ShanghaiPRIDE 2015
RED RIBBON GALA RAISES AWARENESS AND PROMOTES ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ON HIV/AIDS
1st December 2015 – Shanghai, China
December 1st this year marked the 28th World AIDS Day, it also marked the first Red Ribbon Gala organized by ShanghaiPRIDE, Q-Events, and the Grand Kempinski Hotel Shanghai.
“We are proud to be associated with the LGBT community and we trust that the Red Ribbon Gala will be a small contribution to the growing awareness of the need of further HIV research and support in China”, said Henk Meyknecht, General Manager of the Grand Kempinski Hotel Shanghai.
Over 120 esteemed guests arrived at the charity gala to show their support on the campaign to raise awareness and fight discrimination against HIV/AIDS.
ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival 2016 + Short Film Competition Launch
16th November 2015 – Shanghai, China
SHANGHAI – ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival (ShPFF) will return in June 2016
Following a hugely successful first year, 2016 will be bigger and better, continuing to support new Chinese filmmakers and bringing the cutting edge of international queer cinema to Shanghai. Details of events and new initiatives will be announced next year, and press enquiries are welcomed.
RED RIBBON GALA DINNER PRESS RELEASE
9th October 2015 – Shanghai, China
SHANGHAI – ShanghaiPRIDE, QEvents & Grand Kempinski Hotel Shanghai held a press conference this afternoon to officially launch the Red Ribbon Gala Dinner which benefits AIDSLIFE Center.
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Meet ShPRIDE @ Glamour Summer Nautilus Fair
6th Jul y 2015 – Shanghai, China
After the successful events in June, the ShPRIDE team is recharging and brainstorming for new ideas for next year. We are bored and we can’t wait to see everyone again. Join us on the “Journey of Discovering Summer Hotness – Glamour Summer Nautilus Fair”. Come share with us your thoughts about ShPRIDE and if your are interested, join our volunteers team! For those who missed out on our fabulous merchandise, you can find LOVE T-Shirts, Love is Our Future T-Shirts and Bags, Rainbow Mugs and etc., while stocks last!
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The First ShanghaiPRIDE Theatre Festival Wraps Up
28th June 2015 – Shanghai, China
The First ShanghaiPRIDE Theatre Festival Wraps Up.
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Pride7 Steps into the Future
26th June 2015 – Shanghai, China
Shanghai, June 26, 2015—The seventh annual ShanghaiPRIDE festival wrapped up on June 21 following more than a week’s worth of social, cultural and educational events exploring the theme “Love Is Our Future” (爱予未来 ai yu weilai). Almost 6,000 attendees joined the ShanghaiPRIDE organizers in raising LGBTQ awareness and giving Shanghai a glimpse of a future in which tolerance and acceptance are the norm.
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BENT——Bohemian carnival with blood and tears
21th June 2015 – Shanghai, China
As part of ShanghaiPRIDE Theatre Festival, Urban Aphrodite brought BENT, which is New York’s RENT to Shanghai on June 19 & 21 in Jiadu Theatre, Changning District.
The musical told a story of young artists, known as the generation of “the end of the millennium”, and their struggles through HIV and drug issues. The story was told through the love story of Mimi, a dancer, and Roger, a musician, and two homosexual couples.
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Bite My Thumb —— Are you still who you are without the mask of gender?
18th June 2015 – Shanghai, China
On June 18th, 2015, Bite My Thumb, produced by East West Theatre, was brought to stage at Happiness 42. The 45-minute-long play was set at an alley outside of Off-Off-Broadway Theatre in New York City. Two rival drama troupes started by vying against each other for Juliet.
