The Winter Pride festival is coming up later this month and local businesses and individuals are being encouraged to get involved.
Queenstown Lakes’ Winter Pride is a week-long festival celebrating love, community, diversity, visibility, safety and inclusion. It’s taking place from August 27-September 4, with a range of events in both Wanaka and Queenstown.
In conjunction with Winter Pride and Lake Wānaka Tourism, Ignite Wanaka is encouraging businesses to “paint the town rainbow”.
Here are some ways businesses (and individuals) can get involved:
- Fly your rainbow flag somewhere visible for everyone to see
- Do a pride focused deal/offer, or advertising opportunity to show your support for pride
- Rainbow dress your storefront, office, bar, cafe, gym, or wherever you live and work with something rainbow
- Get your staff involved in being visible by wearing something rainbow for the month, or have a staff event dressing in rainbow theme
- Build rainbow awareness and launch something new during pride month – such as pronouns on email signatures, gender neutral bathrooms, hosting rainbow awareness training sessions, or announcing a new policy change
- Change your logo to rainbow for the month and shout about it on social media
- Rainbow decal your vehicle or some other prominent place so you can be seen
- Rainbow light up your building
- Participate in events during Winter Pride - show your support
Click here for the full Winter Pride event list.
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