Empower: Youth, Arts and Activism

An HIV/AIDS Activism Manual for Youth by Youth

Button-Making, Fashion, YouTube Projects, Film-Making, Safer Sex Organizing, and More!

The manual, Empower: Youth, Arts, and Activism, is designed for youth by youth, and features a diverse range of projects put forward by passionate, inspiring and fired-up individuals committed to social change. Each individual, group and project is committed to challenging social and structural issues around HIV and AIDS. From HIV positive youth fighting stigma to peer education projects and safer sex parties, this manual honours the work of communities creating spaces to talk about the issues that matter most. And, each project is accomplished with the use of art!

Youth Action Forum Magazine

Check out the latest issue of Youth Action Forum Magazine for Youth Week 2009! Featuring youth activists Kimia Ghomeshi, Che Kothari, and Amanda Sissons, plus a full Youth Week Schedule, the BCBF Action Kit, and articles on a number of awesome topics relating to youth activism through the arts. Big thanks to Josh Barndt our Youth Week Coordinator and the Forum Editorial Collective for helping get this issue out to print! Click the image to start the download! To read the PDF it is best to use Adobe Acrobat Reader which is available for free download here.

The Creative Resistance issue of Youth Action Forum Magazine came out in Fall 2007. The issue was edited, organized and designed by Lisa Campbell in conjunction with a team of youth volunteers. The issue includes articles on Youth Video Projects, Spoken Word, French Rap, Electronic Resistance, Dancing Activism, Poetry and much more. All 64 pages of glory online in PDF form for your special viewing. Click the image to start the download!