Held every May, Youth Week is a nationwide festival of events organised by young New Zealanders to celebrate the talents, passion and success of local young people. Youth Week recognises the amazing contributions and achievements of young people in New Zealand. The week inspires us to value, support, and affirm the diversity of young people in our society. We want Aotearoa to be a country where young people are vibrant and optimistic and are supported and encouraged to take up challenges.
Events are designed to encourage young people to take on challenges, share ideas and focus on the positive aspects of being young. The week also recognises the youth workers, youth service providers and others working with and for young people.
Shore Junction wish to link youth on the North Shore with each other to enable them to network and connect with one another in a non-threatening environment. We have been working with our Youth Engagement Group to develop this idea and they have identified that hosting a movie evening will appeal to most youth on the North Shore. Bringing together young people from different parts of the community, who may not otherwise meet.
The movie will be hosted at Berkeley Cinemas in Takapuna and prior to the movie starting, once the young people have found their seats. We will be running networking ‘games’ and activities within the theatre for the young people. The reason for this is to make the young people interact with others, not only their immediate group of friends, but the wider attendance of the movie event.
Everything we do at Shore Junction is co-designed with the young people in our community. Young people have been responsible for designing the marketing for the event and promoting the event amongst the North Shore community, co-ordinating registrations received and hosting the evening.
The young people on our youth engagement group will be the drivers of the event on the day, they will be leading the activities and running the ‘show’. Not only do the young people leading the event know the event was designed and facilitated by them directly, but the audience will realise the authenticity of the event – knowing it was for youth, by youth.
Tickets to the Shore Junction Youth Week event are available at $6.82 – Head to the Shore Junction Facebook page to purchase tickets!
