OPF2026
CONFERENCE
ABOUT
An All-Ages Interactive Outdoor Learning Conference
In solidarity with #EveryChildMatters
Our Peace Festival (OPF) is a multi-generational learning and community activation created to help people practice peace through education, culture, creativity, land-based learning, and equity-centred action.
Our Peace Festival is a cross-curricular community activation rooted in peace, repair, equity, and community-rooted innovation. Through outdoor learning, live edu-tainment, cultural exchange, signature round tables, and practical action pathways, OPF brings children, youth, adults, elders, artists, educators, knowledge keepers, growers, housing advocates, sponsors, and community partners together to learn, reflect, build, and belong.
OPF exists because peace requires more than good intentions. It requires spaces where people can listen deeply, tell the truth, practice repair, build civic muscle, and imagine practical solutions for the systems that shape everyday life — including education, food, housing, work, culture, and community care.
What is OPF?
Why OPF exists?
EQUITY . INCLUSION . DIVERSITY
Reimagined through an innovative, solution-driven decolonial approach rooted in action and accountability.
Materialized by QCIC & Decolonial Community Partners
Practice Repair. Build Peace. Grow Community.
Our Peace Festival is materialized by the Quinte Cultural Innovation Committee (QCIC) alongside decolonial community partners, artists, educators, storytellers, cultural workers, and justice-rooted leaders. Together with collaborators such as Dance Immersion, Afrika Outbound, Nana Yeboa Podcast, Ghetto Stories, Minds I Like, Afiya Beauty, Bullies Be Gone Project, Dolo the Gifted, J's Treasure, Skin Theorist Co., Empowered Path Inc., Sovereign First Nations Elders and other multigenerational decolonial leaders, OPF 2026 becomes a living conference shaped by creativity, cultural exchange, Black-Indigenous racialized repair, youth learning, equity-centred action, and community-rooted care.
Upcoming Moments
Saturday School: Share, Care, Play FairSat, Sep 19Zen to Zion [Seven X Acres]
Live Edu-Tainment Showcase: Fearless Futures | Youth +Sat, Sep 19Zen to Zion [Seven X Acres]
Equity, Nutrition & Dignity: OPF Signature Round TablesSun, Sep 20Zen to Zion [Seven X Acres]
OPF Conference
2026
Our Peace Festival Conference is a three-day cross-curricular community activation beginning Saturday, September 19th, with a multi-generational outdoor learning experience led by local knowledge keepers, educators, artists, and community builders. Through immersive learning zones, cultural exchange, live edu-tainment, and whole-group presentations, OPF culminates on Sunday, September 20th with signature round table discussions honouring the UN International Day of Peace. Together, we prepare our region for measurable school, workplace, and community action on Monday, September 21st, 2026.
CORE MANDATES
BIPOC+W
Dignity in Housing
Practicing housing as more than shelter — a pathway to belonging, stewardship, ownership skills, maintenance, budgeting, shared responsibility, and care for people, place, and resources.
Food Security through Permaculture
Growing nourishment through permaculture ethics, Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share, and connected principles to fostercommunity resilience.
Equity in Education through Permaculture
Learning systems rooted in safety, belonging, curiosity, stewardship, and care through permaculture ethics & principles.
Connected Repairative Events
Gathering through story, art, dialogue, culture, ceremony, play, and brave community repair, creating experiences where truth can be shared, trust can be rebuilt, and peace can be practiced together.
