Grand Rapids Pride Festival 2025: Break Free! - Eventeny

Grand Rapids Pride Festival 2025: Break Free!

Starts on Saturday, June 21st, 2025
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
About the event
The Grand Rapids Pride Festival (GRPF) returns for its 37th year! Join us on June 21st and 22nd, 2025, 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.
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Dates
Jun 21, 2025 · 12:00 PM - Jun 22, 2025 · 8:00 PM(GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Location
Parking instructions
Please utilize any metered parking or any paid city lot.
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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.
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Artists, vendors & exhibitors applications
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5 active applications
Deadline: Jun 13, 2025

Welcome! You are applying for a 10x10 Non-profit Organization booth space for Grand Rapids Pride Festival 2025. Non-Profit booths are only for tax-exempt organizations or churches.

 

*NEW THIS YEAR*

This year, Grand Rapids Pride Festival is a 2-day event, taking place on June 21 & June 22. Your booth space fee is determined based on your organization's budget size and whether you are purchasing a booth space for 1 day or 2 days. We are able to verify budget size through public tax information, if necessary. Budget sizes have been split into 5 tiers:

 

  • Non-Profit Budget Under $500,000
  • Non-Profit Budget $500,000 - $1,000,000
  • Non-Profit Budget $1,000,000 - $5,000,000
  • Non-Profit Budget $5,000,000 - $10,000,000
  • Non-Profit Budget Greater Than $10,000,000

 

Deadline: Jun 13, 2025

Welcome! You are applying for a 10x10 Business/Commercial booth space for Grand Rapids Pride Festival 2025. 

 

*NEW THIS YEAR*

This year, Grand Rapids Pride Festival is a 2-day event, taking place on June 21 & June 22. Your booth space fee is determined based on your organization's budget size and whether you are purchasing a booth space for 1 day or 2 days. We are able to verify budget size through public tax information, if necessary. Budget sizes have been split into 5 tiers:

 

  • Business Budget Under $500,000
  • Business Budget $500,000 - $1,000,000
  • Business Budget $1,000,000 - $5,000,000
  • Business Budget $5,000,000 - $10,000,000
  • Business Budget Greater Than $10,000,000

We are offering a discount on booth spaces for Queer Owned Businesses again this year! If you are a Queer Owned Business, please use code queerbiz25 to receive your discount! You can enter the code on the fourth step of the application at the top of the page. 

Deadline: Jun 13, 2025

Welcome! You are applying for a Local Artist booth space for Grand Rapids Pride Festival 2025. Local Artist booths are only for artists located in the metro Grand Rapids area and must not have their own business. Any artists with their own business please use our Business/Commercial application. All original works only.

 

Local Artist booth spaces are booths numbered 61-81 in the Artist Alley section (see Festival Map for location).

 

*NEW THIS YEAR*

This year, Grand Rapids Pride Festival is a 2-day event, taking place on June 21 & June 22. Your booth space fee is determined based on whether you are purchasing a booth space for 1 day or 2 days.

 

On May 1st, local artists will be selected through a lottery system to ensure a fair and equitable process, with five spots reserved specifically for local QTPOC artists. If all 20 spots are not filled through the lottery, the remaining spots will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.


Categories: 
Clay: Original clay and porcelain work, functional or sculptural.

Fiber: Includes wearable and non-wearable. No machine-tooled, machine-screen printing, or other forms of mass production are accepted.

Glass: Functional and sculptural work is accepted. Kiln forming, blowing, molding, or casting, as well as all cold working processes are permitted.

Jewelry: Only those artists accepted in the jewelry category may display or sell jewelry. Items made from commercial parts may not be exhibited.

Metal: Sculptural or decorative work made from metal. 

Mixed Media: Work which combines materials from two or more mediums in one piece.

Musical Instruments: Handmade instruments.

Natural Materials: This includes basket weaving, chair caning, brooms, gourds, and other works made from materials found in nature.

Photography: Includes traditional film photography, hand-colored images, emulsion transfers, and digital photography. Only artist’s original source material is acceptable.

Printmaking: Only hand-pulled original prints are allowed. 

Sculpture: Three-dimensional work using additive or subtractive processes in a single medium.

Two-Dimensional: Drawing, painting, and digital works. Reproduction prints are not allowed.

Wood: Original works that are hand tooled, machine-worked, turned or carved.

Deadline: Jun 13, 2025

Welcome! You are applying for a Food Vendor space at Grand Rapids Pride Festival 2025. Food Vendors will need to specify if they’re a food truck or will just need a booth space. Any food vendor will need to have a Kent County Health Department permit. Food trucks will need (1) to provide us their exact footprint measurement and (2) have a City of GR Food Truck license (as well as the Health Department permit).

 

*NEW THIS YEAR*

This year, Grand Rapids Pride Festival is a 2-day event, taking place on June 21 & June 22. Your booth space fee is determined based on if you are a truck/tent/cart and whether you are purchasing a space for 1 day or 2 days.

 

We are offering a discount for food trucks that are members of the Heart of Food Association this year! If you are a Heart of Food member, please use code heart25 to receive your discount! You can enter the code on the fourth step of the application at the top of the page. 

Deadline: Jun 13, 2025

Welcome! You are applying for a vendor space in our Family Fun Zone area at Grand Rapids Pride Festival 2025.  

 

*NEW THIS YEAR*

This year, Grand Rapids Pride Festival is a 2-day event, taking place on June 21 & June 22. Your booth space fee is determined based on your organization's budget size and whether you are purchasing a booth space for 1 day or 2 days. We are able to verify budget size through public tax information, if necessary. Budget sizes have been split into 5 tiers:

 

  • Budget Under $500,000
  • Budget $500,000 - $1,000,000
  • Budget $1,000,000 - $5,000,000
  • Budget $5,000,000 - $10,000,000
  • Budget Greater Than $10,000,000

 

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