Albuquerque Pagan Pride Day

We invite you to join us for the 2024 Albuquerque Pagan Pride Day (ABQ PPD)! ABQ PPD is one of some 200 Pagan Pride events held worldwide during the harvest season, with the goal of fostering pride in Pagan identity through education, activism, charity and community. This year ABQ PPD will be held from 10:00am to 6:00pm on Sunday, September 29th at Bataan Park, just west of Carlisle on Lomas Boulevard.

 

The main focus of Albuquerque Pagan Pride Day is the Harvest Food Drive—a large part of our community-service efforts. The cost of admission for the public is at least one non-perishable food donation per person (or a small cash donation), which goes to and supports the First Unitarian Church’s Food Pantry here in Albuquerque. Every year, we increase our food donations and typically gather over 2,000 lbs of food for the Food Pantry, and are one of the largest donators to their pantry. This event has grown to over 200 participants and draws crowds of over 800 people.

 

We also feature workshops, an altar contest, a kids’ corner, a live-performance area, as well as merchant sales and non-profit information booths. This may be the perfect opportunity for your non-profit organization to network into the community.

 

Any group either directly involved with paganism or that is pagan-friendly is encouraged to participate as a resource for the community. Our committee’s goal is to offer opportunities to local non-profit groups to have a presence at ABQ PPD, at any level. If you would like more information on our event, please check out our website www.abqpaganpride.com.

 

We recognize that individual groups have diverse ideas about what information is appropriate to share publicly, so we invite you to share with the public to the extent you feel comfortable. We would also be delighted if you would like to teach a workshop or lead a discussion about some aspect of paganism or your particular path or organization. We prefer each workshop to be about 45 minutes long, and we are always looking for beginning-type subjects. If your group is not interested in outreach or education, you can still take part by creating a harvest-themed altar or display at your booth. Your altar can be entered in the Altar Contest, voted on by our visitors, with prizes for the favorites!

 

You may contact Michelle Cassella, our Non-profit Booth Coordinator, at 505-264-7638 or at m1cassella@aol.com if you have any questions. If you would like to have a booth at ABQ PPD, please fill out the enclosed Booth Application form and submit no later than August 15, 2024. We look forward to seeing you on September 29th!

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