Pride Arts Showcase

On Transgender Day of Visibility, join the LGBTQIA+ community of Cincinnati and our allies for the Pride Arts Showcase! Church of Our Saviour, which has been a home to the queer community since the 1970s, will host the Showcase on Friday, March 31 at 7:00pm. The Showcase will specifically amplify the voices of transgender and non-binary artists alongside the rest of the LGBTQIA+ community.

This cross-disciplinary and celebratory event will begin with a performance featuring singers, instrumentalists, composers, poets, dancers, drag queens, and burlesque entertainers. A reception will follow the performance, featuring the work of several visual artists and catering by culinary artist Jeff Thomas.

Burlesque artists: Honey Stix-Chimera and Prinze Valentino

Composer: Kei Slaughter

CCM Flute Studio and Alumni: Betania Canas, Julianna Eidle, Lauren Jett, Caitlyn Lyerly, Lauren Rodriguez, and Vincenzo Volpe

Culinary Artist: Jeff Thomas

Dancers: John Litzler and Cody Szarko

Drag queens: Jessica Dimon, Stixen Stones, and Crystal Tubes

Instrumentalists: Brooks Taylor Salloum, Marian Mayen, and Matt Welsh

Poet: Kay E. Bancroft

Singer-songwriter: Garen Gibson

Visual artists: Kyle Angel and Miles Brueggemeyer

Vocalists: Tomi Newman and Jaime Sharp

The event is organized by Lives United/Vidas Unidas. The event is supported by Cincinnati Pride, the CCM Harmony Endowment Fund, and the generosity of tens of thousands of contributors to the annual ArtsWave Campaign, the region’s primary source for arts funding.