





Young Water Speaks is a national youth storytelling project.
Youth will get inspired by local waterscapes, culture and history through pre-workshop activities in engaging videos and workbooks, and online storytelling workshops led by Waterlution’s trained Youth Advisory Board volunteers. Canadian youth participating in storytelling training workshops will also be invited to engaging sessions with experienced and emerging storytellers.
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Young Water Speaks connected with over 2500 youth across Canada through these storytelling workshops and special events with diverse storytelling artists such as Kalvonix, Rosemary Hu, Grandmother Kim Wheatley, Allie Rougeot, and many others. Youth submitted stories for the YWS contest as videos, songs, short These stories are being featured in traveling exhibits across Canada from July 2021 to February 2022.
Virtual workshops run between 1.5 hours for grades 3-8 and 2.5 hours for grades 9-12. They will be led by a Youth Advisor who will help students learn about different elements of storytelling including generating story ideas based on family or cultural history, and developing a main character. The workshop will also showcase different ways students can write or create their own stories.
Actua, Alberta Lake Management Society, Anishinabek Nation, Bow River Basin Council, Cariboo Regional Library – Williams Lake Branch, Ecology North, Educational News CAN, Environnement Jeunesse, Fredericton Arts Alliance, Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Center Edmonton, Inside Education, Lesser Slave Watershed Council, LUSH, Milk River Watershed Council, OwlCrate, Patagonia Toronto, Red Deer River Watershed, Safe Drinking Water Foundation, Shaw Centre for Salish Sea, Stephen Leacock Foundation, Sustainable Youth Canada (Montreal), World Youth Parliament for Water, & Youth Fusion
Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea, Port Moody Arts Centre, Yukon Arts Centre, Lesser Slave Watershed Council, Lakeland Industry and Community Association, Edmonton Heritage Festival Association, Southern Alberta Institute of Technologies, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Science North, THE MUSEUM Kitchener
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