Support young people across our city to change things for the better by coming along and seeing our prints about climate justice.

Invite-Only Preview Thursday 10/04

Opens 10.00 Friday 11/04

“Every Movement Has a Day One—This Is Ours.”

What the exhibition is about
- Sheffield Young Residents working alongside the Youth Voice & Influence Service (Community Youth Services) & MyPockets
- To help people connect with one another and with climate change, to start conversations in communities and encourage people to take action.
- For young people’s views, experiences and solutions to feed into long term plans for tackling climate change in the city.
- Creative work around climate change that makes people feel something


Who is involved
A group of 18 young residents aged 11 – 22 years old, have been working together for 12 months on this Climate Change Project. They have consulted with young residents from 20 Youth Clubs and Youth Voice Groups across Sheffield, to create 50 screenprints to showcase what Climate Change means to them.


More info on Youth Voice and Influence Service:
The Youth Voice and Influence Service are part of Community Youth Services at Sheffield City Council. They are made up of a team of professionally qualified youth and community workers with a passion for ensuring young residents voices in the city are heard.

By Youth Voice & Influence we mean listening to young people, valuing what we hear and acting upon it to make positive change.

We support and empower young people to shape, lead and produce their own activities and programmes and make sure the mechanisms are in place for young residents to be involved in decision making at all levels.

We run various youth voice groups in Sheffield that give young residents aged 11– 24 years a way to have their say and work on projects they are passionate about. If you’re interested in getting involved then please contact us via youth.voice@sheffield.gov.uk

Why the exhibition is happening
▪ To explore how climate relates to areas of everyone’s everyday life
▪ To display in a creative form young residents views on Climate Change, the impact it has on their lives and the solutions they would like to see in Sheffield to reduce the impact.
▪ To initiate conversations about Climate Change amongst children and young people, their friends, families, communities, and decision makers
▪ To demonstrate there are numerous ways to take action on Climate Change at all levels & encourage people to make changes; individuals, communities, elected representatives and decision makers.


What it hopes to achieve
▪ A changed mindset and to show how much young residents care about this planet.
▪ To share the power of society when we work together.
▪ To make people think about climate change in a different way than just “save the bees”.
▪ To make a positive change in our industrial and much-loved city of Sheffield
▪ For key people to hear Young Residents voices to influence change.

“I hope that the voice of youths in a place like Sheffield will be heard and that it will be taken seriously and properly by decision makers and politicians to actually make a change”

“I hope that people will learn the power of art and how much climate change affects our daily lives. I want to show that communication goes beyond words, and that different forms of expression can convey emotions, ideas, and experiences in powerful ways.”

“The thing that changes the climate change group is the fact that many people from many different backgrounds, all came together for the same reason, all did the same amount of work and hopefully all of us hope, for a same outcome of this project. Friendships and bonds have been made over this group and I think that makes it special for everyone”

“This project is very raw and shows the impact that all of us can have when we work together. Rather than being a perfect film or poster. This is a collection of emotion and collaboration, which will hopefully resonate with people more”

“I hope the project will teach people to be more aware of the world around them because so many of us think we are in a world made for ourselves when in reality the world is made for everyone and all forms of life”