ABOUT JOMO pridefest
UPDATE: Event cancelled due to COVID-19. Please check our COVID Updates page and social media sites for more.
JOMO Pride Inc is proud to present JOMO Pridefest, Joplin's premier LGBTQ Pride Festival, now held in the heart of beautiful Downtown Joplin of our newly expanded TWO DAY festival!
Our organization took over the annual Pride event at the beginning of 2018 after a series of Pride Boards became defunct leaving the city and our community without an annual pride celebration. Community members came together, compiled resources, re-branded the festival and moved the main event from an obscure park outside of town to the heart of Downtown Joplin Missouri. With just 4 months we were able to successfully put on the event in July of 2018. Due to the reorganization and dedication of our volunteers Joplin seen record attendance with over 1,000 people attending.
After the relaunch of Pridefest in 2018, as Downtown Diversity Pridefest, our group, JOMO Pride Inc legally formed a 501c3 and hit the ground running to start planning the 2019 event. We voted to move the event to August 2019 to allow more time for organizing and growing the festival even more. Our 2nd annual Downtown Diversity Pridefest again seen record numbers, with over 1000 community members attending the 2nd annual JOMO Pride March during the kick off of the event, and over 2000 attendees throughout the day.
JOMO Pride Inc is committed to growing the annual festival and providing a safe space for area LGBTQ+ members, their families and supporters to celebrate and be themselves! It is this reason why on October 6th 2019 at our first Pride Planning Meeting of the 2020 season, after much community input, we voted UNANIMOUSLY to expand to a 2 day event in 2020 offering more vendors, more food trucks, more activities, shows, contests and drawings and MORE TIME! Stay tuned for important updates!
On Aug 30th, Day 2 of our newly expanded JOMO Pridefest, not only are we are incorporating our Pride in the Park event traditionally held in June (Pride Month), in the activities, but also adding our much anticipated Pride Mimosa Breakfast featuring live music, to our list of Pride sanctioned events the morning of the 30th. Our Pride In the Park event will add more vendors, food, entertainment, music, games and FUN!
JOMO Pride Inc is proud to present JOMO Pridefest, Joplin's premier LGBTQ Pride Festival, now held in the heart of beautiful Downtown Joplin of our newly expanded TWO DAY festival!
Our organization took over the annual Pride event at the beginning of 2018 after a series of Pride Boards became defunct leaving the city and our community without an annual pride celebration. Community members came together, compiled resources, re-branded the festival and moved the main event from an obscure park outside of town to the heart of Downtown Joplin Missouri. With just 4 months we were able to successfully put on the event in July of 2018. Due to the reorganization and dedication of our volunteers Joplin seen record attendance with over 1,000 people attending.
After the relaunch of Pridefest in 2018, as Downtown Diversity Pridefest, our group, JOMO Pride Inc legally formed a 501c3 and hit the ground running to start planning the 2019 event. We voted to move the event to August 2019 to allow more time for organizing and growing the festival even more. Our 2nd annual Downtown Diversity Pridefest again seen record numbers, with over 1000 community members attending the 2nd annual JOMO Pride March during the kick off of the event, and over 2000 attendees throughout the day.
JOMO Pride Inc is committed to growing the annual festival and providing a safe space for area LGBTQ+ members, their families and supporters to celebrate and be themselves! It is this reason why on October 6th 2019 at our first Pride Planning Meeting of the 2020 season, after much community input, we voted UNANIMOUSLY to expand to a 2 day event in 2020 offering more vendors, more food trucks, more activities, shows, contests and drawings and MORE TIME! Stay tuned for important updates!
On Aug 30th, Day 2 of our newly expanded JOMO Pridefest, not only are we are incorporating our Pride in the Park event traditionally held in June (Pride Month), in the activities, but also adding our much anticipated Pride Mimosa Breakfast featuring live music, to our list of Pride sanctioned events the morning of the 30th. Our Pride In the Park event will add more vendors, food, entertainment, music, games and FUN!
JOMO Pride 2020:
DAY 1: DOWNTOWN DIVERSITY PRIDEFEST
DAY 2: PRIDE MIMOSA BREAKFAST & PRIDE IN THE PARK
FULL SCHEDULE AND DAILY ITINERARY TO BE RELEASED SOON
DAY 2: PRIDE MIMOSA BREAKFAST & PRIDE IN THE PARK
FULL SCHEDULE AND DAILY ITINERARY TO BE RELEASED SOON