JL Rocks is one of many local businesses supporting Westport Pride. They’re available at the 1753 Post Road East location, at a Pride-special $10 price. The project was a collaboration between Staples’ GSA and the Westport Downtown Association.īaker Graphics offers Westport Pride lawn signs, with a “Pride in Town/Pride in Each Other” message. Featured artists include Staples graduate Noah Fox, and a mural designed by Staples senior Poppy Livingstone.Īll month, a large banner - designed by Staples senior Claire Hanley - will hang on the Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Bridge (which will be lit by rainbow lights). MoCA Westport celebrates Pride June 25 through August 21 with “Love Wins.” The exhibit highlights the issues, themes and conversations of the local LGBTQ community, and beyond.
Children (and parents) can proudly wear “You Be You” t-shirts and other apparel ( click here to purchase). This year’s theme is “What Makes You Shine?” Activities include a Staples student-created video, suggested book readings, and a self-portrait art project. Westport elementary schools get in the spirit on June 15 with “You Be You Spirit Day.” Begun by a Coleytown Elementary School student in 2019, it’s a celebration of what makes each child special. On Sunday, June 6 (5 p.m.), Christ & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church hosts a Pride Eucharist service, with scripture, song and prayer in the courtyard. A rainbow flag will fly, and there will be children’s art activities too. Clergy and political leaders will join together (with 1st Selectman Jim Marpe issuing a Pride Month proclamation). Youth (and non-youth) will speak, sing and perform. The entire town is invited to Jesup Green for a Pride Rally. Other colors have been added, symbolizing transgender issues and the AIDS crisis. The day-long event includes music, buttons, and an art show featuring submissions from Staples’ LGBTQ community. On June 4, Staples High celebrates Pride. Panelists include Pride founder Brian McGunagle, Staples High School Gender Sexuality Alliance faculty advisor Kayla Iannetta, and members of that GSA. Westport Pride kicks off June 2 (7 p.m., Zoom) with a discussion on the past, present and future of LGBT life here. With dozens of members, from teenagers through grandparents - and hundreds of followers on social media - Westport Pride’s goal is to raise the visibility of LGBTQ residents and issues increase understanding provide mentors inspire future leaders, and share the LGBTQ community’s culture and accomplishments. Formed just 5 months ago, a new group - Westport Pride - has developed an ambitious slate of events for June. Image by MoCA Westport.Around the world, Pride Month - commemorating one of the first uprisings against police raids on gay bars, at the Stonewall Inn in June 1969 - is celebrated with parades, festivals, discussions and more.Īctually, it’s already here. Photography courtesy of Marilyn Minter and Salon 94, NY. Things Are Looking Native, Native’s Looking Whiter, Nicholas Galanin, 2012. Photography by Jason Wyche/courtesy of Nicholas Galanin and Peter Blum Gallery, New York. Among them are such equally portending pieces as 2012’s Things Are Looking Native, Native’s Looking Whiter by Nicholas Galanin and Marilyn Minter’s Resist Flag from 2017. Of art as a form of social activism, featuring multimedia works by 33 local and world-renowned artists.
The highly topical show examines the role But it was before then, and the pandemic and racial justice protests that have come to define 2020, that the impetus for “ World Peace,” the Connecticut museum’s exhibition on view through January 17, was already taking shape.
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In 2019, MoCA Westport relocated to larger quarters-the former TV studio of Martha Stewart Living- renovated by Sellars Lathrop Architects. “World Peace” Exhibition Opens at MoCA Westport in Connecticut
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