Pride Month events calendar

Description: Airdire's first-ever Queer Prom is open to youth from grades 9-12.

Description: Come join us for Airdrie Alberta's Second Annual Pride Festival!

Description: Participate in a walk from Airdrie City Hall to Nose Creek Park to show solidarity with Airdrie's LGBTQ2S+ community.

Description: Youth and young adults in Airdrie and surrounding areas can connect with other LGBTQ2+ youth and their allies in a safe and fun environment. Join us for various youth-directed activities, some Pride-related education, and community leadership and advocacy.

Description: A new monthly book club for LGBTQ2S+ youth. Meetings will include discussions about characters, themes, and plots and how they represent LGBTQ2S+ individuals and stories. Ages 14+

Description: All parents and caregivers are welcome to come to learn more about raising children, teens, or young adults who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Non-binary, pansexual or are questioning their identity or orientation.

Description: **For LGBTQ2+ people over the age of 18.** Get to know your Adult Pride community here in Airdrie. Family and Friends are welcome.

Description: In collaboration with Airdrie Puppy Pals, you’re welcome to join us for an afternoon of dog walking and community building. Don’t have a pup? No problem! Bring yourself and join us on the walk.

Description: Get to know your Pride community here in Airdrie. Family and Friends are welcome. For all 2SLGBTQ+ and allies of all ages.

Description: The Annual Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival is back for another year of groundbreaking representative cinema from June 3-12! This premier event for queer culture in Alberta features over 40 films, including documentaries, features, short films, animations plus panels, and workshops, as well as performances by local artists all of whom identify with the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.

Description: Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that is a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has explored in his work, most notably in his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing.

Description: *Online screening Alberta only* **Adults only** Girls and the party (G): Drama, Directed by Paloma Lopez, 5:31, USA. A group of girlfriends prepare for the anticipated summer party in a cramped bathroom. Between boy talk and makeup, Mercedes navigates her blossoming attraction for her friend Julia. My Emptiness and I (18A): Drama, Directed by Adrián Silvestre, 98 min, Spain. Raphi is young, androgynous and naive. In Barcelona, she begins a gender transition as well as an arduous journey to find her true identity. Co-written by and starring Raphaëlle Pérez, this is the narrative follow-up to director Adrián Silvestre’s ground-breaking hybrid doc Sediments, featuring many of the same trans performers and artists.

Description: The Annual Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival is back for another year of groundbreaking representative cinema from June 3-12! This premier event for queer culture in Alberta features over 40 films, including documentaries, features, short films, animations plus panels, and workshops, as well as performances by local artists all of whom identify with the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.

Description: Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music (G): Documentary, Directed by TJ Parsell, 1 hour 47 minutes, USA. Growing up gay in the South is hard enough, but to be an openly gay woman in country music is nearly impossible. Nashville is a man’s town, yet this group of gay women have persevered anyhow – making an indelible impact on country and southern music. This film explores their deeply personal journeys while taking a piercing look at family, religion and the patriarchy of country music.

Description: **Adults only** Nuit Raunch is a one-night curated screening of short queer and inclusive adult film from around the world. The event is organized by queer pornographer Kate Sinclaire (Ciné Sinclaire) and brought to you by wonderful teams of really cool people.

Description: The Annual Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival is back for another year of groundbreaking representative cinema from June 3-12! This premier event for queer culture in Alberta features over 40 films, including documentaries, features, short films, animations plus panels, and workshops, as well as performances by local artists all of whom identify with the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.

Description: Manscaping (14A): Documentary, Directed by Broderick Fox, 62 minutes, US. An Afrofuturist, a naked fetishist, and a community activist walk into a barbershop… Silence is Prescribed (G): Documentary, Directed by Miguel Missé, 18 minutes, Spain. While they were growing up, Cristina and Lola were prescribed silence. They obeyed and kept silent for a long time, until today. The protagonists of this documentary short film raise their voices to get closer to their intersex life stories and share their reflections on bodies, identities, and desire. A liberating opportunity not only for them, but for all people. Stories from Land Back Camp (G): Documentary, Directed by Erik O’Neill, Amy Smoke, and Bangishimo, 26 minutes, Canada. On Indigenous peoples’ day a large tepee was erected in a busy, urban park close to O:se Kenhionhata:tie (Willow River, presently called the Grand River) with the intention to assert an Indigenous presence just for the day. Over 100 days later, the tepee still remained standing, with the space around it transformed into a camp of queer, Two Spirit, trans, and/or non-binary youth learning and practicing their Indigenous cultural heritages and demanding Land Back.

Description: **Adults only** The End of Wonderland (18A): Documentary, Directed by Laurence Turcotte-Fraser, 85 min, Canada. The End of Wonderland is a feature documentary on Tara Emory, a veteran artist who works on her own terms in the sex industry. Facing a changing world and eviction from her packed studio, Wonderland, Tara must confront her family history of hoarding, her art, and herself.

