GALWAY'S ANNUAL gay pride festival will go on for three extra days with year, with organisers announcing that the festival, now in its 28th year, is to expand from a seven to 10-day event during August.
The 2017 Galway Pride Festival will run from Friday August 11 to Sunday 20. Bruce Henry, president and CEO of Galway Pride Festival CLG, explained the reasons for the festival's extension: “We want as many people as possible to join in the celebrations, so naturally, two weekends of activities are better than one!”
In the last two years, Pride has become a more prominent and popular festival in the city - last year saw the highest level of attendance for festival events to date - and the organisers are keen to build on both the goodwill and interest that has made this possible. “We scaled very quickly in a short period of time last year," Mr Henry said. “We’ll be adding to the festival programming this year. There’ll be more workshops, more educational and family events, hopefully more floats in the parade, and more reasons to get out and celebrate individuality, self-expression, and most importantly, pride.”
Galway Pride Festival will hold its first fundraiser, a Britney Spears Dance Party, on February 24 in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street. Admission is €5 and all proceeds go to Galway Pride Festival 2017. A public meeting on the festival is to be announced later in the month, and anyone interested in getting involved should make contact through www.galwaypridefestival.com
