival is a success and something Birmingham can be Proud of.
Hope to see you all in November xx
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DavidViney wrote:Many thanks, I'd love to take all the credit, but we have a dedicated team working hard to ensure the festival is a success and something Birmingham can be Proud of.
Hope to see you all in November xx Having looked through the brochure last night the Shout team should be very proud of what its achieved its an excellent programme and really diverse well done everyone concerned
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