Description: The Annual Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival is back for another year of groundbreaking representative cinema from June 3-12! This premier event for queer culture in Alberta features over 40 films, including documentaries, features, short films, animations plus panels, and workshops, as well as performances by local artists all of whom identify with the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.

Description: A celebration of queer youth and queer futures! An opportunity to come get playful and a little silly before settling down to watch movies centering the genius of queer young people. Have fun! Win prizes! And get an activity book. Check out the CJSW Spotify playlist, the Vine Arts beverage pairing and the Shelf Life Books bibliography. All designed with this evening in mind.

Description: The Annual Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival is back for another year of groundbreaking representative cinema from June 3-12! This premier event for queer culture in Alberta features over 40 films, including documentaries, features, short films, animations plus panels, and workshops, as well as performances by local artists all of whom identify with the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.

Description: *Online screening geoblocked to Canada only* Still Waters is a collection of subtle and poetic films whose placid surfaces belie the surging emotional complexity that runs deep within. As the saying goes, still waters run deep, and here, queer desire follows a similar pattern, flowing just under the surface, bubbling up subterraneously, and carving new tributaries. From secret crushes to intimate friendships, to diasporic family love, these seven films span six countries and five languages, each tending to its subjects with softness and humanity.

Description: The Annual Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival is back for another year of groundbreaking representative cinema from June 3-12! This premier event for queer culture in Alberta features over 40 films, including documentaries, features, short films, animations plus panels, and workshops, as well as performances by local artists all of whom identify with the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.

Description: The Heart of Loneliness is an intimate look at how loneliness and longing shape queer men’s lives and are shaped by them. This serious (but not sombre) evening of films prefaced by poetry and a live dance performance will give audience members space to reflect disconnectedness plays in their own lives and those of the larger LGBTQ community.

Description: Join us on Thursday, June 9, at a Dose of Happiness for ALL PRIDE, NO PREJUDICE, a fashion show in support of Transforming Style & Mamas for Mamas. Transforming Style is a Canadian not-for-profit that provides support, beauty & styling services, and wardrobe to 2SLGBTQIA+ community members in Canada who face barriers to access. Mamas for Mamas is a national charitable organization that supports mothers and caregivers in crisis by providing ongoing support to individuals and families facing various poverty-related struggles.All proceeds from the event will go directly towards Transforming Style & Mamas for Mamas.

Description: The Annual Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival is back for another year of groundbreaking representative cinema from June 3-12! This premier event for queer culture in Alberta features over 40 films, including documentaries, features, short films, animations plus panels, and workshops, as well as performances by local artists all of whom identify with the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.

Description: *Online screening geoblocked to Canada only* Join us for a presentation of films honouring QTBIPOC, curated for the Festival by Nicaraguan-born, Mohkinstsis-based photographer Wilmer Aburto. These stories take us on a journey of birth, destruction, transformation, diaspora, gender identity, societal rejection, and healing – all through the POC lens. We begin with TIERRA, wherein a third gender Muxe emerges from the earth from an ancestral lineage. The journey of emotions takes the audience through longing, fear, transformation, desire, connection – and brings us back full circle to Many Bloodlines in which a queer Indigenous parent welcomes their newborn child with a Cree message of love.

Description: The Annual Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival is back for another year of groundbreaking representative cinema from June 3-12! This premier event for queer culture in Alberta features over 40 films, including documentaries, features, short films, animations plus panels, and workshops, as well as performances by local artists all of whom identify with the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.

Description: Artsy Camp S^%*Night” is for the art kids, the weird kids, the film nerds, the people who like to think and those who just want to get drunk and go WTF was THAT? It’s serving arthouse and Giallo slasher camp in a double-bill shorts + feature package. It honours the spirit of midnight-movie screenings, but promises to get you home before midnight. Audience members will be encouraged to yell at the screen for the final feature “Cut!” A limited-edition zine, with guidelines for participation, will be provided on the evening of the screening.

Description: The Annual Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival is back for another year of groundbreaking representative cinema from June 3-12! This premier event for queer culture in Alberta features over 40 films, including documentaries, features, short films, animations plus panels, and workshops, as well as performances by local artists all of whom identify with the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.

Description: Wildhood (NR): Drama, Directed by Bretten Hannam, 1 hour 47 min, Canada. When Link discovers his Mi’kmaw mother is still alive, he runs away from home with his younger brother Travis, in a desperate gamble to start a new life. They’re soon joined by Pasmay, a pow wow dancer drawn to Link's story. Together they embark on a Two-Spirit odyssey, reconnecting with culture and the territory of Mi’kma’ki in Nova Scotia, Canada, while trying to find Link's mother, Sarah.

Description: The Annual Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival is back for another year of groundbreaking representative cinema from June 3-12! This premier event for queer culture in Alberta features over 40 films, including documentaries, features, short films, animations plus panels, and workshops, as well as performances by local artists all of whom identify with the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.

