Pride at the Irish Consulate
Date/Time
July 25, 2024
6:00 pm
Event Registration Link
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Location
Consulate General of Ireland
1095 West Pender Street #1300,
Vancouver
VQI kick off their Vancouver Pride lineup with their annual event at the Irish Consulate.
The evening will offer members a chance to mingle and celebrate Pride with community members over some snacks and drinks, as well as a speech by local legend and activist Jaylene Tyme.
The Out in the World Exhibition will also be featured again this year, which will be available to view from 6:00pm.
When: July 25th, 6pm
Where: Irish Consulate, Suite 1300, 1095 West Pender Street
Tickets: Free for VQI members and all guests must be registered in advance to attend.
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About Jayleen Tyme
Jaylene Tyme is a proud two-spirit, sober Indigenous Trans woman and leader within the 2SLGBTQQIA+ and recovery community. A Sixties Scoop surviver, she was raised by settlers with ancestral family roots in Treaty 4 – Zagimē Anishinabek First Nation, Kawacatoose First Nation and Métis Nation, Green Lake Saskatchewan.
As a member of Vancouver’s diverse and fabulous drag community, Jaylene holds the title of Elder Princess 27 of the Greater Vancouver Native Cultural Society, Empress 35 of Vancouver BC, Czarina of the First Nations of Canada and presently serves as Chairperson of the International Court Council- 1st in line of succession-Heir Apparent to Queen Mother I of the Americas Empress Nicole the Great.
Jaylene contributes to Indigenous healing ceremonies for the two-spirit population of Federal Justice System Corrections and shares teachings for Canadian Government training on diversity, inclusion and reconciliation. She feels that it is important to celebrate the power of community by contributing to the energy of our world with passion, integrity and positivity. Together with each other, we have the opportunity to inspire and educate. Our identities, beautifully diverse and wonderfully unique.
About Out in the World
Across the generations, Irish LGBTQ+ people have emigrated and found opportunities to live and love abroad. Yet this journey was rarely a simple transition from an oppressive island to a liberal wider world. Irish LGBTQ+ emigrants often faced prejudice abroad. Home, once a place of shame and silence, could also become a welcoming site of return.
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, in partnership with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, are proud to play a role in illuminating this hidden history of Irish emigration in the exhibition Out in the World, curated by Dr Maurice J. Casey. Across six themes—exclusion, community, love, defiance, solidarity and return—Out in the World highlights 12 stories from the vast history of Ireland’s LGBTQ+ diaspora. The exhibition also features an artwork by award-winning Irish designer and multidisciplinary artist Richard Malone.