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Pride 2025 | Albany Pride Festival
Pride 2025
20th February - 3rd March
Albany Pride Festival 2025
20th February — 3rd March, 2025
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Albany Pride Festival returns for its boldest and most colourful festival yet!

Returning for 2025 with theme CommUNITY, Albany Pride Festival has been guided by the importance of togetherness, unity against adversity, and the sense of community that we have cherished and fostered.

Albany Pride Festival 2025 Team:

  • Millie Reid (she/her)
    Festival Coordinator [Albany Pride Committee Member]
  • Karen Timmins (she/they)
    Marketing Coordinator/Finance & Sponsorship Team
  • Annie Arnold (she/her)
    Albany Pride President [Albany Pride Committee Member]
  • Simone van Hattem (she/they)
    Fairday Coordinator
  • Hannah Halls (she/they)
    Volunteer Coordinator [Albany Pride Committee Member]
  • Jasmine Heslop (she/her)
    Sports Coordinator
  • Tegan O’Neill (they/them)
    Social Media Coordinator
  • Karina Carpenter (she/her)
    Ticketing Coordinator
  • Kriss Logan (he/him)
    Merchandise Coordinator
  • Tiger Bird (they/them)
    Web & Graphic Coordinator [Albany Pride Committee Member]
  • Eden Shepherd (he/him)
    Treasury [Albany Pride Committee Member]
  • Donna Cameron (she/her)
    Event Coordinator [Albany Pride Committee Member]
  • Daz Moir (he/him)
    Finance & Sponsorship Team
Lineup

There's still more events to be announced!

This isn't all we've got lined up for Albany Pride Festival 2025. So make sure you check back and follow our news channels as more events are announced!
Features
Talent
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!

Alexas Armstrong
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Alexas Armstrong is Drag Queen Royalty in Boorloo/Perth: but she’s also royalty down here in Albany/Kinjarling having been a regular performer at our Pride Festivals for many years.

Aunty Vernice Gillies
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Vernice Gillies is a Menang Elder who is passionate about cultural heritage, conservation and preservation of cultural knowledge and traditions. Vernice has a long history in presenting cross-cultural awareness workshops and teaching students about Indigenous tourism. She has worked extensively with the Albany Heritage Reference Group on projects such as the Oyster Harbour Fish Traps Conservation Project and the Yurlmun: Mokare Mia Boodja Exhibition.

Vernice received the 2019 Senior Citizen of the Year Award for the Albany region.

(Credit: Kurrah Mia)

YUCK Circus
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YUCK Circus is the self-titled leading project of the company.

A crew of elite acrobatic gals, ready to flip off double-standards and kick art in the face. We’re not lightly throwing around women’s issues – we’re literally throwing women.

Using our bloody good sense of humour, we rip into the uncomfortable using high-flying acrobatics, absurd confessions and groovy dancing.

It’s binging on a jar of Nutella, it’s the thwack of a tampon, and it’s all contemporary Australian poetry.

Get ready to witness a powerhouse of female circus performers kick art in the face.

The Huxleys
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Will and Garrett Huxley (Aus/Gumbaynggirr/Yorta Yorta) are Melbourne-based collaborative performance and visual artists. Who work together as The Huxleys.

The Huxleys are a dynamic duo of cataclysmic proportion who present camp commentary and spectacle across the visual art, performance and entertainment sectors. Their photography and performance art traverses the classifications of costume, film and recording. A visual assault of sparkle, surrealism and the absurd, The Huxleys saturate their practice and projects with a glamorous, androgynous freedom which sets out to bring some escapism and magic to everyday life. 

Since 2014 The Huxleys have performed, exhibited and participated in numerous exhibitions, projects and events in Australia, and internationally in London, Berlin, Moscow and Hong Kong. Solo presentations, performances and commissions include the Melbourne International Arts Festival; Melbourne Fashion Week; Sydney Contemporary; Hong Kong Design Week; Heide Museum of Modern Art; Art Bank, Melbourne; NGV; AGNSW; QAGOMA; AGSA; AGWA and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; The Huxleys first came to prominence during the early years of MONA FOMA and Dark Mofo in Tasmania. 

