Queer Markets, Drag & Poetry Set to Take Over Newcastle for Next Week’s Pride Fringe
- Alex (they/them)
- Jun 19
- 2 min read
Newcastle’s Pride Fringe 2025 is shaping up to be a week full of celebration, creativity. And the city is ready to come alive with events that champion LGBTQIA+ voices, art, and expression.
From spoken word to sequins, here’s what not to miss this week:
🌈 Queer Exchange – Queer Market
📅 Sunday 22 June 2025
🕙 10:00 – 16:00
📍 One Strawberry Lane, NE1 4BX
The beloved Queer Exchange Market boasts a vibrant collection of pride crafts, music, zines, art, and more — all from local LGBTQIA+ creatives and independent vendors. This is your chance to shop small, support queer makers, and soak up community energy in the heart of the city.
💃 A Life NOT in Heels – Ophelia Balls
📅 Friday 20 June 2025
🕢 19:30 – 23:30
📍 Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, NE1 7RH
Join local legend Ophelia Balls for an unfiltered and totally unmissable evening of drag cabaret. A Life NOT in Heels promises big laughs, camp storytelling, and outrageous charm. It's Ophelia: unplugged, unscripted, and completely out of your head.
✍️ Out of Your Head! – Poetry Night
📅 Thursday 26 June 2025
🕖 19:00 – 22:00
📍 Tyne Theatre and Opera House, NE1 4AG
Celebrate queer identity through spoken word with Out of Your Head! A powerful night of poetry and performance centred on the theme of being Unapologetically Visible. Featuring a stellar all-queer line-up of six poets, including host Amy Langdown, this is one for those who love words that hit hard and hearts that speak loud.
These events will feature as part of Northern Pride’s exciting Pride Fringe 2025. To learn more, head to www.northern-pride.com/fringe
Pride Fringe 2025
Festivalgoers won’t need to wait until July for this year’s Newcastle Pride celebrations to begin, with a programme of exciting events announced today for the city’s first ever Pride Fringe, set to take place from June.
A new addition to the North East calendar for 2025, Pride Fringe will offer a wide range of live entertainment, comedy and theatre, along with LGBTQIA+ networking opportunities at a host of local venues across the early summer months ahead of the highly anticipated Newcastle Pride Festival on 19th and 20th July, which is presented in partnership with NE1 and Newcastle City Council.
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