Event: Pitch Your Project LGBTQIA+
Community, Event, Free, In Person, Talks
Friday 28th August 2026 6:00pm - 8:30pm
God's House Tower, Town Quay Road, Southampton, SO14 2NY
Join us at the Pitch Your Project Voting Event
Hear directly from the brilliant people behind creative community projects in your local area. There are so many groups and gatherings in Southampton that deserve more funding and more support. This is an opportunity for you to find out more about what they do and why they do it. Plus, you can play your part in their future by voting for the project you’d like to see awarded the funding.
Each community leader will have 10 minutes to pitch their project at the event, then voting will officially begin on Saturday 29th August.
The pitches will also be recorded and uploaded to the ‘a space’ arts YouTube Channel to give online audiences a chance to watch them and cast their votes.
About Pitch Your Project
Pitch Your Project offers a creative, community-focused initiative in the SO postcode £2000 to fund new activity. Projects are selected by the community, for the community, at a live event where applicants pitch their ideas to an audience who then vote for the projects they’d like to see awarded the funding.
To celebrate 10 years of Southampton Pride, this round of the Pitch Your Project bursary scheme is specifically for initiatives led by people who identify as LGBTQIA+. The winner will receive £2,000 to initiate a new project, or contribute to the ongoing work of an existing one.
About the Projects
Celebrating Our City: A New LGBTQIA+ Pride Flag for Southampton
Led by Joy McKay (@JoyStixx2806)
I want to work across the many LGBTQIA+ communities in Southampton running workshops to co-create a new flag proudly celebrating us. The final, large, quilted fabric flag will be revealed at God’s House Tower alongside a multimedia exhibition featuring collages, photos, videos and testimonials created during community-based design process.
Gathering in Celebration: Sharing Songs of Hope for the Next 10 Years of Southampton Pride
Led by Kuch Bhogal (@kuchbhogal)
Making a decade of Southampton Pride, this project will transform LGBTQIA+ community members stories into an exhibition or songs, images and writing themed around the idea of hope for the future.
The Oracle of Gender Designation
Led by Jez Franck (@oracleofgender)
The Oracle of Gender Designations is an interactive installation that playfully explores the complexity, joy and absurdity of gender through games, ritual, performance and participation.
Transcribe: Everybody Transitions
Led by Abigail Parkes (@BeyondReflectUK)
Transcribe aims to provide paid opportunities to early career writers that will support their development artistically, empower trans+ people to share their experiences, and enrich awareness of the community.
Queer Southampton: Then and Now
Led by Net Ember and Spencer Jones (@their_initiative) (@carabiner_club_soton)
Queer Southampton: Then and Now is a community-led project exploring Southampton’s trans+ and queer histories through five monthly workshops, bringing together local trans+ and queer people to learn, share knowledge and build a community archive.