Youth Day ’26

Will return in 2027

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The finale: a crowd fills the *SCAPE plaza at night under purple light, with people lining every balcony above

15,044 of you took over *SCAPE for two days. You proved what we’d only ever dared to hope: when we make the space, the youth will fill it. Thank you for building a new normal with us.

The five floors

A recap of our takeover of *SCAPE’s five floors, over 5 and 6 July.

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Level
Level 1 — neonormal
What it was
Space for youths to breathe, play, and reconnect with parts of themselves that achievement-driven culture overlooks. Comfort and physical exploration, side by side, made room for unashamed fun.
Highlights
Resurrack vintage market, 55 vendors · Lightsaber & wotagei workshops · NERF zone · Rollerblading · Open music jams · Calisthenics & parkour · Beyblade battles · The Orbit
  • Lightsaber dance workshop in the *SCAPE car park, Level 1
  • Lightsaber workshop, two duellists mid-clash, Level 1
  • Shoppers digging through a thrift rail, Level 1
  • Friends talking in camp chairs on astroturf, Level 2
  • Strangers paired up on ladders for Conversation Ladders, Level 2
  • The chalk-covered brick wall, with a table of friends beside it, Level 2
  • A group of friends on a sofa in the living room, Level 3
  • Flipping through records in the vinyl listening room, Level 3
  • The living room seen from above, Level 3
  • Anonymous handwritten letters hanging in the Living Archive, Level 4
  • Someone sitting alone beneath the Wall of Words, Level 4
  • Inside the red-draped Do-Nothing Room, Level 4
  • Youths at a makerspace table at Ideas Fest, Level 5
  • Presenting a passion project at a stand, Level 5
  • Writing on the ideas wall: how can we connect deeper?, Level 5

Our partners

Thank you to everyone who built this with us.

Close to two hundred communities, studios, vendors and institutions said yes, becoming something larger and greater than we could’ve imagined.

Everyone who built Youth Day ’26 191 partners, vendors and communities