Journal · section 06 · open all year
This is where the other three hundred and sixty-three days go. News about building the festival, long reads about the people who feed and dress and drum this city, and a guide to where you can find all of it between Augusts. Everything published here is written to stay useful long after the tents come down.
One piece live · news and long reads on a fortnightly rhythm from autumn 2026 · the guide opens winter 2027
A festival site made of a poster and a form answers questions for one month a year. Eleven months later the search engines stop coming, and the next edition has to buy its audience back with advertising. This journal is the fix. It is also the public record of how the festival gets built, kept while the building is happening.
Section 06 · the year-round engine
Four jobs · all four run whether or not the permits come through
A journal that publishes whenever somebody remembers is a dead journal. Here is the schedule, strand by strand, with the month each one opens. A date that slips gets written down here on the day it slips.
Planned · the first edition of the festival is 2027
| Strand | What it does | How often | Opens |
|---|---|---|---|
| News | Shows the festival moving | Every two weeks, and on the day something happens | Autumn 2026 |
| Stories | Answers what people search for all year | A long read every two weeks | Autumn 2026 |
| Ottawa guide | Keeps the site useful between Augusts | Rolling, updated as places change | Winter 2027 |
| Projects | Gives each initiative its own address | As each one starts | As they start |
The first one answers the question that opens every conversation with a funder, an embassy or a community leader. It links into Cultures, and Cultures links back.
Live now · Stories · 27 August 2026
Canadian anti-spam law asks for consent for each type of mailing, so we ask for each type. Tick the strands you want and leave the rest alone. Every letter carries one-click unsubscribe, and unsubscribing from one list leaves the others running.
CASL · consent recorded per list, with the date and the wording you agreed to
What moved this fortnight: an application filed, a community signed on, a grant answered, a venue confirmed or refused. Short pieces, published on the day, and the ones reporting a setback go out the same as the rest.
Strand 01 · every two weeks from autumn 2026, and on the day something happens
Long reads about one person, one craft, one kitchen, one street. Whoever cooks, sews, plays or teaches in this city gets the room to explain it in their own words, and every piece is read and approved by the person it is about before it goes out.
Strand 02 · a long read every two weeks from autumn 2026
Where to eat, what to hear, where a community actually gathers — arranged by neighbourhood and kept current. This is the half of the site that earns its keep in February, when the festival is a year away in both directions.
Strand 03 · opens winter 2027 · updated rolling
An initiative gets its own address the day it starts. Its news runs here. Nothing has started yet, so there is nothing to show.
Strand 04 · as each one starts · zero running today
Journal · every piece points into the rest of the site
A cook, a tailor, a choir, a Saturday school, a shop that has sold the same spice for twenty years. Send us the name and why it matters, and we will come and ask them ourselves.