Wellington Pride with Shannon Novak

08 September 2022

Precinct are proud to be working with local LGBTQI+ artist, curator, and activist Shannon Novak, to celebrate, and show support for the LGBTQI+ community during Pride 2022 and beyond.

Wellington Pride runs from 03 - 17 September 2022 and is a big one for the LGBTQI+ community. This year we celebrate 50 years since the start of the Gay Liberation movement in Aotearoa in 1972, a movement led by lesbian and Māori rights activist Ngahuia Te Awekotuku.

In collaboration with local LGBTQI+ artist, curator, and activist Shannon Novak, Precinct Properties acknowledge, celebrate, and show support for the LGBTQI+ community during Pride 2022 and beyond.

As an extension of the work Shannon developed in our Auckland portfolio, there will be bright, bold and colourful interventions in our lobbies in our Wellington portfolio. These will be in NTT Tower, Aon Centre and at 30 Waring Taylor St.

We will be keeping these up for the next month, so please make sure you check them out when you're in the buildings.

If you need LGBTQI+ support you can contact:

30 Waring Taylor Street

With Love I

With Love I acknowledges and celebrates diversity in the rainbow community. Different versions of the original six-stripe rainbow flag have emerged in recent times, one of the most recent and popular being the Progress Pride Flag by Daniel Quasar. With Love I continues this work, presenting another take on the rainbow flag, highlighting those most in need within the rainbow community including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), trans, and intersex communities. With Love I also includes colours from other flags in the rainbow community including the bisexual, non-binary, and genderfluid flags. Artist: Shannon Novak

Aon Centre

With Love II

With Love II acknowledges and celebrates diversity in the rainbow community. Different versions of the original six-stripe rainbow flag have emerged in recent times, one of the most recent and popular being the Progress Pride Flag by Daniel Quasar. With Love II continues this work, presenting another take on the rainbow flag, highlighting those most in need within the rainbow community including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), trans, and intersex communities. With Love II also includes colours from other flags in the rainbow community including the bisexual, non-binary, and genderfluid flags.

NTT Tower

With Love III

With Love III acknowledges and celebrates diversity in the rainbow community. Different versions of the original six-stripe rainbow flag have emerged in recent times, one of the most recent and popular being the Progress Pride Flag by Daniel Quasar. With Love III continues this work, presenting another take on the rainbow flag, highlighting those most in need within the rainbow community including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), trans, and intersex communities. With Love III also includes colours from other flags in the rainbow community including the bisexual, non-binary, and genderfluid flags. Artist: Shannon Novak

Meet the artist

Shannon Novak

Shannon Novak is an activist, artist, and curator based in Tāmaki Makaurau. His work aims to reduce anxiety, depression, and suicide rates for the LGBTQI+ community worldwide. He also seeks to dismantle heteronormative structures and systems and build spaces that acknowledge, celebrate, and support diversity and inclusion in sexual orientation, romantic orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics. Novak founded the Safe Space Alliance, a global LGBTQI+ led nonprofit organisation that aims to help people identify, navigate, and create safe spaces for the LGBTQI+ community.