Pride Winnipeg to hire first paid staff
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Powered for decades solely by volunteers, Pride Winnipeg will soon add its first paid staff.
The province’s recently established Gender Equity Manitoba Secretariat, which is responsible for LGBTTQ+ issues, gave the host organization of the long-running local Pride festival a grant for $250,000.
“That grant is to hire an executive director, an administrator, for office space expansion, and for providing funding for the other Prides in the province,” Barry Karlenzig, president of the Pride Winnipeg board, said Wednesday.
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Barry Karlenzig, president of the Pride Winnipeg board.
Pride Winnipeg is seeking applications for the position, via Pinnacle Staffing Agency, a Winnipeg-based company with a history of helping LGBTTQ+ job-seekers, Karlenzig said.
The annual Pride Winnipeg Festival is the largest Pride in Canada that operates solely with volunteer staff. More than 90,000 people attended the 2023 festival (May 26-June 4); in 2022, the number was 80,000.
Karlenzig said Pride Winnipeg plans on using the new grant money to create programming throughout the year.
“Part of this funding is also (going towards) creating the Manitoba Pride Collective, a resource for all 22 Prides and growing in the province, part of that yearly piece will be doing a yearly conference,” Karlenzig said. “We are going to look at additional programming year-round, such as education pieces and training pieces.
“An idea that our board (mulled) is to work with all the no-kill animal shelters… a ‘Pride Adoption Day’ for pets.”
Karlenzig said working entirely with volunteer staff had become unsustainable. As an example, Karlenzig said, in addition to volunteering for 30 hours a week with Pride Winnipeg, he has a full-time job with bus manufacturing company New Flyer.
In addition to being one of the largest Pride celebrations in the country, 10-day Pride Winnipeg is the second-largest annual festival in Manitoba, according to organizers.
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