Description: Gemmel and Tim (NR): Documentary, Directed by Michiel Thomas, 1 hour 31 min, US. The 24th Annual Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival is screening Gemmel and Tim on the 6th anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub Massacre. Not because the film is about Pulse but because the lives and deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean are a reminders of the real threats that queer people face everyday.

Description: Start your Saturday night off with an Epic Pride show!

Description: Flag raisings! with Mayor Stasko, at 9:30am! - Inspector John Corbett, at 10:15am!

Description: Drop in to paint a wooden heart flag and sew a rainbow book band. Proudly presented in partnership with Camrose Pride Community.

Description: Drumming circle, rock painting and CPL (Camrose Public Library) Book Bike!

Description: Come and join in a relaxed social evening around a fire!

Description: Gather together and enjoy the walk around Mirror Lake and Camrose walking trails! - DRESS in your MOST FABULOUS Pride attire! Let’s see those rainbows, folks!

Description: Starting us off for Pride Week is the Drag your ride and flag raising at Rotary Park! Drag up your ride and meet at the fountain where we will raise the Progress Pride flag with Town Council to proclaim Pride Month in Drumheller.

Description: Join Alberta Royalty, Drumheller local, Roxxie Cotton while they read stories to the littles and answer your questions. Supported by the Drumheller Public Library. Streaming option will be made available.

Description: A paint night of rainbow succulents.

Description: Join us for an evening of walking or bike riding with your furry friends! Glow sticks and treats will be provided by the event sponsor Bikes and Bites.

Description: We’re having a beach party picnic! Wear something you can get wet and bring a towel. Dinner will be sandwiches provided by Bikes & Bites.

Description: Wear some white and let's sparkle! Sign-up requested so we can make sure we have enough space booked. Each lane will be assigned 6 people. Be sure you sign up everyone you are coming with.

Description: Badlands Pride winds down the second annual Pride Week with a huge bang! Artisan Market - 3:00pm-5:00pm | FREE to attend There will be an all ages Drag Teaser you won't want to miss!

Description: **Adults only** Badlands Pride is having an Artisans Market & Masquerade Ball! Featuring headlining performances by Roxxie Cotton and Hunter Down as well as other special guests. There will also be a DJ and dance. This is a licensed event filled with entertainment for all. Venue is 18+ CASH ONLY. Please bring your ID and money for drink tickets. Advanced tickets are $20 and $25 at the door.

Description: Come join us for Edmonton's City Hall Pride Month Kickoff! This ceremony will include a ceremonial Indigenous prayer, reading of the Mayor's proclamation, brief performances by local performers, and so much more!

Description: Join us for THREE days of Pride festivities! From June 3-5, the Grindstone Theatre will host a FREE and FAMILY-FRIENDLY street fair of epic porportions. We will be hosting a seies of outdoor live performanaces, drag shows, dancers, photo booths, workshops, food trucks, beer gardens, late night dance parties, and many more to celebrate Pride in Edmonton.

Description: This class will be focussed on creating a piece of art representing the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community. Work will be created using acrylic painting techniques. All supplies will be provided! Come with an open mind, and be prepared to learn! Tickets are $54.06.

Description: Join us for THREE days of Pride festivities! From June 3-5, the Grindstone Theatre will host a FREE and FAMILY-FRIENDLY street fair of epic porportions. We will be hosting a seies of outdoor live performanaces, drag shows, dancers, photo booths, workshops, food trucks, beer gardens, late night dance parties, and many more to celebrate Pride in Edmonton.

Description: Join us for THREE days of Pride festivities! From June 3-5, the Grindstone Theatre will host a FREE and FAMILY-FRIENDLY street fair of epic porportions. We will be hosting a seies of outdoor live performanaces, drag shows, dancers, photo booths, workshops, food trucks, beer gardens, late night dance parties, and many more to celebrate Pride in Edmonton.

Description: A Drag Brunch collaboration with Tri Guys and Central Social Hall Downtown! Just in time for Edmonton Pride! Tea Dance to follow. Tickets are $38.15.

Description: **Adults only** Expect jaw-dropping drag, pole and burlesque performances. Drink specials, special guests and more!! DJs Foreplay, Yelhris, and Krista Mac will keep you grooving all night long (with more DJ announcements coming soon!) Performances by Pepper, Felicia Bonee, Scarlett Von Bomb, Christy Heely, Lilah Lekker, Claudia Hartout, and so many more! Special performances by Shay Williamson, reigning Pole Theatre Canada Champion, and Marko Daza, World Champion in Pole Art!

