# MTFest25 (Mid Year Festival) Starts Soon: Get a Free Taste May 29
**URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/mtfest25-mid-year-festival-starts-soon-get-a-free-taste-may-29/7691
**Category:** Events
**Created:** [May 23, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/mtfest25-mid-year-festival-starts-soon-get-a-free-taste-may-29/7691 "2025-05-23T19:41:13Z")
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/mtfest25-mid-year-festival-starts-soon-get-a-free-taste-may-29/7691/1 "2025-05-23T19:41:13Z")
MYFest25 is the fourth annual “Mid-Year Festival” offered by [Equity Unbound](https://equityunbound.org/) as an effort to co-create brave spaces and nurture a caring community for life-long-learners everywhere.
[](https://myfest.equityunbound.org/)
This global open education festival is hosted virtually throughout **June, July & August 2025.**
Join us Thursday May 29th at 7pm Cairo (4pm UTC, 12pm EDT) for a “Taste of MYFest25” session. Meet others from the community and learn more about what [Mid-Year Festival](https://myfest.equityunbound.org/) is all about, share your hopes and expectations, and ask any questions you have.
📅 **When:** (your local time) 2025-05-29T16:00:00Z→2025-05-29T17:00:00Z
🖊 **Participate:** [Register](https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/soTBgaI6SgepRObjslecuQ)
📺 **Watch:** Zoom link provided with registration
🔗 **Info:** [https://myfest.equityunbound.org/](https://myfest.equityunbound.org/)
I’ve been part of MyFest every year and can vouch that its a most flexible approach to professional (and human) development in a format of pretty much pick and choose what and how to participate. There are many live sessions plus ongoing asynchronous activities, and countless means to connect with colleagues.
Or officially described –
> – a three-month celebration of community, care, and co-created learning. This virtual, global learning festival runs **June, July, and August 2025** , with sessions and activities designed to recharge, renew, and reconnect us during challenging times.
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> At its heart, MYFest25 is an invitation to **pause, reflect, and reimagine** education and connection in a way that centers **social justice, imagination, wellbeing and joy**.
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> MYFest25 is [different](https://i2insights.org/2022/10/04/effective-online-conferences/) from most online conferences. It is a **build-your-own-learning journey** experience, offering a rich “buffet” of sessions—we will avoid scheduling overlapping sessions—so you can join what you want, when you want, with **no FOMO** (Fear of Missing Out).
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> All sessions are grounded in our ethos of [Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH)](https://myfest.equityunbound.org/intentionally-equitable-hospitality/) – a praxis that means our organizers and facilitators take seriously their responsibility to intentionally create spaces that feel **welcoming, inclusive, and caring** , especially for those farthest from justice. Read about how we have designed MYFest in this[Inside Higher Ed article,](https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/08/24/building-community-online-conferences-events-opinion) or this[briefer version of it](https://i2insights.org/2022/10/04/effective-online-conferences/).
There is a registration fee for MyFest, but in the spirit of inclusion, Equity Unbound is committed to making MYFest25 financially accessible for anyone who would like to attend. Registration follows a **“pay what you can”** model
See [more details about MyFest25 and registration information](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/myfest25-mid-year-festival-2025-tickets-1362766353849).
Take advantage of [the Taste Test on May 29]([https://myfest.equityunbound.org/](https://myfest.equityunbound.org/)]([https://myfest.equityunbound.org/](https://myfest.equityunbound.org/)), or ask any questions here about why/how to be part of MyFest25 - most likely @mahabali will be here quickly to respond.
I’m dedicating chunks of my energy over the next three months to MyFest and would love to see strong participation from the OEGlobal community.
_This is an event offered by and for the open education community. If you are logged into OEG Connect, return to the [main OE Events space](https://connect.oeglobal.org/c/events/20) where you can add your own event as a new topic_
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### Author:  [@geonz](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/geonz)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/mtfest25-mid-year-festival-starts-soon-get-a-free-taste-may-29/7691/2 "2025-05-23T20:41:55Z")
Yesterday was the synchronous part of the OpenCon\_Ohio conference,
I was delightfully surprised that sessions actually did connect to my world 🙂 There was a session 'Care + Open Practices = Hope" and I thought oh, what will this be… and… it included how to bring folks in and make collaborating work, which is … exactly where I am.
It inspires me to be willing to explore MTFest25 🙂
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/mtfest25-mid-year-festival-starts-soon-get-a-free-taste-may-29/7691/3 "2025-05-23T21:23:12Z")
I can guarantee you will find that intersection of Care and Open Practices ay MyFest, Sue!
You can see yourself at the May 29 tasting.