🌈 I am delighted to share that #Bishopsgate businesses are collaborating to create a ‘Pride on the Plaza’ festival this year, on Wednesday 1st July…and you are invited!!
🥐 The day will start with Discovery Breakfast sessions at our community partners in RBC who will host Alderman Tim Hailes FKC JP who will be – subject to election – the first openly gay Lord Mayor of the City of London Corporation in a Q&A with Tris Reid-Smith from PrideWide.
Registration is here: https://lnkd.in/eS5K3mi9
🗣️ Salesforce will host an amazing panel discussion with Scott Nunn, Payal Anand, Arlene McDermott and Claire O’Neill – The Stories We Carry: Lived Experiences in The City.
Registration is here: https://lnkd.in/e9rPhhEC
🗣️ DIVA Charitable Trust will host a lunch time panel, Holding the Line: Inclusion, Courage, and Community in Changing Times at Pan Pacific London with Roxy Bourdillon, Char Bailey, Moud Goba and Lisa Smith.
Registration is here: Pride on the Plaza: https://lnkd.in/eTYgMgEp
🚶♀️ 🚶➡️ There will also be opportunity to join LGBTQIA+ walking tours of City of London start on the plaza at 12:45pm and 1:45pm – walks are 45 minutes long.
🎶 🪩 The day culminates in a festival on Bishopsgate Plaza from 4pm through to 9pm, with music from Diversity, London Gay Men’s Chorus, DJ Michelle, House De La Torres, Tom Duerne and hosted by Matron and Annie Maniac. We’ll also have Lady Phyll (Phyll Opoku-Gyimah) speak to us on the importance of Pride. This event open to everyone and is not ticketed.
Charity partners will be on the Plaza selling raffle tickets – DIVA Charitable Trust, Stonewall Housing, Not A Phase, PrideWide and Rainbow Mind.
The City of London Police‘s community engagement team will also be present.
💃 🕺 Following the festival, Rakes Bar in the Andaz London Liverpool Street Hotel will host an after party!
