Culinary / Wine

 manager@wolfvillefarmersmarket.ca
 902.697.3344

Join us for our rainbow celebration & community dinner!  The Market will be awash in a rainbow of colour - with decorations and information about supports and services for our LGBTIQ community.  Many vendors will be offering rainbow-inspired food and products and with your Market Supper you get a complimentary serving of bread and Rainbow Salad.   There will also be collectible Market Rainbow Pride Buttons, Donna Holmes performing live, Natalie Meisner reading from Double Pregnant, Mike Butler performing a monologue and a belly dancing performance by members of the Sister Lotus Belly Dance Troupe.

PRIDE Participants:

• Mr. B’s Tees:  selling rainbow tees (and donating 20% of sales to Valley Youth Project)

• Natalie Meisner:  promoting her book Double Pregnant

• Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project:  seeks equality for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities and will be be presenting material on ongoing campaigns and those of partner organizations (e.g. prideHealth)

• Valley Youth Project:   offers social connections for youth 25 years and younger, who identify as gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, trans and their friends in the Annapolis Valley. We will be promoting our Drop In activities, and social media sites.

• Wolfville Area Pride Committee:  promoting pride for the LGBTIQ community and offering portrait drawings of family members, partners or friends

PRIDE Stage Schedule

(see details about performers and speakers below)

4:30pm-7pm (Musician and MC for the nigh):  Donna Holmes

4:45pm-5pm (Talk): Kate Shewan (Chair of NS Rainbow Action Project) The March to Equality is Made up of Small Steps and Giant Leaps

5:30-5:45pm (Reading):  Natalie Meisner will be reading from Double Pregnant , Natalie’s light-hearted, poignant and informative true story about starting a family with Natalie’s wife Viviën.

6:30-6:45pm (Monologue):  Mike Butler performing “A Gay Old Time With Mike Butler”

Special Performance in the Community Room

6 pm (Belly Dancing):  Sister Lotus Belly Dance Troupe directed by Angie Oriana Jenkins

More info about our Speakers and Performers

Mike Butler is the ultimate local man about town. He's 35, gay and very social, busy, and entertaining. He has lived and worked in Wolfville for the better part of ten years and when he's not doing EVERYTHING , he's doing a little bit less. Mike is the Assistant Manager at the Il Dolce Far Niente Espresso Bar on Elm Avenue in Wolfville and loves all aspects of his job. Mike loves doing community theatre, having just completed his 31st play in just over four years and when he's not on stage, baristaing (is that even a word?) or sharing time with his beautiful partner Ian, he can be found every two weeks in the Grapevine tackling the Mike Uncorked and Who's Who sections of that amazing little periodical. Mike will be presenting an original work tonight about his own experiences growing up gay in the valley.

Donna Holmes is an ex-clown, a copy-editor for Grapevine Publishing, and volunteers with the Deep Roots Music Festival and ValleyEvents.ca.  She lives in Wolfville, NS; is a graduate of Acadia University; and is a member of the Best Word Writing group where she enjoys writing plays and poems and paragraphs and papers and other things that start with “p”.   Donna produces a variety show called Broken Leg Theatre three times a year and runs an open mic every Tuesday night at TAN Coffee.  She LOVES playing her original music at the Wolfville Farmers’ Market and is looking forward to seeing you there!   

Natalie Meisner is a writer from Lockeport, Nova Scotia.  Her plays  have been produced across the country, won numerous awards, been  collected in book form and appear in numerous Canadian Anthologies.  Her  new book, Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family  is her lighthearted and informative true account of two lesbians who  want to have children.  It was published in Spring 2014 by Fernwood Publishing. While this is her first non-fiction book, Meisner  has a long and multifaceted career as a playwright, fiction writer and  poet.  Her plays have won the Canadian National Playwriting Competition,  been shortlisted for the Herman Voaden, and been produced by CBC Radio.    Her early plays have been collected in book form: Growing Up Salty(Roseway/Fernwood).   Her poems and fiction have won numerous prizes, been published in  many prominent literary magazines such as CV2, Pottersfield Portfolio,  Room Magazine, Freefall Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine,  Ditch: The Poetry That Matters, Bread ‘n Molasses, The Nashwak Review,  The Battered Suitcase and others.  Her long suite of  narrative poems, “Loss of the Cellist” was recorded with original music by Vancouver Composer/Cellist Peggy Lee and featured on CBC radio.  

Natalie Meisner is a wife and mother of two great boys and divides  her time between Lockeport, NS and Calgary, AB.  She holds a Doctorate  in English (University of Calgary), a Master of Fine Arts in Creative  Writing (University of British Columbia) and Bachelor’s degree in  English from Dalhousie University.  She has taught at the University of  Regina, University of Calgary and currently is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Mount Royal University where she teaches creative writing, drama and literature.

Kate Shewen is the Chair of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project. Over the last several years she has been a tireless public advocate for the rights of LGBTIQ Nova Scotians. She helped the Nova Scotia Government introduce changes to the Human Rights Act that would protect gender identity and gender expression. In this talk, she will discuss how change isn’t easy and it takes many people making a variety of efforts to create it. Small steps can lead to giant leaps forward in human rights for all Nova Scotians, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Sister Lotus Belly Dance Troupe features Angie Oriana Jenkins & her students who all hail from the Annapolis Valley.  They love performing here at the market since this is where they hold classes!   This is their second time dancing to a Blues Belly Dance Fusion veil piece, choreographed by Jessica Best Smith.  Following that, Angie Oriana will perform a solo

Pricing: Free

The DeWolfe Building
24 Elm Avenue
Wolfville, Nova Scotia

 info@wolfvillefarmersmarket.ca
 902-697-3344

         

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