Envisioning Our Future - an International Youth Day Event

 Are you a young local creative?

Do you want your art to have a political impact?

We want to see your vision!

Come to the Cove Meeting Room at Azure Beach Public Library on 12 August 2025 at 4:15 pm (for a start time of 4:30pm) to join a collaborative art-making session with other young creatives. 

[ https://social.desa.un.or/issues/youth/events/iyd2025]

To celebrate International Youth Day, you and your peers will create a 3-panel artwork about the future you want to live in. Your artwork will be displayed in Azure Beach Town Hall.

[https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/young-people-drawing-into-painting-workshop-practical-15-19]

You’ll be supported by local mural and mixed-media collage artist Susie Haynes to deliver three pieces you’ll be proud to display. You’ll also collaborate to prepare an artist statement that will be hung with the work to ensure your message is clear to your community.

Basic materials will be provided free of charge, but bring anything you like to create with – photos, fabric, your favourite acrylic/watercolour paint – and tell a friend!

Get your tickets here.

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See you there!

[Suri Holmes]

Digital Pathways Lab @ Azure Beach Library

💾 Digital Pathways Lab 💾 

An Interactive Sustainable Technology Workshop  

Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/10246637@N04/8066580519

Come join us at Azure Beach Library to learn about sustainable processes, and share your ideas to help  make the library more sustainable for International Youth Day! All you need to bring is your brain, we'll supply everything else!

Where - Azure Beach Library, Large Meeting Room
When - 12/08/2024, 4pm - 5:30pm

Who - Young People Aged 15-24

The event is entirely free, but booking is required.

BOOK HERE

During this event, you will be guided by a local computer science educator on what the library is currently doing to stay digitally sustainable, and some other sustainable processes that companies and people are using worldwide. After that, we want to hear your suggestions for sustainability! Azure Beach Library is always looking for community input, and we would love to hear your ideas and what we can do better, especially surrounding our sustainable digital practices. Your ideas and thoughts are incredible valuable to us, and we always want to do better.

For more information, contact us at Azure Beach Library! 
(2) 4555 8555

By Corbin Hancock

Painted Plastic Playtime

 

2-3:30pm    |  12/08/2024 

🌊Azure Beach Library Courtyard🌊

 

🌈Come play with Plastics and Paints at the Azure Beach library! One of our delightful staff will help you sculpt with polystyrene and some fun funky moulds and paint! Come away with your own entertaining sculptures! Partnered with International Youth Day! Find out more here!🌈

 https://social.desa.un.org/Issues/Youth/events/international-youth-day-2024

   PPP/eventbritebooking.com.au     

Free event | Max 25 participants so act now

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🎉created by joyful spherical creature 🎉

 

Blog by Gabriel O'Sullivan 

International Youth Day event - Upcycling Creativity Workshop

 

 🌟 “Reimagine. Reuse. Recreate!” 

Unleash Your Inner Creator at Our Upcycling Workshop!

On 12 August 2025, we’re celebrating International Youth Day with a hands-on, eco-inspired workshop designed to spark creativity, sustainability, and innovation among young people.

📅 Event Details

🗓 Date: Tuesday, 12 August 2025
⏰ Time: 17:00 PM – 18:30 PM
📍 Location: Cove Meeting Room, inside the library building
🎟 Bookings: Free but essential
👉 Reserve your place today at the library service desk or through our online booking system.

♻️ About the Workshop

Join us for Upcycling Creativity, a vibrant youth workshop where everyday discarded items are transformed into meaningful, artistic, or useful creations. Participants will explore how to turn textiles, jars, paper, plastics, and other recyclable materials into bags, décor, stationery, or artwork.

This workshop encourages creativity while raising awareness about sustainable living and reducing environmental waste. All materials are provided, and participants are welcome to bring recyclable items from home.

🧠 Why Upcycling?

Upcycling allows young people to express themselves creatively while learning practical sustainability skills. It reduces waste, saves resources, and gives old items a new life. Want to learn more about upcycling and the circular economy?

➡️ Check out this introductory guide to sustainable reuse from the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Image credit: “Upcycled crafts materials,” Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

✨ Don’t Miss It!

Bring your ideas and your imagination as we celebrate youth creativity and environmental action.

Let’s work together to reimagine waste and co-create a sustainable future!

Lijia LI

Your Voice Matters – Youth Empowerment for a Sustainable Future

Photo by Iñaki del Olmo

Are you interested in participating in legal, political, and social matters in your community? Do you want to see change in today's society? This International Youth Day, join us at Azure Beach Library for a fun and empowering talk for young people who care about their future and want to make the world a better place.