Description: **Adults only** Expect jaw dropping drag, pole and burlesque performances. Drink specials, special guests and more!! DJs Foreplay, Yelhris, and Krista Mac will keep you grooving all night long (with more DJ announcements coming soon!) Performances by Pepper, Felicia Bonee, Scarlett Von Bomb, Christy Heely, Lilah Lekker, Claudia Hartout, and so many more! Special performances by Shay Williamson, reigning Pole Theatre Canada Champion, and Marko Daza, World Champion in Pole Art!

Description: Enjoy brunch, an appearance by Mayor Amarjeet Sohi, drag by the fun and fierce Melinda Verga, with MC's Janis Irwin and Blake Desjarlais! Tickets are $22.23-$690.58.

Description: Beercade is celebrating Pride with some of Edmonton's finest Drag and Burlesque performers! Performing to pride classics and the songs that scream get out of closet and show your Pride! Hosted by: Winter Rose Eh and Gabe Itch With: Honey Dijon, Beth Bombshell and more Tickets are $11.62.

Description: This class will be focussed on creating a piece of art representing the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community. Work will be created using acrylic painting techniques. All supplies will be provided! Come with an open mind, and be prepared to learn! Tickets are $54.06.

Description: Pride event in the heart of downtown featuring prominent artists and perfomrers like Virginia to Vegas. Local and International Drag Superstars, Food Trucks, 2SLGBTQQIA+ Artisans and Vendors, and so much more!

Description: Pride event in the heart of downtown featuring prominent artists and perfomrers like Virginia to Vegas. Local and International Drag Superstars, Food Trucks, 2SLGBTQQIA+ Artisans and Vendors, and so much more!

Description: Come join us and some of Edmonton’s FAVE indigihaus drag queens serving up some great food on Churchill Square at Edmonton PrideFest. Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to local 2SLGBTQQIA+ Organizations. Plus watch some amazing performers on the Main Stage while you eat and hear what some of our local community organizations are doing in our community.

Description: Pride YMM coordinates LGBTQ2S+ affirming events, support programs, advocates for LGBTQ2S+ inclusion, and provides training and resources.

Description: McMurray Metis Youth Group Pride BBQ. Open for members ages 12-29!

Description: Pride YMM coordinates LGBTQ2S+ affirming events, support programs, advocates for LGBTQ2S+ inclusion, and provides training and resources.

Description: Queer Prom is a safe space for all 2SLGBTQ+ youth and allies. This is an opportunity to celebrate all the proms that have been missed over the last couple years. To celebrate without heternormative expectations, openly and freely as your truest self. There will be pop-up drag performances, from Billi Gold, Stella L'Amour, Ella Lamoureux and Toddy! There will be a candy bar and refreshments. A special DJ - Simma Downe! Ages 14-19 is a general guide and exceptions can be made by request.

Description: Get prepared to be hit with a RAINBOW of jokes! The line up for this night of comedy is one you don't want to miss. Featuring local underage power house Laurel Spring. That's right, you read correctly, she's underaged. Meaning we only let her in the bar for the jokes and then she has to leave (no matter how funny she is). The man, the myth, the legend himself, Michael Jesso. See him well you can before Hollywood gets wind of how talented he is with a stage and a mic and we can no longer afford tickets to his show!

Description: Pride YMM coordinates LGBTQ2S+ affirming events, support programs, advocates for LGBTQ2S+ inclusion, and provides training and resources.

Description: **Adults only** There is no better way to officially kick off Pride Week than with Drag Brunch! Performances from Stella L'Amour, Billi Gold, Simma Downe and from the TV Show Call Me Mother, Ella Lamoureux and Toddy! Tickets include a buffet brunch, a mimosa, and of course the best drag show in town!

Description: Tweens are invited to celebrate pride by making rainbow perler bead creations. Pins, badges, coasters - the sky is the limit! (9-12yrs)

Description: Join special guest, Simma Downe for the return of our LGBTQ+ story time program in partnership with Pride YMM. Free to attend

Description: Join us for Drag Paint Night in support of the Wood Buffalo Food Bank! Hosted by the spectacular Simma Downe, this event invites you to paint bowls for the upcoming Empty Bowls Festival. Celebrate Pride and support a great cause! We will have some great draw prizes and lots of fun stencils to fit the theme of the night. All participants are encouraged to embrace the theme and come in drag, too! We guarantee a fun experience that includes painting, drag and above all some well deserved laughs!

Description: Cherry Pop is a stage for those looking to dip their toes in the world of drag. You have the option to be paired with one of our mentors who will assist you in making your debut. The audience will be in for a treat with a mix of new raw talent and a stunning cast of experienced mentors. Featuring Ella Lamoureux, Eric NoChurch, Billi Gold, Simma Downe and Toddy! To apply to perform fill out the attached forma and we will be in touch. https://forms.gle/SY7MG2bA6oxY7d2e6

Description: Pride YMM coordinates LGBTQ2S+ affirming events, support programs, advocates for LGBTQ2S+ inclusion, and provides training and resources.

