@wellingtonpride.bsky.social
Wellington Pride Festival is the longest-running annual Pride celebration in Aotearoa. The 2026 Festival is happening 6 - 22 March. https://www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/
Images of a tee and hoodie with Kat's design - a sassy green person with the words "People be queer!" and a sticker that says "served hot daily!"
People be queer!
Our latest artist merch collab with Kat Hall is just saying what we're all* thinking. Get sassy in a tee or hoodie, availabe in sizes XS to 5XL and a wholeeeeeee multilayered rainbow of colours.
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* well some of us anyway
See you in 20 minutes or so!
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pepper raccoon studio signage
#Kikorangi fam, I have an open studio this weekend as part of the Lower Hutt Arts Trail! Check out my space, I'll have all my merch available and also, it's gonna be v chill and we can just have a yap <3
FB Event here: www.facebook.com/share/1CoNfr...
Wellington Pride Festival is for the community, by the community. That means people like YOU create events for it! So we are running an online Q&A session next Tuesday at 7pm www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/events/onlin...
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The CHEER that Christine Baranski just got for her first appearance on screen for The Birdcage, absolutely deserved. What a queen!
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Steven, Jo and Simon
Your Pride committee - or some of them at least - are ready to welcome you to our screening of The Birdcage (1996) - the film starts at 6.30pm so you’ve got plenty of time to join us!
10.10.2025 04:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Okay it's lousy weather, which makes it all the better for grabbing a ticket and coming along to this tonight at Scotty & Mal's. Cold drinks, cool company, hot pizza if you want, a range of temperate good times!
10.10.2025 01:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Got your ticket for tomorrow yet? It’s gonna be such a fun time! www.trybooking.com/nz/events/la...
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Fat babe, grey hoodie, rainbow cat print
Feeling super snuggly in my new @wellingtonpride.bsky.social hoodie with cat print done by Shay Loves Orange.
I got a Gildan hoodie in a 5XL & I’m a size 4 Boom or regular 28
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Yes this is basically all I post about these days #sorrynotsorry wellingtonpride.digitees.co.nz
We made a tiktok to convince you to comr to our screening of The Birdcage (1996) this Friday. That’s how it works right? vt.tiktok.com/ZSUYugrUt/
07.10.2025 19:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Tākaro me te Kōrero This is a gentle space to play, whakawhanaungatanga, and kōrero about the Wellington Pride Festival. Whether you’ve got ideas, questions, or just want to meet some of the team (and our amazing community partners), this is the monthly time for you. 5.30-7pm @ Te Whare Kahukura 2/330 High Street, Hutt Central, Lower Hutt Bring a snack, bring a game or just bring yourself
Tomorrow is our monthly drop-in evening at Te Whare Kahukura in Lower Hutt! Come along & kōrero about the Wellington Pride Festival.
Whether you’ve got ideas, questions, or just want to meet some of the team (and amazing community partners) and play games, it's up to you. 5.30pm-7pm, 2/330 High St
The Melbourne Fringe Festival is running a free event available online on Monday evening about access for all to the arts, and it sounds like it's going to be an absolute cracker, with lots of stuff for us to absorb in NZ too www.melbournefringe.com.au/whats-on/eve...
04.10.2025 01:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hi Bluesky FAFSWAG is in the building!!
FAFSWAG is an arts collective of Māori and Pacific LGBTQIA+ artists and activists founded in Auckland, New Zealand in 2013. They explore and celebrate the unique identity of gender fluid Pacific people and LGBTQI+ communities in multi-disciplinary art forms.
outlines of dancers done in rainbow colours
Soft fluffy cats with tails in rainbow and trans flag colours
Trans resistance print
Our queer artists continue to deliver some absolutely amazing pieces for our merch collabs! Today we're serving up a triple threat, with dancers by Imogen Wara, trans resistance from Juhyeon Yi and cats by Shay Likes Orange
Grab yours here - wellingtonpride.digitees.co.nz
Not sure what you want to create? Our community has a lot of ideas (over the image of a group of kinitters at Wellington Museum)
And you can always reach out to us for help (over the image of a stall at Out in the City)
Join our online information session on 14 October for more (over a plate of rainbow cupcakes)
We also want to make it as easy as possible for anyone to create an event for the festival. That's why we've put together a guide on creating your own events, and also why we're running an online Q&A session on 14 October, to answer any questions you might have.
