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The Grand Rapids Pride Festival (GRPF) returns for its 38th year! Join us on June 20th and 21st, 2026, to celebrate the West Michigan 2-SLGBTQ+ community and support local businesses, organizations, and artists. Pride is a protest and space for radical interconnectedness. At our festival, you will find 150+ vendors, a beer garden (including non-alcoholic beverages), activities for all ages, food trucks, a sensory space, and local, statewide, and nationally recognized performers on our entertainment stage! This annual event takes place to gather 2-SLGBTQ+ folks and their allies in a safe, open, and inclusive environment, loud and proud.
Dates
Jun 20, 2026 · 12:00 PM - Jun 21, 2026 · 8:00 PM(GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Parking instructions
Please utilize any metered parking or any paid city lot.
Health & safety
For the safety and comfort of all participants, we are highly recommending all attendees to observe the following precautions:
• Wear face masks, except when eating or drinking
• Maintain physical distance when possible
• Testing the day before coming to Pride Festival
Hand sanitizer stations and face masks will be available on-site.
If you are experiencing any cold/flu-like symptoms, have COVID-19, MPox or any other communicable disease or think you may have been exposed, please stay home.
Sponsors
Interested in applying:
1 active application
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
Grand Rapids Pride Festival offers unique opportunities for outreach to the 2-SLGBTQ+ community for organizations/businesses that support our mission and champion 2-SLGBTQ+ equity and justice. If your company/group/organization is actively working against the 2-SLGBTQ+ community, the Pride Festival is not the space for your organization and we will politely decline your application based on the mission of the Grand Rapids Pride Center.
We seek involvement from those participants who affirm and support our message that the Pride Festival celebration is and will continue to be a riot/protest and commemorates/continues the fight against discrimination and the struggle for equity, justice, and liberation for all 2-SLGBTQ+ people and their families. While we celebrate and invite queer joy let us not forget that not only is our 2-SLGBTQ+ community natural, but here to continue to push the needle forward.
Meet our Sponsors!
Grand Rapids Community Media Center
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Here.To.Serve
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Grand Rapids Asian Pacific Foundation
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L
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Women's+ Health Collective and Grand Rapids Specialty Therapy
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Volunteers
Interested in applying:
34 active applications
Deadline:
Jun 18, 2026
Earlier in the day on Friday, help up us at the center packing all the items for festival into our Uhaul!
Deadline:
Jun 18, 2026
Help us setup for pride festival! Which includes setting up tables and chairs for vendors, setting out and arranging patio furniture, moving kegs and setting up the beer garden, hanging up signage, setting up tables and chairs for the food court, putting up tents, unloading uhauls, etc.
Dinner will be provided!
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
On Saturday, help us check in vendors, guide them to their booth spaces, assist vendors with booth setup as needed, etc.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
On Saturday, help volunteers get checked in for their shift! Check their names off on the volunteer list, provide them with a volunteer shirt and nametag, direct them to their volunteer location as needed.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
SATURDAY. The festival information volunteer will provide general festival info and accessibility info to festival guests. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 1 near Michigan and Ottawa.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
SATURDAY. The festival information volunteer will provide general festival info and accessibility info to festival guests. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 2 in front of Calder Plaza.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
SATURDAY. The festival information volunteer will provide general festival info and accessibility info to festival guests. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 3 near Ottawa and Lyon.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
SATURDAY-Volunteers in the beer garden may assist with selling beer/drink tickets, checking ID's, distributing wristbands for guests ages 21+, pouring beer from kegs, refilling ice coolers, making mixed drinks, making sure the beer tents and surrounding area are clean and free of trash, emptying trash cans in the beer garden as needed, etc.
Beer Garden TIPS Lead Volunteers must be TIPS certified.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
SATURDAY. Grand Rapids Pride Center (GRPC) will be selling flags and other merch at their vendor booth on Ottawa in front of Calder Plaza. We will need volunteers to run the vendor booth (selling merch, processing payments, etc.).
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
SATURDAY.