Description: Kickoff Pride Week with the opening ceremonies and Flag Raising. Speeches from Pride and delegates.

Description: The Coffee Social is a low pressure environment to connect with some delicious coffee and treats.

Description: What's in a rainbow? Kids are invited to celebrate pride by learning all about rainbow science! (6-8yrs)

Description: A special 2SLGBTQ+ friendly self defense class for all abilities. Free to attend text 780-881-6637 to register.

Description: Join Amanda for a night of sassy, flirty fun and learn how to put a little va-va-va in your voom! In this 90 minute fun-filled workshop, we'll start with a sultry barre workout and then we'll learn a vivacious hip-bumping burlesque routine. In this workshop we will focus on how to get in touch with our provocative, seductive selves and how to move our bodies with confidence. Absolutely no experience necessary and this workshop is open to EVERYONE - all gender identities & sexual orientations wel

Description: Pride YMM coordinates LGBTQ2S+ affirming events, support programs, advocates for LGBTQ2S+ inclusion, and provides training and resources.

Description: **Adults only** Adults are invited to celebrate pride by getting creative and painting the night away! Painters of all skill levels welcome.

Description: Join Brooke as we celebrate all the colours of the rainbow at Exhale Yoga & Barre's annual PRIDE YOGA CLASS! A "Pay What You Can" class with proceeds going toward Pride YMM to help support their initiatives for the LGBTQ2S+ community here in Fort McMurray. This is a beginner-friendly yoga practice for everyone who wants to celebrate Pride. We believe that yoga is for everybody and every BODY, regardless of ethnicity, age, shape, size or ability. Regardless of gender or sexual orientation.

Description: Pride YMM coordinates LGBTQ2S+ affirming events, support programs, advocates for LGBTQ2S+ inclusion, and provides training and resources.

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Description: Pride YMM coordinates LGBTQ2S+ affirming events, support programs, advocates for LGBTQ2S+ inclusion, and provides training and resources.

Description: Teens are invited to celebrate pride by competing to make the BEST tie-dye t-shirt! Tie-dye supplies, patches, sequins, and other accessories will be provided. Winner will take home a $25 gift card. (13-17yrs) Registration opens June 3.

Description: Join Shantal for a wild spiritual ride into YOUR OWN TRUTH! In Kundalini Yoga we call this SAT NAM! Tap out of life and into this FREE cosmic pleasure with Kundalini Yoga to rise Fem Divine with Masculine Consciousness, what a trip! Then chill out with a Sound Bath and Oracle Card reading! You want the truth, own the truth, BE YOUR TRUTH! All levels welcomed as Shantal has your back babe! You will leave radiating brighter and more powerful than ever! All props provided, all levels welcomed!

Description: Pride YMM coordinates LGBTQ2S+ affirming events, support programs, advocates for LGBTQ2S+ inclusion, and provides training and resources.

Description: **Adults Only** When Drag meets Bingo, you better believe you're in for a good time. Come out for a fun evening of dabbing those dabbers, and winning some fabulous prizes. Tickets include your bingo cards and a bingo dabber.

Description: Join Shantal for a wild spiritual ride into YOUR OWN TRUTH! In Kundalini Yoga we call this SAT NAM! Tap out of life and into this FREE cosmic pleasure with Kundalini Yoga to rise Fem Divine with Masculine Consciousness, what a trip! Then chill out with a Sound Bath and Oracle Card reading! You want the truth, own the truth, BE YOUR TRUTH! All levels welcomed as Shantal has your back babe! You will leave radiating brighter and more powerful than ever! All props provided, all levels welcomed!

Description: Pride YMM coordinates LGBTQ2S+ affirming events, support programs, advocates for LGBTQ2S+ inclusion, and provides training and resources.

Description: Pride YMM coordinates LGBTQ2S+ affirming events, support programs, advocates for LGBTQ2S+ inclusion, and provides training and resources.

Description: The annual Pride Festival is a family friendly event to bring together the queer community and our allies. There will be a marketplace, games and live entertainment.

Description: 18+ We're putting more party in the Pride After Party. There will be music and dancing all night long with pop-up drag numbers throughout the night. More casual seating, an open dance floor and the gayest music all night long, its everything you need to end Pride Week. Come sporting your best pride attire and enjoy our signature cocktails. Appetizers will also be served throughout the night. Drag Performances by Billi Gold, Ella Lamoureux, Eric Nochurch, Simma Downe & Stella L'Amour

Description: Fort Saskatchewan Pride Week is June 10th – 16th!

Description: **Online event** It is understood through oral tradition of storytelling that many Indigenous nations held beliefs around sexually and gender diverse peoples since long before settlers arrived. Colonization, however, had a detrimental effect on the Indigenous communities leading to erasure diverse peoples since long before settlers arrived. Join Cheyenne Mihko Kihêw (they/them) from Edmonton 2 Spirit Society in this overview of Two Spirit Knowledge.

