City of West Hollywood’s WeHo Pride Arts Festival

Friday, May 23, 4:30pm-10pm

Saturday, May 24, 4:30pm-10pm

Sunday, May 25, 1pm-6:30pm

The City of West Hollywood’s WeHo Pride Arts Festival is an annual celebration of LGBTQ+ creativity, featuring performances, film, literary arts, art-making workshops and more. Held as part of WeHo Pride, the arts festival will take place May 23-25, 2025, at The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Place. Since its inception in 2007, the City’s LGBTQ+ arts festival has showcased artists and storytellers who amplify LGBTQ+ voices and experiences.

The festival is organized with several concurrent programs, in a choose you own adventure model.  For the first 3 hours of each day, you can choose amongst theatre, cabaret, music, literary readings, dance, and film presentations, or take part in art-making workshops!

Closing out each day will be a single not-to-be-missed performance:

• Friday, May 23: Celebration Theatre presents “Sweet Lorraine,” a play inspired by the enduring friendship of Black, queer literary icons Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin
• Saturday, May 24: Teatro Nuevos Horizontes presents “ARENA: A House MUSIC-al” based on the house music of the 1990s at the legendary ARENA Nightclub
• Sunday, May 25: Trans Chorus of Los Angeles (TCLA) and Mariachi Arcoiris present A Harmonious Pride Cabaret  

All events are free to attend. Ticketing will open soon with details at www.wehopride.com/artsfestival. Please sign up for here for the WeHo Pride Arts Festival mailing list to be the first to be alerted when ticketing opens in early May.

Also don’t miss Harvey Milk Day featuring the 3rd annual Jose Sarria Drag Pageant on May 22, 2025, 6-8pm!