BE ETHICAL . SUPPORT PURPOSE . BUILD COMMUNITY
MUCH MORE THAN JUST BOOTH AT CONFERENCE
Our Peace Festival Conference 2026 introduces participating brands to the community, while Zen to Zion and the surrounding Zenville property create opportunities for a longer-term physical marketplace.
Available opportunities include:
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Indoor shelf, wall, table, and floor space
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Boutique-style product displays
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Seasonal outdoor booths and garden installations on 7 acres of connected space
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Seasonal pop-ups and brand activations including OPF 2027 + possibilities
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Workshops, tastings, demonstrations, and launches
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Product photography and content creation
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Digital visibility through the Peace Shop
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Booth and display setup begins August 1, 2026, giving participating brands the rest of the summer to bring their space to life ahead of OPF Conference 2026.
WELCOME TO ZEN TO ZION
Bring your product, service, and message brands and vision to life.
The Side Hustle Manifesto Market begins inside Zen to Zion, a 1980s home and seven-acre property currently being restored into a living showcase for regenerative entrepreneurship, hospitality, education, and community.
Rather than waiting until every room is finished, we're inviting aligned brands to become part of the journey.
Lifestyle, housing, food security, wellness, beauty, education, fitness, and home brands have the opportunity to grow alongside the space itself, transforming everyday rooms into beautiful, functional environments that tell a collective story of restoration, creativity, and possibility.
As Zen to Zion continues to evolve, so will the marketplace.
Our long-term vision includes welcoming overnight guests through Airbnb and other hospitality experiences, where visitors don't simply stay in a home, they experience the products, stories, and values of the brands that helped shape it. Every room becomes a living showroom, every stay becomes an opportunity for discovery, and every partnership becomes part of a larger story of community-led regeneration.
Together, we're not just filling shelves and displays, we're building a place and story that shapes the future.
PEACE-CERTIFIED PLAY MONEY
Participants will use Peace-Certified Play Money throughout the Market to practice real-world financial literacy in a playful, hands-on way. Through marketplace exchange, banking stations, and youth-supported treasury roles, guests explore how money can teach responsibility, confidence, stewardship, and care.
Picture Your Brand Here
Imagine having a storefront presence without taking on the cost, staffing, or commitment of opening a traditional retail shop.
At Zen to Zion, brands will be able to rent curated floor, wall, shelf, table, and outdoor display space within the Side Hustle Market. Your products can remain available for visitors to discover and purchase, even when you are not personally on site.
You can visit during available hours to restock inventory, refresh your display, redesign your space, connect with customers, or activate your brand through demonstrations, workshops, launches, and special events.
When a product sells, the sale is tracked and your earnings are distributed to you according to your marketplace agreement.
More than a
conference booth
Our Peace Festival Conference 2026 introduces participating brands to the community, while Zen to Zion and the surrounding Zenville property create opportunities for a longer-term physical marketplace.
Available opportunities may include:
-
Indoor shelf, wall, table, and floor space
-
Boutique-style product displays
-
Outdoor booths and garden installations
-
Seasonal pop-ups and brand activations
-
Workshops, tastings, demonstrations, and launches
-
Product photography and content creation
-
Digital visibility through the Peace Shop
Booth and display setup begins August 1, 2026, giving participating brands the rest of the summer to bring their space to life ahead of OPF Conference 2026.
Your Brand Can Be Present Even When You're Directing Time & Attention to Other Key Things on Your Plate.
Create your display. Stock your products. Keep track of your inventory. Visit when you are available.
We help hold the storefront presence while you continue creating, working, resting, caring for family, or growing your business in other ways.
Physical and digital marketplace packages begin at $350 per year.
Bring your brand. Build your storefront. Let the community discover what you are creating.
SIDE HUSTLE MANIFESTO MARKET IS OPENS SEPT. 19TH AT SATURDAY SCHOOL: SHARE, CARE, PLAY FAIR
The Side Hustle Manifesto Market uplifts grassroots entrepreneurs and everyday visionaries building generational wealth and community impact through creativity, courage, and commitment.
At Our Peace Festival 2026, the Market becomes more than vendor rows. It expands into a living classroom where enterprise, equity, education, and community exchange meet. Through the Play Money Peace Bank, children, youth, adults, and elders will use Peace-Certified Play Money to practice budgeting, pricing, saving, reinvestment, ethical spending, and meaningful exchange.
Inspired by Kamoy Williams’ My Side Hustle Manifesto, this activation celebrates the people building project pathways — artists, makers, educators, food growers, wellness workers, youth entrepreneurs, social innovators, and community-rooted businesses moving from idea to impact.
Here, money becomes a teaching tool. Creativity becomes capital. Community becomes the classroom and bank.
WHAT IS THE
SIDE HUSTLE MANIFESTO MARKET?
A play and real money marketplace... a learning lab... an economic imagination space.
The Side Hustle Manifesto Market invites vendors, facilitators, youth entrepreneurs, artists, and community builders to offer products, services, activations, stories, and learning experiences that help participants explore value, exchange, creativity, and ethical wealth-building.
THE
MARKET WELCOMES
Grassroots entrepreneurs
Artists and makers
Youth entrepreneurs
Food growers and wellness workers
Educators and facilitators
Social enterprises and community-rooted businesses
Authors, storytellers, creators, and cultural workers
Vendors offering meaningful products, services, or activations
Vendors are invited to bring more than a table.
OPF encourages interactive, values-aligned offerings that help guests learn, play, reflect, exchange, and build community.
Offerings may include handmade goods, books, food education, art, wellness, cultural learning, storytelling, youth enterprise, skill-sharing, mini-workshops, demonstrations, or products that support school, home, wellness, creativity, dignity, and community care.
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.
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 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 prototype 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.
