Global Donut Days 2026

Global Donut Days 2026 is a five-day, community-led festival taking place online and in person around the world, centred on Doughnut Economics.

The festival is a time when the DEAL community worldwide shares ideas, exchanges experiences and explores what putting Doughnut Economics into practice looks like in different places and contexts.

This year there are events about cities, land and food, who gets to make decisions, ancestral economies and indigenous voices, art and imagination – to name just a few.

Join us online or in-person from 20–24 October 2026 to hear from the global DEAL community.

Image of a group of people at a Global Donut Days event in 2025. People in the image are holding up paper/cardboard doughnuts in yellow and blue. There is a banner that says "O Clima e de acao" above the group

Online programme

Global Donut Days is made by a global community of the people already putting Doughnut Economics into practice. That includes people applying the ideas in their neighbourhood, across their city, region and nation, and people collaborating globally on the topics of common interest from ancestral wisdom to art and imagination.

View the full online programme here

See and register for the individual events below.

Join the opening session

Opening Global Donut Days is “DEAL Intersections: where themes meet to cultivate transformation”.

In this session the DEAL team will host a conversion that brings into focus the seven themes of Doughnut Economics in action, highlighting the connections between the themes, sharing the latest Doughnut Economics tools, and talking about the questions and challenges coming up in practice right now.

The session will also include time to talk with the DEAL team, ask questions and share your own experiences of putting Doughnut Economics into practice where you are.

Click here to register

Click here to register

Share with your community

Would your community be interested in Global Donut Days 2026? If so, we’d love you to share it with them.

We’ve created a communications pack that includes ready-to-use copy and visuals to share in your social media or newsletters. Feel free to use it and share across your networks.

GDD 2026 Comms pack here

GDD 2026 Comms pack here

Check out the photos

Take a look at photos shared by the DEAL Community during previous Global Donut Days and keep an eye out for what's happening during Global Donut Days 2026.

Are you hosting a GDD event this October? We'd love to see it! Share a photo from your event on the DEAL Photo Stream using the hashtag #global-donut-days.