About Lavanda
Lavanda is a grassroots LGBTQ+ Music and Arts Festival aiming to build and support Boston's Queer Community. Founded by Emma Whitney in the fall of 2023, Lavanda was born out of a desire to create a place where queer folk to safely and freely express themselves while supporting LGBTQ+ artists.
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Lavanda festivals provide a break from standard alcohol centered queer events by focusing on connection and hands-on activities. In addition to performances and vendor booths from queer folk, our festivals typically include free coloring pages and supplies, crafting kits, mocktails, and more.
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Lavanda's Mission
Lavanda is a Boston based Lgbt+ Music and Arts Festival. We aim to produce an experience that is enjoyable, safe, and intimate. We hope that by highlighting queer artists and sellers at our festivals, as well as providing crafts and other activites to do, that we can encourage genuine connections between people. We strive to create a space to relax, connect, get inspired, and support some really talented folks.
At Lavanda we take saftey, accesibility, and inclusivity, extremely seriously. We know it can be hard to find spaces that feel truly supportive. Because of this we have added a anonymous reporting feature to our website, made sure our staff is easily identifiable at events, and have security staff that knows how to handle these matters in a firm but senstaive way. If you ever feel unsafe at our of our events, for any reason, please let us know through one of the previously mentioned means.
In the future we would love to give back to our community in any way we can. As a grassroots orginization we can't do much at the moment but offer our platform for outreach and fundrasing. If you or someone you know are in need of funds, access to resources, or have any other relevent issue you would like us to assist with please do not hesitate to reach out. For a list of local and online resources please click here.
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Get Involved
Want to perform?
If you're an lgbtq+ performer of any kind, weather it be music, performance art, poetry, dance, drag, ect, and want to apply to perform at one of our future festivals please fill out the application link below or email our team at lavandaboston@gmail.com.
Want to Sell?
If you're an lgbt+ small buisness selling anything (vintage clothes, pottery, prints, baked goods, ect) and would like to sell at one of our future events please fill out the application below or email our team at lavandaboston@gmail.com
Fundrasing and Rasing Awareness
Lavanda's biggest priority is our community. We invite you to reach out if you have a cause you'd like to raise awareness or fundraise for. For example: If you or someone you know is in need of funds for gender afirming care, we can discuss details and set up an event specifcally dedicated to fundrasing for this individual.
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We may not be able to accommidate every request and details will vary person to person/issue to issue so if you have something you'd like to use our platform please email us at lavandaboston@gmail.com