For a whole week this April, National Student Pride are serving you hands, face and queer space with an incredible roster of online events for LGBTQ+ students.
They are here to be your digital pit stop for topical panel discussions, queer game shows and the UK’s largest LGBTQ+ careers fair.
Come and join the fun on April 19th-25th and register for the festival on Hopin – hopin.com/events/national-student-pride-2021
A safe space for LGBTQ+ students and young people
National Student Pride is debuting a totally digital format for 2021, tackling 4 main themes as part of a week-long event:
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Mental Health with a focus on loneliness and isolation, in association with Attitude Magazine – Monday 19th April
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Women – Tuesday 20th April
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Trans* Education – Wednesday 21st April
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Black Lives Matter – Thursday 22nd April
These are extremely important issues within the community, and our festival will host a raft of informative and exciting content covering many different topics and aspects of them.
This Evening
with Nick Grimshaw and Aimee Phillips
Airing Wednesday 21st April, 19:00
Magazine shows are a staple of life in the UK, and we’re bringing you one with an LGBTQ+ twist – This Evening! Hosted by broadcaster Nick Grimshaw and his best friend, Creative Director, DJ and stylist Aimee Phillips – on Wednesday 21st April we’ll be bringing you a smorgasbord of entertainment and education. We’ll try to solve your problems, help you cook, jusz up your fashion and serve exquisite art, all packaged in a hugely entertaining hour.
Cheers, Queers!
with Lorraine Kelly, Lawrence Chaney, Tia Kofi, Charlie Craggs & Suzi Ruffell
Airing Sunday 25th April, 19:00
In these final days of lockdown, we’re bringing you the boss level of online quizzes. Come and join Lorraine Kelly as she hosts an irreverent celebration of British pop culture. Who famously sang ‘Cher Lloyd by Cher Lloyd’? Who has ‘all the grace of a reversing dump truck’? This is the show where we celebrate the offbeat icons of recent history. Hosted by television royalty Lorraine Kelly, who will be joined by team captains Lawrence Chaney, the recently crowned winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, and Tia Kofi, fellow Drag Race UK castmate and the breakout comedy star of the season. Joining Team Lawrence and Team Tia will be comedian, actress and writer Suzi Ruffell, and author and activist Charlie Craggs – with more contestants to be announced. This is one game show you won’t want to miss!
In conversation with Stephen Fry
Monday 19th April
The acclaimed actor and writer, Stephen Fry, will give a rare interview for National Student Pride 2021.
This conversation will arrive at a moment of crucial urgency, as the country emerges from a year of national lockdowns that has affected us all individually, and had a particularly profound impact on the mental health of young LGBTQ+ people.
Recently starring in Russell T Davies’ smash hit, It’s A Sin, Stephen Fry is an unparalleled British LGBTQ+ icon, and we are delighted to announce that he will be joining our conversation.
NSP x lululemon
Wellbeing has never been more important for students, and National Student Pride is thrilled to be partnering with lululemon on a number of activities across our festival. Attendees will be able to take part in a Mindfulness & Meditation session, Drag Aerobics with instructor Dolly Trolley and finish the week with an accessible Yoga session. NSP x lululemon sessions will ensure that the students’ experience is equally enriching for the mind and the body!
Other highlights of the festival include:
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Mental Health: In conversation with Cherry Valentine. National Student Pride meet with mental health nurse and star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Cherry Valentine and discuss the impact of the pandemic on mental health services, the challenges young LGBTQ+ people can face with their mental health and offering advice on what services are available to them.
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Trans make-up masterclass for beginners. Beauty expert, entrepreneur, artist and blogger Joseph Harwood provides an interactive masterclass focussed on Trans make-up, with commentary and Q&A.
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Bestselling novelist, screenwriter and journalist Juno Dawson hosts the Trans* Education panel, joined by Munroe Bergdorf and a host of other panellists.
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Clifford Chance presents a Voguing workshop with the Father of the UK House of Revlon, Jay Jay Revlon, a leading authority of Ballroom in the UK.
Filming of the 4 themed panel debates, This Evening and Cheers,Queers! will be taking place at G-A-Y Heaven in central London.
Hopin
National Student Pride is powered by Hopin, a world leading events platform which will host our week long festival – a Main Stage featuring our amazing debates, wellbeing events and entertainment, an Exhibition area hosting 50+ huge organisations at our Careers Fair and a networking area for attendees to connect with other LGBTQ+ students from across the UK.
Sponsors
National Student Pride are delighted to announce the return of headline sponsors, Clifford Chance and EY, with Silver sponsors Clyde & Co, Creative Assembly, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Lloyds Banking Group and Santander.
Laura Yeates, Head of Graduate Talent at Clifford Chance said:
«Clifford Chance could not be more proud to be a Headline sponsor and decade long supporter of National Student Pride, providing so much opportunity to young LGBTQ+ people across the UK. Allowing young people to be their authentic selves in all aspects of their lives will always be a priority for us, one of the reasons why we fully support the event. What an incredible lineup to launch the online platform for National Student Pride 2021 – we can’t wait!»
EY’s Unity LGBT+ Network Co-Chairs Ben Firth and Alex Enness-Laporte, commented:
«EY is proud to be headline sponsor of the 2021 National Student Pride. Now more than ever, it’s important that business and society at large are places where everyone feels they belong. We’re really looking forward to meeting LGBTQ+ students from across the UK during the festival and the exciting line-up of speakers and workshops».
