HULI Youth Artivism
HULI: Turn the Story is a 10-week, youth-led program with Wisdom Circles Oceania (WCO) for Windward Oʻahu young adults (ages 18–24).
HULI empowers youth to flip oppressive narratives through artivism, storytelling, and building deeper connections to ʻāina, heritage, and community while growing essential leadership skills. Rather than adults choosing the focus, our youth build pilina, learn directly from community, and develop creative artivism projects that amplify young voices.
The program includes weekly ʻāina days, opportunities to create community art around important issues, and meaningful collaborations with community organizers, artists, cultural practitioners, and the next generation of creatives.
Participants will also receive a competitive stipend to support their time, transportation, and participation expenses.
WHY JOIN?
You’ll leave HULI:
Able to recognize connections between issues, systems, people and ʻāina
Feel more connected to culture, community and Hawaiʻi
Understand art as a tool for storytelling, organizing and changing narratives
Feel more confident in using your creative gifts for advocacy
Able to create and lead creative community campaigns
WHY HULI?
A lot of the issues in our communities are connected even though we don’t talk about them that way. Climate change, wai, food, energy, development, houselessness and displacement all connect back to our relationship with ʻāina and who has power in the decisions and policies being made.
Young people are affected by these decisions but aren't always given a real space to understand them, question the narratives around them, or be part of creating solutions. HULI gives youth a place to learn about these connections and then actually do something with what they learned.
