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2025 HIGHLIGHTS
Professional photography by Eartha Lowe | contributions from Afrika Outbound, AYC, Minds I Like, Ghetto Stories Podcast, and One People TO are also included.
The Play Money Peace Bank is an immersive, larger-than-life numeracy experience designed to upgrade number sense, financial literacy, and economic confidence in meaningful, hands-on ways.
This is not pretend play.
This is real-world learning. Re-imagined.
Through oversized currency, interactive banking stations, youth-led treasury roles, and live marketplace exchange within the Side Hustle Manifesto Market, participants practice:
• Counting, budgeting, and pricing
• Understanding value and exchange
• Calculating profit, savings, and reinvestment
• Distinguishing needs from wants
• Exploring ethical wealth-building
The Peace Bank transforms abstract math into lived experience.
Children strengthen number fluency.
Youth build entrepreneurial confidence.
Adults re-visit financial literacy with fresh perspective.
OPF
2026
Our Peace Festival (OPF) is a three-day cross-curricular community activation beginning Saturday, September 19th, featuring a multi-generational outdoor classroom led by local knowledge keepers, educators, and artists. The experience unfolds through immersive learning zones, cultural exchange, and live whole-group presentations, culminating Sunday, September 20th with our signature round table mandate discussions in honour of the UN International Day of Peace.
Together, we prepare our region for measurable school and workplace action on Monday, September 21, 2026.
An All-Ages Interactive Outdoor Classroom
In solidarity with #EveryChildMatters
Our Peace Festival is a multi-generational, immersive learning experience where purposeful literacy and numeracy spark creativity, strengthen advocacy for equity, and cultivate leadership across generations [children, youth, adults, and elders].
In 2026, we begin on September 19th in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, grounding our gathering in First Nations insight, land-based learning, and relationship repair.
On September 20th, we zoom out to the Bay of Quinte Region, where Part II of our travelling festival continues through immersive installations, youth-led activations, and our signature cross-sector round table in honour of the UN International Day of Peace.
Public space transforms into living art and organic classrooms, turning everyday gathering spaces into regenerative learning environments.
EQUITY . INCLUSION . DIVERSITY
Reimagined through an innovative, solution-driven decolonial approach rooted in action and accountability.
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Membership Supports
• Youth leadership development
• Peace-Certified Play Money Bank
• Mandate-based programming
• Operational sustainability
Membership is not a transaction.
It is regenerative participation. Choose your pathway below.
Membership Bundles
Individual [$45] . Family [$144] . Group/Corporate [$365]
SIDE HUSTLE MANIFESTO MARKET IS OPENS SEPT. 19TH.
The Side Hustle Manifesto Market uplifts grassroots entrepreneurs and everyday visionaries building generational wealth and impact through their passion projects. At the 2026 Festival, the Market expands with the Peace Shop, where youth and families can purchase real school supplies using Peace Play Money.
PEOPLE BUILDING PROJECT PATHWAYS
Inspired by multi-disciplinary creative Kamoy Williams’ publishing, "My Side Hustle Manifesto", the Side Hustle Manifesto Market uplifts grassroots entrepreneurs and everyday visionaries building generational wealth and community impact through creativity, courage, and commitment.
This is not vendor rows. It is ethical group economics re-imagined.
At the 2026 Festival, the Market expands with the introduction of the Peace Shop, where youth and families can purchase real school supplies using Peace-Certified Play Money.
With $1,000,000 [one million] in Peace Dollars circulating throughout the weekend, every transaction becomes a hands-on lesson in:
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Life Skills
• Business Confidence
The 2026 Market experience is being co-designed by AYC, QCIC, and Afrika Outbound, building on our 2025 pilot. We will refine the processes that will power the next phase of activation.
Supported by Our Peace Bank, designed and co-led by youth, children, and elders alike, the Market transforms into a living classroom where enterprise, equity, and education meet.
Here, money becomes a teaching tool. Creativity becomes capital.
And community becomes the classroom and bank.
