Starting Midnight June 12 at the Red Dragon Inn, the usual kooks will be boarding up Ethel the Truck and painting the streets. YOU! Are welcome to join in with the paintification! The rollers and paint will be supplied at the starting area outside of City Hall.
Bring your own Truck/large heavy vehicle, or climb aboard one of the trucks ready to roll! AND be prepared for a dimension hop, as the gate to Twilight Island will be open for the road-painters to barge on through!
But what’s this? A couple of shady magey sorts have been induced - or paid - to enchant the rainbow roads to bring a little speed to the word! Go-carts will be available to hop into and go whirring down the rainbow!
All through the Twilight Market shopping district will be pop up Pride shops, where important goodies can be purchased or bartered, like flags and shirts and really cool shoes.
The kickoff party, hosted by Double Dukes Drhys, will begin at 9am at #11 Twilight Lagoon in the Gloaming District. A giant birthday cake dedicated in memory of Ed will be served to celebrate all the people who found freedom to be who they are without fear of discrimination thanks to RhyDin being RhyDin.
As the sun goes down, the Lighted Boat Parade will commence! Starting off with the glorious Riverboat Casino, upon which will host fine dining and dancing and all of the lights and fireworks, the Riverboat will cruise through town to her dock. All of the boats are welcome to come along and bring light and music to the night!
Monday 13
Come wassailing! Groups of happy folks in happy get ups will be strolling street to street, popping through the many portals, singing songs in praise of RhyDin being RhyDin! Songs by Queen, David Bowie, Lily Allen, and more! Will be caroled to the people and streets of RhyDin. The groups will be gathering at City Hall at one pm, and be led out by volunteers to sing for the city. Form your own group or join one in progress!
After wassailing, hop in a car, a truck, a horse, a lizard drawn dray, a bike and come on out to the Thunder Road Drive In Theater! Four theaters, eight features! With an open refreshment stand, serving pizza, hot dogs, chips, nachos, popcorn, candy – all the usual drive in movie fare!
The movies start at sundown.
A play ground with attendants will be open in the Kid's Movie theater.
Documentaries: "The Cockettes" & Rocketman
Romance: Portrait of a Woman On Fire & A Secret Love
Dramady: Dancing Queens and Pride!
Kids: Missing Link and Onward!
Tuesday 14:
The Pride Parade and BBQ! The parade will assemble at 7AM and begin at 9AM. Bring your decorated vehicles, your synchronized moppers, your drag queen pom pom squads, and most importantly! Grab your Support Grandparent, Mom, Dad, Uncle, Aunt, Cousin, Sibling, Nibling T shirts and give hugs to people that need them!
The parade will end at Battlefield Park, with a free feed for all! Canaan will be Pitmaster, making sure all the BBQ and Grilled Goods are all perfect and delicious! Picnic tables and blankets will be available for all.
Vegetarian and Vegan options, of course.
Watermelon carving will be featured – to make the Summerween Lanterns!
There will be face painting and all of the kooky clothes and costumes for the young and young at heart, so that when the sun goes down...
Summerween Begins!
Get out there and trick or treat through the shops and stands, get your trick or treating in before the last Jack O'Melon goes out or the Summerween Trickster might get you!
Remember, Loser Candy makes the Summerween Trickster Happy!
Weds June 15:
Tea With Family: Come visit the Courtyard at 2pm, where all the tea sets have been brought out to join your family or make some new friends in a huge lovely Cream Tea Party! Take the time to talk and listen, and enjoy the tea and cream and strawberry smothered short cakes.
Forms and paperwork will be available along with legal assistance for the making and blending of legal family units. Get your marriage license and granny grant, get your new self ratified and celebrate love!
Beginning 8PM, Ettyn's hosting Bi&Bi at the B&B – Reading Queer Perspectives. Ettyn has gone through the bookshop to bring out and read from her favorite books with a queer perspective. There will be a posh array of pastries and coffees and teas and hot chocolates along with the reading, comfortable sofas and bean bags to lounge on.
(Live Play at the Books and Brews, hosted by Ettyn)
Thurs June 16:
Starting about 10pm at the Henderson Memorial Park in the Old Temple District, dresses, suits, and other formal wear will be brought out for everyone. There will be hairdressers, make up artists, flowers for bouquets and boutonnieres and headpieces, so many accessories, and shoes!
Starting at 7pm, Limos and various vehicles, horse drawn and the like, will be waiting to whisk the happy prom goers off to the ball!
Maggie, Amaris, and Desdenova are sponsoring the Everybody Prom at the Tranquility Ballroom – All are Welcome! Come stag, bring your honey, bring your crew, it's all good.
The Theme is Rainbows!
The Prom will end at …2 am-ish.
After the prom, as is traditional… Hit up the IHOP for a pancake brekky! It’s not really an IHOP, it’s the rear grounds of the Tranquility Ballroom. But come have a sit, grab a stack and a cuppa joe while you’re waiting for your taxi or uber.
Friday June 17
Block Party at the Dragon's Gate!
Starting at about 10 am – block party at the Dragon's Gate. Wear White! (and a swimsuit under!) We're bringing on the super soakers and buckets and water balloons and enchanted water wands all loaded with colored water!
Become your own Tie Dye! Sponsored by Double Dukes Drhys, so make sure you get in a few splats for them.
Food and drink provided by all the food trucks. Everything from the plain cheese sandwich to gourmet gackt will be provided.
At 8pm, as the sun goes down, the party heats up as the Barons of Dragon’s Gate open the doors to even more Party Shenanigans!
(Live and board event!)
Saturday June 18:
Flower Power!
Flowers! Everywhere! Starting at 8am in the Solarium, flowers will be everywhere, ready to make bouquets, crowns, floral sculptures – the sky's the limit! Canaan and Aoife will be sponsoring the flowers and craft tables to make flower crowns, and dresses and... whatever your imagination wants!
There will be picnic baskets packed with lunches for four or eight, choose wisely! They will have sandwiches, fruits, chips and other snacks, fruit drinks and cookies and pies. Vegan and vegetarian options, of course!
The RCPA will be performing an open air Dance of the Flowers, featuring aerialists, tightrope, swings, water and lighting effects, surrounded by the beauties of spring and summer.
The show will run: Olde King Frost strides to the center ring, followed by ice and chill. There he is challenged by the Parade of Flowers, and flowers of all kings promenade around the Frost King, tossing warm droplets and nectar as they walk – and some are lifted above by warming winds, and spin and twirl in delight.
But old King Frost is not done, and a harsh blast of cold dashes the Flowers to the ground. As he laughs at his blight, having cast down the queen of may, the knights of summer and all their warriors of beauty, Dandelion steps in. The weedy little creature creeps and crawls, and no matter how the Frost King swings at the Dandelion, it only returns – with more! Until the dandelion patch overwhelms the Frost king.
May Queen calls all the flowers to celebrate Dandelion's victory and they return to their play, dancing in the sky and ground to lights and music and finally, the Dandelions shake out their Wishes to fly and here and there to all.
Take home a Dandelion Wish to finish off this year's Pride Week!
Running for the week is donations through Kitten's Confections, Bakery and Cafe for the Rhydin LGBTQ Youth Outreach Center
(Okay! As the days happen, I'll throw in, or you can throw in, images, ideas, actions, everything! For instance, there's a ton of cool images for the Prom! There will be a few Pride threads, we'll post them here and you'll find them as well! Pride's HUGE this year so have a great time with it!) (Also, don't take my times very seriously because though I may play a master of time, I actually do not know what time it is. SO go by the times that are posted by the people having the events!
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