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Queer Shanghai Cinema
— Global Times
Wunderman lends a hand to ShanghaiPRIDE 2015
— Campaign Asia Pacific
Wunderman joins hands with ShanghaiPRIDE 2015
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ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival Opens
16th June 2015 – Shanghai, China
Shanghai, June 16, 2015 – The inaugural ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival (ShPFF) successfully launched its Opening Night at The Pearl, one of the city’s most historical theaters, featuring the first public screening of Lilting (Hong Khaou, 2014) in China. The events of the day were attended by an immensely diverse crowd. In the audience were also representatives of the Festival’s sponsors (Zank, everman, and yuejunyou.com) and the British Consulate-General Shanghai, which supported the Opening Night.
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Countdown to ShanghaiPRIDE 2015 Begins
1st June 2015 – Shanghai, China
Shanghai, June 1, 2015 – With less than two weeks to go, the city is counting down the days until its biggest LGBTQ event of the year, the seventh annual ShanghaiPRIDE festival, to take place June 12-21. Pride7 will bring to Shanghai a slew of cultural, social, and educational events aimed at creating awareness and promoting tolerance and acceptance, under the theme “Love Is Our Future” (爱予未来 ai yu weilai).
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ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival – 2015 Short Film Competition Nominees
25th May 2015 – Shanghai, China
Shanghai, 25th May, 2015 – ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival (ShPFF) announces the nominees in five categories for its Chinese queer short film competition: Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound & Music and Queer Vision Award.
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ShanghaiPRIDE Unveils Plans for Art & Photo Exhibition
25th May 2015 – Shanghai, China
Shanghai, May 25, 2015 – This year’s ShanghaiPRIDE Art & Photo Exhibition promises to be bigger and better than ever, with six featured artists presenting creations inspired by their experiences in Shanghai and the Pride7 theme, “Love is Our Future.” The exhibition will run throughout Pride week, June 12th-21st, and features photography by Moggy Chang, Bin Hu and Scotty So as well as paintings by James Jarvis and Gabriel Munguia.
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ShanghaiPRIDE Launches Official Theatre Festival
23th May 2015 – Shanghai, China
Shanghai, – This June, the ShanghaiPRIDE Theatre Festival (ShPTF) is ready to roll out an outstanding collection of theatre pieces for ShanghaiPRIDE that aims to broaden the art’s representation of LGBT lives and challenge, explore, and embrace its LGBT characters. Established as an alternate artistic experience to Pride’s many parties, the Theatre Festival gives theatre-goers a glimpse into what queer art can look like in China, and engages both local Chinese and English-speaking theatre companies. Shows start from the beginning of June with pre-Pride acts and then run on after Pride week, sizzling with dance, music, song, and drama through a diverse range of acts with some of the best performers in Shanghai.
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ShanghaiPRIDE Celebrates 7th Festival with the Annual Pride Run and Pink BBQ Open Registration
21th May 2015 – Shanghai, China
China’s longest-running reoccurring LGBTQ event ShanghaiPRIDE will kick off on the Saturday morning of June 13th 2015. For the third consecutive year, the week-long festival will be opened by a 6km city run passing through Shanghai’s various iconic sights, after which the crowd will be invited to celebrate diversity with a lunchtime BBQ at The Langham, Shanghai, Xintiandi, relaxing 5th level terrace lounge, XTD elevated. The venue’s encompassing view on the city’s popular Xintiandi district will be accompanied by a number of colorful performances.
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ShanghaiPRIDE Introduces Inaugural Rainbow Bike Ride
15th May 2015 – Shanghai, China
Shanghai, May 11th, 2015 – ShanghaiPRIDE is thrilled to announce the addition of a brand-new Pride Sports event as part of Pride7 this summer, June 12th-21st. The inaugural Rainbow Bike Ride, a pre-Pride event planned for the evening of June 5th, will feature six groups of volunteer bikers each equipped with lights representing one color of the rainbow flag.
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2nd ALMA AWARDS REVEALED FINAL AWARD RECIPIENTS FOR 10 LGBT AWARDS
15th April 2015 – Bangkok, Thailand
The 2nd Asia LGBT Milestone Awards & Diversity Leadership Forum held last night in Sofitel So Bangkok announced the final award recipients.
