Events
Circus for LGBTIQA+
MT Alexander Falcons Pride Round
Bent Brushes Art Show
The Castlemaine Pride Picnic
Pride Picnic After Party
THE SINGLE BED OF LIFE
Castlemaine LGBTQIA+ Tennis Championships
LGBTIQA+ Tea Dance
Secret (Queer) Movie Matinee
LGBTIQA+ Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Life Drawing – Pride Edition!
Mainely Queer Trivia Night
WAX ON, WAX OFF – Queer Pride Edition!
Alluvians Scavenger Hunt
The Best Short Films – Bendigo Queer Film Festival 2024
Taproom Tribute – Local Pride Edition!
Blues & Folk Double Bill: Kaiyah Mercedes & Candice Alisha
Community Bus – Q+Hub
Q+Hub – Get Ready to be Amazed!
PubSing Pride#3 – ‘Born This Way’
QTIBPOC Community Cake & Cuppa
Queer Bushwalk
Beers for Queers
about us
Castlemaine Pride is a volunteer-led community group that organises the festival each year. It all began in 2018 when Martyn Shaddick, Sherene Clow and Marion Yates organised a Pride Picnic – an act of healing after the dark days of the marriage equality debate and a thank-you to all those who supported the Queer community. From this humble origin, Castlemaine Pride has grown into a week-long celebration of the culture, history, creativity and determination of the LGBTQIA+ community in Mount Alexander.
We hope our festival shines a light onto what our community can achieve when we stand together, when we choose joy over fear and love over hate. If you’re not part of the LGBTQIA+ community, then we extend our warmest invitation to you to come and share in our festivities. If you are Queer, then what are you waiting for? This is your festival, and we hope you have the most wonderful time.
Your Pride. Your Voice – check out the End of Community Consultation Report Here
Everyone is welcome here, everyone belongs.
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The Castlemaine Pride Committee.
Castlemaine Pride acknowledge and pay our respects to the Dja Dja Wurrung people, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and recognise that this land was stolen; sovereignty never ceded. We honour the contribution of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans* and intersex people, sistergirls and brotherboys to the ever-evolving story of our community.
Our Pride Heroes
We offer our deepest thanks to the volunteers, businesses and organisations who have helped us tend our festival into full bloom.
Special thanks to:
Castlemaine Community House
Mount Alexander Shire Council
Dhelkaya Health
Green Goes the Grocer
Real Strength
KR Castlemaine
Bakers Delight
Cliffords Quality Cuts
Rotary Castlemaine
Belle Property Castlemaine
Cantwell Property Castlemaine
Northern Arts Hotel
Castlemaine Free University
Bendigo Queer Film Festival
Geelong Pride Film Festival
Castlemaine Lawn Tennis Club
Vic Tennis
The Alluvians
Theatre Royale
Castlemaine Pride Choir
Special Thanks to the following:
Castlemaine Community House, Mount Alexander Shire Council, Dhelkaya Health
Grainger Legal, Mount Alexander Community Enterprise, Wesley Hill Bakery, Green Goes the Grocer, Real Strength
Shedshaker Brewing, Mount Alexander Falcons, MainFM, Fossey’s Gin, Coliban Water, Big 4 Castlemaine, Castlemaine Circus, Sound Recordings, Caspa, Undercut Club, Oni Street Wear, Love Shack Brewing, The Bridge Hotel, Northern Arts Hotel, Cantwell’s Real Estate, Castlemaine Free University, Castlemaine Lawn Tennis Club, Wesley Hill Hall, Maldon Neighbourhood House, Cliffords Quality Cuts, Bakers Delight, Vintage Bazaar, Forest Creek Tattoo, Castlemaine Flyer, Boomtown Wines, Rina Chinese Medicine, Corner Store Merchants, 5 Flag Merchant Café, Sac’O’Suds, Good Op Shop, Castlemaine Fringe Festival
