Hello and welcome to #MYFest24! This is Equity Unbound’s third annual “Mid-Year Festival” (MYFest). Equity Unbound continues to co-create brave spaces and nurture a caring community for life-long-learners everywhere.
Equity Unbound will host this global open education festival virtually throughout June, July & August 2024.
Themes in MYFest24
In response to the effects of multidimensional exhaustion that many are experiencing, #MYFest24 will be a “recharge and renewal experience” exploring:
- Open educational practices and digital literacies, (featuring a sub-theme of: Artificial intelligence & critical AI literacies)
- Critical pedagogy, anti-oppressive education, and socially just care (featuring sub-themes of: a) Environmental and ecological dignity & b) Accessibility & sustainability)
- Community building and community reflection
- Wellbeing and joy
- Intergenerational learning
- Teaching and learning with imagination
- Emergent themes and formats evolving from participants in the community
We organize all of our Equity Unbound events with the ethos of Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) – a praxis that means our organizers and facilitators take seriously their responsibility to intentionally create spaces that feel welcoming to everyone, especially those farthest from justice. Read about how we have designed MYFest in this Inside Higher Ed article, or this briefer version of it.
Further information on particular sessions and dates will be constantly updated on our website under MYFest at a Glance. Please see the schedule from the past two years which has been archived (MYFest23 & MYFest22).
Who is this for?
Participants in MYFest may include higher education educators, K-12 teachers, educational developers of any kind (including learning/instructional designers/technologists), librarians, informal educators, coaches, facilitators, children and students of any age, and open learners everywhere.
Build-your-own-learning-journey!
Offerings will be interspersed throughout the three months, with a "buffet approach" (choose sessions that interest you) and "NO FOMO" principle: we will avoid scheduling overlapping events, so you can attend as many as you want within reasonable timezone limits.
The event is a "pay-what-you-can" and "attend-what-you-want/can”
Formats include one-off workshops, deep conversations in the style of Virtually Connecting hallway conversations (which try to capture the conference watercooler conversations often had in hallways between sessions), fun/joyful intergenerational ("all ages") sessions, and longer "tracks" where people will work together over several sessions to solidify and build on their learning in community. While some events will be announced as synchronous sessions, there will also be asynchronous material and activities, as well as a curation of artifacts and some video recordings.
Our website is still emerging at https://myfest.equityunbound.org but will have details of offerings, dates and times very soon inshallah, and will be continuously updated.
An explanation of ticket options
We are committed to making this financially accessible to anyone who would like to attend. This is why we have a full ticket price for those who have funding or can afford to pay, but we are also making it straightforward for those only able to pay half or a third of the registration fees. Also, if you are a student, adjunct, from an emerging economy, or unable to pay for whatever reason, there is a "free" option (but please only sign up for this if you truly plan to attend sessions because we have limited spaces). We would also like to encourage those who can afford to, to "sponsor" others or donate to Equity Unbound in order to help make Equity Unbound more sustainable.
If you have several people from the same institution registering and would like to get a group discount, please email unboundeq@gmail.com to arrange for a promo code.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email us unboundeq@gmail.com
