Festival 2024
Rainbow Glasgaroos x To Absent Friends festival: celebrating the memories of departed friends and ancestors
Organised by Rainbow Glasgaroos
Thursday 7th November, 6:30-9:30pm
Glasgow
This event is open to Glasgaroos members and community by invitation.
The Rainbow Glasgaroos is an LGBTQI+ basketball group that encourages physical exercise and mental wellbeing for its 100+ members, by creating a safe and free-of-charge space for weekly basketball sessions, at the City of Glasgow College. We fight social isolation and promote feelings of belonging by being inclusive of all genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, abilities and fitness levels. We also develop LGBTQI+ community building by organizing social events, and inviting other local LGBTQI+ associations to our activities.
In our continuous effort to strengthen our LGBTQI+ community where our members can develop an affirming support network of friends and grow emotional resilience, the Rainbow Glasgaroos are participating in the “To Absent Friends” festival, a people’s festival of storytelling and remembrance that takes place from 1-7 November 2024.
We invite our LGBTQI+ community to join us for an evening of heartfelt commemoration of the everlasting bonds between us and departed loved ones. There will be a movie, delicious food and a lot of joy. This will be a reunion celebration where we will re-claim the space for absent friends and ancestors by sharing our fondest memories in beautiful communal tributes. This will be our way to find solace and honor our deceased loved ones, sentient beings once in our lives and always in our memories.
This event is open to Glasgaroos members and to our queer community, by invitation. It will take place in Glasgow, on Thursday 7th November 2024, 6:30-9:30pm.
Come and be part of our heart-warming reunion as an act of revolutionary love that celebrates the memories of close and distant deceased friends.
This event is supported by a To Absent Friends small grant.
For any questions, please email us at glasgaroos@protonmail.com.
https://leapsports.org/glasgaroos
Photo credit: Rainbow Glasgaroos
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