INTERNATIONAL DJ TO HEADLINE JOBURG PRIDE
The 22nd annual Joburg Pride has announced more details about this year’s event on the 1st of October, including some of the stage performers for the day.
It was also revealed that Joburg Pride has signed up Jacaranda 94.2 as its media partner for 2011.
“With a massive listenership spread throughout Gauteng, Jacaranda 94.2 will be able to spread our message to many millions of ears. We look forward to its support leading up to 1 October and on the day – with MCs on stage, as well as a Jacaranda 94.2 float taking part in the parade,” said the Pride Board.
Performers confirmed for the 2011 event include international headline act Lisa Lashes, described as ‘The World’s Number One Female DJ’.
The British DJ and music producer has headlined European music festivals such as Global Gathering, Creamfields, Dance Valley, her own “Lashed in Ibiza” parties, and UK events such as Godskitchen, Gatecrasher, Inside Out and Planet Love.
She has toured China, Canada, the US, Russia, Australia and New Zealand and is the first and only female to be considered among the top ten DJs in the world by DJ Magazine.
Lashes will perform during the day at Zoo Lake; Joburg Pride will not host a night-time after party this year.
The entertainment line-up for the day also includes local acts such as multiple SAMA winner Lira, Afrikaans singer George Meiring, rock band Kinky Robot and top local DJs.
Joburg Pride 2011 takes place at Zoo Lake Sports Club, Parkview, Johannesburg. Gates will open from 8am and the parade will start at 11am, with the day’s festivities and entertainment ending at 6pm.
The Board warned that it reserves the right to close the gates to newcomers after 2.30pm for safety and security reasons, so as not to go over the maximum capacity for the venue.
It also requested the understanding of the public in remembering that no drink, food or related containers will be allowed into the venue as the sale of food and drinks on the day is one of the event’s most-important means of fund-raising.
“Bring your family, friends and pets to celebrate our sexual diversity and freedoms in a fabulous and memorable day of celebration,” urged Joburg Pride.
The event’s somewhat contentious 2011 theme is ‘Born This Gay’, which aims to “creatively, without fail and without shame, encourage society to speak out and take action against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender hate crime.
“The entire community needs to consistently drive the message that being gay or lesbian is NOT a fashion statement, a sickness, a crime, a curse or a choice,” said Joburg Pride.
For more information visit www.joburgpride.org.
lisa lashes is so “over” … how was she chosen to headline at pride? i can’t think of a “whiter” choice – in a majority black country, how can a decision like this have been made? Hard house is so 10 years ago! no wonder black people do not support pride in this country – whoever is responsible for the decision should be removed from the pride board immediately – this is embarrassing .. really now – how on earth is lisa lashes relevant to this event? bad, stupid, arrogant whitey decisions like this keep our community divided – can somebody please take responsibility and make sure this type of decision can not happen again? no, no, no!
Oh keep your saggy-ass pants on darling and have little bit of fun in your sad, blinkered life.
Hi Serious clubber
Joburg Pride does not choose artists based on colour. Our line up includes majority LGBTI performers – drag acts, DJ’s and bands – of all colour and all sexuality. Lisa Lashes was a hard house dj but now plays predominantly a mix of techno trance and house. Everyone has a right to an opinion – but unfortunately we can not cater for everyones tastes on the day of Pride. In the past – people on the day have preferred to have DJ’s perform rather than bands. We try to mix it up – with new DJ’s, local acts and more well known acts. We also have limited funds which determines what artists we can bring out – as fee’s transport and accomodation do need to be paid. Whatever person is on stage should not stop people from attending Joburg Pride. It is a day to celebrate together as people. It is actually the one day where sexual preference, colour, age, male, female should not be highlighted – but instead we hear comments on the day referring to whitey, colour, being butch or fem, top or bottom, are you the man or woman in the relationship – within the LGBTI community we can’t even unite on the day and just be people.
We look forward to receiving your email volunteering for the Pride Board, so that your valuble suggestions, help and time can be put to good use in preparation for Joburg Pride 2011.
WTF!!! you twit, here we go again the race card talk about hard house beeing 10 years ago, the race card is so 17 years ago. Get over yourself we know its messy and you probably are the only one that wants to.get a life.
Anyway Soweto pride is on the 24 September I dont see any comments from white people about the line up there
Board if the first pride was in 1990 should this year not be our ‘coming of age’ 21st Celebration ! And not 22yrs as stated in all Press releases .
i thnk its ryt to hv a whit chick cause at da end of da dae we nt goin to judge race we goin to have fun
Loving PARAMANEL’S comments.
First of all I think we should all be thankful to have a top10 International DJ on the line up. No matter what colour. Through this we are guaranteed the latest tunes and fresh international mixes, WELL DONE PRIDE ORGANISERS. Secondly I totally DISAGREE with the fact that the board have taken a decision to have the right to close access to the PRIDE party from 14H30 onwards. This is a disaster, what about all those people who will pop in later in the afternoon for a drink. Numbers have never been a problem and the venue is big enough. I just hope you guys are not making a mistake here as this will just PISS people off. Just make sure there’s enough security patrolling and we will have a safe event.
Can’t Wait.
Hi BoyGeorge
With reference to your comment on the decision to close gates from 14h30. This is not to stop people popping in. We have previous experience with events and Pride…and this is put in to protect all the attendees of Pride as well as a requirement of our JOC application. We never know what is going to happen on the day of Pride and for safety reasons we may have to close gates. There is a maximum capacity for the venue, as with any venue. We are not stating this upfront to piss people off 🙂 Perhaps we should actually list all the security and precautions we DO put in place to make this a safe event for all who attend, and all those who attend in the spirit of Pride.