01.10.2025 06:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Event applications for WPF 2026 are now open! (over an image of a drag king performing)
You've got plenty of time - applications don't close until 16 Jan (over an image of a group of young people at the Pride Picnic)
All applications must agree to our diversity & inclusion policy (over the image of The House of Marama performing)
We're really excited to open up Expressions of Interest for events to be part of the 2026 Wellington Pride Festival programme!
If you're a seasoned producer, you might be already good to go with lots of plans already and we can't wait to see them!
www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/eoi-2...
A panel of people in front of a screen that says “Our aspirations, our wellbeing, our rights - Rainbow elders” And there’s the person in the described sweater on the right
At the Human Rights Commission’s panel on Rainbow Elders and there is someone here in the most amazing fuzzy progressive pride flag jersey, half pictured here
30.09.2025 22:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our last fundraising film for the year (probably?) is happening next Friday 10 October. We've got classic comedy with The Birdcage (1996). Hosted by drag legend Ellie Kat, old school gay camp needs a deserving location, so where better than Scotty & Mal's?
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The Chappell vs Charli event is actually Saturday night, old bad with dates ADHDer here apologises for the confusion
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Newsletter #7 out now! A message from Taylor Roles we’d like to fill Chappell vs Charli tomorrow The Birdcage on 10 October We’re doing an online Q&A about running events as part of WPF Join us for the last week in court A word on local body elections And the WPF logo
Is today's newsletter the longest one we've written so far? Maybe! It's jam packed with all kinds of info, including amazing events, ways to get involved with WPF and all sorts of things happening in the community.
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Brea's design which features three unicorns dancing around or on a rainbow mirrorball
Brea's design which features a zebra unicorn riding a rainbow mirrorball, on a pink hoodie
Brea's design which features three unicorns dancing around or on a rainbow mirrorball, on the back of a grey hoodie
Brea's design which features three unicorns dancing around or on a rainbow mirrorball, on a blue t-shirt
We saw you from across the bar, really like your vibe and were wondering - how do you feel about unicorns?
Oh, bring on the dancing horses?
Consider them brought, with this fabulous new addition to our Pride merch by Brea Marsh!
wellingtonpride.digitees.co.nz
Brea's design which features three unicorns dancing around or on a rainbow mirrorball
Brea's design which features a zebra unicorn riding a rainbow mirrorball, on a pink hoodie
Brea's design which features three unicorns dancing around or on a rainbow mirrorball, on the back of a grey hoodie
Brea's design which features three unicorns dancing around or on a rainbow mirrorball, on a blue t-shirt
We saw you from across the bar, really like your vibe and were wondering - how do you feel about unicorns?
Oh, bring on the dancing horses?
Consider them brought, with this fabulous new addition to our Pride merch by Brea Marsh!
wellingtonpride.digitees.co.nz
ALSO if you’re a graphic designer who could design a logo for us within two weeks for very little money, do get in touch too!
22.09.2025 10:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0More details about the roles we need to fill are available here: www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/hello...
22.09.2025 10:09 — 👍 6 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0We're looking for more committee members with certain strengths but if you're reluctant to commit long term, maybe you could work your magic briefly?
Slide into our DMs or email joanna@wellingtonpride.com and let's talk! Full disclosure: all roles are volunteer so you'd be paid in aroha not putea!
WPF is looking for new committee members or temporary project coordinators with experience in: running events grant applications fundraising We are also looking to add more Takatāpui and MVPFAFF+ representation.
We want to put on the best Pride yet to celebrate our 40th anniversary next year, and to do that, we need to be better resourced. Committee turnover, illness and a court case have left us stretched a little thin - maybe your skills are what we're looking for?
20.09.2025 23:20 — 👍 9 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1Photo shows a table set up inside a hall, with a pull up banner that says “Wellington Pride Festival”. The table is covered with a purple tablecloth and progressive pride flag bunting
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Hey Lower Hutt! We’ll be at Multifest today AND Living in Colour tonight, so please do come say hi!
19.09.2025 21:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Next up in our fundraising film series, we go back to the 1990s, when things were both simpler and more complicated for our community, with the Robin Williams/Nathan Lane comedy 'The Birdcage'.
Join us on 10 October at S&M's Cocktail Bar - tickets $20/$13
Bluesky is probably very sensibly not the place that relies on video, but here, have a very high quality promo made expertly for tiktok anyway, and come see The Hunger on Sunday! www.trybooking.com/nz/events/la...
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