Entertainment volunteers support the Emcee (DeeDee Chaunte) and Stage Managers (Cassidy Davis and Darius Colquitt) with various needs. This includes, but is not limited to, food & drink runs, entertainment check-ins, entertainment transportation (from green room to side-stage), stage and backstage clean up, etc.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
SATURDAY. Volunteer therapists will provide therapy services for folks as needed. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 1 on Michigan/Ottawa.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
SATURDAY. Volunteer therapists will provide therapy services for folks as needed. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 2 on Ottawa right in front of Calder Plaza.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
SATURDAY. Volunteer therapists will provide therapy services for folks as needed. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 3 near Ottawa and Lyon
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
SATURDAY-Volunteers in the sensory area will oversee the area and help folks using the space get water, seating, etc. as well as cleaning the space after folks leave.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
SATURDAY. Volunteer therapists will provide therapy services for folks as needed. Volunteers will be stationed in the Sensory Area to help provide therapeutic services for folks using the area as needed.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
SATURDAY! Help us keep the festival clean! Duties include picking up trash off the ground, clearing trash off any tables and chairs, overseeing the recycling area to ensure festival attendees are recycling properly, emptying recycling and garbage bins, help transport water and ice as needed, etc.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2026
Help us on Saturday evening start prep for Sunday morning. Some moving and cleaning, assisting vendors that are only vending Saturday, etc.
If you sign up AFTER June 1st, we cannot guarantee a volunteer shirt.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
Sunday morning. Help us check in vendors, guide them to their booth spaces, assist vendors with booth setup as needed, etc.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
SUNDAY. Help volunteers get checked in for their shift! Check their names off on the volunteer list, provide them with a volunteer shirt and nametag, direct them to their volunteer location as needed.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
SUNDAY. The festival information volunteer will provide general festival info and accessibility info to festival guests. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 1 on Michigan and Ottawa.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
SUNDAY. The festival information volunteer will provide general festival info and accessibility info to festival guests. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 2 in front of Calder Plaza.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
SUNDAY. The festival information volunteer will provide general festival info and accessibility info to festival guests. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 3 on the corner of Lyon and Ottawa.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
SUNDAY- Volunteers in the beer garden may assist with selling beer/drink tickets, checking ID's, distributing wristbands for guests ages 21+, pouring beer from kegs, refilling ice coolers, making mixed drinks, making sure the beer tents and surrounding area are clean and free of trash, emptying trash cans in the beer garden as needed, etc.
Beer Garden Lead Volunteers must be TIPS certified.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
SUNDAY. Grand Rapids Pride Center (GRPC) will be selling flags and other merch at their vendor booth on Ottawa in front of Calder Plaza. We will need volunteers to run the vendor booth (selling merch, processing payments, etc.).
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
SUNDAY.
Entertainment volunteers support the Emcee (DeeDee Chaunte) and Stage Managers (Cassidy Davis and Darius Colquitt) with various needs. This includes, but is not limited to, food & drink runs, entertainment check-ins, entertainment transportation (from green room to side-stage), stage and backstage clean up, etc.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
SUNDAY. Volunteer therapists will provide therapy services for folks as needed. Volunteers will be stationed at the Security & First Aid Tent 1 near Michigan and Ottawa.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
SUNDAY. Volunteer therapists will provide therapy services for folks as needed. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 2 in front of Calder Plaza
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
SUNDAY. Volunteer therapists will provide therapy services for folks as needed. Volunteers will be stationed at Info Tent 3 near Lyon and Ottawa.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
SUNDAY. Volunteers in the sensory area will oversee the area and help folks using the space get water, seating, etc. as well as cleaning the space after folks leave.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
SUNDAY. Volunteer therapists will provide therapy services for folks as needed in the sensory area.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
SUNDAY ! Help us keep the festival clean! Duties include picking up trash off the ground, clearing trash off any tables and chairs, overseeing the recycling area to ensure festival attendees are recycling properly, emptying recycling and garbage bins, help transport water and ice as needed, etc.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2026
Help us start tearing down tents, folding up tables and chairs, picking up trash, etc. as the event closes out on Sunday evening.
Everything will need to be taken down across the entire festival, and brought to Calder Plaza.
Deadline:
Jun 21, 2026
Help us fold up tables and chairs, picking up trash, pack up all the left over event bins, etc. to finish cleaning the street up on Monday June, 23rd.
If you sign up AFTER June 1st, we cannot guarantee a volunteer shirt.
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