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RAISING FUNDS FOR THE PRIDE SHELTER AT CONVERSATIONS

26/8/2014

The Pride Shelter's Matron, Jan, enjoying herself at the Conversations event earlier this evening at The Rockwell Hotel in De Waterkant. She also managed to sell more tickets to see One Arm at the Artscape Arena at 9pm on 12th September, raising crucial funds for the shelter.

One Arm is an erotic short story by Tennessee Williams, which has been adapted for the stage by Abrahamse & Meyer Productions. It focuses on the relationship between a convicted hustler and a young Lutheran Minister who visits him on death row.

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PRIDE SHELTER TRUST BECOMES A NPO!

21/8/2014

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Fantastic news! Today, the Pride Shelter Trust was granted the status of a Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) by the Department of Social Development!!

This process has taken two years, but we have finally got there!

NPO registration status is a funding requirement for most donors and funding agencies, as it provides greater transparency and a guarantee that all funds donated go to the shelter.

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PRIDE SHELTER TRUST FUNDRAISER ON 12 SEPTEMBER

18/8/2014

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Calling all theatre lovers in Cape Town! Fancy seeing a great stage adaptation of a story by Tennessee Williams at 9pm on Friday 12th September at the Artscape Arena while raising money for the Pride Shelter Trust? We have been offered 120 tickets for One Arm, an erotic short story focusing on the relationship between a convicted hustler and a young Lutheran Minister who visits him on death row. It is Tennessee Williams at his most provocative and hard-hitting. See more details below.

Tickets cost R150. If you would like to buy some, please contact Jan Richter (Matron) on 021 423 2871 or 083 218 6081 or at matron@pridesheltertrust.co.za. You can also pop in to the Pride Shelter at 1 Molteno Road in Oranjezicht.

Tickets will also be on sale at the next Conversations event on Wednesday 27th August at The Rockwell Hotel in Cape Town. If you’d like to attend this event, please RSVP at www.facebook.com/events/1526196934261084/.

One Arm
Written in 1942 and initially published in an expensive limited edition, One Arm tells of an aspiring boxer who loses his arm in a car accident and turns to prostitution for a living. The young hustler violently murders a client and is sentenced to death for this crime. On death row he receives hundreds of letters from former clients explaining how deeply he touched their lives. Explicit and daring, One Arm gives a graphic account of the homosexual underworld during the 1940s, while at the same time being one of Williams’ most poignant portraits of a mutilated body and soul.

Abrahamse and Meyer Productions have adapted One Arm as a tour de force for two actors focusing on the central relationship between the convicted hustler and a young Lutheran Minister who visits him on death row. Picking up on Williams’ themes of voyeurism, exhibitionism and paraphilia the stage adaptation utilises erotic fetishism and sexual role play as major dramatic devises in the play by having the young Lutheran Minister voyeuristically act out all the various characters in the mutilated boxer’s life story.

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PFLAG VISIT TO THE PRIDE SHELTER

5/8/2014

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We had a great meeting this afternoon with Jody Huckaby (pictured far right),
Executive Director of PFLAG National in the US, and staff from the US Consulate
in Cape Town at the Pride Shelter.

Founded in 1972, PFLAG is the largest family and ally organisation in the
US. Made up of parents, families, friends, and allies united with people who are
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT), PFLAG is committed to advancing
equality and full societal affirmation of LGBT people through its threefold
mission of support, education and advocacy.

We are very pleased to have made this new connection with PFLAG as part of
our efforts to raise awareness of the Pride Shelter around the world.

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RAISING FUNDS FOR THE PRIDE SHELTER AT CONVERSATIONS

PRIDE SHELTER TRUST BECOMES A NPO!

PRIDE SHELTER TRUST FUNDRAISER ON 12 SEPTEMBER

PFLAG VISIT TO THE PRIDE SHELTER

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