Host a stall on Carnival Day for #OitO2024!
Be sure to register ASAP to secure your stall for Carnival Day held each year during the Festival!
Sun and fun | Save the date
Block out your calendars for OUTintheOPEN 2024 Nov 6-10!
Carnival Day | Sat 9 Nov 2024
Wander through the stalls and markets; savour the smells and tastes of fresh local produce and home-made treats. There’s music, entertainment, food and info galore. Bring your friends, family and loved ones and don’t forget your picnic blanket or chair!
Rainbow merchandise & more
Pick up your Pride merchandise from our local LGBTIQA+ social-support group, GV Pride!
Art Competition | Stay tuned for more info...
Draw, photograph, paint or digitally create your favourite or most colourful LGBTIQA+ moment!
Colour My World | OUTintheOPEN 2024
“Colour My World” celebrates queer people throughout history and today that have and continue to brighten the lives of countless LGBTIQA+ people and created a better future, whilst shining a beaming light on the inequities, injustice and prejudice experienced by people of the queer community.
Carnival Day | Sat 9 Nov 2024
Wander through the stalls and markets; savour the smells and tastes of fresh local produce and home-made treats. There’s music, entertainment, food and info galore. Bring your friends, family and loved ones and don’t forget your picnic blanket or chair!
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We could not do it without them! THANK YOU!
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Colour My World | OUTintheOPEN 2024
“Colour My World” celebrates queer people throughout history and today that have and continue to brighten the lives of countless LGBTIQA+ people and created a better future, whilst shining a beaming light on the inequities, injustice and prejudice experienced by people of the queer community.
Greater Shepparton's Mooving Art
Be sure to check out our famous cows during the Festival weekend...
Something for the kids
Remember KidsTown Adventure Playground on the Causeway between Shepparton and Mooroopna...

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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.