My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly..." - Audre Lorde : Age, Race, Class, and Sex
Fluid is a cultural programming stream created by Neighbor,
A celebration of the fluidity of Blackness.
Fluid was created from the belief that Black people deserve spaces expansive enough to hold the fullness and complexity of who we are. Our Blackness has never been one thing. It moves across gender, sexuality, expression, spirituality, geography, culture, generation, sound, movement, and lived experience. Fluid is about creating Black spaces big enough to hold all of it.
FluidFest is an annual Black Pride activation series rooted in the belief that celebration is a form of community building. Produced by Neighbor in collaboration with Trade & Tempo and Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100).
Rooted in Atlanta's Black LGBTQIA+ community, FluidFest intentionally centers people across the spectrum of queer, trans, gender-expansive, nonbinary, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and fluid identities while refusing the idea that our community ends at an identity label. FluidFest also welcomes the Black people who love us, build with us, raise families with us, organize alongside us, and share community with us, including those who may identify as straight or whose expression and relationship to identity do not fit neatly into a category.
Fluidity is not the absence of identity. It is the freedom to exist fully within it and beyond its limitations.
What Is Fluid?
FLUID FEST 2026 SEPT 3 - SEPT 6
FLUID FEST 2026 SEPT 3 - SEPT 6
This Labor Day Weekend, during Black Pride, Fluid becomes Fluid Fest - a neighborhood-rooted celebration of joy, healing, and collective care that leaves our people feeling full: Emotionally, spiritually, and creatively.
September 3
FluidFest’s live open mic competition and creative jam session, created to shine a light on the incredible talent that already exists within our community.
From singers, rappers, poets, musicians, instrumentalists, and spoken-word artists to performers who move between genres and forms, Spotlight creates a stage for Blackness in its fullness be seen, heard, celebrated. Artists interested in competing must sign up in advance here.
Spotlight @ The Murph Open mic/ Jam Session Competition
Doors open a 7:30p | 561 W Whitehall
September 4th
ART POP W/ BAZAAR EUPHORIA
Politan Row @ Colony Square| 1197 Peachtree St NE
September 5th
Katharsis Yoga w/ Kamil | 10:00am - 10:45
Tea Ceremony | 11am - 11:30am
Sound bath w/ Sound Sanctuary | 11:30pm - 12:00pm
The Current ( How Do We Heal) | 12:30 - 1:30pm
Hargurbrooks | 364 Auburn Ave NE
September 6th
Trans Empowerment Brunch
Cafe Bartique | 11:00-2:30
ALTNIK @ Westide Motor Lounge
90’s Fine @ Trade & Tempo
Trade & Tempo | 552 Decatur St SW