Touching Base Inc

25th Anniversary Event – 7th Dec 2025

Image of a glitter ball in the background, with the words Touching Base 25th Anniversary Celebration. You're invited to celebrate with us. In the bottom left corner is the Touching Base logo with two hands almost touching.

Date: Sunday 7th December 2025
Time: 1pm – 4:30pm (AEDT)
Venue: East Sydney Arts & Community Centre, Burton Street, Darlinghurst – fully accessible venue

We’re looking forward to raising a glass to 25 years of advocacy and collective achievements.

This intimacy-positive event in a fully accessible venue will blend a disability expo with a ‘sexpo’. We have a great line up of very special keynote speakers, guest artists and our own house DJ. There will be a delicious afternoon tea along with lucky door prizes, raffles and a silent auction.

There will be a live stream of key presentations and speakers for those unable to attend in person.

Featured Guest and Support Crew graphic, showing the image of a eye and and old style microphone with the following text: Keynote Speakers: The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, Ms Rosemary Kayess - Australian Disability Discrimination Commissioner. ENTERTAINMENT and support BY: Paul Capsis Renowned Australian singer, actor and cabaret star, known for his starring roles in the stage productions of Cabaret and The Bird Cage; Stephen Allkins A.K.A Love Tattoo - Our very own house DJ and music producer; Ms Imogen Kelly - Notoriously known as Australia’s Queen of Burlesque; Miss Kooky Devine - Our Mistress of Ceremonies; Sound by Gemma ; Catering by The Catering Specialists

None of this would be possible without our generous sponsors and stallholders who support our work at Touching Base!

We look forward to them brightening the venue with tables sharing information about their services and representatives joining us to celebrate our quarter century milestone.

Image of a noticeboard with the following event sponsors and stallholder's logos: Scarlet Alliance - National Sex Worker Organisation; Family Planning Australia - Reproductive and Sexual Health; Northcott - Let's see what you can do; SWOP - Sex Workers Outreach Project NSW; DSC; Positive Life NSW - The voice for all people living with HIV; Quality Health Care - Live Life Well

Due to restricted venue capacity we have limited tickets to 2 per member person.

If you are a person with disability who requires a support person to attend with you, you don’t have to buy an additional ticket for them. Please use the checkbox you can tick when purchasing your ticket to let us know you will be bringing a support person.

Please follow this link to purchase your ticket now: https://www.touchingbase.org/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=45

We have opened a 25th Anniversary Fundraising Appeal aiming to raise a minimum of $5,000 to assist to cover event costs. But with your help, let’s aim to vastly exceed this goal and make an even bigger impact with $20,000 to support our ongoing work.