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ShPFF Last Call for Submissions
10th April 2015 – Shanghai, China
Last call for ALL entries for the short film competition, the deadline is only 5 days away!
Submission Deadline: April 15th 2015 (Wed)
Submission Requirements:
Films may be fiction, documentary or experimental
Films should focus on queer Chinese experience (‘Chinese’ may be interpreted as national, ethnic or cultural identity).
Film Duration: less than 30 minutes
Submission Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEEpKuXzyB8
Other details: http://shpride.com/films
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Pride7 Hits Shanghai June 12th-21st
30th March 2015 – Shanghai, China
Shanghai, March 30, 2015 – The ShanghaiPRIDE festival is back for its seventh year with a week’s worth of cultural, social and educational events aimed at creating awareness and promoting tolerance and acceptance. This year’s festival will run under the theme “Love Is Our Future” (爱予未来 ai yu weilai), referring to love in the form of connections among LGBTQ individuals; same-sex marriage; and support and tolerance from family, friends, colleagues and allies regardless of lifestyle, gender or sexual orientation.
“Last year, our theme Better Together was chosen to bring LGBTQ people and allies together,” said co-founder and organizer Charlene Liu. “This year, we want to move forward to start thinking about the future of the LGBTQ community.”
Pride7’s theme sounds like “love and future” in its Chinese translation, with the usual character for “and” (与yu) replaced by the character “予yu,” meaning to “give, grant, or build.” This clever wordplay implies the meaning “love builds the future,” signifying that promoting love in all forms will lead to a future in which LGBTQ-focused organizations and Pride movements are only one small part of a more equal and accepting culture. read more…
ALMA AWARDS LAUNCHES FIRST REGIONAL LGBT BUSINESS FORUM
25th March 2015 – Singapore
Singapore, MARCH 25, 2015 – The 2nd Asia LGBT Milestone Awards (in short: ALMA Awards 2015) announced the launch of the region’s first international business forum to discuss primarily on issues of social inclusion and diversity on LGBT minorities, which is to be held together with the ALMA Awards Ceremony on 14th April, Bangkok.
The headline sponsor for ALMA Awards’ Forum is IBM, recognized as a global leader for driving diversity and inclusion and LGBT programs globally. IBM’s Tony Tenicela states that “diversity fosters innovation in the way IBM addresses the needs of our clients and helps the world work better. Given the breadth of IBM’s business across 170 countries, diversity is a competitive differentiator that enables IBM to reflect the global diversity of our customers. We are pleased to sponsor the 1st Business Leadership Forum dedicated to LGBT professionals in the AP region.” Mr. Tony Tenicela, along with BP’s Hayden Majajas will be speaking at the Forum, joining them as a keynote speaker is China’s former policeman Mr. Geng Le, now the founder of China’s home-grown and largest LGBT business enterprise. Geng Le’s corporation named Blue City also joins IBM as one of the few other sponsors for the event. ShanghaiPRIDE is also involved in the Forum as a co-organizer and will deliver a 15-minutes speech. read more…
ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival – Extended deadline for short film competition 2015
3rd March 2015 – Shanghai, China
Shanghai, 3rd March, 2015 – ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival (ShPFF) is extending the deadline for ALL entries to its short film competition to 15th April, 2015. Submission details are online at http://shpride.com/films
We invite filmmakers to submit work which tells LGBT Chinese stories. In a time of rapid change, we are looking for the best and the brightest, the most innovative and the most engaging new voices in queer cinema. Submission is free, and we aim to screen every film by Chinese nationals (although filmmakers from any nation are invited to submit)
Films may be fiction, documentary or experimental, and should focus on queer Chinese experience (‘Chinese’ may be interpreted as national, ethnic or cultural identity). Eligible films must be under 30 minutes and made after June 2013. read more…
ShanghaiPRIDE Launches 2015 Film Festival – ShPFF 2015
15th November 2014 – Shanghai, China
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Pride7 Media Coverage
16th July 2015 – Shanghai, China
