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Following the Creative Open Call launch, the Commonwealth Foundation will host a stakeholders’ engagement session bringing together civil society leaders, partners, and key actors to discuss priorities for the Commonwealth People’s Forum 2026. 

The session will provide space to explore key thematic questions and gather feedback to inform next steps. Participants will also discuss how stakeholders can remain engaged and contribute to shaping the People’s Forum in the months ahead.

The Commonwealth Foundation will unveil a major new creative initiative—How to Make a Commonwealth Quilt’—for the first time in the Caribbean, part of the creative vision that will shape the Commonwealth People’s Forum 2026.  

This hybrid launch event will unveil the official creative prompt and outline of how artists across the Commonwealth can contribute to the Forum through a wide range of artistic forms. The programme will include remarks from regional and Commonwealth leaders, a creative performance, and a call to action for artists and creative sector organisations, followed by media engagement.