Reading Pride Celebration

Celebrating “The Art of Directing,” the Berks Arts Council is proud to announce the 6th annual Greater Reading Film Festival (GRFF) November 3- 6, 2011.  The festival will showcase the work of international, national and local filmmakers, as well as feature panel discussions with directors, filmmakers, and special guests.

Friday night’s feature documentary Sex in an Epidemic by longtime AIDS activist and filmmaker Jean Carlomusto, is powerful and moving film that focuses specifically on the need for honest comprehensive sex education. This engaging documentary provides a socio-cultural perspective on the history of HIV as we mark the 30th anniversary of the first reported cases of what would eventually be called AIDS.  Following the screening will be a panel discussion with Carlomusto along with Berks Aids Network/Co-County Wellness Executive Director Carolyn Bazik and William Bender, instructor in the Undergraduate and Graduate Social Work Program at Kutztown University.  The panel will be moderated by Vanessa Domico, President and Founder of Outcast Films, a distribution company based in New York.



Greater Reading Film Festival screenings and discussions will take place R/C Movies 11 & IMAX, 30 N. 2nd St in Reading.  Tickets for Berks Arts Council’s 2011 Greater Reading Film Festival screenings and events are available at www.fandango.com. 

Reading Pride Celebration was honored and privileged to be selected to receive a Proclamation declaring October as LGBT History Month in Reading, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the LGBT community in Reading. The Proclamation was presented at the Reading City Council Meeting held on Monday September 26, 2011.

Also honored with a Proclamation for his work in securing inclusion of the LGBT community in the city's Non-Discrimination Ordinance and all his work for the the LGBT community was Ernest Schlegel.