First DMV Democracy Festival!

Dance, flowers, marijuana, beer and wine all get festivals. If democracy is so important to Americans, why don’t we have democracy festivals every year in towns and cities across the country? If Washington DC is the capital of our country, and democracy is central to American freedom, why do we have folk life, cherry blossom and kite flying festivals but no national Democracy Festival?

In this historic election year, at a time of challenge to democracy, Learning Life, a DC-based educational nonprofit, is organizing a first DMV Democracy Festival or DemFest on Saturday, October 26, 1-6pm, at Friendship Collegiate Academy in Washington, DC, across the street from the Minnesota Ave Metro Train Station on the Orange Line. If you're in the DC area and would like to attend, please mark your calendar, and RSVP here to get updates: https://bit.ly/DMVDemFestRSVP

We're organizing DemFest in order to (a) help make democracy more fun, less fractious, (b) widen participation, (c) promote civic learning, and (d) strengthen community by fostering collaboration between the DC region's arts, education, business, philanthropic, and democracy sectors.

DemFest will have a range of engaging activities for youth and adults, including arts performances, student poster exhibits, democracy gaming, skill-building workshops, discussions, a youth citizen assembly on mental health, and a democracy market.

DemFest tickets are deliberately cheap:

Online through Oct 23: $3 for youth 17 and under, $5 for adults 18+

At DemFest: $5 for youth, $7 for adults

Purchase your tickets in advance here: https://app.aplos.com/aws/events/learning_life_dmv_democracy_festival

More about DemFest here:

https://learninglife.info/demfest/

Event Venue

Friendship Collegiate School, 4095 Minnesota Avenue Northeast, Washington, United States