Wear It Purple Day at UQ Art Museum

On Fri 29 August, the UQ Art Museum invites you to celebrate Wear It Purple Day 2025 - a bold, joyful day of pride, visibility, and creative expression. Wear your best purple fit, show your support and connect with the community whilst enjoying art workshops, yoga, talks, stalls, games, and food trucks. 

This year’s theme, ‘Bold Voices, Bright Futures’ celebrates LGBTQIA+ people openly and visibly achieving their dreams. UQ Art Museum will be celebrating with a full day of free activities on the Art Museum lawn, and inside the museum, from 9am - 4pm. The schedule for the day is as follows: 

• 9:00am-10:00am Yoga in the Museum: Affirming Queer Indentities with Jothi Udaya Shan
• 10:00am-4:00pm View UQ Art Museum's current exhibitions
• 11:00am-3:00pm Golden Gaytime icecream, stalls and craft workshops on the UQ Art Museum lawn
• 1:00pm-2:00pm Tony Albert in Conversation
• 2:00pm-3:00pm Made with Meaning, beading workshop with Tony Albert 

Wear It Purple Day was founded in 2010 by Australian students, to express support for fellow queer youth. Now an international movement, Wear it Purple Day is celebrated annually, expressing pride and hope for young LGBTQIA+ people. 

Our student team here at the UQ Art Museum have worked incredibly hard to continue awareness for this movement in organising this year's events. Our team has undertaken collaborative research, planning, and development - learning from previous events to create thoughtful programming for this year’s celebrations.  We look forward to sharing it with you!