Press Release

Manchester Pride Fringe received a timely fillip as the 2012 line-up is announced, with the news that the Arts Council England (ACE) is to support the festival.

ACE funding has been secured for a trio of work:

Tribute is a collaboration between artist Jez Dolan and floral artist Rob Flood, presenting a series of photographic portraits and prints utilising and subverting the traditional funeral floral tribute, whilst exploring the impact of negative language often used to describe LGBT people.

In LGBT, A quartet of Britain’s leading writers – Neil Bartlett, Stella Duffy, Rob Ellis and Jackie Kay - explore the diversity which exists within the simple four letters that represent our community. Four individual stories which challenge the accepted stereotypes that lurk behind the rainbow.

ACE is also supporting Pride’s annual series of Chamber Music Concerts, two of which will also be broadcast by BBC Radio 3. The recitals will feature music by Tchaikovsky, Britten, Schubert, Saint-Saens, Tippett, Ireland and Somervell, as well as the world premiere of a new piece by Manchester Pride’s very own Composer-in-Association, Marc Yeats.