The 2017 Auckland Pride Festival will run for two weeks and three weekends from Friday February 10 to Sunday 26th. A February 10 dawn ceremony will kick off the festival and the Festival Gala show, which suddenly disappeared from last year's programme, has been reinstated. The iconic Auckland Pride parade which runs the length of Ponsonby Road and attracts huge crowds will be on Saturday February 25th. At this stage the start time of the parade has not been confirmed. Registration for Festival events and parade entries are expected to open in late September. This is the earliest the dates for the festival have been announced, following some community criticism that the dates have been announced too late in the year preceding the event.
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First published: Saturday, 27th August 2016 - 11:13am