- Noon to 3:00 p.m.
- BiNetworkNovaScotia: Dartmouth Community Picnic!
- Join BiNetworkNovaScotia for an afternoon of connection, celebration, and community. This picnic is a chance to raise awareness and visibility for bisexuality, centre bisexual+ experiences, and create a welcoming space where bisexual+ folks of all genders can meet, share stories, and just enjoy each other’s company. We’re also using this event to help raise the visibility of the Bisexual+ Network of Nova Scotia- a community resource and space for bi+ folks across the province.
- Registration: Please RSVP and learn more about the event.
- Location: Dartmouth Common (near the Wyse Road entrance)
- 10:00 p.m. to 3:30 a.m.
- Soft Serve
- Pride might be over, but we're not done dancing.
- For the heads and the honeys, cool down and melt into something smoother. Expect groovy, deep and & minimal. Hi-NRG-Italo-Disco-Euro-Bathhouse vibes. Keeping things lifted, but easy. It's a come-down, a reset, a wink at the weekend with sounds that still hit, but don't shout.
- Tickets: $8.79 in advance.
- Location: RumoursHFX, 1668 Lower Water Street
- 5:00 p.m.
- Transmasc Wrestling Night
- Get ready for Halfiax's first Transmasc Wrestling Night! Hosted by MarkSizzum? and MikeHunt. BYO blankets and chairs to sit on, and don't forget to bring signs to cheer on the wrestlers! WET ANYTHING CONTEST at intermission for all audience members who want to participate!
- This is a free event, accepting donations to fundraise for a mutual aid name change program
- Location: Fort Needham Memorial Park
- 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- Club Queirdo: Pint-Sized Ponds by Cole Harbour Public Library
- Come make your own teeny tiny water wonderland for some rainbow -coloured creatures. Make it realistic or magical, the only limit is your imagination!
- Club Queirdo is Cole Harbour’s Interschool GSA, so it is the perfect way to meet other queer teens (although all are welcome as long as they’re allies)!
- Join us the first Thursday of each month for a different activity.
- Cole Harbour Public Library, no registration, open to students in grades 5-12
- Info online.
- 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
- Poems for Peace
- Join QueerArabsHalifax for poetry and solidarity. You can expect sharing of poetry, stories, thoughts, and excerpts to celebrate Arabs and BIPOC resistance and solidarity.
- Have a poem you’d like to read? We would love to hear it. Have any stories you’d like to share? The floor is yours! Sign up in advance to bring your own poetry or read a poem from your favourite poet to share in whatever language you want to speak (max. 7 minutes at the mic per person).
- Poems for Peace is a fundraising by donation/PWYC event. Preceding this event, a bake sale will be held for a family in Gaza from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Location: GlitterBeanCafe, 5896 Spring Garden Road
- 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
- August Queer Death Salon - Fear of Death
- Thanatophobia is the fear of death. It can involve fear of the dying process (often a fear of pain or discomfort), fear of the afterlife (or lack thereof), fear of being forgotten, fear that life is meaningless, and fear of missing out! This month we will be talking about our fears around our own deaths, how we manage them, and how we don't!
- Queer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space, with the purpose of building connection, skill, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities.
- Registration: Admission is $0-$30, pay-what-you-can. Queer Death Salon takes place over Zoom, in English, with Automatic Closed Captioning.
- 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
- Read, Write, and Unwind
- Organized by Halifax Gay Hangs: Feel free to bring a book to read, art supplies if you’d like to draw, paint, or otherwise ~create~ or any other on-going project you’d like some space to co-work on.
- There will be tea, coffee, cider, and beer available for purchase. Come grab a drink and join for chill, low level music and conversations to unwind mid-week. Come and go as you please!
- The space has gender neutral bathrooms, is wheelchair accessible, and will be open only for gay hang folks. CafeByron is also queer owned so you know that coffee is good.
- Details via Instagram.
- Location: CafeByron, 2456 Agricola Street
- 8:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
- 10 Years of Mike
- Come celebrate 10 years of MikeHunt! Your favourite Drag Kings' favourite Drag King! This night will be JAM packed and one you wont forget!
- Join us for a night of celebration as we honor 10 Years of Mike Hunt! We're commemorating the anniversary of Drag King Royalty in style. Get ready for an evening filled with amazing performances, and memories.
- Hosted by none other than VanityStation & RichardRockhard, featuring a full cast of those near and dear to Mike.
- Tickets: $22.63, in advance. Doors open at 8:30, show at 9.
- Garrison Brewing Company, 1149 Marginal Road
- 9:00 pm to 1:00 am
- Dark Carnival 11
- Think dark and scary, twisted and demented type of circus sideshow. Creepy clowns, fire breathers, sword swallowers & lion tamers, come dressed as your favorite circus or sideshow performers!
- Now although there is no dress code, it is strongly suggested that you dress in theme or some type of alternative wear is suggested. If you don't know what to wear then black clothing is strongly suggested but again try to dress in something you would consider sexy and edgy.
- Tickets: $25+tax in advance (nightshadehalifax.com) or $32+tax at the door (19+)
- Location: Best Western Plus, Chocolate Lake Hotel Ballroom, 250 St Margarets Bay Road
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