A new youth-led exhibition, Youth Circles: Stories Across Cultures, brings together powerful personal stories from 23 youths of diverse backgrounds, offering an intimate look into how young people experience culture, identity, and belonging in Singapore today.

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Developed as part of the Youth for Peace: UNESCO Intercultural Leadership Programme (2025–2026), the exhibition presents photographs and reflections created through a three-session intercultural dialogue programme. Using photojournals and facilitated dialogue circles, participants explored themes such as everyday culture, encounters with difference, and hopes for the future.

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The exhibition features images and captions that are not staged or scripted, but grounded in lived experiences: from shared meals and neighbourhood spaces to moments of connection, misunderstanding, and reflection. Through these stories, the youths invite audiences to consider how cultural understanding is built through everyday interactions.

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Youth Circles reflects a growing need for deeper forms of intercultural engagement, particularly in a society shaped by global movement and diversity. Beyond the exhibition, the project also explores new ways of fostering empathy through participatory approaches, including dialogue-based workshops and the development of a prototype intercultural card game.

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This exhibition was presented from 8 to 21 May 2026 as part of Hyphenated, a year-long heritage and culture incubation programme for youths headed by Baba Gabra and supported by *SCAPE, celebrating the diverse cultures in Singapore.