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YOUTH ARE AWESOME

Youth Are Awesome, commonly referred to as YAA, is a blog written by youth for youth. YAA provides the youth of Calgary a place to amplify their voices and perspectives on what is happening around them. Youth Are Awesome is a program of Youth Central.

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Yearly Archives: 2015

Week 5 of… 5 Happy Things!

See this post for an introduction to this series, and this post for last week's 5 Happy Things! This week is 5/5 and so maybe that's an additional...

The Future of Popular Music in Calgary

Starting next week, the old Mount Royal Conservatory will be busy with traffic as they begin to move their facilities into the new Conservatory....

WHOLE Churchill: You Are Not Alone

  On a sunny Tuesday morning, four enthusiastic students sat down for an interview about WHOLE Churchill. WHOLE Churchill is a community created by Haroon...

Sled Island: More than Just a Music Festival

For those of you who are just emerging from a 9-year food coma, Sled Island is a huge event held in Calgary each year...

A quick pick me up: Videos to make you smile

Right now, you may feel like life is a bit of a mess. With exams and school finally coming to a close, you may...

A glance into Lisbon, Portugal

I had the fortunate opportunity of travelling to a city of art, beauty, and culture - Lisbon, Portugal. From the moment I walked out...

Video of the Day – FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015

Canada is hosting the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup! I'm sure a lot of you didn't know that - I didn't even know that till...

Shatter Fear

We're all afraid of something, whether we're conscious of it or not. Most of the time we let our fears and inadequacies run our...

Playlist Of The Week: Movie Soundtracks

The first sequel to last week's playlist, today I bring you a compilation of some of my favourite soundtrack pieces of *fairly* recent years....

What To See In YYC: Weekend Preview June 12-14

1. Propylene Glycol, Maltodextrin, Retinol Palmitate and Other Words I Don't Understand Like Love What: Edmonton group Toy Guns Dance are bringing an innovative show to Calgary; including 300...

The Generation of Body Diversity

As a girl growing up in a society where being beautiful is often defined as being tall and thin, I have often found it hard...

Week 4 of… 5 Happy Things!

See this post for an introduction to this series, this post for the second week, and this post for the third week of 5 Happy Things! Our beautiful provincial flower Seeing...

Dinosaurs are making a comeback

From the highly anticipated Jurassic World to a live stream of a T-rex autopsy, dinosaurs are rising from extinction--as much as possible, at least.This...

The True Meaning of Fighting

Fight. What does this ensemble of five letters mean to you? What memories -  but more importantly emotions - are evoked when somebody mentions FIGHTING,...

Let’s Dance!

Dancing is like taking the beats of a song and using them as your shoes. A friend recently introduced me to this YouTuber that choreographs his...

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