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Fair Day ’23 | Albany Pride Festival

Fair Day ’23

Dates & Times:

Saturday, 4th March 2023 @ 10:00am
Albany Town Square

Albany Pride Fair Day is the heart of our Pride Festival celebrations! Join us in the Albany Town Square for a family-friendly day of celebration, entertainment, and stalls.

Fair Day is the heart of Albany Pride Festival! And the heart of Fair Day is our hilarious Dog Show!

Bring your pets and/or children to enjoy Town Square being turned into a catwalk for pooches and a colourful playground for everyone.

Join the circus specialists from Kinetica for a kids workshop in the Town Hall, food vans, merch and info stalls, the Freedom Fairies, face painting and the feel-good vibes of DJ Emma will keep everyone entertained.

Event Times

  • 10.00am – Fair Day starts!
  • 10.30am – Kinetica “Pick Up and Play” Circus Workshop (at The Town Hall)
  • 10.35am – DJ Emma’s set with Auslan interpretation
  • 12.00pm – BarbieQ & Friends Drag Performance
  • 1.00pm – Fair Day Dog Show
  • 2.00pm – End of Fair Day

Dog Show

Register your pooch for the dog show in advance here! (Costs $5). Registration will also be available on the day for $10.

Our Fair Day Dog Show is back and is a major draw card for our annual Albany Pride Fair Day event! We guarantee it will be spectacular again and we have some awesome prizes to win! 

Register your pupper now to enter the dog show, in the following categories:

  • Best Outfit
  • Best Big Dog
  • Best Little Dog
  • Best Trick
  • Best Ears
  • Best Senior
  • Judges choice of dog to take home! (All entrants will receive a free entry into this category)

Fair Day runs from 10am – 2pm.

Dates & Times
Saturday
4th March, 2023
10:00am
Location
Albany Town Square
227 York St, Albany WA 6330
Accessibility Information
Venue Accessibility
Parking
  • ACROD parking is available in the library car park, and on York Street
  • Toilets
  • Accessible toilets are available in the library and in the Town Square
  • A mix of gendered and unisex stalls
  • Lighting
  • Lighting is weather dependant
  • Entrances
  • Accessible entry to the square available via Library car park and the top of York Street
  • Talent
    Freedom Fairies
    Kinetica
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    Kinetica is a performing arts company and circus school established in 2012 by a collective of circus, visual and performing artists, and based in Perth, Western Australia.

    Kinetica are regular performers at the Perth Fringe Festival, regularly bringing in rave reviews – and their visits to Albany for the Pride Festival have been met with universal acclaim by all who attend!

    BarbieQ
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    BarbieQ is Albany Pride royalty – first performing at Albany Pride Festival back in 2017, and returning each year since!

    BarbieQ is renowned in the drag performance community, with over twenty years in the industry. She’s a multi-award winner, a dancer since the age of thirteen (with a five year career as a dancer for Princess Cruises in the USA) and is the Entertainment Manager for Connections Nightclub in Perth.

    If that’s not enough, BarbieQ is also a regular Fringe Festival performer in Perth, which shows such as The Madonna Circus: ReInvention and Drag Diva Spectacular.

    It’s always an absolute delight to welcome BarbieQ back to Albany, who amazes our audiences with her artistry, moves, sharp wit, and delightfully vulgar language!

    Veronica Jean Jones
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    Veronica Jean Jones is an Albany Pride Festival, coming down to Albany/Kinjarling many times over the past few years.

    With a caustic wit and a filthy mouth, Veronica Jean Jones is a Drag Bingo and Trivia Night favourite during Pride Festival.

    DJ Emma
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    DJ Emma is a Pride Festival regular, who has been delighting our audiences at our Fair Days and parties for a number of years now, and always delivers on delivering a delightfully Queer playlist full of classics.

    Along with DJing and MCing, DJ Emma is also The Lil’ Gay Celebrant for civil marriages!