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Posted by: outintheopen | Posted on: January 5, 2021

Check out previous year’s gig guides!

Check out previous year’s Official Gig Guides – download your copies below. Thanks for getting OUTintheOPEN with us!

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Posted by: outintheopen | Posted on: October 13, 2020

REGISTER NOW FOR GV PRIDE FUN RUN/WALK

**JOIN OUR 10 DAY PRIDE STEP CHALLENGE 22 OCT – 1 NOV | MORE INFO HERE**

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Posted by: outintheopen | Posted on: October 12, 2020

LGBTIQA+ Care Package Program

Register NOW for a care pack, carefully put together by our OUT in the OPEN volunteers especially for our amazing LGBTIQA+ community. Featuring self care items, chocolate and more! Register here now! One of our friendly volunteers will be in touch and hand-deliver it to you!

NOTE: Pink box for illustration purposes only. Care package will be delivered in calico bags.

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Posted by: outintheopen | Posted on: October 26, 2019

MEDIA RELEASE | OUTintheOPEN Festival Shepparton celebrates 8 years this Oct 31 – Nov 10!

Festival fans, Julie & Bron, share…

“Click your ruby reds together and go ‘Beyond the Rainbow’ to join in a celebration of diversity in all its forms. There’s something for everyone in this 11 day celebration of the LGBTIQA+ community including performances, dining experiences, education opportunities, tours and sharing all wrapped up in a fun festival experience. Now in it’s 8th year, the OUTintheOPEN Festival has a line up of regular favourites and new events so there is something for everyone.

October 31st brings not just the first day of the festival but the first time for two new events in the festival calendar. Join in the morning entertainment opportunity for the whole family, Rainbow Storytime, which will be held at the GV Library featuring the amazing Frock Hudson reading 10,000 Dresses and other great titles and in the evening the festival welcomes the addition of a new dinnertime celebration “United we Feast” at the Philippine House. “It’s so important to provide a safe space for regional-living, culturally and linguistically diverse people who are LGBTIQA+,” says Damien Stevens-Todd, Festival Director.

The eleven day festival combines not just these new events and others but also brings the return of past favourites including the ever popular Carnival Day in the Queen’s Gardens on Sunday November 3rd from 10.30am. Carnival Day includes more than fifty attractions, combining a variety of food, stalls and fun family activities with a fabulous line up of live music to provide a full day of celebrations. This year’s list of live performers includes Cry Club, Huntly, Krystal Ring, Bailey Slade, Phoebe Belle, Parmy Dhillon & The New Science, Past Present, Jeffry’s Cabbage and The Murks. With food trucks, a wildlife petting zoo and a jumping castle you can bring the whole family along and join in the celebrations with this FREE day OUTintheOPEN. Can’t make it on the day? Tune in to ONE FM for a LIVE on-site radio broadcast.

Join the audience and watch others perform in The Laramie Project brought to you by STAG, Transmansplaining by Ben MacEllen or a surprise experience as part of The Secret Garden Gig, a very special mystery musical experience. Feeling a little more dramatic? Try your hand on stage when Krystal Ring presents the Search for Shepparton’s Star at the Aussie Hotel on Friday November 1st.

GOTAFE offers the perfect venue for forums and activities during the festival. Join in at 2pm on November 6th for the “About a Girl” book event and signing. This book tells the story of a mother’s journey of raising her transgender child, Georgie Stone.

Visiting the area or in the mood for a tour? November 6th offers the opportunity for an Art Silo Tour while on the 7th you can cruise the river from Echuca. Don’t forget to check out the Open Connections Concert: the Rainbow Band & Shep Brass and Wind Saturday night 9th November at Westside PAC.

The $50 Festival Pass is back again this year but there are a limited number available so purchase yours now! The pass entitles you to entry into the GLITZ Party on Saturday night and the Big Lemon Tree Brunch on Sunday morning as well as all other Festival events including films, forums, mixers and more!

Check out the full line up of activities included in the OUTintheOPEN Festival and take the opportunity to buy your tickets. Stay up to date by following the OUTintheOPEN Festival in Shepparton on Facebook.”

Visit www.outintheopen.org.au for more information and tickets to all of the OUTintheOPEN Festival events or contact Festival Director, Damien Stevens on 0418 511 562 or via enquiries@outintheopen.org.au.

Damien Stevens
Festival Director
OUTintheOPEN Festival Shepparton
+61418511562
https://www.facebook.com/OUTintheOPENFestival/
https://twitter.com/OUTin_theOPEN

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Posted by: outintheopen | Posted on: October 24, 2019

30 events over 11 days! Wow!

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Posted by: outintheopen | Posted on: June 24, 2019

#oito2019

😱😱😱 OUT in the OPEN 2019 is less than 150 days away!!!! Have you saved the dates???? #OitO2019

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Posted by: outintheopen | Posted on: October 2, 2018

How’re you getting to Carnival Day on Saturday 3rd Nov?

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Posted by: outintheopen | Posted on: September 29, 2014

Check out the footage from OUTintheOPEN Festival Shepparton 2013…

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Posted by: outintheopen | Posted on: September 4, 2014

SHEPPARTON LGBTI FESTIVAL GROWS VICTORIA’S COUNTRY PRIDE CALENDAR

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Posted by: outintheopen | Posted on: June 2, 2014

What’s OUTintheOPEN?

OUTintheOPEN Festival (LGBTI health/well-being forum + Carnival Day + More)

OUTintheOPEN Festival Shepparton

OUTintheOPEN is Shepparton’s newest festival celebrating community diversity.

OUTintheOPEN was developed to address some of the inequalities faced by the local gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer (GLBTIQ) & allied communities and to build a more inclusive community in Greater Shepparton.

OUTintheOPEN is a project led by Goulburn Valley Pride Inc. and is proudly supported by many other organisations and community groups, including:
• The Bridge Youth Service
• Kildonan UnitingCare
• PFLAG (Parents, Family members & Friends of Lesbian & Gay people) Greater Shepparton
• Diversity Group (same-sex attracted & sex/gender diverse young person’s social-support group)
• Goulburn Valley Health
• Centre for Excellence in Rural Sexual Health (CERSH)
• Relationships Australia Victoria
• Goulburn Valley Primary Care Partnership
• Greater Shepparton City Council
• Goulburn North East Women’s Health
• Goulburn Valley Hotel
• Victoria Police

The festival will consist of a health/well-being forum at Goulburn Valley Hotel function rooms and a Carnival day in November at the Queens Gardens. Other events will occur during the weekend across the City of Greater Shepparton.

For more info contact Damien on 0418 511 562 or enquiries@outintheopen.org.au &/or follow us on Facebook.