Global Citizen Festival 2026 Canceled Due to Extreme Weather in NYC | Simply Jared

The 2026 Global Citizen Festival has been canceled.

The annual occasion, which was scheduled to happen on Saturday, September 26 at Central Park in New York City, has been canceled as a result of excessive climate forecast for the East Coast this weekend.

The day earlier than the occasion, Global Citizen launched an announcement explaining the cancellation.

Read their assertion:

Dear Global Citizens,

Due to the acute climate forecast for New York City this weekend, we’ve made the troublesome choice, in session with the City of New York and NYC Parks, to cancel this yr’s Global Citizen Festival.

Forecasts predict harmful circumstances and circumstances during which we can not safely deliver tens of hundreds of Global Citizens, artists, crew, distributors, companions, and employees onto the Great Lawn, not to mention the entire tools required. Safety has to return first. This is the primary time in 14 years we’ve needed to cancel. We have spent this week working by numerous contingencies, which have been in the end not doable, and cancelling is a choice we’ve not taken calmly. 

Over the final six weeks, Global Citizens took 3.5 million actions that secured $208.8 million in monetary commitments, which is able to impression greater than 9.5 million folks. These commitments will:

• Help greater than 2 million kids entry training and keep in class.
• Support 7.5 million folks, together with smallholder farmers, girls, youth, and indigenous communities.

Major commitments embody:

• Ireland and Canada dedicated $151.6 million to assist kids get in and keep in class.
• Burundi, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Guinea, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe, the Minderoo Foundation, and the Green Climate Fund will assist small farming companies. 

If you bought tickets to the Festival, your refunds might be processed mechanically. If you made a donation to safe your ticket, you possibly can have this refunded, too. You will obtain an e-mail at present that lays out your choices. 

The Festival is sooner or later, however the actions you took and the impression you created will attain far past Central Park. Conflict, excessive climate, and rising prices are forcing thousands and thousands of households from their houses, disrupting training, threatening meals provides and pushing communities again into excessive poverty, however we’ve seen what is feasible after we take motion collectively.

Together, we’ve invested time, power, and hope into the motion. You took motion to earn your tickets. You made plans, booked journey, and in lots of instances got here to New York from throughout the nation and across the global community to be with us in Central Park, and we’re sincerely grateful to your dedication to our mission. 

Food that was as a consequence of be out there on the Festival might be donated to native organizations serving the folks of New York City. 

We are enormously happy with what we’ve achieved collectively this yr – one of the crucial impactful years for our motion across the global community – and we’re deeply grateful to each artist, global community chief, accomplice, crew member, vendor, international citizen, and our staff.

We might be again in Central Park subsequent yr. We can’t wait so that you can be there with us. 

Hosted by Hugh Jackman, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean have been scheduled to headline this yr’s occasion. Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey, and Alicia Keys have been additionally set to carry out.

Global Citizen Festival is held yearly and calls on global community leaders to mobilize on points within the international motion to combat excessive poverty.

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