Dallas Arts District Pride Block Party 
June 17th, 6:00 p.m. – midnight

In celebration of national LGBTQ+ Pride Month, join us in the heart of the Dallas Arts District from 6 p.m. to midnight for pride-themed tours, performances, story-time, movies, local artists, food trucks, makers, and artisans, drag shows, runways, outdoor activities, and more! Don’t miss this lively intersection of arts, culture, and LGBTQ+ community pride!

Schedule of Events – Pride 2022

Join us for programming from the Dallas Arts District, Crow Collection, Dallas Museum of Art, and Nasher Sculpture Center! We will be updating this page weekly with more detailed information from each organization.

  • Dallas Museum of Art
    (Late Night at the DMA is free with an admission ticket; reserve yours now! Cartier and Islamic Art will require a special exhibition ticket.)
  • Nasher Sculpture Center 
  • Dallas Arts District/Outside Activities
  • Crow Museum of Asian Art 

*** The Dallas Museum of Art will close at 11:30 p.m. The Galleries on Level 2, Level 3, and Level 4 will close at 11:00 p.m., and tickets for Cartier and Islamic Art will be available until 10:00 p.m.***

—-6:00 p.m.—-
Pride Block Party Kick-Off
6:00 p.m., Dallas Arts District Community Stage

Free Testing with Abounding Prosperity and Dallas Southern Pride
6:00–7:00 p.m., Eagle Family Plaza
Stop by the Abounding Prosperity mobile testing truck to get tested for HIV. Some participants may qualify to win a ticket to Dallas Southern Pride’s Daytime Pool Party and Mega Party Saturday night.

Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico with Mariachi Aguilas de America
6:15 p.m., Dallas Arts District Community Stage

Common Ground Games
6:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m., Crow Museum of Asian Art (Outside by fountain)
Game on! Join us outside the museum to learn a new board game with your friends and family, relax and grab a mocktail.

Family-Friendly Art Activities and Game Stations
6:00 -7:30 p.m., Nasher Sculpture Center

Exploring Gender Understanding
6:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium
In this interactive presentation facilitated by Kelly Darke (she/her), ATR, M.Ed., and Shannon Scott-Miller (she/her), MAAT, ATR-BC, we will explore gender roles, expectations, and stereotypes and how they directly impact our daily lives as well as our personal bias.

Xone Collage Station
6:00 p.m.- midnight, Crow Museum of Asian Art Gallery II
Xone is a handcrafted, love-driven zine designed and curated by queer and trans people of color. Space is limited.

Performance in the Garden with Johnny B33
6:00-7:15 p.m. -Nasher Garden
This fun, funky, upbeat all-night dance party will be held in the Nasher Sculpture Center Garden! Come party with us and Johnny B33 as we dance to live music and great tunes!

Special Performance with Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Southern Pride and Tommie Ross
Presented in partnership with Dallas Southern Pride
6:30 p.m., Atrium
Kick off the night with performances by Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Southern Pride and the legendary Tommie Ross.

—-7:00 p.m.—-
Uptown Players
7:00 p.m., Community Stage

Performance in the Galleries: Bridges: Texas and T
7:00 p.m., Museum Galleries
Flexible Grey Theatre Company will premiere “Bridges: Texas and T”, the fourth in an ever-evolving series of interview plays created with DFW at its heart. Trans or gender-nonconforming actors will perform real-life stories about how coming out changed the lives of transgender Texans and their families.

Coming Out: Living Authentically as LGBTQ Asian and Pacific Islander Americans by Human Rights Campaign Foundation”
7:00 p.m. -8:00 p.m., Crow Museum of Art
The University of Texas at Dallas Galerstein Gender Center and Crow Museum of Asian Art presents a program centered around AAPI issues and the LGBTQIA communities. Coming out is a personal choice, and the lifelong coming out experience is different for everybody. For those of us who identify as LGBTQ and as people of color, it can often feel like we are living at the cusp of an intersection that is challenging to manage. For many Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, coming out is a lifelong process that can require a different approach because of cultural norms or traditions that emphasize duty to family and community. This can make the coming out process more complex to navigate. Tea and snacks will be provided during the discussion. Space is limited; email rsvp@crowmuseum.org to reserve your spot.

DJ Set with Dezi 5
7:15-8:20 p.m., Nasher Garden

Film: No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics
7:30 p.m., C3 Theater
No Straight Lines chronicles the journeys of five scrappy queer artists from the margins of the underground comics scene to mainstream acceptance. (This film is not yet rated, 78 min.)

Tour: Into the Slip Zone
7:30 p.m., Meet at the C3 entrance
Join DMA teen volunteers Chris Turner and Marin Tisdale for a tour of works that explore postwar abstraction in the Americas and East Asia, including Phase of Nothingness–Water by Nobuo Sekine, Kan’unchō by Kazuo Shiraga, and Bottle Crash by Shozo Shimamoto.