📅 Date: Tuesday, August 12

🕗 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

📍 Location: Azure Beach Library – Azure Room

🎫 Cost: Free! – Bookings essential

☎️ Bookings: Register via the library’s Event Booking Portal

Yasmin Poole, local youth activist, will be our speaker. In this TED-style talk, she will focus on the importance of your voice in decision-making at all levels, for a brighter future. Whether you’re still in high school, at university, or just setting out in the workplace, what you have to say matters! 

All youth aged 15-24 are invited to join us at Azure Beach Library to learn, connect, and develop key skills for a sustainable future.

🚨 Stick around for a Q&A session after the talk! 🚨

Photo from Plan International

📚 For more information on our speaker, go here.

👤- Chloe Louis 

Sustainable Home Gardens

 

Sustainable Gardens at Home!

Wondering what you can do to help the environment?

Is the cost of food getting in the way of living a healthy lifestyle?

Learn how to live a sustainable and healthy lifestyle by growing your own food at azure beach this international youth day

When: 12^th of august 2025

Start time: 12:00pm

End time: 1:00pm

Where: Azure Beach Library Courtyard

Cost: Free!!

Book Here: Library bookings!!

 

Ever wonder what you personally can do to help the environment? Ever feel that living healthy is more expensive than living unhealthy?

 
If so than this International Youth Day come down to Azure Beach library and enjoy a presentation about how to make eco-friendly home gardens from an experienced gardener and learn skills and techniques that will be useful your entire life and maybe find a lifelong hobby.

Participants will be given free potted plants so they can start their gardening journey now!!

Learn more about sustainable home gardens here: How to Plant a Sustainable Home Garden | Energy Matters

Author: Dean Micallef

 

Follow sustainable steps: Leading our youth for a greener future

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"Young People are not just the leaders of tomorrow,
they're the change makers of today" 

- Anna Rose

Celebrate International Youth Day
at Azure Beach Library

Passionate about the environment

Need inspiration for a school project

Curious about how to be more sustainable

This event is for you! 🌟

Event Details

Date: Tuesday 12th August 2025 

Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm 
Location: Azure Beach Library- Azure room 

Booking Details

Free, bookings are essential.
Reserve your spot today  👉 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/ 

About the event 

This year's theme for International Youth day is "Local Youth Actions for the SDGs and Beyond”. 

Azure Beach Library is excited to introduce our guest speaker, Ana Rose. She is an Australian speaker and environmentalist who works on initiatives to help Australia tackle climate crisis. Ana's climate journey began at high school and continued through university led her to co-found the Australia Youth Climate Coalition and became the National Co-Director. 

This event will unpack real-world climate solutions, youth activism and how local actions connect to the SDG's (Sustainable Development Goals).

A Q&A will be followed towards the end of session, hosted by our speaker. We encourage our youth to share their personal experiences, insights and innovations towards SDG's.

We hope to amplify our youth voices, promote peer learning and equip you with tools, knowledge and motivation for a sustainable future. 

Learn More

To explore more about youth international youth days theme:
"Click on the link below"👇👇👇
https://www.un.org/en/observances/youth-day 

Posted by 
Natalie Piantino
Library Technician 

Speak Out Now for Sustainable Future!

Celebrate International Youth Day at Azure Beach Library 🎉

A junior public speaking contest to raise awareness of local environmental issues

Photo by Luke Madziwa on Unsplash

Environmental problems pose challenges not only for today's living, but also future livelihood. Let's hear from the next generation their thoughts on environmental issues and discuss ways to address those problems. 

            Speakers: Youths between 15-18 years old

            Judges: Representatives from local council

            Audience: YOU, YOU, AND YOU!

            Date: Wednesday 12 August 2026

            Time: 9.30-11.00 a.m.

            Venue: Azure Room (Ground Floor)

            Cost: FREE

            Booking: Click Here

For more information on International Youth Day, visit 

https://social.desa.un.org/issues/youth/events/iyd2025

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Dream it, Plan it, Become it ! Career Pathways Panel

Book Now

Check out these websites for more information:

Careers advice for young people | NSW Government

International Youth Day 2024 "From Clicks to Progress: Youth Digital Pathways for Sustainable Development" | Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD)

Kate Ashdown 

Stitch & Sew | Empowering Youth for a Sustainable Future!

International Youth Day at Azure Beach Library

🧵 Are you ready to get creative, learn a new skill, and help the planet? This International Youth Day, join us at Azure Beach Library for a fun and empowering hands-on workshop designed especially for young people who care about fashion and the future. 

