Dedicated to our value of collective formation and the inward journey, we will have a dedicated space for spiritual direction and formation. This space will be available free-of-cost for people of all religious and spiritual beliefs so that individuals and groups can deepen their connection and relationship with the Divine and Sacred. 

The Festival Center has long been a leader in training and mobilizing community leaders in the Washington DC area and across the country. Since the start of the pandemic, the influence and impact of our School for Liberation has grown considerably as hundreds each year attend our classes and teach-ins. This will be strengthened even more through our incubator space on the second floor. We will partner with grassroots organizations and think tanks to connect scholarly research and organizations so that they may mutually inform each other. The result will be stronger and more effective movements for justice. 

In keeping with the Festival Center’s original vision of the second floor being an “incubator space” for new ministries and new works to be birthed, we are creating a co-working space specifically for faith communities and start-up justice organizations that cannot afford market-rate office space in Washington, DC. Not only will they have a space to work and meet, we will partner with them and support their work of building movements for justice in practical and needed ways.