Celebrate Pride with us
Throughout June and beyond
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Don't miss our brilliant events that showcase the extraordinary talents of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Join us as Classical Pride returns with a 5-day festival of events, our Queer 80s film series celebrates a decade of thriving Queer representation and creativity, and Soufiane Ababri's new site-specific work in The Curve unites drawing, performance and installation to explore desire, queerness and diaspora.
Programming and promoting the creativity of LGBTQIA+ art is important all year round, but Pride is a particularly special time to celebrate the work of these ground-breaking artists.
Illustrations by Josephine Rais (@JosephineRais).
Events
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Classical Pride: My Beloved Man
My Beloved Man – a celebration by the Fourth Choir, London’s LGBTQ+ classical choir, of the love affair between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.
Classical Pride: A Proud Future
A Proud Future features the star performers and composers from the LGBTQ+ student bodies of London’s conservatoires.
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Classical Pride: Julius Eastman’s Gay Guerilla
Classical Pride presents Julius Eastman’s Gay Guerilla, a free performance in the Level G foyer with an ensemble put together by violist Stephen Upshaw.
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Classical Pride: LSO with Oliver Zeffman & Nick Grimshaw
The culmination of 2024’s Classical Pride, the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Oliver Zeffman celebrate LGBTQ+ classical music in this diverse programme presented by Nick Grimshaw.
In conversation: Soufiane Ababri
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Soufiane Ababri: In Conversation
Artist Soufiane Ababri discusses his exhibition 'Their mouths were full of bumblebees but it was me who was pollinated' with Curator Raúl Muñoz de la Vega.