Events at Wellington Pride Festival 2025
There’s all kinds of things happening over the month of March, from large scale to small. Have a hunt and find what’s good for you.
Wellington Pride Festival is producing Kuru Pounamu, the Youth Ball, Out in the City, and the Hīkoi and Pride Picnic. All other events are created by our community.
Scroll to find events chronologically, filter by categories to align with your interests, or tags to match your accessibility needs. Otherwise you can download the full programme as a PDF.

Pride Picnic
Join us as we conclude the Wellington Pride Festival 2025 with a vibrant community picnic! This is a wonderful opportunity to gather with friends and whānau in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere.

Pride Hīkoi
Come down for a solidarity march with our trans* and gender minority whānau for rights to gender-affirming healthcare. The energy of our Hīkoi focuses on the Government’s recent push to restrict access to puberty blockers.

Painting on Tapa with Whenua Pigments
Create your own wearable tapa badge to take home and contribute to a collective art piece to show your pride.

Strike a pose and learn to vogue
Celebrate Rainbow Pacific Pride by immersing yourself in Ballroom sub-culture. Learn the technique of Vogue and Runway with the 'Kiki House of Marama'.

Out in the City
Be part of our all-day family friendly fair event with over 80 stalls, stage performances, delicious food and drink and a jam-packed day of LGBTQIA+ celebration and vibes.

Using Counting Ourselves: Wellington Event
The 2025 Counting Ourselves reportand Māori fact sheet have just been released, and we’re holding a community event to talk about using Counting Ourselves.

Make Yourself Heard: The Art of Signwriting
Get ready for the Wellington Pride Festival Hikoi and create a sign that celebrates your rainbow identity, inclusivity, and making a statement. For ages 14-18

Screening: Five Films For Freedom
Watch five powerful short films from Aotearoa, Indonesia, the USA, and the UK, screening on repeat to coincide with the Manalagi residency weekend and Pride in the City events.

Wellington City Libraries Presents: The Pōneke Pride Poetry Slam!
Join us for The Pōneke Pride Poetry Slam - showcasing & celebrating our LQBTQIA+ community in the capital!
We welcome Queer Wordsmiths and Rainbow allies alike to watch/judge/compete in a friendly, 2 round poetry competition. Ages 16+

Chosen Family Night
Chosen Family are the people who understand you, lift you up, celebrate you, help you, and love you, without the need for biological bonds. This event is an invitation to come together, find joy, and celebrate the family you've made with people you have found.

Pride Movie: Moonlight
In this acclaimed coming-of-age drama, a young man who grows up poor, Black and gay in a rough Miami neighborhood tries to find his place in the world. Chairs are provided, but bring pillows/beanbags/blankets/snacks/drinks if you would like to set up a cozy spot on the floor.

Celebration of Queer Spirit Church Service
All are invited to this special morning of celebrating the diversity across God's creation! Coinciding with the Wellington Pride Festival, this service will be a bit different from our normal Sunday worship service, with adapted liturgies, prayers, and songs that celebrate those that don't fit into the neat and tidy boxes which society so often prescribes.

Rainbow Youth Night - Wellington City Libraries (Karori)
Our monthly after-hours Youth Night programme offers rangatahi the chance to explore and become comfortable in our library spaces with no other patrons around; this is a chance for young people to really be themselve in a safe space with no external judgement.

Fat Queers Eating Cake
There’s so much strength and solidarity in members of marginalised communities getting together to have a joyous good time. Fat Queers Eating Cake! is a shared meal (please bring food to share, if you’re able), where you can gather with friends old and new, free of any diet talk or body shaming.

Mask making workshop
Come along for some group mask-making for the 2025 Wellington Pride Youth Ball!
This event is open to all youth ball attendees and allies.

Jesus Cucking Christ
Join a discussion about a queer theology perspective on divine vulnerability.

Glamaphones open rehearsal
Join in our regular choir rehearsal and find out what we’re all about!

Pride Crafternoon
Celebrate Pride with zine-making, collage, and badge making! All materials are supplied.
Drop-in session for folks aged 14+

Pride Crafternoon
Celebrate Pride with zine-making, collage, and badge making! All materials are supplied.
Drop-in session for folks aged 14+

Hugo's Rainbow Show
Hugo's Rainbow Show is for everyone! Best for two to ten year olds and our neurodivergent whānau, but even big kids will love this wholesome, goofy and glamorous experience.

Hugo's Rainbow Show
Hugo's Rainbow Show is for everyone! Best for two to ten year olds and our neurodivergent whānau, but even big kids will love this wholesome, goofy and glamorous experience.

Summer of Ramps: Pride Edition Ngā Wīra Iti Collective
Join this skate park meetup including a Roller Pride Parade along the Marine Parade Waterfront path, as well as shared kai and kōrero.

Out at the Zoo
Out at the Zoo is a family-friendly weekend, running from the 8th to 9th of March, full of fun activities for our rainbow communities and wider allies.
The theme of Out at the Zoo is ‘celebrating the diversity of the living world – across both animals and people!’

FRISKY Fantasy - Wellington Pride Parade Afterparty 2025
It will be the perfect opportunity to dance the night away, dressed as your wildest fantasy, and celebrate unapologetic queerness alongside the rest of our beautiful community. Embracing one's identity and celebrating LGBTQIA+ pride involves the freedom to express oneself authentically - and FRISKY Fantasy will be just this - a night none of us will forget.

Nicola Brown - Space Invaders
Join Dunedin comedian Nicola Brown for a journey through the nebula of modern day bullsh*t. In this multi award-winning solo show Nicola navigates medical mayhem, while dodging declarations of love from romance scammers (who've failed to notice how gay she is) and grappling with the extraterrestrial chaos brought about simply by existing as a woman in 2025.

Prowl
Drawing on the divine feminine as a chameleon, witness urban POC artists take the stage, delving into the complex layers of femininity within themselves and one another. Utilising street dance as a potent tool for political expression, these performers confront gender and body politics, challenging colonial legacies and spotlighting indigenous perspectives on gender and femininity, dismantling and redefining the concepts shaped by colonialism.

Ginger’s Lesbian Pop-up Event: Wellington Pride Edition
The first half of the evening will feature an inspiring panel discussion with prominent figures from our rainbow community, who will share their stories and insights on resilience and leadership.
The second half of the evening is all about connection and celebration. Guests can dance, mingle, and enjoy fab entertainment.

The Big Gay Retro Disco
We have your favourite throwbacks and old school bangers waiting for you!

Selena Mersey: Bisexuelle
Bisexuelle is a fraudster and a phony and a top-class liar. Bisexuelle is a smokin' hot broad with a gun. But most of all, Bisexuelle is a madcap, laugh-a-minute exploration of marginalised identity.
And hot damn, was she something to write home about…

Hugo's Rainbow Show
Hugo's Rainbow Show is for everyone! Best for two to ten year olds and our neurodivergent whānau, but even big kids will love this wholesome, goofy and glamorous experience.