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OUR NEXT EVENT:

BREAKWATER FESTIVAL 2026
FULL SCHEDULE: 

COMING SOON

​Breakwater Festival is an annual three‑day Estuary gathering designed to offer a respite from the turbulent tides of online exchange. Inspired by influential thinkers such as Paul Van der Klay, Jonathan Pageau, and John Vervaeke, the Estuary movement has sparked a vibrant, ongoing conversation that fosters honest dialogue, shared meaning‑making, and community building. While these conversations have flourished online, Breakwater Festival seeks to bring them into embodied, real‑world contexts by partnering with local Estuary groups to host interactive, in‑person gatherings. In doing so, we aim to create true harbors for meaningful conversation, collective sensemaking, and deep, lasting connection rooted in local communities.

 

FESTIVAL THEME: 

Cross Pollination: Conversing Across Religious Lines

Cross‑pollination plays a pivotal role in increasing the resilience, quality, and yield of crops. At this year’s Breakwater Festival, we explore how this dynamic plays out when beliefs encounter diversity. In an increasingly pluralistic world, how should we approach religious questions across difference? Does exchange deepen and strengthen what we hold sacred—or introduce tensions that diminish it? How do we discern when encounter builds resilience, and when it risks changing something essential? This festival invites us into that shared space: where difference is not avoided but engaged with honesty, curiosity, and care. Where encounter can both challenge and renew; and where something new may emerge.

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