Painting banner for Bród/Pride

We all got together one week with a huge white piece of fabric. The staff member said we were going to make a banner for Pride & I remember thinking, “I’m not great at art – how am I going to manage drawing stuff?” Someone had the bright idea of writing in what we wanted on the banner – our name, the different people we catered for & lots of weird decorations like handprints, squiggles & dancing stickmen. Before I knew it someone had thrown on some cheesey pop music (that we all mocked to various degrees) and I was trying to colour inside the lines of someone else’s handwriting. The finished product gave me such a buzz it was crazy. There was a great feeling of pride, especially when I saw a few people carrying it through Galway for the Pride parade.