Disability Pride Fest Returns Saturday 16 September!!

A collage of pictures with a young woman singing into a microphone, a man behind a table of disability pride merchandise, a woman with one arm pole-dancing and a woman in a wheelchair with a fist in the air. The background is fire and stars. Text reads: Disability Pride  Fest 2023 Solidarity not Charity

When: Saturday 16 September 2023, 11am- 2pm

Where: Ashfield Town Hall Forecourt, 260 Liverpool Road

Price: FREE!!!

A smiling woman in a pink coat with brown hair and a guide dog.

Jaci Armstrong Speaker:

Guide dog user, career woman, chairperson of Accessible Arts and all round community leader

A woman with one arm hangs from a pole by one leg

Outdoor pole dance: Deb Roach,

Global champion, amputee and owner of Stargazer pole Studio

Arts and Crafts:

Interactive arts contests enable you to express what disability pride means to you. Suitable for all ages and abilities, facilitated by art teachers from Starry Arts – art school. You can win a gift voucher

A man in a disability pride flag t-shirt sells disability pride flag merchandise

Makers mart

Support disabled microbusinesses such as Braille by Luca Fidg.life, fidget toys, Paw and Bloom Floral Design, and our own redbubble store.

A smiilng young woman against a background of rainbow ombrage and musical notes

Live music by Summer Giddings

Singer with cerebral palsy and vision loss and real life disney princess sings her own original and cover pieces to represent what disabled pride means to her

A bald man, a smiling woman, and a man in a life jacket giving thumbs up, Below them are microphones

Panel Discussion

Emily Dash, renowned filmmaker, Ibby Dee, Peer Support Champion, and Deaf Sailing NSW members will wow us

Auslan welcome to country

By deaf indigenous artist, Daniel McDonald.

Advocacy and protest

We don’t deny the problems in our society at disability pride. We empower people to overcome them. Diversity and Disability Alliance and YourStory Legal Support will be there to give onsite support to disabled people and petitions and public art on the day will protest