Youth Circles: Stories Across Cultures
Pilot Programme and Exhibition

Youth Circles: Stories Across Cultures, brings together powerful personal stories from 22 youths of diverse backgrounds, offering an intimate look into how young people experience culture, identity, and belonging in Singapore today.

Developed as part of the Youth for Peace: UNESCO Intercultural Leadership Programme (2025–2026), the pilot three-session intercultural dialogue programme resulted in an exhibition of photographs and reflections where participants explored themes such as everyday culture, encounters with difference, and hopes for the future.

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.

Youth Circles: Stories Across Cultures Exhibition

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.

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.

You may wish to approach this exhibition using the “See / Think / Wonder” thinking routine from Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

SEE: What do you notice?