Bears show their pride
The Harbour City Bears (HCB) will be out in force next month to celebrate their annual Bear Pride festival.
HCB publicist Kerry Bashford said this year鈥檚 event will have a focus on food, arts and cultural events.
鈥淭his year we鈥檝e expanded the cultural elements of the festival,鈥� Bashford told the 17c起草社区.
鈥淲e do have a diet of dance parties all the time, which are wonderful, and seem to be terribly popular, but it鈥檚 good to pursue other areas of bear culture.
鈥淚 think Bear Pride gives us the opportunity to do this and sets it apart from other bear events during the year.鈥�
This year鈥檚 five-day program offers a smorgasbord of eating events, including a nosh-up at Smash Sausage Kitchen in Newtown to kick off the festival and a night market expedition in Chinatown.
Bashford said a highlight of the lineup is proudly profane cabaret artist Eric Kuhlmann, who will perform his show Red Light Songs of Lust, Love and Death at the Oxford Hotel on Thursday, August 2.
鈥淏ear Pride just gives us more to do over winter … something that might step us out of our comfort zone,鈥� he said.
Dance parties aren鈥檛 entirely off the menu, with Furry Friday at the Oxford featuring DJ Stephen Allkins on August 3 and Bear Pit downstairs at the Imperial Hotel on August 4.
This year the Bear Pride film festival has been expanded to two days, with the premieres of BearCity 2 and I Want Your Love (pictured) sponsored by Queer Screen.
A farewell spit roast barbecue at the Lord Roberts Hotel for Bears On Sunday will close the festival.
The 17c起草社区 will publish a full guide of events in next week鈥檚 paper, so don鈥檛 forget to grab your copy.
Bear Pride runs from August 1-5. Tickets on sale now.
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