Saturday, May 31, 2025
Essex Pride Festival
at Maple Street Park
#EssexVTPride
We're so excited to bring the Essex Pride Festival back for a third year to our greater Essex and Essex Junction community! This will be a special place to celebrate, honor, and hold space for our LGBTQIA+ friends, neighbors, loved ones, and family. We hope you'll join us!
The day begins at NOON with a walking parade from the entrance of Maple Street Park down to the Festival field. We'll kick off the Festival with Vermont's chapter of Drag Story Hour, and an afternoon filled with performances by local artists and musicians and activities for folks of all ages. Throughout the day, there will be vendors and local organizations, as well as a community art activity that we invite everyone to contribute to. We'll begin and end the event with a joyful and celebratory dance party.
Scheduled to Perform
Our Sponsors & Partners
*All sponsors will also have tables at the Festival. Please say hi and thank them for helping us in this awesome celebration of queer people!
TBD - Visit Sponsors page for details
The Vendors, Artists, and Organizations
TBD - Applications NOW OPEN
The Venue
Maple Street Park
75 Maple Street, Essex Junction
Maple Street Park is home to a variety of multi-purpose fields, baseball fields, a volleyball court, and other fields available for rent to individuals or organizations. Essex Junction Recreation and Parks has generously offered their large pavilion space and soccer field for the Essex Pride Festival.
Accessibility Information
The Festival pavilion is accessible by a flat, dirt, walkway and is about the length of a football field from the entrance. Maple Street Park has two areas for accessible parking - one at the entrance near the basketball courts, and another at the main Park entrance. There will be some seating available, with park tables, park benches, and bleacher seating throughout the area, but we also encourage you to bring your own preferred seating. Our incredible friends from Inclusive Arts Vermont will be available to support access needs as well.
Our aim is for this to feel as inclusive as possible. If you need anything that isn't outlined above, please contact us at EssexVTPride@gmail.com by May 15.
