Pride HQ

for wellington pride festival 2026

Location: 28 Blair Street, Te Aro, Wellington

Property Partner: Willis Bond

Dates: March 6th - 22nd, 11am - 7pm daily

Media: Pride HQ Website

This is our space, and it’s your space too…

To celebrate Wellington Pride Festival 2026, a physical hub will be operating at the space previously known as Betty’s Bar in Blair Street.

The hub is…

• Partially accessible - the main floor is wheelchair accessible, there is also a mezzanine up stairs.

• A wheelchair accessible bathroom is located in the building next door.

• Open daily during the festival from 11am-7pm, for you to drop in any time

• Where we’ll be holding some workshops, meet-ups and small events

• Able to be booked for free Festival events that you would like to create and host.

The main area will have trestle tables that can be moved, and chairs, as well as seating at the existing bar. There will be cushion piles on a higher level to relax in, and then the mezzanine has banquette seating for cosy conversations.

Wellington Pride Festival is the longest-running annual Pride celebration in Aotearoa. The first Pride celebrations in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara were organised as part of campaigning for Homosexual Law Reform in 1986. Wellington Pride Festival traces back to Newtown Lesbian and Gay Fair, held at Newtown School and themed ‘a Fair for a fair law’.

Now, Wellington Pride Festival is an ever-growing annual Festival celebrating our rainbow whānau in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara.