SIDE HUSTLE
MANIFESTO MARKET
Where creativity becomes capital, and community becomes the classroom.
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.
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.
