Youth Speak Out is an annual education initiative run by Reconciliation Tasmania since 2018 celebrating the next generation’s views. Tasmanian students from Year 5–12 enter art, multimedia, speeches, letters, poems, or whole class projects expressing students’ views about reconciliation.

Last year, Reconciliation Tasmania and Libraries Tasmania partnered to showcase selected artworks and poetry from the last six years of Youth Speak Out in a special travelling exhibition.

Youth Speak Out: Travelling Exhibition was featured at Libraries Tasmania in the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania, nipaluna/Hobart from November 2023 until February this year. Around 14 pieces have now travelled north to Launceston Library with the exhibition running there on April 12, remaining until June 8. Then the 18 pieces made their way to the Devonport Library for a month and have now just been hung Burnie Library. If you’re in the area get along and see the amazing student works.

Students from Year 5 – Year 12 can enter Youth Speak Out now with art, multimedia, speeches, letters, poems or whole class projects expressing their views about reconciliation. Each year the theme follows the National Reconciliation Week (NRW) theme. Selected students are invited to Parliament and Government House to meet and present their work to the Premier, Ministers and the Governor.

The deadline is the end of October with presentations on November 21 in nipaluna/Hobart.

Enter here: https://rectas.com.au/youth-speak-out-entry-submission

Reconciliation Tasmania would like to thank supporters the Hobart Airport, Libraries Tasmania and MyState Bank Foundation.

Cover artwork: Amia Harback, Year 6 2022, The Cottage School