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.
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Walktours NZ: A Change Is Coming walk tour
Join us on this special 90-minute free walk tour to celebrate the people and movements that fought for a brighter future for rainbow communities.

Walktours NZ: The fabulous Carmen walk tour
Join us on this free 90-minute community walk-tour as we trace Carmen's Wellington years (1967-1980).
Learn about Carmen's landmark 1966 court case, her race to become Mayor of Wellington in the 1970s, and how she supported and offered a safe harbour to Wellington's Takatāpui LGBTQIA+ Rainbow communities.

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.

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

The Magic of Her Body: Readings of Katherine Mansfield’s Queer Writing
Join performance artist Vixen Temple and historian Kerryn Pollock of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga on a journey through Mansfield’s sensual diary entries and sapphic-coded short stories, moving through the rooms in the home of her birth, Katherine Mansfield House & Garden in Thorndon.

The Magic of Her Body: Readings of Katherine Mansfield’s Queer Writing
Join performance artist Vixen Temple and historian Kerryn Pollock of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga on a journey through Mansfield’s sensual diary entries and sapphic-coded short stories, moving through the rooms in the home of her birth, Katherine Mansfield House & Garden in Thorndon.

The Magic of Her Body: Readings of Katherine Mansfield’s Queer Writing
Join performance artist Vixen Temple and historian Kerryn Pollock of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga on a journey through Mansfield’s sensual diary entries and sapphic-coded short stories, moving through the rooms in the home of her birth, Katherine Mansfield House & Garden in Thorndon.

The Magic of Her Body: Readings of Katherine Mansfield’s Queer Writing
Join performance artist Vixen Temple and historian Kerryn Pollock of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga on a journey through Mansfield’s sensual diary entries and sapphic-coded short stories, moving through the rooms in the home of her birth, Katherine Mansfield House & Garden in Thorndon.

The Magic of Her Body: Readings of Katherine Mansfield’s Queer Writing
Join performance artist Vixen Temple and historian Kerryn Pollock of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga on a journey through Mansfield’s sensual diary entries and sapphic-coded short stories, moving through the rooms in the home of her birth, Katherine Mansfield House & Garden in Thorndon.

The Magic of Her Body: Readings of Katherine Mansfield’s Queer Writing
Join performance artist Vixen Temple and historian Kerryn Pollock of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga on a journey through Mansfield’s sensual diary entries and sapphic-coded short stories, moving through the rooms in the home of her birth, Katherine Mansfield House & Garden in Thorndon.

The Magic of Her Body: Readings of Katherine Mansfield’s Queer Writing
Join performance artist Vixen Temple and historian Kerryn Pollock of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga on a journey through Mansfield’s sensual diary entries and sapphic-coded short stories, moving through the rooms in the home of her birth, Katherine Mansfield House & Garden in Thorndon.

The Magic of Her Body: Readings of Katherine Mansfield’s Queer Writing
Join performance artist Vixen Temple and historian Kerryn Pollock of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga on a journey through Mansfield’s sensual diary entries and sapphic-coded short stories, moving through the rooms in the home of her birth, Katherine Mansfield House & Garden in Thorndon.