SHIFT: Pride Banner Workshop

Craft the Future of Queer Visibility: A Collaborative Banner-Making Workshop

Join us for a dynamic workshop series where queer and questioning individuals come together to create powerful, large-scale banners celebrating identity, visibility, and queer futurism. Through discussion, mixed-media art-making, and storytelling, we’ll explore the evolving symbolism of pride flags and banners as tools for activism and self-expression.

Rooted in queer futurism and sustainability, these workshops invite you to experiment with found materials, reflect on personal and collective narratives, and envision a more inclusive future. With a focus on resilience, belonging, and representation, this is more than an art workshop—it’s a space to build community, ignite creativity, and shape the future of queerness through collaborative creation.

Let’s craft banners that tell our stories and inspire change. ✨🏳️‍🌈🎨

Workshop Details:

• Date: Saturday 22 February, 2025
• Time: 10am - 12pm
• Accessibility: venue is wheelchair accessible. Workshop may have elements inside and outside the gallery space.

Do I need to bring anything?

Please only wear clothes you are happy getting paint or glue on! 

Materials will be provided.

About the facilitator, Nicky Tsekouras:

Nicky Tsekouras is an emerging queer, multidisciplinary artist, creative producer, and curator living and working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Their vibrant practice delves into identity, sustainability, and self-expression, with a profound focus on queerness, belonging, and the human condition. As a non-binary artist navigating a post-colonialist, patriarchal, capitalistic, and heteronormative world, Nicky’s work embodies a commitment to personal storytelling, using art to dissect and celebrate the complexities of their lived experience.

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This project is part of SHIFT: A Queer Symposia, a series of events at Seventh Gallery across January and February, to create a space for discourse, exchange, & solidarity within the LGBTIQA+ community. SHIFT is supported by the Victorian Government.

Please visit our website for the full SHIFT program.