What’s happening

Wellington Pride Festival officially runs from 6 - 22 March, but you’ll find events here on either side of that as well, as Pride is not just a two week thing.

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Fields of Sugar, Fields of Memory | An Embroidered Storytelling Project
Mar
9
to Mar 15

Fields of Sugar, Fields of Memory | An Embroidered Storytelling Project

Fields of Sugar, Fields of Memory is an embroidered queer storytelling project inspired by 1950s rural Taiwan. Through hand-stitched works and narrative fragments, the event explores memory, desire, inherited silence, and intimate bonds between women across time.

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Wellington Embroiderers’ Guild Pride Month meeting
Mar
11

Wellington Embroiderers’ Guild Pride Month meeting

Wellington Embroiderers’ Guild hosts monthly speakers, shows members’ embroidery work, runs a sale table, and we stitch together and socialize. For Pride Month we are hosting Steven and Arlo of Chosen Family Project to present and share with us all the hard work that the community of crafters have put into this project.

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Chosen Family Night
Mar
12

Chosen Family Night

Chosen Family Night returns to Te Waka Huia Wellington Museum for a vibrant evening filled with queer history, art and community.

Hosted by Lilly Loudmouth, the festivities include rainbow history tours, drag and music performances, dirty poetry reading and wholesome crafts.

All welcome. Valid ID required for cash bar.

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Protection-Connection: A live studio happening
Mar
14

Protection-Connection: A live studio happening

The studio is a place of making, process, excitement, challenge. Full of colour and energy, queerness and embodied creativity, this event invites you in for an hour, to witness a new installation, artworks, and hear a poetry performance by the artist about how it all happens in this special place.

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Now You See Me – The Endometriosis Empowerment Project
Mar
17
to Mar 22

Now You See Me – The Endometriosis Empowerment Project

  • Thistle Hall Community Gallery (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Now You See Me is an empowerment photography project making the invisible realities of endometriosis visible. Through powerful portraits and lived experience stories, it centres diverse bodies and identities including LGBTQ+ communities, BIPOC participants and people of all genders, challenging stigma, silence and narrow medical narratives across Aotearoa.

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How to make a Queer Zine that represents you
Mar
21

How to make a Queer Zine that represents you

Join us for an exploration into the world of queer zines and self-publishing. We’ll talk through a history of queer zines, then guide you through making a map of your own personal interests and things that excite you. The last part of the workshop will be making a start on your very own zine.

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