Join us for a night of poetry celebrating the LGBTQ+ community.

With four fabulous performers and open mic sessions, we’re delighted to introduce this spoken word event to the Porty Pride calendar.

BSL Interpreters.
Venue is wheelchair accessible.
This is an indoor event.

Dancefit class combining Bellydance moves with stretching and strengthening dance exercises. Get fit and have fun doing it! Mix of music styles used. Fully inclusive class for everyone (above age 16). No floor work involved. Wear comfy (and colourful!) clothes and either trainers or bare feet. Bring water.

Payment (cash or bank transfer) is by donation. Suggested price is £10 but welcome to pay more (or less) if you’d prefer! 50% of all profits made (after hall hire) will go directly to Porty Pride. Any questions message Lorna via facebook page ‘Shoogle!’

No need to reserve your place - just come along and ‘Gies a Shoogle!’

This is an indoor event.

Queers in the Woods

A queer space to connect with each other and the ecosystems around us, as part of Porty Pride. We’ll be thinking about the headiness of midsummer - and creating restful space within the lush green.

We'll play nature-based games and do some crafts, tune into the world around us, do some meditative activities, have some ritual moments, and drink tea.

Expect silliness, grounding, community, and cosiness…and you can join in with as much or as little as you feel.

Booking required.

This is an outdoor event.

Return of the much-loved community organised Mentone Street Party. Welcome, friends and folks of all genders and identities!

Join us for music, celebration, coming together in connection, community and solidarity.

Bring your sunglasses, sun screen and smile!

This is an outdoor event.

We are the Colla Castellera d'Edinburgh and we build castells, aka human towers!

Castells is a Catalan tradition, declared Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2010 by UNESCO. This tradition consists in building different human towers as people climb on top of each other; the wider the base gets, the higher the castell reaches.

This is an outdoor event.

A Pride-themed picnic at the beach to celebrate Porty Pride, for LGBTQ+ families in and traveling to Edinburgh. LGBTQ+ parents, carers and kinship adults are welcome with their children and families to celebrate a fun and informal afternoon together at this year’s Porty Pride. Bring your own picnic goodies to meet your family’s needs.

This is an outdoor event.

Shunpike Social Club is a loose collective of 30-odd players bringing Cumbia, Brazilian and Cuban music alive with big band flair. Think brass, reeds & rhythm section on a big scale!

Head down to Porty Prom (the bottom of John Street) at midday to enjoy the sounds of Shunpike Social Club.

This is an outdoor event

Support The Makers - championing handmade and small independent businesses from the UK.

Support The Makers

This is an indoor event.
Venue is wheelchair accessible.

Queer Social Justice Pop-Up

This workshop is open to all concerned with questions of queer social justice and LGBTQ+ life. How do we remember, address and action questions of queer social justice - what does this look like? Is this equality for all? A sense of place? Something else? What creative possibilities might we imagine and enact?

This in an indoor event.

Join us at Porty Pride for some yoga on the beach! These classes are for LGBTQ+ people who would like to practice yoga with their community, moving and breathing mindfully whilst connected to the sounds of the sea. Open to all abilities and experience.

We hope to create a yoga community for queer folks to enjoy group practice and connect with others. Our classes follow a gentle flow / slow vinyasa style, with a focus on finding some time for you, to find safety within your own body away from judgement or comparisons. A space where you can take a moment to notice how you feel as you take your time to move in a way that feels right for you and connect with your breath.

This is an outdoor event.

Blue Balls Dip

The Edinburgh Blue Balls is a weekly men's mental health and cold water dipping group located in Portobello, Edinburgh.

This is an outdoor event.

Book a seat in our welcoming and open sauna space for LGBTQ+ people living in and around Portobello. This is a trans and non-binary inclusive event; all bodies and identities welcome.

Spaces limited to seven spots so please book early to avoid disappointment!

This in an indoor event

** sorry sold out, again! **

Celebrate Porty Pride with us at the annual Pride Ball!

With DJ’s and performers - Loud and Proud Choir, DJ Blu, Mystika Glamoor, Chloe Roze and DJ Simon Hot Mess.

Venue is wheelchair accessible.
This is an indoor event.

Queer and the Cost of Living Crisis

This panel thinks through being queer in the context of the cost of living crisis. What does it mean to live with, through, in and beyond crisis? Is it the forever state of queer existence? Or might queer experience tell us something about ways in - and out of - crisis times?

This event has BSL Interpreters.
Venue is wheelchair accessible.
This event is indoors.