Description: Join us as we kick off Pride Week by raising the Pride Flag with Families First and a City delegate. Everyone encouraged and welcomed to attend!

Description: Fort Saskatchewan Pride Week is June 10th – 16th!

Description: Fort Saskatchewan Pride Week is June 10th – 16th!

Description: **Online Event** Decolonizing Transness critically explores the ways Transness is lived and felt globally, encouraging the participants to re-evaluate predisposed notions of Transness. In doing so, this workshop provides a framework to reinterpret and appreciate trans people as agentive participants in their own lives.

Description: Fort Saskatchewan Pride Week is June 10th – 16th!

Description: Come spend time with Richard, he is a 2-Spirit cis-gendered gay male with Nehiyaw- Apeetogosan-Settler. He will be sharing some foundational teachings about land-based connections and acknowledgements. He firmly believes that all human beings on the planet, regardless of where we live, play, experience our lives, deserve to be welcomed, acknowledged and connected to the land they currently reside on.

Description: **Online Event** How to talk to kids about Pride is a workshop to learn how to talk to children about Pride with age-appropriate resources. This workshop helps highlight how talking about Pride doesn’t have to be an age restricted topic and provides strategies to have conversations that are stigma free.

Description: Join us to celebrate Pride Week by playing, sharing food and having some fun! To help with planning, please register online.

Description: Fort Saskatchewan Pride Week is June 10th – 16th!

Description: Presented by ismss, an Introduction to Sexual and Gender Diversity and Inclusion. In this workshop participants will explore concepts and terminology regarding gender and sexual diversity. We will look at intersectionality, inclusion, and best practices in developing ally’s hip skills in the workplace and community at large.

Description: Fort Saskatchewan Pride Week is June 10th – 16th!

Description: Safer Spaces is an in-depth workshop that provides skills and strategies for allyship on behalf of 2SLGBTQ+ community. After a brief overview of foundational knowledge, this workshop provides a non-judgemental space to learn how to support and empower Queer and Trans people within the community.

Description: Come celebrate Pride Week with an exciting drag show by local performers, other musical performers, family friendly activities and more.

Description: Fort Saskatchewan Pride Week is June 10th – 16th!

Description: We are so excited to celebrate Pride in person. Come join us as we celebrate at Legacy Park, with performances by local LGBTQ performers, including a drag performance by Billie Eyelash and company. This is a family friendly event, so please come and support our LGBTQ community!

Description: Join the Grande Prairie Pride Society and TD Bank as they celebrate Pride with bouncy castles, face painting, a community alley, and food trucks. There will also be a pancake breakfast served by the Gay and Lesbian Association of the Peace and the Rotary Club of Grande Prairie. This event is FREE for all ages!

Description: Our 2022 Pride theme, “Love is Love,” speaks to the ongoing struggle of LGBTQ2S+ and the invalidation of our Love. “Love is Love” means that the love expressed by an individual or couple is valid regardless of their lover or partner’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Saturday events and performances from 2:00 PM to 11:00PM!

Description: Our 2022 Pride theme, “Love is Love,” speaks to the ongoing struggle of LGBTQ2S+ and the invalidation of our Love. “Love is Love” means that the love expressed by an individual or couple is valid regardless of their lover or partner’s sexual orientation or gender identity.Sunday events and performances from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM, including a family BBQ and kids games.

Description: Queer 101 is an introductory workshop that sets a foundation of the inclusive nature of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. In this workshop, you will delve into basic terminology and phrases that are inclusive and appropriate to use with contextual understanding. You will explore terminology that reflects individual identity, gain a better understanding of the differences between sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. This workshop has been developed to provide foundational knowledge that EVERYONE will benefit from!

Description: The Pride Film Festival returns for June 2022! Join us in the Theatre Gallery at the Main Branch of the Lethbridge Public Library (every Tuesday in June) for four nights of queer film - and popcorn! All films will begin at 6:00 PM and will be shown with closed captions.

Description: Flee (PG): Animated documentary in Danish with English subtitles, Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 89 min, Denmark. Tells the extraordinary true story of a man, Amin, on the verge of marriage which compels him to reveal his hidden past for the first time.

Description: Small Town Queer (Docuseries) - Episode 3: Conversion (NR): Short Documentary, Laura O'Grady/Telus Originals, 17 min, Canada. Join us for a screening of the short documentary Small Town Queer - Conversion following by a discussion with University of Lethbridge professor Jay Whitehead, as well as local activists Devon Hargreaves and Jennifer Takahashi, all three of whom are featured in the film, regarding the film and efforts that led to the banning of conversion therapy in Canada. The documentary itself dives into the practice of conversion therapy – a process which is meant to change an individual’s sexual orientation to heterosexual – and the fight to ban it across Canada.

