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SDG Festivals
We facilitate the convening of a national forum for civic engagement in SDG implementation; A public festival with debates, workshops, cultural events and exposition of solutions for the 2030 Agenda.
Building on our experience with creating and facilitating the SDG platform, Verdensmålenes Plads, at Scandinavia’s largest democratic people’s festival ‘Folkemødet’ at Bornholm, Denmark, we facilitate the convening and co-creation of ‘SDG Festivals’. As a platform for civic engagement with local pioneers from all levels of society - state, civil society and the private sector.
As such, we have been active in supporting the SDGs Village at the Kenyan People's Dialogue Festival taking place annually in March. And in 2023, Uganda had five SDG Festivals across the country, inspired by Verdensmålenes Plads.
Get in touch if you would like to learn more about how you can host your own SDG Festival.
Festival features
Engaging debates
Panels and talks organised by cross-sector partners involving festival guests in democratic dialogue
Food
Food is a conversations starter, and through our collaboration with vocational schools, we involve culinary students in presenting the food of the future to festival guests
Interactive Workshops
Interactive workshops engaging festival participants in co-creation of innovative
solutions to local and
global challenges
Cultural events
Cultural events
bring festival participants together in informal
ways to foster dialogue
and unify across divides
Pop-up expositions
Pop-up expositions allow festival guests to experience sustainable solutions as they are presented and demonstrated live at the festival
Arts
Just like food, arts is a language that unites across cultural differences. Through the arts, we can express fears and dreams, ideas and visions for the future we want
Watch the video from the Danish People's Meeting SDG Platform 2022:
