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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 22h

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 22h

⏰ Monday 20 October | 6 - 7.30PM
📍 Onehunga Community Centre
82 Church Street, Onehunga

No registration required! Don’t forget to follow @proudcentres for more exciting Proud Centres updates! 🌱💡

#aucklandpride #proudcentres #aucklandpridefestival2026 #freevenues #tāmakimakaurau #aucklandcouncil

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 22h

Our last Proud Centres Community Programming Workshop is for our 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 & 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 rōpū! If you’re looking for 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀 in 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 & 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 and additional local board funding to support your 2026 Auckland Pride Festival events, join us:

Image of Onehunga Library & Community Centre with overlaying text:

Do you live out East or Central South?
Are you looking for a free venue to produce an event in the 2026 Auckland Pride Festival?

Come along to our FREE Proud Centres Community Programming Workshop on Monday, 20 October, 6-7:30PM at Onehunga Library & Community Centre (82 Church Street, Onehunga).

For Event Producers, Community Builders and people who want free venues out East or Central South (Mt Roskill, Onehunga, Royal Oak, Maungakiekie, Greenlane, Ellerslie)

Connect with Auckland Council staff from venues out South and the Auckland Pride team

Learn how you can access venues out East and Central South Auckland, local board funding to support your events, and hear about what's happening in the 2026 Auckland Pride Festival

There will be space to dream about your events too!

No registration required!

If you have any questions, flick us a DM!
Follow @proudcentres on Instagram for more exciting updates.

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 22h

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 22h

⏰ Monday 20 October | 6 - 7.30PM
📍 Onehunga Community Centre
82 Church Street, Onehunga

No registration required! Don’t forget to follow @proudcentres for more exciting Proud Centres updates! 🌱💡

#aucklandpride #proudcentres #aucklandpridefestival2026 #freevenues

Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 2d

the access to your identity and discussions around your identity is a privilege for only those who you deem safe. The autonomy to decide when and if you come out or invite people in is yours. We’re sending healing & sunlight your way today wherever you are! 🧡💛 #internationalcomingoutday #invitingin

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 2d

Happy International Coming Out Day!

As we celebrate, we’d also like to reframe the discussion of one’s identity as Inviting In—a term popularised by National Black Justice Coalition. Inviting In shifts the power to you;

Happy International Coming Out Day! 11 October 2025!

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 3d

⏰ Friday 17 October | 6 - 7.30PM
📍 Ellen Melville Centre
2 Freyberg Place, Auckland Central

No registration required! Don’t forget to follow @proudcentres for more exciting Proud Centres updates! 🎉💡
#aucklandpride #proudcentres #aucklandpridefestival2026 #freevenues #tāmakimakaurau #aucklandcouncil

Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 3d

Our third Proud Centres Community Programming Workshop is for our 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 whānau! If you’re looking for 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀 in 𝗔𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 and additional local board funding to support your 2026 Auckland Pride Festival events, join us:

Do you live in or around Central Auckland?
Are you looking for a FREE venue to produce an event in the 2026
Auckland Pride Festival?
Come along to our FREE Proud Centres Community Programming Workshop
17 October | 6 — 7:30PM
Ellen Melville Centre
2 Freyberg Place, Auckland Central

For Event Producers, Community Builders and people who want free venues in Central Auckland

Connect with Auckland Council venue staff and the Auckland Pride team

Learn how you can access venues in Central Auckland, local board funding to support your events, and hear about what's happening in the 2026 Auckland Pride Festival

There will be space to dream about your events too!

No registration required!

If you have any questions, flick us a DM!
Follow @proudcentres on Instagram for more updates.

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 5d

Happy International Lesbian Day, whānau! Today we celebrate and honour the abundant history and legacy that our lesbian, sapphic, and wāhine takatāpui communities have held and embodied in our collective movement. 🧡🤍💖

#InternationalLesbianDay #lesbian #lesbianpride

Graphic of orange and pink swirl, text in white read: Happy International Lesbian Day, 8 October 2025

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 8d

Submissions close TOMORROW (MONDAY 5 OCT) at 2PM.
Link to submission guide in bio!

Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 8d

The Summary Offences Amendment Bill gives police unchecked power to arrest people for “unreasonable disruption” — without defining what that even means. We’ve seen this play out overseas — peaceful activists fined, arrested, and silenced.

Don’t let it happen here.

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 𝗨𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 🚨

Queer, trans, takatāpui, Māori, migrant, disabled, and working-class communities have always relied on protest to survive — to demand to be seen, to be safe, to be free. This Bill would criminalise that.

Urgent call for submissions!

Protect our right to protest! Submissions close tomorrow (Monday Oct 6, 2PM). Submissions guide linked in our bio!

Queer, trans, takatāpui, Māori, migrant, disabled, and working-class communities have always relied on protest to survive — to demand to be seen, to be safe, to be free. This Bill would criminalise that.

The Summary Offences Amendment Bill gives police unchecked power to arrest people for “unreasonable disruption” — without defining what that even means. We’ve seen this play out overseas — peaceful activists fined, arrested, and silenced.

Don’t let it happen here.

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 8d

⏰ Monday 13 October | 6 - 7.30PM
📍 Te Paataka Koorero o Takaanini
30 Walters Road, Takaanini

No registration required! Save this post, follow @proudcentres and stay tuned for more info! 🎉💡

#aucklandpride #proudcentres #aucklandpridefestival2026 #freevenues #tāmakimakaurau #aucklandcouncil

Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 8d

Our second Proud Centres Community Programming Workshop is out 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝! If you’re looking for 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀 in 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝙎𝙞𝙙𝙚 and additional local board funding to support your 2026 Auckland Pride Festival events, join us:

Do you live in South Auckland?
Are you looking for a FREE venue to produce an event in the 2026 Auckland Pride Festival?
Come along to our FREE Community Programming Workshop
Wednesday 13 October
6pm-7.30pm
Te Paataka Koorero o Takaanini, 30 Walters Road, Takaanini

For Event Producers, Community Builders and people who want free venues in South Side

Connect with Auckland Council staff from venues out South and the Auckland Pride team

Learn how you can access venues in South Auckland, local board funding to support your events, and hear about what's happening in the 2026 Auckland Pride Festival

There will be space to dream about your events too!

No registration required!

If you have any questions, flick us a DM!
Don't forget to follow @proudcentres on Instagram!

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 12d

⏰ Wednesday 08 October | 6 - 7.30PM
📍 Te Atatū Peninsula Community Centre
595 Te Atatū Road, Te Atatū Peninsula

No registration required! Save this post, follow @proudcentres and stay tuned for more info! 🎉💡

#aucklandpride #proudcentres #aucklandpridefestival2026 #freevenues #tāmakimakaurau

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 12d

Join us and Auckland Council Teams to learn about how you can access Proud Centres as 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀 and additional local board funding to support your events in the 2026 Auckland Pride Festival.

Our first one will be for our whānau living out 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁 or on the 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗲!

Do you live out West or on the North Shore?
Are you looking for a FREE venue to produce an event in the 2026 Auckland Pride Festival?
Come along to our FREE Community Programming Workshop
Wednesday 08 October
6pm-7.30pm
Te Atatū Peninsula Community Centre, 595 Te Atatū Road, Te Atatū Peninsula

These workshops are opportunities for event producers, community builders and people who want free venues for their Pride Festival events to connect with local Auckland Council venues (Libraries and Community Centres) out West and on the North Shore.
Come along and connect with the Staff from venues in West and North Auckland and the Auckland Pride Team
Learn about how you can access the venues, additional local board funding to support your events, and hear about what's happening in the 2026 Auckland Pride Festival.
There will be space to dream about your events too!

No registration required!
If you have any questions, flick us a DM!
Follow @proudcentres on Instagram!

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 14d

When you vote this year, think about the role of arts, culture and creativity in your wellbeing, your whānau’s, and your community’s future. #CreativityBelongsHere

Voting closes on midday Saturday 11 October. #localelections #tāmakimakaurau #auckland

Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 14d

Arts and creativity reflect the stories, languages and cultures that make our communities unique. They connect us across generations, help us learn from each other, and ensure every voice has a place.

Creativity Belongs Here.

In the photo, two kaumātua are dancing to blush.mp3 DJing with Tino Rangatiratanga flag behind the DJ booth.

Local elections decide who gets funded, what gets built, and where culture lives.

If you want your city colourful, creative, and community-led, you gotta say so.

When you vote this year, think about the role of arts, culture and creativity in your wellbeing, your whānau’s, and your community’s future.

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 16d

Register by 30 November 2025 to be included in our Print Programme.
Registrations close 9 January 2026.

#aucklandpridefestival2026 #aucklandpride #tāmakimakaurau #registernow #openaccess #openaccessfestival

Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 16d

Auckland Pride is Aotearoa’s largest celebration of Takatāpui and Rainbow creativity, identity, and community — and it’s powered by you.

Registrations are now open for Auckland Pride Festival 2026! (Link in bio)
More exciting information to come next week! 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤎🖤♥️

Registrations are now open for Auckland Pride Festival 2026!

Register by 30 November 2025 to be included in our Print Programme.

Registrations close 9 January 2026.

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 17d

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 17d

No registration required! Save this post, follow @proudcentres and stay tuned for more info! 🏢🎉💡

#aucklandpride #proudcentres #aucklandpridefestival2026 #freevenues

Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 17d

Join the Auckland Pride and Auckland Council Teams as we connect and dream into the 2026 Auckland Pride Festival, and show you how you can access resource and support for your venues through local board grant funding, and Auckland Council venues.

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Auckland Pride @aucklandpride.bsky.social · 17d

Come along to our FREE workshops with Auckland Council and find out how you can access 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀 for your upcoming Auckland Pride Festival events in 2026.

Do you want free venue hire for your 2026 Auckland Pride Event?

Introducing Proud Centres Community Programming Workshops

For Event Producers, Community Builders and people who want free venues

Connect with Auckland Council venue staff and the Auckland Pride team

Learn how you can access venues, local board funding to support your events, and hear about what's happening in the 2026 Auckland Pride Festival

There will be space to dream about your events too!

4 Workshops in the Series:

Wednesday 08 October 2025 | 6PM
Te Atatū Peninsula Community Centre
West and North Suburbs

Monday 13 October 2025 | 6PM
Te Paataka Koorero o Takaanini
South Suburbs

Friday 17 October 2025 | 6PM
Ellen Melville Centre
Central Suburbs

Monday 20 October 2025 | 6PM
Onehunga Community Centre
Central South and East Suburbs

Save this post and stay tuned over the coming weeks for details on a workshop near you!

Any questions, DM us!
Don't forget to follow @proudcentres on Instagram!

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