Atlantic Canada · First Edition in Development
Live music. Drag. DJs. Drinks. Community. A Pride celebration shaped by coastal culture and built for people who actually show up.
Come for the High Tide. Leave with Saltwater Pride.
The Concept
High Tide Pride is a coastal Pride celebration built around queer joy, live entertainment, local culture, and strong visual identity. Designed to happen during Pride — in scenic, local venues where queer people deserve to be visible, welcomed, and celebrated.
Not a club night. Not a gala. Not a logo on a sponsor page. A real, in-person Pride gathering where people show up, feel something, and leave with Saltwater Pride.
Drinks
Local
Coastal
Joyful
VisibleEvent Format
High Tide Pride runs afternoon-to-evening — welcoming for all audiences, manageable for venues, and designed to build from a relaxed social gathering into a lively coastal day party.
Optional · Morning
A low-key movement session to start the day — yoga, Pilates-inspired flow, or an outdoor stretch. All levels welcome — born out of the Queer Pilates Club experience.
Early Afternoon
Live local music, drinks, and conversation. A softer entry point to the day — welcoming for families, allies, older guests, and everyone easing in.
Afternoon into Evening
DJs, drag performances, live entertainment, dancing, drinks, and Saltwater Pride merch. The main event — full coastal day party energy.
The Setting
The goal isn't a rented room. It's a scenic, recognizable, culturally specific venue that makes queer celebration feel visible, rooted, and worth photographing — breweries, patios, harbours, wharves, and waterfronts.
Breweries, patios, harbours, and waterfront spaces with real character and visual energy.
Local musicians, drag artists, and DJs paired with broader queer creative networks.
Afternoon-to-evening. Not late-night. Scales to the venue's capacity and operating model.
Saltwater Pride
Saltwater Pride is the limited merch capsule connected to the event. Coastal, colourful, and designed to feel like a real keepsake — part souvenir, part identity marker, part memory of the day.
Partner With Us
High Tide Pride is built around real partnership. There are a few ways to be involved, depending on what you bring to the table.
↓ Download Partnership Deck
In-kind venue support — no cash required. You provide the space and keep bar and food sales. We bring everything else.
Support specific programming: artist fees, drag performers, DJs, photography, merch production, or accessibility tickets.
Building a lineup that balances local Atlantic talent with broader queer creative networks. Paid opportunities wherever possible.
Feelin' Collective handles the concept, promotion, creative direction, ticketing, performer and DJ coordination, run-of-show, Saltwater Pride merch, and the full guest experience.
Behind the Concept
Founder, Feelin' Collective
I'm a multidisciplinary creative with over a decade of experience across video, brand storytelling, creative direction, and community-driven experiences. For nearly eight years, I led video and creative at World Wildlife Fund Canada — translating complex stories into campaigns that moved people emotionally and drove them to act.
More recently, I founded Feelin' Collective in Toronto — a queer-led creative studio focused on events, community programming, and experiences that genuinely make people feel something. Through that work, I've produced events like Queer Pilates Club, coordinated performers and DJs, developed campaigns, and built experiences with the kind of creative direction and practical planning that makes them actually work. Across every project, the through line is the same — tell a story that resonates.
A coastal Pride celebration, in the kind of iconic local venues that haven't always made room for queer people — visible, joyful, and built to feel like it actually belongs there. That's the story High Tide Pride is telling.
I grew up on the East Coast and left after high school looking for the kind of queer community that felt hard to find at home. High Tide Pride is, in a lot of ways, the event I would have loved to see when I was younger — something unmistakably coastal, unmistakably queer, something that felt like it belonged to the place. That's the feeling I'm curating — and the experience I want people to leave with.
Learn more about Justin & Feelin' CollectiveLet's Make It Happen
Partner conversations are open for the first edition of High Tide Pride. Whether you have a venue, a brand, a budget, or a connection — we want to hear from you.
Come for the High Tide. Leave with Saltwater Pride.
Get in Touchjkielly@feelincollective.com