GLOBAL DONUT DAY
What is Global Donut Day?
Global Donut Day #GlobalDonutDay is a day of local, community-led festivals, connected throughout the world, centred around Doughnut Economics.
This is a moment for us all to come together, to learn, to share, to meet new people, to inspire and be inspired as we explore what it means for humanity to thrive in the 21st century.
There will be a Global Online Programme of talks, workshops, panel discussions, art, games and celebration, alongside over 30 local Donut festivals.
What can you expect?
Global Donut Day is an opportunity for you to:
- Learn about the ideas of Doughnut Economics through an online programme of talks
- Learn about the good things already happening in your place and the people, groups and organisations making them happen
- Make new connections - as well as deepen existing relationships - and find allies in your work and areas of interest
- Be inspired and identify the next steps you can take towards a thriving future for all
Local Donut Festivals
From Melbourne to Mumbai, Beijing to Vermont, over thirty places across the world are hosting local donut festivals, making new connections and championing pioneers of change.
The Global Online Programme
The Global Online Programme is a collection of events offered by local event organisers and two programmes of sessions hosted by the DEAL Team. It will be updated every few days, so come back and check for new events as and when they appear.
There will be many times and moments for connection within the events and there will be a Global Café that will run the length of the day from 7am to 1am UTC, which will be a space to meet others, ask questions, mark yourself on the global map, and even make some collective art together!
Event names, timings and hosts are listed below and full details of each event, including zoom links, will be available closer to the day. Simply click the link below to register your attendance to receive these details when they are available.
All DEAL sessions will be recorded and made available soon after. We are aiming to make the DEAL programme 1 available on the day, before the start of the DEAL programme 2.
All DEAL sessions will be BSL (British Sign Language) interpreted as well as various live language translation (details to be confirmed). See below for further accessibility information.
Programme of events (UK time)
07:00 - 01:00 - Global Cafe. An online space for meeting others, asking questions and making art together!
DEAL Programme 1
9:00 - 9:30 - Global Connections. Hosted by the DEAL team.
9:35 - 10:25 - An Introduction to Doughnut Economics. Hosted by Kate Raworth.
9:35 - 10:25 - Doughnut Economics for Business: Insights and Experiences From Practitioners. Hosted by Erinch Sahan.
10:35 - 11:25 - Ideas into Action: Organising as a Group or Network for Change. Hosted by Rob Shorter.
10:35 - 11:25 - The Four Lenses of Doughnut Unrolled: Practical Possibilities for Action. Hosted by Leonora Grcheva.
11:30 - 12:00 - Global Connections. Hosted by the DEAL team.
12:00 - 13:00 - Learning from C40 Thriving Cities Initiative in Glasgow and Barcelona. Hosted by London Doughnut Economics Coalition.
13:00 - 14:00 - ACT! as a Doughnut. Downscaling the doughnut for youth. Hosted by MasterPeace, The Netherlands.
13:00 - 14:30 - The Upgraded Brussels Donut Portrait. Hosted by Brussels Donut.
13:00 - 14:30 - Encontro de visões e sonhos: Donut na prática // Meeting of visions and dreams: Donut in practice. Hosted by Donut Brasil.
13:00 - 17:00 - The Rekalibrator: three spiral labrynths of connection. Hosted by Boro Doughnut, Middlesbrough.
14:00-15:00 - Strategic Overview of CIVIC SQUARE our Compass for Neighbourhood Transition(s). Hosted by CIVIC SQUARE, Ladywood, Birmingham.
15:00 - 17:00 - Special Screening of BIOCÊNTRICOS Documentary. Hosted by Donut Brasil.
15:00-16:00 - Building a Neighbourhood Portrait of Place - An Evolving Methodology. Hosted by CIVIC SQUARE, Ladywood, Birmingham.
15:00-16:00 - The Future is Already Here: Surfacing Green Shoots of a New Economy in your Place. Hosted by CIVIC SQUARE, Ladywood, Birmingham.
16:00-18:00 - A Just Transition for the Built Environment: social and ecological foundations through the Doughnut. Hosted by CIVIC SQUARE, Ladywood, Birmingham.
17:00 - 17:50 - Panel discussion about the BIOCÊNTRICOS documentary with Janine Benyus, Kate Raworth, Fernanda Figueiredo. Hosted by Donut Brasil.
DEAL Programme 2
18:00 - 18:30 - Global Connections. Hosted by the DEAL team.
18:35 - 19:25 - An Introduction to Doughnut Economics. Hosted by Kate Raworth.
18:35 - 19:25 - Doughnut Economics and Education. Hosted by Carolina Escobar-Tello.
19:35 - 20:25 - Meeting the Needs of All: Tuning in to Our Needs, Yours and Mine. Hosted by Rebecca Lee.
19:35 - 20:25 - From GDP Growth To Thriving In The Doughnut. A conversation between Andrew Fanning and Timothée Parrique.
11:30 - 12:00 - Global Connections. Hosted by the DEAL team.
01:30 - 02:30 (14th) - Doughnuts Down Under: creating Doughnut cities in Australia. Hosted by Regen Melbourne & Regen Sydney.
Accessibility
Global Donut Day aspires to be as accessible as possible. DEAL is working with the Universal Recognition movement - a building community of Disabled accessibility consultants - to improve the accessibility of Global Donut Day. Global Donut Day recognises that as a network of many local organisers and global communities we are only at the beginning of this learning journey. We do not yet have all the access provisions in place that we would like to. Access is something that we are however continuing to invest in together and to authentically develop. Please check back here for updates on what access provisions are currently available for Global Donut Day 2023.
Current Access Provisions:
A global online programme
Recorded online sessions that will be available to watch at a later date
A co-created Accessibility Building Block kit for local organisers (due to be published in a couple of weeks time)
A Global Donut Day Branding guide for local organisers with in-built accessibility information (please refer to this for alt-text for frequently used logos)
We also acknowledge that accessibility is something that can always be improved upon. For our first Global Donut Day, we are learning as we go. On the registration form there is a section for you to let us know if you have any specific access needs for attending the online programme. DEAL is also currently working with our community of local organisers to provide translations for the global online programme.
