Local Prosperity 2026 | Tatamagouche, NS | August 6-9, 2026 | GET TICKETS
Festival & Conference
Tatamagouche, NS | August 6-9, 2026 | GET TICKETS
At this four-day action packed festival and conference you can attend workshops, learn hands-on skills, hear from keynote speakers, and celebrate by dancing the night away.
Through community-led projects, supportive policy, and collaborations among organizations, communities are doing the work to keep wealth rooted locally. Come join us to learn and share how communities can create good quality local jobs, own their own land and assets, control their own food systems, and develop worker-led businesses.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Hear from our line up of speakers representing regional groups across the world and in Mi’kma’ki about how they are building local community wealth.
WORKSHOPS
These are more than just panels! More than 30 session for engaged learning and sharing from local people about local solutions at the community level.
UP!SKILLING
Community-led skill shares of hands-on, household level crafts, trades, or skill. Examples include seed saving, leather making, and straw hat making.
LIVE MUSIC
We are showcasing a series of music and entertainment including live music, barn dancing, buskers, and more. Local Prosperity is a celebration!
Topics + Themes
Food sovereignty, local housing, community investment, renewable energy, mutual aid, arts & culture, the commons/the sharing economy, Indigenous economic development, fair work, democratic ownership of the economy, progressive procurement, and more!
A conference all about Community Wealth Building and Relocalization.
Programing at Local Prosperity is has sessions in all 5 key sectors, representing the areas that communities create, own, and participate in their own futures. It’s already happening: come learn how!
ENABLING INFASTRUCTURE
Community owned utilities, rural transportation solutions, transition towns. Communities are taking back their infrastructure.
CARE ECONOMY & WELLBEING
Mutual aid projects, community fridges, daycare co-operatives, innovative procurement from schools and hospitals. Economies that serve local community.
FOOD SYSTEMS & FISHERIES
Co-operative led farms and fisheries, food hubs, redefining how we grow and circulate food, supporting migrant workers.
CULTURAL PRODUCTION
Skills and crafts that celebrates our region and brings joy and meaning to our lives. Community-led tourism meets local initiatives.
HOUSING & CONSTRUCTION
Creating affordable housing that responds to the people and planet. Community land trusts and housing co-ops: when grassroots creativity and policy meet.
This festival is for…
anyone interested in resilient local communities and economies
Whether you’re an individual, non-profit representative, community organizer or activist, student, academic/researcher, elected official or government staff, or a business owner – join us for part or all of this celebration of localization and the place-based, community-scale & centered economies and communities around Mi’kma’ki (Atlantic Canada). We welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, from children to elders.