Description: The Pride Film Festival returns for June 2022! Join us in the Theatre Gallery at the Main Branch of the Lethbridge Public Library (every Tuesday in June) for four nights of queer film - and popcorn! All films will begin at 6:00 PM and will be shown with closed captions.

Description: Dating Amber (NR): Comedy-Drama, Directed by David Freyne, 92 min, Ireland. Two school friends decide to start a pretend straight relationship in an effort to fit in.

Description: **Adults Only** Join Lethbridge Pride and Theoretically Brewing Company for a laid back evening filled with tasty drinks, food, and good company (bring your friends, family, loved ones, your neighbour, whoever!)! Please drink responsibly.

Description: Join Shonna Lamb for a gentle yoga practice in inclusive community in honour and great respect of Lethbridge’s diverse 2SLGBTQIA+ community this Pride season! This class is curated to be accessible to all bodies and to all abilities of students. No special yoga clothes or experience needed, just bring your sweet self.

Description: Join Lethbridge Pride and Round Table Board Gamerie for a night of board games and fun while we celebrate all the A's and the rest of our community! Everyone is welcome to attend this evening of fun! Admission to Round Table is free this evening, however food and drink will be available for purchase.

Description: **Adults only** Lethbridge Electronic Music Festival (LEMF), Theatre Outre and The Owl are inviting you to Get Juicy with our fiercest lineup yet to kick off Pride Week in Lethbridge! Featuring: Stephanie Prince - Canada's Drag Race Season Two, Rogue - Vancouver's Premier Drag Artist, Francheska Dynamites - YQL Legend and so much more! Tickets are $33.68-$44.23.

Description: Return to Pride with Lethbridge Pride Fest at City Hall to raise the Pride Flag in celebration of Pride Month and the kickoff to Pride Week in Lethbridge! Event will also be shared via Instagram and Facebook Live.

Description: The Pride Film Festival returns for June 2022! Join us in the Theatre Gallery at the Main Branch of the Lethbridge Public Library (every Tuesday in June) for four nights of queer film - and popcorn! All films will begin at 6:00 PM and will be shown with closed captions.

Description: Wildhood (NR): Drama, Directed by Bretten Hannam, 1 hour 47 min, Canada. A rebellious two-spirit teenager runs away from home to find his birth mother and reclaim his Mi'kmaw heritage.

Description: Join us in welcoming our reading royalty to Drag Story Time! Francheska Dynamite will be our special guest at the Lethbridge Public Library. Enjoy a half hour of stories, songs, and fun for the whole family.

Description: Join us in welcoming our reading royalty to Drag Story Time! Francheska Dynamite will be our special guest at the Lethbridge Public Library. Enjoy an hour of stories, songs, and fun for the whole family.

Description: Make a colourful bracelet you can wear to Pride in the Park and every day! Find out more about objects and stories in the Galt Museum's collections related to Pride.Tickets are $6.30.

Description: **Adults Only** We are over the moon to be back for the first time in 3 years with our biggest Pride Ball ever! We are taking over Club Lime for the night with a major lineup of talent and production to celebrate our Return to Pride! Private Event - Private Patio - Gender Neutral Washrooms - Handicap Accessible. Tickets are $33.68 - $41.07.

Description: Followed by the Pride Parade, we are absolutely keyed-up to present our first Pride in the Park lineup to you in three long years as we welcome you back to our home at Galt Gardens to to celebrate our Return to Pride! We've got an absolutely bedazzled ALL-STAR lineup full of wonderful diverse talent with something for absolutely everyone!

Description: After a night out of celebrating at the 14th Annual Pride Ball, the only place to do brunch is at one of the Lethbridge staples (and one of our favourites), Chef Stella’s! Stella’s will be doing what they do best from 8 AM - 2 PM, their classic breakfast buffet and more! Plus, rumour has it, they’ve got an extra special pride inspired cocktail just for this occasion! Please call ahead to reserve a table for you and your gang!

Description: The Pride Film Festival returns for June 2022! Join us in the Theatre Gallery at the Main Branch of the Lethbridge Public Library (every Tuesday in June) for four nights of queer film - and popcorn! All films will begin at 6:00 PM and will be shown with closed captions.

Description: A selection of short films from a variety of perspectives. A full title list with summaries will be available shortly.

Description: Join us for Queer Book Club on the last Wednesday of the month, where we read queer books! Come share our love for queer stories and books by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. Bring a book to recommend if you’d like, and join us to get recommendations about what to read next. There is no required reading to attend. All genres and formats are welcome.

Description: Come enjoy an evening of dancing, music, and so much more at Lloyd Pride's first LGBTQIA2S+ Prom, hosted by the LGBTQ+ Society of Lloydminster!

