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The crowd at a past Magic Pride Festival.

The crowd at a past Magic Pride Festival.

OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center’s annual Magic Pride Festival is one of the summer’s most anticipated events (and was ahead of the curve by being one of only a few fests to make a home on Madison’s ever-hipper north side). This year’s festival includes more than 160 vendors — artisans, community organizations, local businesses, food carts — along with a youth/family area and the return of the tent celebrating queer and trans people of color. A full afternoon of entertainment is once again hosted by Cass Marie Domino and Amethyst Von Trollenberg, with comedy by Sasha Rosser, and music by Vivian Lark, Haylee María, J-Star Domino, Perfect Harmony Chorus and DJs Femme Noir, Sarah Akawa and Certified Scruffian. A drag show at 3:45 p.m. features Kayos Lynn Mirage, KrisStyle Infiniti-Tajoure, Anya K. Thunderkat, Aryiah Mone Diamond, MadamLacy Madison, Angel Voyer and Amaia Mann. Find the full schedule at outreachmagicfestival.org.

media release: OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center will host our 6th Annual Magic Pride Festival LIVE in person on Sunday, August 18, from 1pm to 6pm at Warner Park in Madison!

There will be a stage show with LGBTQ+ and allied performers running from 1:00 to 6:00 pm. Our hosts are the legendary drag performers Cass Marie Domino and Amethyst Von Trollenberg. There will be DJ sets by Femme Noir, Sarah Akawa, and Certified Scruffian. We'll have live music by jazz performer Vivian Lark, singer-songwriter Haylee María, J-Star Domino & Friends, and Perfect Harmony Chorus. Comedian Shasha Rosser will also be joining us. Beginning at 3:45 we'll have a Drag show starring Kayos Lynn Mirage, KrisStyle Infiniti-Tajoure, Anya K. Thunderkat, Aryiah Mone Diamond, MadamLacy Madison, Angel Voyer, and Amaia Mann. 

We will have over 160 local artisans, businesses, community organizations, and food trucks present. We received so much interest this year that we had to close our applications a month early! This year we prioritized celebrating local, LGBTQ+-, and BIPOC-owned businesses. We also offered a number of scholarships this year to increase equity for sales vendors to get a chance to be at the festival. We'll have two vegan food carts, multiple Madison favorites like the Chocolate Shoppe and Monsoon Siam, and beer from Delta Beer Lab!

We're also bringing back our QTPOC tent again this year. This tent is intended to celebrate queer & trans people of color and their guests. There will be free catered food, music & dancing, and art. We will also have our youth & family area again this year with free books from the Madison Reading Project and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art's "Art Cart". 

The festival entry fee is a suggested donation of $5-$10, although no one will be turned away. We know it's been a rainy summer, and we're not put off by that! The Magic Pride Festival will be happening rain or shine. 

For more information, please call OutReach at 255-8582 and ask for Steve or info@lgbtoutreach.org.

For Sponsorship Opportunities, contact Steve at steves@lgbtoutreach.org.

for Vendor Information and Day of Set-Up contact Mack at mackm@lgbtoutreach.org.

for Entertainment Inquiries, contact Brian at brianp@lgbtoutreach.org.

for Volunteering contact AJ at ajh@lgbtoutreach.org.

and for the QTPOC Tent contact Gabe at gabel@lgbtoutreach.org.

For a full history of PRIDE in Madison, Click HERE.