The mission of the Center of the World Festival is:

To provide a gathering point for a community to witness and participate in stories intended to explain and give meaning to human experience;

To provide education about the cultural significance of our geographical area;

To nourish a sense of community and rekindle a deep connection to the land that will encourage a stewardship mentality and promote local sustainability;

To promote the arts and community creativity as a force for bringing about social change;

To educate the community on issues of significance to it, such as conflict resolution;

To provide research and workshop opportunities for our community on environmentalism, nature, geography, and ecologically-aware communitas theater;

To broaden community recognition that our ecosystem is part of a cultural system and that our geographical area is inseparable from our history and success as a community;

To further our vision that theater, life, and ecology are symbiotic and interconnected as a complex system of communication and transformation;

To offer ongoing community-based events in the form of workshops, networking services, festivals, and the promotion of projects that further the vision of communitas theater;

To develop our local cultural tourism for sustainability by (1) showcasing the traditions, values and lifestyles of historical indigenous cultural communities (i.e. festivals, rituals), (2) incorporating the local members by training and employing them and in the process encouraging them to participate in the Festival activities.

To research and educate about the concept of Transformational Activism, the idea that people need to transform themselves internally as well in external action in order to create meaningful change in the world. This may be achieved through peacekeeping techniques like conflict resolution; through opening minds to new ideas, historical perspectives, and cultures; through exploring the transformational economics of how resources might flow in a sustainable local community; and, finally, through providing venues for collective creativity. This multilevel process, by creating deep connections between people, will tap into the power of mass collaboration in a way that transforms participants into more compassionate and environmentally aware community members.