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Community Festival

June 26-28, 2026

Applications

Entertainment Applications

If what you're looking to do happens on a stage, you should apply here. This includes:

  • Bands & Musical Performers
  • Speakers
  • Workshops
  • Discussion Panels
  • Music
  • MCs
  • Performance Arts
  • Healing Arts
  • Comic
  • Dance

The deadline for 2026 performer applications has now passed.

Street Fair Applications

Street fair applications are due by 4/20 every year.

Check back early next year to apply for a Community Organization, Vendor, or Small Foods Booth

Community Grants Application

Have a project that would be a good fit for our Grants Program? Apply for our annual Grants Program in 2027.

The 2026 ComFest grant application deadline has passed. Recipients will be announced at the annual Membership Meeting on May 14.

Grant recipients from previous years

Volunteer Applications

The sign-up page to help make the 2026 festival happen is open now through the festival weekend (June 26-28)

Volunteer now here or learn more about the various ways you can be a part of ComFest here.

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Happy ComFest!

Welcome to Community Festival 2026! For 54 years, ComFest has been the progressive heartbeat of Columbus and central Ohio.

ComFest is a free event, powered by Community and sustained without corporate sponsors. Featuring the very best local music, progressive political activism and community organizing, local artisans and craftspeople and your favorite summer foods, ComFest brings the community together.

ComFest has nurtured the Columbus arts and entertainment scene, nourished small businesses, energized generations of community activists, and positioned progressive ideals front and center in our growing city.

The costs to put on this extraordinary event increase every year. Whether its permits, safety and security, trash and recycling supplies, stages and sound equipment, libations or any number of expenses, the costs of putting on this free and all volunteer weekend continue to outrun the revenues.

We’d like to take a moment to ask you to consider supporting ComFest financially. Now more than ever, this unique and vital event must be here for the next generation of ComFesters and your support can ensure the legacy begun 54 years ago lives on.

Thank you for being here: For volunteering, for supporting local music, for purchasing ComFest beverages, for shopping at Street Fair, and for signing up to protect the principles and values we all stand and fight for.

Please click here to keep the “Party with a Purpose” going strong.
Have a great ComFest.