📅 Date: Tuesday 12 August 2025
🕥 Time: 3:30pm-5:00pm (90 minutes)
📍 Location: Azure Beach Library – Cove Meeting Room
🎟 Cost: Free – Bookings Essential
📞 Bookings: Register via the library’s Event Booking Portal

🧶 Event Blurb:

As part of this year’s International Youth Day theme “Youth Empowerment for a Sustainable Future”, Stitch & Sew invites youth aged 15–24 to learn sustainable clothing mending techniques. Instead of throwing away damaged clothes, discover how to give your garments a new life using creative methods like embroidery, patching, and visible mending. All materials are provided—just bring along a worn item or two from your wardrobe that’s ready for a refresh!

(Image: https://www.thecommons.earth/blog/an-introduction-to-visible-mending)

📚 Want to learn more about the impact of fast fashion and how to make eco-friendly choices? Check out this page from the Clean Up Australia.

👤 Posted by: Heiti Miller

The YOU in YOUth meets the US in sUStainability: an International Youth Day Event.

 

Azure Beach Public Library presents an International Youth Day Event. 

When: Join us on Tuesday August 12th 2025 after school.

What time: 3:45pm - 5pm.

Where: Find us in the Cove Meeting Room at Azure Beach Public Library!

Who: Are you aged 15-18 years old, and still in school? We'd love to invite you to an afternoon of crafting and sewing reflecting on the idea of sustainability and collaboration. 

Why: United Nations International Youth Day 2025 is focusing on the idea of Youth Empowerment for a Sustainable Future. Azure Beach Public Library believes that collaboration and collective impact are great skills to learn and develop in addressing issues like sustainability and that is why we are hosting a sewing workshop turning scrap fabrics into everyday useable items like library book bags! Hosted with recently graduated high school students, it's a great place to make new friends, work together on a creative problem-solving project and discuss ideas about sustainability, the environment, concepts like empowerment with people just a few steps ahead of you. 

How do I sign up? It's free to come along, and please register online to attend the workshop. 

What to expect: All materials and sewing machines will be provided during this workshop, and you will be taught how to use different sewing methods to make your own take-home project. 

Accessibility: There will be an AUSLAN interpreter present for the program, and printed instructions with diagrams and pictures available in multiple languages. For those that need a quieter room with dimmer lighting, there will be an additional space to work in.  

For more information about the event, please contact Azure Beach Public Library via email: events@azurebeachlibrary.com.au       or you can contact us via phone:  02 9000 0009 

Made by: Evie Winch / June 2025

Terrarium Time- Caitlin McPherson

Terrarium Time

By New York Times 

Do you enjoy getting your hands dirty? Do you wish to plant but have limited space? Then look no further than making a terrarium on this International Youth Day.  

WHERE: Library Courtyard, Azure Beach Library 

WHEN: 12th August 2025, 12:30-1:30pm

Come for an hour of  FREE creativity!

- Step-by-step guidance!

- Take home your own terrarium 

-  ALL materials provided 

Want to BOOK?

Visit :  www.azurebheachlibrary.com/book/terraniummaking as spots are limited!

For More Information, visit:

www.azurebeachlibrary.com.au or contact 

09871249 

#Terrarium #Indoorplanting #InteranationalYouthDay

By Caitlin McPherson 

Want to read more?

Visit: https://www.un.org/en/observances/youth-day 

International Youth Day 12th August 2025

Hear My Voice!

International Youth Day

Youth Empowerment for a Sustainable Future

                                    Stock image from Microsoft

                 

            Event Details:

• When: Tuesday 12th August 2025.
• Time: 4pm to 5:30pm.
• Where: Azure Beach Library Courtyard. 

• Tickets are available from Azure Beach Public Library.
• Please RSVP Azure Beach Public Library by the 8th of August.

                                    Stock image from Microsoft

 

Azure Beach Library and Azure Regional Art Gallery are collaborating on a joint exhibition for International Youth Day 2025. Featuring artworks by local high school and TAFE students aged between (15 to 24) highlighting their concerns about the future and raising community awareness. 

The International Youth Day 2025 theme is "Empowerment for a Sustainable Future". The exhibition aims to inspire and engage the community awareness of creating a safe and sustainable world.

International Youth Day

 Join Azure Beach Library and be part of our community

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 Community - Sustainability - Integrity

 

Accessibility 

Wheelchair Access

Disabled and ambulant toilets

Audio loop for hearing impaired available

                                            Stock image from Microsoft

Stacey Karas