10 am – 4 pm
Location
Museum-wideCelebrate Pride Month at the Worcester Art Museum! We are partnering with Love Your Labels for a joyful day out for all ages, with poetry readings, a drag show, artmaking activities, and more. Take a tour of works by LGBTQ+ artists on view in the galleries, watch weaving in action for our exhibition of tapestries, and even meet a living sculpture.
Schedule
11:30 am and 1 pm
Poetry Readings, with the Worcester County Poetry Association
Medieval Chapter House
Elizabeth Bacon and Crystalle Lacouture will read poems by Elizabeth Bishop, whose work inspired Lacouture’s installation, Correspondence (for Elizabeth Bishop).
12:15 pm
Musical Performance: Burncoat Senior High School String Quartet
Renaissance Court
12:30 pm
Tour of Art by LGBTQ+ Artists
Meet in Lancaster Lobby
2 pm
Drag Show, with Dale LePage, Harley Queen, and Russell Sprouts
Renaissance Court
Ongoing activities, 11 am–3 pm
Lily the Living Sculpture, with A Silent Soapbox
Salisbury Hall
Demonstration: Weaving in Action, with Mihoko Textiles
Salisbury Hall
Arms and Armor and Fashion
Salisbury Hall
Scavenger Hunt: Fashion in Art
Pick up at welcome desks
Artmaking
- Make a Mail and Ribbon Bracelet
Studio 101 (Higgins Education Wing) - Reimagine the Fashion
Studio 102 (Higgins Education Wing)
LGBTQ+ Community Organizations
Lancaster Lobby
Food and drink, 10 am–4 pm
Grub Guru Food Truck
Lancaster Plaza, with seating in the courtyard and Studio 100
Café
Renaissance Court
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Pride Celebration is presented in partnership with Love Your Labels. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Worcester Arts Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. Free admission is supported by Sandy Hubbard and Thomas J. Logan, and Saint-Gobain.