Join Captain Joss for an afternoon of sea shanty singing! Learn the fun songs, some harmonies and rousing choruses, me hearties!

No singing skills required!

This is an indoor event.

Porty Pride are you ready to put on your boogie shoes? Join Culture Club Collective for a truly joyous afternoon of chat, dancing and more! This event is especially designed for LGBTQI+ Elders, but open to anyone who wants to celebrate the fabulousness of this part of community.

This is a sober event.
Venue is wheelchair accessible.
This event is indoors.

LGBTQ+ voices and experiences have too often been excluded from mainstream media and publishing. In response, we have a long tradition of DIY self-publishing and archiving, to create our own spaces for our voices to be heard and for our stories to be saved for ours and future generations.

This panel discussion will explore the past, present and future of queer self-publishing and archiving in Scotland, from the grassroots origins of Lavender Menace to the possibilities and constraints offered by global digital archives.

We will explore how self-publishing and archives allow us to create community, but also consider barriers to engaging in self-publishing and archiving practices, and ask ourselves: how can we ensure the diversity of LGBTQ+ voices are included in the writings we publish and the histories we preserve?

The event will have BSL Interpreters
Venue is wheelchair accessible with accessible toilets
This is an indoor event

Body Boosting Bingo

Age Scotland is the National Charity for Older People. We provide information, advice and friendship, support older people’s groups, promote age and dementia-friendly workplaces, deliver health and wellbeing programmes, and campaign on the issues that older people tell us are important.

Venue is wheelchair accessible.
This event is indoors.

Big Trans Picnic (hosted by Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh)

Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh (RTiE) work to bring together Edinburgh’s trans people and allies to effectively organise in pursuit of trans and non-binary liberation. Everyone is welcome to join us in a relaxed atmosphere to share a couple of hours of trans joy.

This is an oudoor event.

Join Lothian Roller Derby for our annual skate out. Our group will be going for a relaxed Roll Along the Prom, starting and finishing at Kings Road. Bring your skates and your flags for some wheeled fun, what ever your age and ability.

This is an outdoor event.

Come and put the ‘bend’ in Bend It Like Beckham with Porty Queer Football Community! Whether a seasoned pro or a complete beginner, drop by to try your luck against our goalies, skills courses and fun 5-a-side games.

This is an outdoor event.

Explore how you can channel disruption to bring about positive change in this talk with author Briana Pegado on her new book Make Good Trouble, in discussion with Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin, a researcher with extensive experience of bridging the gap between policy, practice and community that leads to meaningful social change.

This book helps us to develop tools and cultivate a relationship to disruption in order to better make choices about the change we want to see in the world. Join Briana and Catherine-Rose to consider how disruption is a powerful force in our lives.

This is an indoor event
BSL Interpreted
Venue is wheelchair accessible and has an accessible toilet

Portobello Community Choir: Singing For Our Lives

Come and learn some harmony songs with a focus on equality and rights for LGBTQ+ people, and to celebrate rights won.

All welcome – no singing experience needed.

Venue is wheelchair accessible.
This event is indoors.

The Edinburgh Samba School (TESS) will be playing on Portobello Prom (bottom of John Street) for Porty Pride! Come have a boogie with them!

This is an outdoor event

Are you interested in learning a new sport, spending more time outside, and making some new friends?

Quadball, (formerly known as Quidditch), is a full-contact, mixed-gender sport with fundamentals from rugby, handball, and dodgeball. We’re one of the most gender inclusive and trans-accepting sports, with our “Play As You Are” policy.

This event is outdoors.

Book a seat in our welcoming and open sauna space for LGBTQ+ people living in and around Portobello. This is a trans and non-binary inclusive event; all bodies and identities welcome.

Spaces limited to seven spots so please book early to avoid disappointment!

This in an indoor event

The Porty Pride Prom Dog Walk is back… otherwise known at The Porty Pride March!

Bring your dogs, flags, banners, voices and friends.

This event is outdoors.

Exploring queer space - a creative writing workshop

** NOW SOLD OUT **

What does it mean to inhabit queer space, whether real, remembered or imagined? In this practical workshop, we’ll explore what queer spaces mean to us and consider how – in challenging times – creativity can help us to imagine more for ourselves and our communities.

Venue is wheelchair accessible.
BSL Interpreters on request.
This event is indoors

To celebrate pride month, this month's 'Emily Makes' Saturday workshop, we will be making colourful macrame rainbows and pompoms.

Workshop for ages 6 to 12 years old.

Booking required, limited spaces.

This is an indoor event.