Greater Waterbury LGBTQIA+ PrideFest! (FREE!)
(While donations are welcome and appreciated, PrideFest admission is 100% free!)
Come and enjoy some of the tri-state area's most in-demand drag and music performers, have a tasty lunch (and dessert), browse our dozens of vendor tables, enter our raffle, and enjoy commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising!
Bus directions to the ACES at Chase School where PrideFest is happening:
Take the 11:30am (or 12:30, 1:30 etc.) route 442/441 bus from in front of UConn on East Main St. This bus runs runs every hour on the half hour (X:30). To get to the Chase campus from the bus stop, cross the bridge over the highway to the school's main entrance, then turn left and walk a short way downhill to the driveway for the athletic fields. The bus back to downtown comes at X:45 every hour at the marked blue sign on the opposite side of the street from the dropoff location. We can't wait to see you there!
Vendors List (in progress!)
- American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut (ACLU-CT)
- Annie C. Courtney Foundation
- Apex Community Care
- Arc Light Behavioral Health Collective
- Aroma Nova Melts
- Brass City for Animal Justice
- Brown Sugar Bakery
- Caribbean Cravings
- Charmed by Dee
- Colored Hemisphere
- Community Health Center
- Conquest Studio
- Constellation Creations
- Fireside Stories / Magical Boy Basil
- Hopeville UCC Church
- If You Make it an Earring
- Kellz-Kreations
- Kona Ice of Ridgefield
- Little Bell Shop
- Mattatuck Unitarian Universalist Society (MUUS)
- Meriden Pride
- Palace Theater
- PFLAG Waterbury
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England
- Polish Plate
- Q Plus / Queer Youth Program of CT
- Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury
- Silas Bronson Library
- Social Security Administration
- Southern Tree
- St. John's Episcopal Church
- StayWell Health Center
- Stonewall Speakers
- Sweet Cheeks Facepainting
- Thee Divine Artist
- TT's BBQ
- Turtle Power Crochet
- UConn Rainbow Center
- Waterbury Health Department
- Wheeler Clinic