Upcoming Events
Check our our full list of events including our social & support groups and our fundraising events.
Lip Sync Pre-Pride Edition
Thomas De la Rue
The legendary Magenta will be hosting, and the wonderful Carlton will be in charge of the tunes so it's bound to be chaos but also a lot of fun!
Join us for the first of our infamous Lip Sync Battles in 2021! We've missed it!
This will be our 'pre-pride' edition. Channel Islands Pride is happening on the 21st of August in Jersey (and we'll be live screening #CIPride from Jersey, directly to Guernsey via our event 'Pride at Princess Royal').
Rainbow Chorus - Rehearsals
Guille-Allès Public Library, GuernseyGuille-Allès Library, Market Street, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 1HBGuernsey,GY1 1HB Map
Come along and join the Rainbow Chorus as we prepare for upcoming events.
Lots of fun, learning new songs.
Doors open at 7pm and rehearsals start at 7.30pm.
First session is free, then £5 per week afterwards (Cash & Card accepted on the night)
If you would like to come along, but the cost may be a barrier, please email hello@liberate.gg in confidence as we have a number of free places which we are able to provide subject to circumstances.
Liberate Parent Group
In person
We have recently launched a group for parents of LGBTQ+ people or LGBTQ+ people who are parents.
If you would like to join this group please PM us or send an email to ellie@liberate.gg. We will then send you a link to the WhatsApp group and you'll get information on joining the meeting there.
This group is a peer support group where people can chat informally and help each other navigate the world as parents of LGBTQ+ young people.
CI Pride at the Princess Royal
The Princess Royal Centre for Performing ArtsLes Ozouets Campus, Les Ozouets, St Peter Port, GuernseyGuernsey,GY1 2UB Map
We are inviting islanders to a fun packed day suitable for all ages. You’ll find the rare sight of unicorns racing, a ‘cloud of colour’, Princesses telling stories and you’ll even be able to encase yourself in a bubble. All of the activities are FREE and they also include making your own Pride t-shirt with the Youth Commission’s spray paint t-shirt stall, or you can jump around on their giant bouncy castle, maybe you’ll have your face painted by Joni, or help Iris and Dora make a giant throne fit for a Queen! All this along with a live broadcast of the main Channel Islands Pride stage in Jersey.
The Princess Royal Centre for Performing Arts will host the big screen action from Jersey and its bar will be open for the event. A quiet sensory area is also hoping to be created on site for the day, making the most of the studio rooms the centre offers.
Come the evening the Performing Arts theatre will continue showing the main stage at CI Pride in Jersey. Once the festivities end in our sister island, we will continue into the evening with special Pride club night where you can dance the evening away to a special Pride playlist from a top UK LGBTQ+ DJ.
Our main sponsor for the event is Mourant. The event takes place on Saturday 21st August, from 1pm, and includes both indoor and outdoor activities including the ‘Cloud of Colour’ sponsored by KMPG, where bags of brightly coloured powered will be thrown into the air.
ADMISSION TO THE DAY IS FREE
You can sign up to take part in the Unicorn Races, or buy tickets to the afterparty, here:
www.liberate.gg/book
Thanks also to our supporting sponsors:
EY
Black Arrow Cyber Security
Credit Suisse
CI Pride - Unicorn Races
The Princess Royal Centre for Performing ArtsLes Ozouets Campus, Les Ozouets, St Peter Port, GuernseyGuernsey,GY1 2UB Map
How would you like to take part in The Unicorn Races! This rare sight is being promised at Pride at Princess Royal on the 21st of August as Guernsey celebrated this years Channel Islands Pride.
The ‘Unicourse’ sees decorated unicorn hobby horses and their owners compete in different challenges: Dressage, Showjumping and Steeplechase.
Teams of three are invited to take part with a different team member then competing in each challenge.
Decide who will have the pose for Dressage, who will have the agility for Showjumping and who will have the stamina for Steeplechase.
The entrance fee is £30 a team, you can create and pimp your own Unicorn Hobby Horse or you can purchase an undecorated Unicorn from Liberate for £20. It’s up to your team to adorn the magical creature, perhaps in glitter or a rainbow theme for Channel Islands Pride, or your team or corporate colours – you decide.
Sponsorship is also encouraged and a great way to get your friends and colleagues to support you on the day.
A wonderful set of unicorn embossed rosettes and other prizes awaits the winners.
Spectators can watch for FREE as part of the CI Pride celebrations.
CI Pride at the Princess Royal - AFTER PARTY
The Princess Royal Centre for Performing ArtsLes Ozouets Campus, Les Ozouets, St Peter Port, GuernseyGuernsey,GY1 2UB Map
Come the evening the Performing Arts theatre will continue showing the main stage at CI Pride in Jersey. Once the festivities end in our sister island, we will continue into the evening with special Pride club night where you can dance the evening away to a special Pride playlist from a top UK LGBTQ+ DJ.
This event is suitable for over 18's only.
Tickets are £5 each and available from www.liberate.gg/book
Our main sponsor for the event is Mourant. The event takes place on Saturday 21st August, from 1pm, and includes both indoor and outdoor activities including the ‘Cloud of Colour’ sponsored by KMPG, where bags of brightly coloured powered will be thrown into the air.
Thanks also to our supporting sponsors:
EY
Black Arrow Cyber Security
Credit Suisse
Lit with Liberate: Rainbow Milk
Guille-Allès Public Library, GuernseyGuille-Allès Library, Market Street, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 1HBGuernsey,GY1 1HB Map
Lit with Liberate - our LGBTQ-themed reading group - returns in August with Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez. This is a free reading group that is open to all. There’s no need to book.
Rainbow Milk is an intersectional coming-of-age story, following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of a Jehovah's Witness upbringing and the legacies of the Windrush generation.
In the Black Country in the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a determined and humble Jamaican who has moved to Britain with his wife to secure a brighter future for themselves and their children. Blighted with unexpected illness and racism, Norman and his family are resilient in the face of such hostilities, but are all too aware that they will need more than just hope to survive.
At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London - escaping from a broken immediate family, a repressive religious community and the desolate, disempowered Black Country - but finds himself at a loss for a new centre of gravity, and turns to sex work to create new notions of love, fatherhood and spirituality.
Rainbow Milk is a bold exploration of race, class, sexuality, freedom and religion across generations, time and cultures. Paul Mendez is a fervent new writer with an original and urgent voice.
If you haven’t read the book but want to come along for a taster, please do! 🙂
LGBTQI+ Information and Awareness
Youth Commission of Guernsey and Alderney
LGBTQ+ information to help attendees understand the issues facing LGBTQ+.
Hosted with the Youth Commission.
Free to attend - open to all.
Cancellation - Please inform our office via email info@youthcommission.gg or on 01481 226099
Book here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lgbtqi-information-and-awareness-tickets-137418643863?aff=ebdssbdestsearch