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Celebrate Pride Week! Metro Community Centers
   Celebrate Pride with Metro

It’s time to celebrate the week of St. Pete Pride! Here’s what’s happening at Metro Wellness and Community Centers:

 

MAKE YOUR OWN SUSHI

Monday, June 24 @ 6:00-7:30pm

Metro St. Pete Center – 3251 3rd Ave. N.

Learn how to roll your own sushi in this cooking class. Not only will you prepare the food, but you’ll get to taste it with wine and refreshments. There is a suggested $5 donation for the class.

 

BLOWN BY THE WIND – SOLD OUT
Monday, June 24 @ 7:30pm
American Stage, 163 3rd St. N.
We’re proud to announce this hilarious and naughty twist on Gone with the Wind is SOLD OUT. Thank you to the community for supporting us and to The Suncoast AIDS Theatre Project for continuing to put on shows that benefit the work we do here at Metro Wellness.

 

FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO

Wednesday, June 26 @ 6:00-8:30

Metro St. Pete Center – 3251 3rd Ave. N.

Rev. Candace Shultis from Metropolitan Community Church KOP will lead this forum on homosexuality and Christianity with the screening of the film For the Bible Tells Me So.

 

DAY OF PRIDE

At our Center: Our St. Pete Center’s parking lot will serve as the setup area for the entire St. Pete Pride parade. We’ll have a live DJ so feel free to stop by to check out all the floats and groups up close and personal from 7:00-10:00am, until the parade takes off toward Central Ave. Our center will remain open until 4:00pm so feel free to stop in to use our Cyber Center and take a walk through our Community Pride Art Show.

 

On the streets: Metro Wellness will have a huge presence along Central Avenue this year at, and in front of, our Thrift Store (2235 Central Ave.). If you get a free HIV test from us, you get to “fish” in our pool of rubber duckies for fabulous prizes. We’ll also have the Faces of HIV mobile art exhibit at our lot and be giving away free sunglasses – stop by to see how you can get your own pair.  We hope you decide to take some time during Pride to celebrate 20 years of Metro Wellness and Community Centers!

 

After Pride, don’t miss Suncoast AIDS Theatre Project’s presentation of

Jeffrey

Monday, July 1 @ 6:00-8:30

freeFall Theatre – 6099 Central Ave. St Pete

 

 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 22, 2013

Suncoast AIDS Theatre Project
Phone: 941-758-6399
Contact: Garry Allan Breul
garallan@msn.com

Suncoast AIDS Theatre Project Presents:

“JEFFREY”

a comedy by Paul Rudnick

Starring ERIC DAVIS, CHRIS CRAWFORD, MATT MCGEE, SCOTT DANIEL and more!

Benefitting Metro Charities  HIV/AIDS programs.

Monday, July 1st, 7:30pm

freeFall Theatre, 6099 Central Avenue St. Petersburg

Suncoast AIDS Theatre Project is celebrating its 11-Year Anniversary with their Annual “Prelude to Pride” salute with a staged play reading of Paul Rudnick’s romantic comedy, “JEFFREY”. Whether catering a ditzy socialite’s “Hoe-down for AIDS” or cruising at the gym or at the annual Gay Pride Parade,  Jeffrey finds the pursuit of love and just plain old physical gratification to be the number-one preoccupation of his times—and the source of plenty of hilarity. Just after he’s reconciled himself to celibacy, Jeffrey meets the man of his dreams, who also happens to be HIV-positive. What follows is an audacious and moving romantic comedy with a difference—one in which the quest for love and where unflagging humor prevails even when tragedy might be just around the corner.

‘”Love is an adventure when one of you is sure … and the other positive”

“Wildly funny…Just the sort of play Oscar Wilde might have written had he lived in 1990s Manhattan” ~ NY Times

“JEFFREY” stars Eric Davis as Steve, Chris Crawford as Jeffrey, Matthew McGee, as Sterling, Scott Daniel as Darius, Drew Decaro, Sara DelBeato , Daniel Harris, Jason Ellis, and Susan Haldeman,. All performers are donating their time and talents for this production.

This performance will benefit PWA (People with AIDS) programs at Metropolitan Charities of Pinellas .
Suncoast AIDS Theatre Project is a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness, provide assistance, and perpetuate a life of dignity for those affected and infected by HIV and AIDS.

TICKET AND PERFORMANCE INFORMATION:
JEFFREY will perform: Monday, July 1st 2013 at freeFall Theatre 6099 Central Ave. St. Petersburg. Doors open at 7:00pm, curtain time is 7:30pm. Admission is $10.00. Advance purchase tickets are available. Cash bar will be available. For further information contact freeFall Theatre at 727-498-5205 or www.freefalltheatre.com.

To learn more about The Suncoast AIDS Theatre Project contact Garry Allan Breul, Artistic Director at 941/758-6399 or garallan@msn.com.