Open all day:
- Quiet Room
- Art Room
- Clothes and book swap; bring clothes and books you no longer want, and take away something you do want!
- Common areas including leaflets, artwork and space to meet new people or reconnect with old friends
- Portal Bookshop, York Disability Rights Forum, Generate and stalls about workplace rights and being LGBTQ+ and thinking about end of life
- Art and creativity display; Are you an artist, poet, short story writer or aspiring to be? Display your work at Quiet Pride! More info below.
Morning: 10am – 1.30pm
- Talks:
- Finding employment in the public sector with a disability 10.30-11.30
- Autism and asexuality 12-1pm
- Workshops:
- Creative Writing 11-12
- How to do activism when knackered 12-1
1-4pm Dungeons and Dragons: Please note that this begins before the afternoon session.
Afternoon: 2pm – 5.30pm
- Talks:
- Autism and asexuality 3-4
- Workplace rights and campaigning against the supreme court ruling 4-5
- Workshops:
- Make up and nail workshop for trans and non binary folk. If you have make up, please bring it but don’t worry if you don’t. 2.30-4.30
- Creative Writing 2.30-3.30
- How to do activism when knackered! 3.30-4.30
- Accessible Yoga with The Teapot Collective 4.45-5.30
Volunteer
We are looking for volunteers for Quiet Pride 2026:
- Running workshops eg art and craft workshops, writing workshops
- Putting on a talk. In 2025, we had talks about disability in fiction, and animal human interactions. Generally we would prefer talks to be at maximum 1 hour.
- Leading group discussions on anything related to being disabled and queer
- Help setting up on Wednesday 5th August – being able to lift chairs and tables is helpful for this.
Art Display
We are also planning on having another display of community work so please send your art or writing to us via email. Deadline: Friday 24th July.
We encouirage art and writing on the themes of being LGBTQIA and disabled but all work will be considered. Creatives of all artistic abilities are encouraged to get involved. Please submit by 24/7/26 by email. Visual art should be no larger than A3, poetry and prose no more than 2 sides of A4.
If you are sending over writing, we’ve found it’s nice to make it look more like a poster (instead of a piece of white paper with black ink). We can do this, but would encourage writers to have a go themselves – you can sign up for a free Canva account, which is how we made this:
A huge thank you to the groups and organisations that support Quiet Pride, without you we couldn’t do this.