Creative Connections for Quiet Queers
Explore events nurturing creative connections for quiet queers taking place during the SpringOUT Festival in November 2026.
Interdisciplinary Arts (tea)Party
📆 Friday, 13 November, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
📍A Block Theatre, Quantum Leap Australia, Gorman Arts Centre, 55 Ainslie Ave, Braddon ACT
💰 FREE
In this 2 hour workshop queer author, multi-disciplinary artist Emma Batchelor will share the creative process behind the development of her new novel Bloomwaves.
Inspired by recent encounters with queer artists making powerfully personal work, often within a collective. Bloomwavesis both an artistic inquiry and a celebration of community. It seeks to generate new forms of fiction that emerge not only from the self but from networks of embodied, intergenerational exchange.
This event is FREE to attend, please RSVP to help with organising catering and seating.
Come Write - SpringOUT edition
📆 Saturday, 21 November, 12pm - 2pm
📍 Tuggeranong Arts Centre, 137 Reed St N, Greenway ACT
💰 FREE
Come Write offers a quiet and focused space for writers to work on their projects while also providing an opportunity to connect with fellow writers.
Each session is set up in 2 parts:
12:00pm - 12:30pm: Introductions and project recap/update
12:30pm - 2:00pm: Focused writing
Entry is free, though donations are welcomed. To RSVP without cost, just enter ‘$0.00’ in the ticket price field.
Tea and coffee is provided, courtesy of TAC.
Queer Junk Journal Workshop
📆 Saturday, 28 November, 2pm - 4pm
📍You Are Here, Level 1, 131 City Walk, Canberra City ACT
💰$5
Spend a couple of hours creating a junk journal from cute, queer ephemera!
If you like sticking things on things, making something pretty, and expressing yourself creatively, this is the low key workshop for you.
Everything you need will be supplied, but if you have special stickers, pictures, papers you would like to use for your project, feel free to bring them along.
Reembodied Anthology Launch
📆 Saturday, 28 November, 6pm - 7:30pm
📍You Are Here, Level 1, 131 City Walk, Canberra City ACT
💰 FREE
Join Flighted Pages for the launch of Reembodied Anthology, an anthology created by Queer and disabled people for Queer and disabled people.
Copied of Reembodied will be available to purchase at the event for $25 with readings from Fionn Macpherson, Lawren Wooding, and Peter Searles.
