OUR PRIDE SOCIAL
DATE: Sunday, July 5th
START TIME: 12:00 PM
END TIME: 6:00 PM
LOCATION: The Old Coal Yard
COST: FREE
ACCESS: Wheelchair accessible with an access toilet. Please contact the venue for specific details.
Trigger warning for loud noises, course language, flashing lights and topics such as racism, transphobia and homophobia.
12 PM - 4 PM - Crochet & Crafts with Stitched by Steph
Stitched by Steph is a local crochet artist who will be familiar to many of you who have attended Sister Shack markets over the last few years.
Steph will be on hand to help you to make crochet flags, friendship bracelets (both crochet and non-crochet), transfer tattoos and a community collage banner, which everyone can contribute to. There will be a transfer tattoo station, where you can make your own tattoo, and there will also be general crafts for you to do yourself, including colouring in.
2 PM - 2:15 - poetry from Rhian Jade
Rhian Jade is a performance artist and poet from Belfast, living in Newcastle and producing Queer work that is all about joy, solidarity and liberation!
12-6 PM - Market Stalls
(Inside)
Join local LGBTQIA+ traders at our mini market. There will be loads of items on offer.
Stalls:
1b Books
Jem’s Vegan Bakes
Wilder Stained Glass
BetterTown
Northern Dykes
Bear’s Wears
Sister Shack
The Wardrobe
(Outside)
Smashin’ Pasties.
3 PM - Panel Discussion
Joy, resistance & Solidarity
One of the most highly regarded aspects of Our Pride is the panel discussion. The topic this year is joy, resistance and solidarity.
We will again present our panel in a slightly different way. We again want to hear from you! You will be able to ask the panellists questions. With this approach, please be mindful of what you ask the panel and respect their decision if they do not wish to answer your question. It will, as usual, be host-led.
Dami - Panellist
Hiya! I’m Dami aka Sunny and I’m a digital illustrator and creator of Navii Media. I love creating cute and meaningful illustrations and spaces for global majority people and marginalized communities 🩷
Amy Langdown
Amy Langdown is a Queer and disabled award winning poet, artist, producer and facilitator based in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Amy loves working with communities to create art inspired by lived experience. With years of experience working on community projects in the North East, Amy's work always aims to give people access to safe spaces and opportunities to have their voices heard because it can, and does, change lives - and the world!
They write on themes such as identity, politics and what it means to exist in the world we live in today. They are the producer and host of Out of Your Head! Poetry and have headlined at cultural events and venues such as Lindisfarne Festival, Durham Fringe Festival, The Cluny, Roundhouse Poetry and Northern Stage.
Amy is also a lover of dungarees, their dog Bonny, fun earrings, podcast-length voicenotes, books and singing with others.
Find out more about Amy’s here: https://www.instagram.com/amylangdown_/
Photo by Hand of Glory Media
Dr Si Long Chan - Panellist
Si Long (they/them) is a Hong Kong born co-organiser at East and Southeast Asians North East (@esa.ne_). ESA.NE is a trans and intersex led community-network with a queer politics that centres QTIBIPOC+ community care and activism. Si Long co-organises protests and actions, offers support and advocacy within our community, and regularly organises community events and spaces.
Currently, ESA.NE is fundraising for ‘Emergency Funds for Hossam’ (see our bio and contribute). ESA.NE is also organising QTI Pride with our communities, as well as having conversations with queer collectives in Asia about across-border community building and solidarities.
FRIT TAM - Panellist
Frit Tam is a transgender, British Chinese, award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, speaker, zine-maker, writer and futurist. He is co-director of Sheffield Adventure Film Festival and he’ll rarely say no to a portion of chips. As an adventure documentary filmmaker, his sole mission is to share stories from underrepresented communities in the outdoors and adventure spheres, so that anyone who has not seen themselves on the big screen, may finally do so. In his activism work, as a trans man, he understands what it means to vision a world before embodying it, and enjoys holding imagination workshops to create a better future.
Image credit: Image of 'Pleasure Imprints...and into Sunshrine', 2026, performance to camera, made collaboratively by Christa Holka (photographer) and Kitt (aka Lady Kitt, artist and performer.
Image Description: Colour photo, interior. Full body image of Kitt a white person with cropped hair and a crutch covered in white lace. They are wearing a white lace football top and boxing shorts. Their face and legs are splattered with drips and lumps of raw clay. The scene is bathed in blue light.
Lady KITT - Panellist
Disabled, trans artist Kitt (aka ‘Lady Kitt’) does ‘Mess Making As Social Glue’. Installations and performances driven by insatiable curiosity about the social functions of art.
Kitt’s work is shaped by a semi-nomadic childhood (which included not receiving formal education until age 14). He works on long term, collaborative endeavours aiming to create situations where art offers solutions, connections and mischief.
Kitt’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at Atlanta Contemporary (USA) & Saatchi Gallery (UK). They previously served on MIMA Advisory Board, as Crafts Council trustee and co-lead of Social Art Network UK.
Recent / current work has been commissioned by The Estate of Gordon Matta Clark, USA, & No More Nowt, Co Durham (“Feral Alchemies” 2025-6), QUEERCIRCLE, London ("Drag Declares Emergency" 2024) & BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (“enSHRINE” 2021).
Kitt's work is featured in critic and curator Hettie Judah’s most recent book “How To Enter The Art World…” (Hoxton Mini Press, 2026).
Kitt was shortlisted for the 2025 Creative Health ‘Practising Well Award’ for their mentoring practice, working with artists, curators and heritage workers. Kitt was NE Culture Awards Visual Artist of the Year finalist, 2024. His work has won the VAMHN Arts Award 2023, been longlisted for the 2023, 2024 & 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize.
Last year someone involved in one of Kitt's projects said being part of it “… made my world feel alive again
4:15 PM - Raffle
We have received some incredible donations (25+ items) this year. We will be posting the donations via our social media pages, so keep an eye out.
Close to the event, we will also announce a list on this website
We are raising funds to help with the costs of this year’s pride and Basmat Wasl. https://www.rainbownoirmcr.com/
We would appreciate any more donations and your support in joining us for the raffle. Please send us a DM or an email to hello@sister-shack.com. Thank you.
5 PM - 5:15 PM - kin Choir
Kin Choir Newcastle is a community choir for all women and non-binary people. Kin is part of a collective of choirs across the UK, Europe and beyond. We're an open and collaborative community, there are no auditions and all of our songs are arranged by members of our own choir or the broader collective. This year, we are celebrating our 10th birthday as a North East choir.
5:30 PM - 6 PM - eddie doyle
Newcastle (UK) based Eddie Doyle is an exciting new voice in experimental music. Her self described 'post-Catholic post-rock' draws influence from an eclectic mix of electronic, trip-hop, art-rock and beyond; a unique blend. Cleaving open audiences with her emotive vocals, Eddie Doyle finds a confrontational vulnerability. An indulgent exploration of self, story and sound.
The Old Coal Yard, Elizabeth St, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1JS