Welcome to the Edmonton PRIDE Event Submission page for Pride 2025. We have been retained by Explore Edmonton to write the Guide To Pride In Edmonton for 2025 and provide a listing of events that will be held in Edmonton and would be of interest to the tourism and travel market. Information submitted through this page will be used in the following manners:
- Local Queer Community Leader and Historian writer Ron Byers has been retained by Explore Edmonton to write the Guide To Pride 2025 for publication in JUNE on the Explore Edmonton website. Events submitted after May 21, 2025 will not be included in the article.
- You may also submit your event to Explore Edmonton who will consider adding your event on their calendar – if space permits and it is appropriate for their market. Additionally they will feature some events in their May/June advertising programs on their social media platforms and other advertising platforms catering to local and international visitors to our City. For more information on how to do this please read the page that you will be re-directed to after submitting your event to us.
- We have also contacted other local event calendars that you can consider adding your event to as well. For more information on how to do this please read the page that you will be re-directed to after submitting your event to us.
- Pride Edmonton will publish your event FOR FREE on our Event Listings page.
- Our Event Listing page may be shared on multiple social media platforms and to other media entities, publications and interviews.
https://prideedmonton.ca/event-submission-2025/event-submission-form/
So what is a PRIDE Event? Here is a good description to guide you:
https://prideedmonton.ca/what-is-a-pride-event/
NEW INFO FOR 2025
Pride Edmonton is a member of Fierté Canada Pride. This year they have received a grant that may be of interest to your organization.
Fierté Canada Pride has secured $1.5 million to redistribute funds to Pride Festivals and 2SLGBTQIA+ organizers addressing growing safety concerns in an environment of rising anti-2SLGBTQIA+ hate.
The grant is meant to support pride festival organizers and organizations who are organizing events of 2SLGBTQIA+ significance and who are facing additional costs due to this rising hate in their communities.
Funded by Women and Gender Equality (WAGE) Canada and delivered by Fierté Canada Pride, the Community Safety Fund is a direct result of member-informed advocacy for 2SLGBTQIA+ needs.
For more information and eligibility criteria as well as he Application Form please visit:
https://www.fiertecanadapride.org/csf
We will be delighted to post your event on our Calendar NO MATTER WHEN IT HAPPENS!
There is no deadline for submissions in general – only for the JUNE Guide To Pride on the Explore Edmonton website.
Submissions from the Greater Edmonton Region are welcome too!
These can include the Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) program that often produce Pride Events on behalf of their citizens or local Pride Organizations and Committees.
This also includes St. Albert, Fort Saskatchewan, Sherwood Park, Leduc and some surrounding Counties.
The Counties we will include are:
Westlock County – Westlock
Sturgeon County – Morinville, Gibbons, Redwater, Namao, Lancaster Park
Parkland County – Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Wabumum
Leduc County – Devon, Leduc, Beaumont, Nisku
Lamont County – Lamont, Andrew,. Mundare
Strathcona County – Strathcona County – Ardrossan, South Cooking Lake
Tips on creating your Event Graphic –
Have you wondered why your event poster never shows up properly on social media? Here are some tips to making a poster that works.
Facebook requires your Event Pic Header to be 1200 pixels wide and 630 pixels high. They will only show your pic in Landscape mode! (This is also the best size for you Business page or Group header pic. We recommend that you avoid putting important text near the top and bottom. Leave about 10 pixels for each.)
Instagram will show pics in Landscape mode at 1080 pixels wide by 566 pixels high. If you create a graphic for Facebook you can use it but it will show as 1080 x 567. So the same Landscape pic will work for both.
Twitter uses 1600 pixels by 900 pixels and will accept that same 1200 x 630 pic and display it as 1600 x 840.
For all 3 apps you can also use a square pic at 1080 pixels by 1080 pixels. But remember that the Facebook event page will only display the middle as it requires 1200 x 630.
We strongly advise that you never create event posters in vertical mode except for TikTok and Facebook/Instagram stories. They will only show as a single pic and can not be used for your event.
Explore Edmonton has strict guidelines on images for events that they post on their calendar. For more information click this link: Explore Edmonton Photo and Image Use