The Huxleys photographs are included in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; HOTA, Gold Coast;  Pictures Collection at the State Library of Victoria; Geelong Gallery, Geelong; Curtain University Gallery, Perth.

The Huxleys consist of Will and Garrett Huxley. To show solidarity with the flight for gay marriage Garrett took on Will’s surname. This was also to commemorate their ongoing love and connection as partners of over 15 years. In the early days of working together when Will and Garrett would show up in costume, performers and audiences would say “look the Huxleys are here!” and this kept happening so they decided to adopt the joining of their names as a message of love and unity through their relationship and work and have continued working with this artistic moniker, gifted to them by the artistic community of Melbourne which they love and adore. 

The Huxleys live and work on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and wish to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, paying respect to elders past, present, and emerging. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.  

(Credit: The Huxleys official website)

Jamie the Clown
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Jamie the Clown is an Albany-based entertainer for kids – silly, energetic and skillful, and a dab hand with face painting.

Jamie the Clown does birthdays, festivals, fun days, weddings and more, providing magic shows and twisted balloon creations.

OUTdance Perth
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OUTdance is a Perth based ballroom dancing group that stages various social events and runs regular weekly classes for LGBTQIA+ couples and singles. Dances include Cha Cha, Barn Dance, Disco Madison, Evening Three Step, Jive, Merrilyn, Progressive Jive, Quickstep, Samba, Square Rumba, Slow Rhythm, Tango and a range of fun line dances. OUTdance has been running successfully in the community since 2001. It is a great opportunity to meet new people while you learn how to dance in a safe, relaxed environment.

(Credit: Outdance Perth)

DJ Her Highness
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With a dynamic blend of genres and an infectious energy that lights up every dance floor, DJ Her Highness is a force to be reckoned with in the world of open format DJing. Known for her versatility and ability to seamlessly transition between hip-hop, house, pop, and everything in between, Her Highness creates an unforgettable musical experience that keeps crowds moving all night long.

(Credit: Soundcloud)

Alyce Schotte
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Alyce Schotte, the Senior Relationship Manager at ACON Pride in Diversity, is a formidable champion for change in the Western Australian community, especially for those of a diverse sexual orientation or gender identity.

A woman with a transgender experience, Alyce’s pursuit to find her authentic self was a journey that began in her childhood in the regional town of Katanning, and one that continued into adulthood for many years.

“Growing up in a country town in the 80’s, I knew I was different, but aside from the feeling, I had no exposure to any language or knowledge surrounding what it meant to have gender diversity in my identity. I followed a path well-travelled and endured the emotional toll to the precipice of my resilience threshold.”

(Biography credit: Leadership WA)

RnB Soul Train
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In April 2021, Roimata and Jessica from Albany WA recognized the potential in combining their individual talents to form a powerful musical duo. The idea behind “RnB Soul Train” was to create a seamless blend of R&B and soul, allowing their voices and instruments to complement each other effortlessly. The chemistry between Roimata and Jessica is palpable, resulting in a harmonious and captivating musical experience for their listeners.

“RnB Soul Train” draws inspiration from a diverse range of musical genres and artists. Their sound is heavily influenced by R&B legends such as Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, and Lauryn Hill. By infusing their own unique style into this rich musical heritage, Roimata and Jessica have created a fresh and modern take on timeless classics.

Since the formation of “RnB Soul Train,” the duo has been making waves within the music industry. Roimata and Jessica continue to develop their musical repertoire, with plans to release fresh original music in the near future. Roimata Keepa-Tibble and Jessica Howell’s collaboration as “RnB Soul Train” is a testament to the power of unity and shared passion for music.

(Credit: Australian Music Radio Airplay Project)

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