Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia: 2023-06-10

11 a.m. to 8 p.m.: Venus Envy 25th Birthday Sale
: Celebrate VenusEnvy's 25th birthday with 25% off almost everything in store. There will be special door prizes, raffles, Instagram specials, limited edition buttons and more. Sale is on Saturday, June 10 and Sunday, June 11.
: Location: VenusEnvy

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Make It: Decorate a Pride Mini-Tote at Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road
: Drop by to make a custom mini canvas tote! We'll have pride-themed iron-on transfers, patches, and fabric markers. These 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" zipper totes are great for art supplies, make-up, school stuff and more!
: Ages: 12 - Adult, or with Adult supervision. In the Lou Duggan Creative Studio on Floor 2.
: More information on the library website.

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.: Mind the Light at Alderney Landing
: A workshop presentation of an original queer musical about one woman’s fight for love, family, and freedom as she struggles to keep a lighthouse in the 19th century with book music and lyrics written by award-winning artist Gabrielle Papillon.
: Mind the Light is about a family of Lightkeepers set in the 1880s. Azélie, a young woman dedicated to keeping a lighthouse, struggles with love, grief, isolation, and family dynamics, and fights to keep her independence and her home through her dangerous and physically demanding work, tremendous loss, and a love that she must keep secret.
: A story of finding joy and pride in hard work, the bravery in small actions, and big risks, and generational strength passed down from a mother and sister, to her brother and daughter, in a working class context, where privilege was limited and autonomy & safety for women and Queer folk is hard won and always at stake.
: More information and tickets (starting at $15) online.

6:30 p.m.: HalifaxGayMensChorus: Welcome to the 60s
: Put a Little Love in Your Heart, Let the Sunshine In and come join the groovy HalifaxGayMensChorus and their band as they get their Flower Power on and present, Welcome to the 60s!
: Welcome to the 60s! features an array of hits from the biggest stars of the decade – the Beatles, Marvin Gaye, Sonny and Cher, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, the Beach Boys and more!
: Performance starts at 7:30 pm (with doors opening at 6:30 pm) in the McInnes Room at the Dalhousie University Student Union Building, 6136 University Avenue
: Tickets go on sale on Monday, April 24 at 9am.
: * $60.00 for Patrons (Patrons will receive a $30 charitable receipt and will have assigned seating)
: * $30.00 General Admission – no assigned seating
: * $20.00 for Students, Seniors, Under-waged – no assigned seating

7 to 7:30 p.m.: A Sapphic Affair at Alderney Landing
: A Sapphic Affair is a poetry-movement hybrid play based on the Poetry of Sappho. A Sapphic Affair is a queer-affirming love story. It is about passion, surrender and vulnerability (with a little bit of rope).
: A Sapphic Affair is a queer-affirming love story, centered on femininity and the magnetism of romance and erotic desire. Based on the work of Sappho, the earliest Greek woman poet whose work survives, her verse is intimate, private, addressed to specific women, direct, very gay and very wet. A Sapphic Affair follows the journey of two women, how they bond and surrender to each other, how their fear drives them away, but also how an unbreakable bond brings them back together. In this play, the media of shibari and movement/dance is the story: The depth of their connection, the deepest form of surrender and trust, and emotions and taking on the ropes, literally and figuratively.
: Tickets start at $15.

9 p.m.: Boots & Bitches at the Marquee, 2037 Gottingen Street
: 👢🤠 Howdy partners! 👢🤠
: Strap up your boots and saddle up your horses to join Eden Disorder and Zara Matrix as we present Boots & Bitches. We’re bringing you the country fantasy with a little bit of sass and a whole lotta ass. There’s no better way to kick off the weekend before Shania. Yeeeehaw 🤠
: Advanced tickets $20 / at door $25. Doors open 9 pm / showtime 9:30.