For the first time, the Kaya Kaya Street Festival will host something new: deeper conversations about dreams, and about how we live, work, and build community together. Not panel discussions, but mentortainment in the form of a game. Everyone present can take part! To enter, you need one thing: a photo of a place, person, or object in Otrobanda that inspires you.

On Saturday, August 23rd, Kaya Kaya, /Gide·Nuhs/ (by Steven de Lira), anthropologist and artist Juan Carlos Goilo, and CBS Curaçao will join forces. Together they launch the first version of a game about urban development: the Masterplan Game. At the same time, CBS will soft-launch their new Neighborhood Viewer, where everyone can see live insights about Otrobanda. All of this is designed to make visitors reflect on one important question:
What are your heart’s desires for the development of Otrobanda?

What is the Masterplan Game?
It is a playful and guided conversation game where youth, artists, and visitors reflect together on the past, present, and future of Otrobanda. Through humor and play, talking about personal growth becomes easier and safer.

“We want to test whether we can get people thinking — in a fun way — about who they are and what they want,” says Steven de Lira. “Because without inner growth, there is no sustainable neighborhood development.”

This pilot is part of a broader trajectory in which Kaya Kaya, /Gide·Nuhs/, and Juan Carlos are working together on both the future organization of Kaya Kaya and on fostering social and emotional development in the neighborhood. The Kaya Kaya management team and a project team of 16 people have already been trained in personal development and mentorship. The goal: to make Otrobanda a “mentor republic” by 2030 — a place of inspiration and healing on the island.

The activation at the festival is an important first step. The insights from this pilot will be used to attract larger sponsors and partners for the next phases of the movement.

“What Kaya Kaya has done with walls and streets, we now want to do with people: from the outside in,” says Juan Carlos Goilo.