Please note: This page is only a summary of the program for this day. The full program, of more than 1,000 events between 12-22 August, can be found in our app.
Our events
1000-2000: Workplace Inclusion Day, Location: Øksnehallen, Copenhagen. A one-day conference exploring issues relating to LGBTI+ inclusion in the workplace, organised with Workplace Pride and sponsored by Mærsk. Speakers include Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium Petra de Sutter, Danish Minister of Equality Peter Hummelgaard, and Senior Advisor to the President of the UN General Assembly Alexandre Stutzmann. Registration required.
1800-2345: EuroGames Opening Ceremony, Location: Fælledparken, Copenhagen. The Opening Ceremony brings together all EuroGames athletes, speakers from host organisation Pan Idræt and licensing body EGLSF, and live entertainment from Jean Michel (pictured), Safri Duo and DJ Robin Skouteris. The host is Danish actor Jakob Fauerby. Ticket holders and attendees with a EuroGames Participant, Guest or Media accreditation have priority access before 1900. Ticket bookings open 1 August.
Continuing today:
- 1:1 Democracy Festival, Copenhagen
- Arcadia, Copenhagen
- EuroGames Sports Village, Copenhagen
- EuroGames Tournaments, Copenhagen & Malmö
- Fluid Festival, Copenhagen
- Human Rights Conference, Copenhagen
- Huset 2021 Main House & Front Yard, Copenhagen
- Rainbow Children @ BLOX, Copenhagen
- WorldPride House, Malmö
- WorldPride Park, Malmö
- WorldPride Square, Copenhagen
Wednesday event highlights from our partners
Links and further information on all these events – and many more – can be found in our app.
1100-1200: LGBTI+ themed Castle Tour, Location: Malmöhus Castle, Malmö. Meeting point: outside the entrance on Slottsholmen, where a guide will welcome you. The tour takes about 60 minutes. How did the people who lived in the Castle think about love, identity and sexuality?
1100-1800: Art of Sport, Location: Copenhagen Contemporary (12-22 Aug). Art of Sport unfolds and paints a versatile portrait of the essence of sport. Through a number of works by international and national artists, CC goes close to the sport’s hero worship and idolization, its gender and ethnicity codes, its inclusion as well as exclusion mechanisms, and the sport’s relationship to politics, power and money.
1400-1600: Lola Ramona’s Drag Auction, Location: Street Hip, Nørrebro, Copenhagen. Outdoor Drag auction held by Lola Ramona and Di Di Cancerella, and a chance to check out Lola Ramona’s beautiful Pride collection of designer footwear. The event is run by product partner Lola Ramona and proceed support local organisations FSTB and Sabbah, and Copenhagen 2021.
1700-1800: The Shy Manifesto, Location: Folketeatret, Copenhagen. A hilarious and moving dramatic comedy, with a tour de force performance by British actor Daniel Ash as Callum, the 17-year old bookworm. He’s stuck in Bournemouth, and surrounded in life by overconfident people. Through the digital universe of his vlog, Callum delivers a potent manifesto, which reveals his intimate thoughts about sexuality, society, humiliation, self loathing, and ultimately his quest for acceptance.
1800-1900: Alan Turing Opera Project – Albert Montañez, Location: Palladium, Malmö. This project involves opera, theater and technological elements to portray the life and death of Alan Turing, LGBTI+ icon and founding father of computer sciences and artificial intelligence.
2000-2100: AdeY “Chromatics”, Location: Inkonst, Malmö (18-19 Aug). Chromatics is a dance piece looking at the moving body from a photographic point of view. Two performers on stage, vulnerable to the audience, surrounded by dia projectors challenges ideas of nudity.
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