Cairns Tropical Pride 2011 - Community Awards Night
Pride LGBT Community Awards Evening and Fundraiser
Friday 26th August, 6:30 - 9:30pm
Turtle Cove Resort
Sit down dinner starts @ 7.30pm
Pre dinner drinks and nibbles from 6.30pm
Awards Presented by Destiny
After Dinner show by Destiny
Cost $27.50 ($7.50 goes to fundraise for Cairns Tropical Pride)
Tickets available from Healthy Communities and Turtle Cove (cash or cheque only).
Only 60 tickets available and so far 20 have been sold.
The Tropical Pride Community Awards are to acknowledge and highlight the support, dedication, hard work and the outstanding achievements made by LGBT people and our supporters no matter how big or small in North Queensland. They also provide the opportunity to publicly show appreciation for those who in many ways positively support the needs and issues of the LGBT community.
The event will also feature the launch of the report on "Out on the Reef", a piece of qualitative research into the experiences of gay men and their subcultures in Cairns. This report is a follow-up to an initial study conducted in 2000, with a view to revisiting and documenting their experiences now, a decade later.
In addition to the evening's two main awards presented by Destiny, there will also be the presentation of Healthy Communities President's Silver Award for Volunteering, a lovely dinner prepared by the new Turtle Cove chef, entertainment from Hot N Wet Quintet (recently seen at Cabaret Q) and Mary Jane Carpenter, a blues singer and pianist from Brisbane. Turtle Cove has also offered a lucky ticket prize of a weekend for 2.
Nominating for the Awards
This year two awards will be given:
- Outstanding achievement or contribution and dedication to the LGBT Community during the year.
- Significant contribution to the LGBT community over many years
This year's winners will be decided by a panel of LGBT Community Leaders, and will automatically be on the panel to select the winners for the following year.
The nomination process is very easy.
Download the Nomination Form here, then describe clearly and concisely why you feel an award should be presented to your nominee. This nomination may be read out at the presentation ceremony at the Tropical Pride Awards Night.
There are just a few points to remember when making a nomination:
- You may not nominate yourself, community group, service or business.
- Your identity is not disclosed to the Nominee, only if you tell them.
- You may submit any number of different nominations.
To be eligible, the nominee should reside or be located in the Tropical North Queensland reigion (ie. Cairns and surrounding areas).
Nominations should be received either by email or postage no later then the close of business – 5pm on Friday 19th August, 2011.
Nominations can be mailed to:
Tropical Pride Community Awards
PO Box 12112
CAIRNS DC Q. 4870
Or email to tcpcoord@hotmail.com or ian.byford@bigpond.com