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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Cahoots Pride Prep
Cahoots Workshop is a space exclusively for gender minorities and women where we teach, learn and share practical skills. We'll be open on 5th/6th March for folks to come in and make all the big, bright queer things you'll need for the Pride Parade and the rest of the festival!
Gemma vs The Normal Worms
Deep in the bowels of the Lost Worm Galaxy, two humans struggle to end all war. But first, they must escape from the stifling influence of... The Normal Worms. 15 hilarious audio episodes, infecting a mind near you…
Cahoots Pride Prep
Cahoots Workshop is a space exclusively for gender minorities and women where we teach, learn and share practical skills. We'll be open on 5th/6th March for folks to come in and make all the big, bright queer things you'll need for the Pride Parade and the rest of the festival!
Spiral Collectives’ 50th anniversary celebrations
Celebration of Spiral Collectives’ 50th anniversary with an exhibition featuring 19 significant figures from their herstory.
Queer Craft Club
The first Queer Craft Club meet-up. Bring your craft project, we provide the snacks, tea, coffee and relaxed space.
Felt Your Flag
Felt Your Flag is a relaxed, beginner-friendly needle felting workshop where you make a small pride flag piece (patch, keyring, or mini wall hanging). All materials provided. Suitable for ages 8+ (under 14s supervised).
Spiral Collectives’ 50th anniversary celebrations
Celebration of Spiral Collectives’ 50th anniversary with an exhibition featuring 19 significant figures from their herstory.
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.
Pride in Kilbirnie: Paint
Follow along with an instructor step-by-step to create a lovely pride painting!
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.
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.
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.
Now You See Me – The Endometriosis Empowerment Project
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.
As We Do - A Play Reading
As We Do by Ronald Trifero Nelson is set in 1987 Wellington, just after Homosexual Law Reform. This staged reading follows Sam and Trevor navigating the risky, often funny world of gay cruising, HIV anxiety, and desire.
Sincerely, Queerly, Glamorous! Quiz Night
A queer-focused quiz night, with bonus art market and preview of works for auction the following evening. Licensed event, koha supper provided.
As We Do - A Play Reading
As We Do by Ronald Trifero Nelson is set in 1987 Wellington, just after Homosexual Law Reform. This staged reading follows Sam and Trevor navigating the risky, often funny world of gay cruising, HIV anxiety, and desire.
Sincerely, Queerly, Glamorous! Art market and exhibition
Showcasing for sale the works of Rainbow, Queer and takatapui artists. From small art market items to paintings, this promises to offer plenty of creativity to feast your eyes on!
Felt Your Flag
Felt Your Flag is a relaxed, beginner-friendly needle felting workshop where you make a small pride flag piece (patch, keyring, or mini wall hanging). All materials provided. Suitable for ages 8+ (under 14s supervised).
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.
Sincerely, Queerly, Glamous! Art auction
Fundraising auction of the art of Rainbow, Queer and Takatapui artists. Licenced event. Koha supper provided.
As We Do - A Play Reading
As We Do by Ronald Trifero Nelson is set in 1987 Wellington, just after Homosexual Law Reform. This staged reading follows Sam and Trevor navigating the risky, often funny world of gay cruising, HIV anxiety, and desire.