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Partners · 05 doors · the fork

Five doors for the people who back it.

A sponsor, a diplomatic mission, a newsroom, a public funder, and everybody who fits none of those. Each door opens on the page that answers it in full, and each of those pages says what is decided, what is still open, and where its numbers come from.

Pick a door Talk to a person

Our plan for 7–8 August 2027 at LeBreton Flats, subject to permits

Who is standing in each door
DoorWho it is for
SponsorsA company deciding a 2027 budget
EmbassiesA mission with a programme to send
MediaA newsroom that needs sourced facts
City & fundersPublic money and its reporting
Everybody elseIn-kind, venues, equipment, time

Pick the door you are standing in.

Every one of the five opens on a page written for that reader alone, and every one of them ends with a person's address.

Partners · 05 pages · current as of 29 August 2026

The pavilion avenue at blue hour, canvas walls tied back in yellow, red, green and indigo, strings of bulbs strung between the tents and the Peace Tower lit at the end of the walk.
The pavilion avenue at blue hour, canvas tied back, the Peace Tower lit at the end of the walk

One reply from a person on every one of these · we answer every application

01

Sponsors

A company backing the first edition. Five shapes of partnership, what each one carries, and how a deck gets written for you.
02

Embassies & cultural institutes

A mission sending a programme — artists, an exhibition, a workshop, a flight — alongside the community organisation that operates the pavilion.
03

Media

A journalist who needs facts with their sources under them, the pictures and the line they carry, and one person to call.
04

City & funders

A public funder or a city department: who is building this, what is decided, what has to be true before it runs, and how the first edition gets counted.
05

Everybody else

A warehouse, a printer with spare capacity, a lawyer with an afternoon, a school with a hall. One form, read by a person.

Two things to know before you write.

They are the same two on all five pages, so they are said once here.

The frame

Start with the door that fits.

A sponsorship conversation and a mission's programme both run on a longer clock than a festival weekend, which is why these pages are open a year before the gates are.

Back the first edition Send a programme