Have you heard? 📣 #YIF is looking for a Festival Administrator for the 2025 Youth Imagine the Future Festival! This is a fixed-term contract beginning end of October through January. For more details & to apply, visit our website: youthimaginethefuture.com/administrato... Please spread the word! 💛

Minotaur is hosting the last stop of the #YIF Travelling Show this year! If you're downtown, take a peek in its display to see some of the art pieces submitted by our local youth artists for last year's festival. 🤩

Have you booked your free Youth Imagine the Future workshop yet? We still have some spots available for September! Workshops are geared towards students in grades 7-8 and high school in the #KFLA region. Email us today at youthimaginefuture [at] gmail.com to get started! 💛 #imagineabetterfuture

Teachers of #KFLA: setting up for the upcoming school year? You can book a free Youth Imagine the Future workshop (for students in grades 7-8 or high school) by emailing us at youthimaginefuture [at] gmail.com!

Looking back at the 2024 #YIF Festival submissions has us excited for this year’s edition! Stay tuned for more details about the 2025 Festival in the coming months. We can’t wait to be inspired once more by youth’s art & stories imagining a better, more eco-friendly future! 💛 #climateaction

We’re back again for another spotlight on our 2024 #YIF Festival! We loved seeing this inspiring art and reading youth’s short stories at the beautiful Kingston School of Art's Window Art Gallery. 💛 #climateaction #KFLA

This month, #YIF will be sharing some joyful art from our 2024 Festival as a timeline-cleansing, happiness-inducing series of posts! Please enjoy these beautiful art pieces envisioning a better, eco-friendly future. 💛 You can find more photos at youthimaginethefuture.com! #climateaction #KFLA

This month, #YIF will be sharing some joyful art from our 2024 Festival as a timeline-cleansing, happiness-inducing series of posts! Please enjoy these beautiful art pieces envisioning a better, eco-friendly future. 💛 You can find more photos at youthimaginethefuture.com! #climateaction #KFLA

Did you miss the 2024 #YIF Festival? In addition to our “YIF Travelling Show”, where we showcase youth’s art submissions in local #KFLA businesses & institutions, you can view photos of youth’s art & read their short stories on our website (youthimaginethefuture.com > Previous Festivals). Enjoy! 💛

Teachers of #KFLA: interested in having #YIF visit your class? ✨ Sign up for a presentation in September by emailing us at youthimaginefuture [at] gmail. com. 💛

Our June 2025 newsletter went out recently to our subscribers! To keep abreast of the wonderful things #YIF is up to between festivals, give our newsletter a read: youth-imagine-the-future.beehiiv.com. Special thank you to Rebecca Carnevale for her help in setting this up! 💛

This coming Friday from 4-6PM EST, tune into CFRC 101.9fm for “Finding a Voice” with Bruce Kauffman to hear about our #YIF book reading at Novel Idea from a few weeks back! Jerri Jerreat and #YIF youth winner Jessi Paul treated the audience to wonderful readings of their work. 💛

Hello from the #YIF Board of Directors! The team was fortunate to hold their semi-annual meeting over a meal in Jerri and Walt’s beautiful backyard. We are excited about our upcoming plans for #YIF in its 2025 edition! ✨

#YIF team, you may be interested in the Online International Solarpunk Conference on JUNE 21! Young academics organize this conference each year, with speakers focusing on ways to promote sustainability and social justice in the world.

Don't miss our upcoming event at Novel Idea in Kingston! TOMORROW, Thursday June 12 at 7pm, YIF founder Jerri Jerreat will read from her new book "Through the Portal". 2024 Festival winner Jessi Paul will also read from their winning story! Come for the Solarpunk reading, stay for the community!

We have good news to share! YIF founder Jerri Jerreat was honoured with the Volunteer of the Year Award from the Retired Teachers of Ontario. RTO is a group of 85,000 retired educators whose mission is to support active living & social engagement in seniors. Many thanks to RTO for supporting YIF! 💛

Come enjoy a relaxing, hopeful, and uplifting evening of eco-fiction at Novel Idea in Kingston! #YIF founder Jerri Jerreat and #YIF 2024 Festival winner Jessi Paul will read from their award-winning short stories about a better future. We hope to see you there!

