Artifact was on display at City Hall following the Club Q nightclub shooting
Following a two-week display at Colorado Springs City Hall the 25-foot historic Pride flag will be exhibited inside the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, 30 W. Dale Street, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 10-11.
Saturday is also Museum Free Day, when the entire museum is free to the public. The flag exhibition area will also be free to guests on Sunday. Visitors will be able to view the flag up close and take pictures.
After the exhibition, the flag will be returned to the Downtown Partnership, which coordinated the flag’s arrival and display. It will then be returned to the organizers of the Sacred Cloth Project based in Florida.
“It was an honor to represent our City’s elected officials in this display of unity and support following the tragedy our community has suffered. This Pride Flag is a representation of how far our City has come and that we stand together with love in the face of hate. We are grateful to the Sacred Cloth project for sharing with us this powerful symbol of unity,” says Nancy Henjum, Colorado Springs City Councilmember.
The flag, known as Section 93 of the Sea to Sea Flag, is on loan to Colorado Springs from the Sacred Cloth Project as a gesture of love, solidarity and healing in the wake of the Club Q shooting in which five people were killed and 18 were injured.
The flag, measuring 14 by 25 feet, is one section of the historic Rainbow25 flag sewn together by Gilbert Baker in Key West, Fla., in 2003 to create a 1.25-mile long flag in the original eight colors (versus the six colors that became more common). That flag marked the 25th anniversary of the 1978 flag originally created by Baker. The Sea to Sea Flag was later cut into sections, and Section 93 is preserved as the Sacred Cloth. It has traveled the globe to be displayed at celebrations, occasions of mourning, and historic moments. Section 93 was displayed in downtown Orlando in June 2016 following the deadly Pulse nightclub shootings and has returned to Orlando each year on the anniversary of the tragedy.
For more information, visit Facebook.com/TheSacredClothProject.
WHAT: ‘Sacred Cloth’ Pride Flag special exhibit
WHEN: Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 10-11, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
WHERE: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale Street