A chance to meet leading LGBTQIA+ cultural organisations and festivals working across the North. This event will include a panel talk and a chance to connect and pitch your work to a supportive and relaxed room of professional peers.
Are you a queer creative, or company based in the North? Are you looking to broaden your creative community?
This is a chance to make new contact and share any offers or asks to peers in the room.
18:00 – 18:50 Panel discussion
19:00 – 20:00 Pitch your work, networking
The panel discussion will be hosted by Pride in Trafford Festival Curator Darren Adams with guests; Finn Warman Artistic & Executive Director of Andro & Eve; Writer, performer & producer in poetry and theatre Maz Hedgehog; and Ben Saunders, Illustrator, Ceramicist, Curator and co-founder of Manchester Queer Art Market
Part of the Pride in Trafford 2026 festival programme.