what's on...
our best ever carnival parade route so far... get involved with this years parade...
The very heart of this year's Birmingham Pride... the ever-popular community area!
a full weekend of great national and local cabaret acts lined up for this year... check it out...
It's early days yet... but you'll find we've got some great acts lined up for you to enjoy...
the Chic dance arena is back again in a new location check it out..
community village green
The Community Village Green is back for 2012 and is set to be the best ever! It's always a hugely popular element of Birmingham Pride, with a real sense of community.
Whether you're looking for a relaxing time with family and friends, the chance to take-a-break from partying and do some chilling-out, or you simply fancy getting active in the Community Games, and many more activities - the Community Village Green area is the place to be.
Join Birmingham’s LGBT community groups and organisations in the Pride Community Tent. The tent will be packed with stalls with information on groups including groups like Pink Shield, Birmingham LGBT, Staffordshire Buddies, Rainbow Voices, Journey MCC, Brum Bi group, Quest, Summit House, Birmingham Gay Symphony Orchestra, Pink Souwesters, Sandwell LGBT, LGBT Interfaith Network, Eye to Eye, Moseley Shoals, BGlad, Out Central and Work it Out and many more
The Community Village Green is organised by Birmingham LGBT Community Trust
It's a bit too early to announce the programme for 2012 yet - but have a look at what we did last year...
Saturday 28th May 2011
2.00 SOMEONE AT THE DOOR - Samba Band
Someone At The Door is a true community band of about 30 people based in Bromsgrove.
2.20 MICHAEL CASHMAN - Speech
2.30 AMITY
Self described as the love child of Nick Cave and a happy PJ Harvey, the girl aims high and totally succeeds.
2.55 X2Y YOUTH GROUP - Speech
3.00 NATASHA KUIPER
Solo Rock chick seeks band, live audition.
3.30 STEPH KEEBLE - Speech
3.35 RAINBOW VOICES
Rainbow Voices perform regularly across the Midlands and actively support local charities with fundraising concerts.
4.00 GYGL YOUTH GROUP - Speech
4.05 EEEK
Returning to Birmingham Pride for a 4th year, all female band, Eeek, hailing from the Midlands, breathe a sense of freshness into the female acoustic music scene.
5.00 BEN WILLIAMS
Solo artist from Birmingham, currently developing his style between folk, jazz, indi pop, and ambient music.
5.30 KING ALBERTO (Drag King) 
Daniela Mory aka Drag King Alberto is an all round performing artist who has established herself in London since 2002.
6.00 LAZ ROGERS 
Laz Rogers is a 24 year old Singer/Song Writer from Wolverhampton.
6.30 FLETCH@ SINGSONG 
Fletch@ is a well-known Deaf performer in the UK. Performing songs in sign language, and has appeared on various TV Progs and magazines. www.signsong.org.uk
7.00 SHANGHAI STARR 
Shanghai has worked alongside many professional companies, giving the Arts a kiss of life around the Midlands.
7.30 SYKES 
Birmingham’s Sykes has opened for Mary J bilge, Gyptian and Lemar@ the LG arena, Angie stone, Mario Winas @ The O2 Academy.
8.00 FAYE BAGLEY 
Faye Bagley is a singer/songwriter from Walsall and closes the community stage for the second year in a row.
Sunday 29th May 2011
1.30 DJ COZ WILLIAMS
2.00 SAME SEX SALSA DANCE
2.20 AMNESTY BALTIC PRIDE- Speech
2.30 SUNSHINE BAND
The Sunshine Band play a mixture of blues, soul, funk & country/rock covers.
3.20 CLAIRE SHORT - Speech
3.30 CANDLELIGHT VIGIL - TREE OF LIFE
4.00 LEEANNE STODDART
Performance Poet Leeanne Stoddart hates writing bios about herself and prefers to write poems about people she loves, fantasies she has, and her hair.
4.10 BRETHREN BORDER MORRIS DANCERS
4.30 CLLR ALAN RUDGE - Speech
4.35 PROJECT CARAMEL
Project Caramel are a trio of musicians from London. Specialising in commercial dance music, under the genres UK funky and dubstep.
5.00 MUSIC IN MOTION
5.30 DAVID WARING
6.00 LADY GEORGIANNA 
Eighteenth century girl band, bedecked in extravagant period outfits and using voice, cello and harpsichord to perform what was essentially the pop music of the Regency period - humorous and highly entertaining.
6.35 EMMA SKIPP (FULL BAND) 
Emma is one of the UK's most talked about female singer/song writers, hailing from Birmingham, and is currently working on new material for her solo album, to be released in June 2011.
7.00 AMANDA STONE 
Amanda Stone is an award winning Singer from the Midlands, and has been on the Circuit for over 10 years now singing all over the UK.
7.30 EMILY HAYES 
Emily has a broad musical history from singing with Rock and blues bands, the duo 'eman'im', small Jazz ensembles to fronting one of the most prestigious jazz big bands in the country.
8.00 EMMA SKIPP (ACOUSTIC)
