Kaleidoscope: Disability Pride Parade
Chester's 2nd Kaleidoscope Disability Pride Parade Running fromNext event: Monday 11 July at 10.30am
- Free
- Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Across Chester City Centre
Part of: Free activities and events
Part of: Free activities and events
Chester’s second Disability Pride Parade is launching this year’s Kaleidoscope Week.
The parade is your chance to dance, parade, move, sing and raise awareness of the 14.1 million disabled people living in the UK. We will congregate on Eastgate Street in Chester (Outside of Bella Italia). We will then move to underneath the Eastgate Clock (and start parading towards Grosvenor Park. Bring your banners and flags and any instruments you play to make lots of noise. You can also contribute to a large scale banner by making a mini piece of art before July. Click here to find out how to take part.
Once we arrive at Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre there will be time to eat, relax, and use the toilets/changing space at the park pavilion.
You are invited to bring food and drink and the bar at the park will be open for hot and cold drinks.
After lunch a dance performance by a professional theatre company Dark Horse Theatre based in Huddersfield.
Dark Horse Theatre produce work to tour nationally that is visually impactful and has a reputation of surprise, innovation and the ability to reverse expectations. Dark Horse’s mission is for people with learning disabilities to be given the equality of opportunity to train and work in the performing arts.
Please note that road closures are being put in place for this parade to happen. Your blue badges can still be used and St John Street can be used to park. The journey from the Eastgate Clock to Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre is approx. 7 mins (on foot) however we have allowed longer for the parade to move into the park.
Read about the first Disability Pride Parade which took place in 2019 here.
10.30am - 2pm
Monday 11 July | 10.30am | Across Chester City Centre |
Work with Stig of the Dump actors who will demonstrate how much fun can be had by using different skills other than voice to encapsulate stories.
Follow the crafty map checklist to tick off some fantastic activities including Junk Modelling, Sign Language, and Rock Painting.
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Join us before the screening of Mary Poppins, where there will be an open access chalk drawing available in The Kitchen, design and run by the incredible Nikki Pinder.
Before the screening of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, be sure to join us in making your very own flying cars!
2 hr 19 | A magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
2 hr 19 | When three children move to a small village during WW2 they discover their new guardian is an apprentice witch.
1 hr 19 | Pooh, an adorable bear, and his lovable friends embark on an epic adventure as they sing, dance and chase bees through the Hundred Acre Woods.
1 hr 45 | AD | When Superman and the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto must convince a rag-tag shelter pack to help him rescue the Super Heroes.
2 hr 55 | A film about friendship between Bruno, who repairs film projectors and travels along the inner-German border in his truck, and the psychologist Robert, who is fleeing from his own past.
2 hr 6 | Jonathan Zimmermann believes that he will soon die of leukemia. The unscrupulous American Tom Ripley, learns of this and exploits Zimmermann’s illness for his own purposes.
2 hr 8 | Guardian angels listen to mortals and attempt to comfort them but one of them wishes to become human after he falls in love with the beautiful trapeze artist.
2 hr 28 | The story of Travis, a man who wanders out of Mexico and into Texas one day, in the blazing heat of the “Big Bend”.