Congratulations to Queen's Imagines the Future for the launch of their online gallery! Organized by the Faculty of Education at Queen's, this event showcases hopeful art depicting a better, more eco-friendly future. You can peruse the art submissions at www.educarts.ca/webinar-regi...! 💛

Hey, #YIF family: you may be interested in this new community program for youth! The Sandy Pines Wildlife Center has launched a new educational program for grade 6-8 students: “Wildlife in a Warming Climate”. Educators can book classroom workshops to accompany the online lesson plan! 😊 #YGK

The #YIF Travelling Show is at the Juvenis Festival Storefront Art Gallery at the Cataraqui Town Centre! The festival (running April 23-May 4) offers art-based workshops, musicals, & projects led by Youth Project Leaders. You won't want to miss it! More at: www.bluecanoetheatrical.ca/2025-projects

A hearty congratulations to our #YIF 2024 Festival Story winners! Today, we highlight 3rd place winner Valerie Sun (“Sorrow Shared”; picture 1, middle), who received an award presented by Bridget Doherty from Providence Centre for Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation.

Join us in celebrating the #YIF 2024 Festival Story winners! Congratulations to 1st place winner Jessi Paul (“When It’s Colder Than It Should Be”; picture 1, 2nd from left), whose award was presented by Jo Matyas and Jon Dessau from the Kingston Community Credit Union.

#YIF is on the road! The YIF Travelling Show was at the Intergenerational Open Mic event at the Senior’s Center in February. We will also be at Kingston Music Office’s Youth #OpenMic events on April 27 and May 25 (1-3pm, Broom Factory)! Come support our local youth artists! 💛

This year, #YIF highlighted the efforts of a teacher who went above & beyond in motivating students to participate in Youth Imagine the Future! Joseph Shaw (art teacher @ Sydenham HS) received the inaugural Outstanding Teacher award at the 2024 Festival. Thank you for all you do for our local youth!

More Junior Art finalists in the #YIF 2024 festival! See 3rd (Taylor Saunders, “Peeling Back to Look Forward”), 4th (Ella Macauley, “Us vs. The Future”), and 5th (Chloe Meyer, “The Light to Come”; accepted by teacher Joseph Shaw) place winners receiving awards by Kingston councillor Wendy Stephen.

Let's celebrate the Junior Art finalists in the 2024 #YIF festival! 💛 Congrats to 1st place winner Rhea Hollingsworth (“Hope Lies Ahead”; picture 1, L) and 2nd place winner Jasper Lyon Wicke (“Growing Community”; picture 3, L! Awards were presented by Becca Carnevale of Queen’s Faculty of Education.

For the 2024 edition of the #YIF Festival, we asked KSOA gallery visitors to nominate their favourite piece... and Joyce Pu ("The Future of Agricultural Biotechnology") received the People's Choice award! Congratulations to Joyce on this inspiring work of art!

We are sharing more art from Senior Art finalists at the 2024 YIF Festival! Let's congratulate our 3rd place (Lisa Luckas, "Future Fashion"; picture 1, left), 4th place (Ellora Outwater, "Restoration"), and 5th place (Charlie McGowan, "A Step in the Right Direction"; picture 4, left) finalists. 💛

We are sharing the 2024 #YIF Festival winners' art over the next few weeks! Here are our first and second place Senior Art winners. Join us in congratulating Caitlin Ball ("Crowded Table"; picture 1, 2nd from right) and Clara VanderLaan ("Quilt of the Future"; picture 3, 1st from left)!

You won't want to miss #YIF's January 2025 newsletter: it's filled with great news, inspiring art, and exciting upcoming events! Click here to get your #YIF updates: https://buff.ly/4apTnjk. Thank you for your support! 💛

Jerri Jerreat represented #YIF beautifully at the Kingston Climate Change Symposium last Monday! Thank you to her fellow panelists and presenters for discussing this important topic so brilliantly. We also showcased inspiring art from the 2024 edition of the Youth Imagine the Future Festival! 💛

Great stories in this gorgeous hardcover. I’m so honoured that one is mine.

grist.org/project/citi... Fascinating ideas here! Share widely.

Autumn Peltier is one of my heroes. Look her up, speaking to the UN 2x, meeting the Prime Minister, fighting to protect water everywhere.

We asked youth to design a better future, and show us through art and solarpunk stories. Here is one future from a talented young artist. Look into it.