Description: Slay the Night is thrilled to take the stage with fantastic local talent for the double-feature Lloyd Pride Drag Show! This year, we are excited to host two drag shows on June 11 at the Gold Horse casino, featuring Slay the Night drag artists, Indigenous performers, and talented performers from our local community! 16+ Drag Show from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Tickets for audience members 16- to 18-years old are FREE but must be accompanied by an adult (please do not forget to reserve your free tickets in your order) 19+ Drag Show from 9:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.Tickets for all audience members are $10.00 ($11.62 fees included) and come with a "20 spins for $10" gift certificate from Gold Horse Casino!

Description: Annual HIV fundraiser **Adults Only**

Description: Celebrating 30 years old! Spectrum Festival (June 3-5, 2022) is the largest celebration in southern Alberta to kick off summer! Amateur Drag Show: 10:00 AM - 10:40 AM Old Soul Rebel: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM.

Description: Join us at the Morinville Leisure Centre as we raise the rainbow Pride Flag to kick off Pride Week Celebrations. This event is open to all ages.

Description: Pack a lunch and bring your friends and family to Morinville Centennial Community Garden for a picnic in the park. Enjoy music and free glitter tattoos.

Description: Garden's Gate is partnering with local businesses to bring you an outdoor, family-friendly event with food trucks and live entertainment. Entrance fee is $5/adult and $3/youth. Profits will be donated to Outloud.

Description: Join Morinville FCSS and altView at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre for an honest discussion about the emotions and questions that may arise when a loved one identifies as LGBTQ2S+. Learn how we can acknowledge this process for ourselves, while still offering affirmation and support to others. Drop-in workshop.

Description: Join the Morinville Youth Leadership group at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre to decorate cookies in a variety of rainbow colours. Drop-in activity. While supplies last. Free to attend.

Description: Join us at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre for a workshop and lunch, hosted by Morinville FCSS and Outloud St. Albert. Learn more about the local LGBTQ2S+ community and how we can work together to make a positive impact through better understanding and inclusive spaces and language. Registration required.

Description: Join us for a screening of short LGBTQ2S+ films and a discussion with the filmmakers behind these amazing works. Filmmaker Faraz Arif Ansari will be joining us for a discussion about making films in India and around the world.

Description: Queer Prom is for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth 18 years of age and under to enjoy the full experience of a year-end dance without the pressures of heteronormativity that go with it. You can come precisely as you are, with whomever you want and we will accept you. Kings, Queens, girls, gays and theys are all welcome here. Please keep in mind that this is a dry event, no alcohol as there are minors present. We will be providing snacks and drinks though!

Description: Deck your car out in rainbows and show your pride! Join us through the city on Taylor and Gaetz!

Description: We invite you to come join the pride after party! To celebrate pride after the car parade we want to keep the party going!

Description: RDQCA is thrilled to join the Red Deer Polytechnic for a lecture discussing gender-based violence in the queer community.

Description: Local queer artists are welcome to bring their amazing works and share their stories during this spectacular art show.

Description: **For ages 18 and up** Come to present your poetry or listen to our local poets. Non-alcoholic drinks will be offered.

Description: The Red Deer Native Friendship Society welcomes everyone to a fantastic Pow-wow that will host Two-Spirit dancers!

Description: There will be stories, crafts, and the lovely local drag queen, Liliana. Stories will be geared to ages 4 to 8, but all ages are welcome!

Description: Celebrate the power of pronouns and create your very own pronoun button!

Description: RDQCA welcomes various members of the community to share Queer history and how Queer culture has evolved through time.

Description: RDQCA welcomes key members of the community to discuss the importance of Pride and Intersectional representation.

Description: Come and listen to a story and make a colorful pride craft! Join Megan from Rainbow Reading as she reads a book about 2SLGBTQ+ allyship, followed by a child-friendly discussion and fun activity. All ages and families are welcome, so bring your loved ones! We look forward to seeing your smiles! This program will take place in person.

Description: Come to witness the transgender Pride flag raised to kickoff Pride Week!

Description: Outloud Juniors is a safe space for 2SLGBTQQIA+ children, friends, and allies 12 and under to come together, make friends, and ask questions.

Description: Outloud Youth is a safe space for 2SLGBTQIA+ Youth 13 and up to make friends, network, and ask questions.

Description: A fun, family oriented, dog friendly, small town kind of day. Created with the goal to foster a positive, friendly and safe experience for all. While bringing awareness and support to the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community. Events include, Tye Dye contest, lots of games and prizes, glitter tattoos, hot dog bbq, and so much more!

Description: ** Adults Only** An evening of drag performances, featuring Haus of Glitter, Sparkle Emotion, Ruby Harte, and DD Fierce.

Description: Presented in partnership with the Taber Public Library and Outreach Southern Alberta.

Description: Join us at Confederation Park in Taber for live music, face painting, a bouncy house, and food trucks! Festivities kick off at 1:30 and run until 5pm.

Description: Drag Queen Storytime with Francheska Dynamite at Taber Public Library. All are welcome!

Description: Flag Raising at the Taber Provincial Building. Performance by Francheska Dynamite.