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14 - 23 NOVEMBER

PRIDE
FESTIVAL
2025

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The Sunshine Coast Pride Festival is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ diversity, community and connection. Its mission is to foster a safe, inclusive and joyful space where LGBTQIA+ individuals, their families and allies can come together to honour and embrace the vibrant spectrum of identities and experiences that enrich our community. In 2025, it returns after a six-year break with a renewed energy and rebrand.

 

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Connecting community, fostering collaborations and inspiring creativity

Providing inclusive, diverse and safe spaces for our people and their allies

Celebrating LGBTQIA+ achievements and providing a platform for advocacy

Creating visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community

Sunshine Coast Pride Festival returns 14-23 November

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!


Help us make the day special by donating a few hours of your
time.

2025 Sunshine Coast Pride Festival Program

EVENTS

  • Club Queer Presents: Sunshine Coast Pride Festival Opening Party
    Club Queer Presents: Sunshine Coast Pride Festival Opening Party
    Fri, 14 Nov
    The Verandah @ Banana Bender, Palmview
    14 Nov 2025, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
    The Verandah @ Banana Bender, Palmview, 1 Downunder Drive, Palmview QLD 4553, Australia
    Join the Sunshine Coast's Club Queer collective in kickstarting the region's first Pride Festival in six years! Sponsors, media, community leaders and some lucky members of the public will enjoy live performance, special guests, roving entertainment and some networking canapes.
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  • Run Club - Festival Edition
    Run Club - Festival Edition
    Sat, 15 Nov
    Happy Turtle Cafe
    15 Nov 2025, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
    Happy Turtle Cafe, Happy valley Playground, Caloundra QLD 4551, Australia
    Get the blood pumping for our 2025 Sunshine Coast Pride Festival.
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  • Sharp Tongues: Dialogue Workshop
    Sharp Tongues: Dialogue Workshop
    Sat, 15 Nov
    Coolum Beach
    15 Nov 2025, 9:30 am – 11:00 am
    Coolum Beach, Civic Centre & Library, 6 Park St, Coolum Beach QLD 4573, Australia
    Join Blaise Wright for this 90-minute exploration of the power of dialogue. Blaise will guide you in understanding how character dialogue can convey the unspoken.
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  • Make You Own Zine
    Make You Own Zine
    Sat, 15 Nov
    Coolum Beach
    15 Nov 2025, 9:30 am – 11:00 am
    Coolum Beach, Civic Centre & Library, 6 Park St, Coolum Beach QLD 4573, Australia
    ‘How to Make a Zine’ gives participants from diverse backgrounds an understanding of zines and zine culture, as well as the tools they need to start working on a small zine on a topic of their choice.
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  • Slam Poetry: Spoken Word and Storytelling for Social Change
    Slam Poetry: Spoken Word and Storytelling for Social Change
    Sat, 15 Nov
    Coolum Beach
    15 Nov 2025, 9:30 am – 11:00 am
    Coolum Beach, Civic Centre & Library, 6 Park St, Coolum Beach QLD 4573, Australia
    This workshop covers everything from what is a poetry slam, to how to write a poem, and begins to look at performance technique.
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  • Hitting The End!
    Hitting The End!
    Sat, 15 Nov
    Coolum Beach
    15 Nov 2025, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
    Coolum Beach, Civic Centre & Library, 6 Park St, Coolum Beach QLD 4573, Australia
    Can’t seem to finish your book? Welcome to the club.
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  • Eli Sutherland - The World in Your Hands
    Eli Sutherland - The World in Your Hands
    Sat, 15 Nov
    Coolum Beach
    15 Nov 2025, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
    Coolum Beach, Civic Centre & Library, 6 Park St, Coolum Beach QLD 4573, Australia
    The World in Your Hands is a fantasy and sci-fi world-building workshop that connects writers with other writers, provides a space to learn from each other, and forms a safe container to explore and play in crafting a new fantastical world with others.
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  • Grace Nye - Queering the Fairy Tale
    Grace Nye - Queering the Fairy Tale
    Sat, 15 Nov
    Coolum Beach
    15 Nov 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
    Coolum Beach, Civic Centre & Library, 6 Park St, Coolum Beach QLD 4573, Australia
    Forget the sanitised cartoon versions; in this workshop we'll explore the weird history of fairy tales, uncover queer subtext in centuries-old stories, and reinvent the fairy tale as inspiration for modern queer narratives.
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  • Be Seen Live Workshop
    Be Seen Live Workshop
    Sat, 15 Nov
    Yandina School of Arts
    15 Nov 2025, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Yandina School of Arts, 11 Farrell St, Yandina QLD 4561, Australia
    Journey with Alex Transcend to dissolve shame and reclaim your unapologetic self.
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  • 'I Can Tell' Regional Tour
    'I Can Tell' Regional Tour
    Sat, 15 Nov
    Yandina School of Arts
    15 Nov 2025, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
    Yandina School of Arts, 11 Farrell St, Yandina QLD 4561, Australia
    Chris McAllister is the first transmasc comedian to tour regional Australia.
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MEDIA RELEASE

Sunshine Coast Pride Network is pleased to announce the formation of a working committee dedicated to the network’s goals to foster connection, collaboration and visibility for the local LGBTQIA+ community. 

#sunnypride your destination pride

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