Bendigo Pride Festival 2023

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Bendigo Pride Festival takes place from the 17th March - 2nd April 2023.

Join us in a celebration of diversity, art, culture and community!
The first weekend boasts:
🎉 The opening night party
🦄 The beloved Pride in the Park!
On the last weekend we have:
🥂 The Glamaganza Ball
🌈 Gay Stuff Markets
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans and Gender Diverse Clothing Swap.
Whether you’re into drag shows and dancing, or chilling in the park, watching a range of performers and seeing who takes the crown on the Pride Dog show 🐩 it’s a festival to remember.
Book your Bendigo accommodation ASAP, as capacity sells out fast!

18th March
Parade
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Festival
10am - 4pm
A fun and inclusive all-ages event to celebrate Pride in the iconic Rosalind Park. Musicians, drag acts, face painting, games and the Thorne Harbour Health Dog Show. Bring a picnic and hang out with your Rainbow Family. Open to all.

Dog show
2pm - 3pm
Part of Pride in the Park! See our proud pooches and the human partners saunter on the catwalk. Prizes for most camp, most butch, best trick, best dressed owner and pooch lookalike and more!
Registrations will be available through the Bendigo Pride Festival website.

Rainbow Rave
6pm - 11pm @ Alphabet Garden
This all-ages event will be a magical rainbow garden of delight for the young and the young at heart to frolic and play. Bring your friends or the whole family! The hosted by DJ Bear Bax with an amazing lineup of live DJs, musicians and performances. Rainbow Rave is produced by YO Events, YO Bendigo’s FReeZA team – a fun-loving team of young people creating arts events and experiences for other young people.
FReeZA is a Victorian Government initiative that supports young Victorians to get involved in their community by planning and running drug-, smoke- and alcohol-free music and cultural events for other young people. Rainbow Rave will be safe and secure with no pass outs.