Abounding Prosperity Set
7:35-8:05 p.m.- Community Stage

—-8:00 p.m.—-
Mi Diva Loca
8:15-8:45 p.m., Dallas Arts District Community Stage

High Heels & High Notes: A Very Drag Celebration of Opera & ShowtunesPresented in partnership with the Dallas Opera8:00 – 8:45 p.m., Atrium, DMA Hosted by Marsha Dimes and featuring the Sisters-in-Action, this show will highlight some of the most fabulous numbers from the best of opera and Broadway.  Performers include Betty SiSonnet, Shantaé Morgan, DeManda Refund, Ginni Beefeater, Ivanna SiSonnet, Nippy Peakes, and Thai Mai Shu.

Performance in the Galleries: Bridges: Texas and T
8:00 p.m., Museum Galleries
Flexible Grey Theatre Company will premiere “Bridges: Texas and T”, the fourth in an ever-evolving series of interview plays created with DFW at its heart. Trans or gender-nonconforming actors will perform real-life stories about how coming out changed the lives of transgender Texans and their families.

Pride After Dark Dance Party
8:00-10:00 p.m., Nasher Garden
Let’s get sweaty after dark with heavy beats and pride bangers while queens liven the party and have periodic performances!

Arttitude presents: Women’s Art Culture Juneteenth Edition8:30 p.m., Horchow Auditorium, DMAArttitude presents a showcase of African American LGBTQ Women poets, visual artists, and dancers. The works given will speak to issues on identity, culture, and social climate while highlighting their work and honoring Juneteenth. Featuring B. Randall (poet/Host), Lyrik Hunter(poet), Haley Colbert(Choreographer/Dancer), Lyrique Jaye (Poet),MissDyeWreckedIt (Poet),Danielle Ellis (Visual Artist), and Shukee (Visual Artist).

Tour: Cats and Dogs of the DMA:
Western Art Collection 8:30 p.m., Meet at the C3 entrance
Join DMA teen volunteers Chris Turner and Marin Tisdale for a tour of works in our collection that explore related to our beloved four-legged companions, including Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire by Thomas Sully, Miss Dorothy Quincy Roosevelt by John White Alexander, and Sardine by Charles Webster Hawthorne.

Tour: Found Objects
8:30 p.m., Meet at the C3 entrance
Join DMA teen volunteers Daisy Sanchez, Xochitl Medina, and Samantha Prado for a tour that explores unconventional materials while looking at Sam F by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Night Hutch (Hoarfrost) by Robert Rauschenberg, and Language Is Not Transparent (English/Spanish) by Mel Bochner.

—-9:00 p.m.—-
Dezi-5
9:00-9:30 p.m, Community Stage
Dezi 5 is an award-winning, recording artist and multi-faceted entertainer with incredible showmanship and a persona larger than life.  His performances earned him a Dallas Observer Music Award for “Best Live Act” (voted by the city). He has been featured at every Arts District Block Party since 2018.

Performance in the Galleries: Bridges: Texas and T
9:00 p.m., Museum Galleries
Flexible Grey Theatre Company will premiere “Bridges: Texas and T”, the fourth in an ever-evolving series of interview plays created with DFW at its heart. Trans or gender-nonconforming actors will perform real-life stories about how coming out changed the lives of transgender Texans and their families.

Drag Queen Grande Finale featuring Miss Jada Pinkett Fox
9:45-10:15 p.m., Dallas Arts District Community Stage

Kiki Ball presented by United Black Ellument
9:30 – 11:00 p.m., Atrium
Watch a unique and amazing display of dancing that features vogue and other elements from the mainstream ballroom scene.

—-10:00 p.m.—-
Film Screening of Victor/Victoria 1982
10:00-midnight, Nasher Garden
A struggling female singer in 1930s Paris pretends to be a male performer who works as a drag queen, at the behest of a gay cabaret performer who befriends her. She becomes very successful but also draws the amorous attention of a gangster who is confused by his strong attraction to this person he believes is a man. Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse’s score won an Oscar. Rating: PG Run Time: 1 hour 33 mins

Film: JEANNETTE
10:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium
JEANNETTE tells the story of Jeannette Feliciano, a competitive bodybuilder and queer single mother struggling to cope with trauma after surviving a mass shooting. (This film is not yet rated, 78 min.)

On-going Activities

Gallery Tours at the Nasher: 6:30,7:30, 8:30, & 9:30
Mural
Makers & Artisans
Resource Table
Xone Collage Station
Photos with TEMOC at the Crow!
Crow Museum of Asian Art Current Exhibitions 
Register to Vote
Dallas Public Library Book Recommendations
LBGTQ+ Self Guide
Resource Center SexyHealth Mobile Unit
Exploring Gender Identity Community Art Activity

 

Other Programming:

Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum:
In honor of Pride Month and Juneteenth, enjoy free admission to the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum on Sunday, June 19. Your ticket includes access to the Museum’s permanent and special exhibitions, the Dimensions in TestimonySM interactive Holocaust Survivor experience, and special screenings of the film Harriet (2019) starring Cynthia Erivo at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. in the Museum’s Cinemark Theater. Made possible through support from Andy Smith and Paul von Wupperfeld, and Kate and Keith Newman.