Howick
Youth

Summit

Bringing together over 100 young people from the secondary schools of East Auckland, in order to find innovative solutions for local issues — forming these ideas into recommendations with potential to create a real difference for the community

Photography: Aimee Mackenzie, Aim To Capture Photography

Our Projects

East Auckland Youth Visual
Art Showcase

In partnership with Arts Out East, UXBRIDGE Arts & Culture and Te Tuhi, the East Auckland Youth Visual Art Showcase attracted over 70 submissions in 2020 and showcased the best of the young visual artists living in East Auckland — whether it be painting, sculpture, animation, photography, or mixed media. The opening night attracted 135 guests and the project was running in its third year.

Photography: Sachi Kapadia

East Auckland

Youth Awards

The East Auckland Youth Awards aims to celebrate young people’s achievements. Awards were given for community leadership, sporting achievement, arts achievement, cultural pursuits, environmental service, projects and entrepreneurial pursuits, and service to the community.

Photography: Sachi Kapadia

Elections

Candidate Forums

HYC has extensive experience running youth-accessible, moderated, community election forums in local and general elections — stretching back to our first candidates meeting in the 2014 general election. More recently, we've run candidate forums in the 2020 general election, 2019 local elections and 2018 Howick ward by-election. We also collaborated with other youth councils in Auckland to produce Recruit Your Mayor in the 2019 mayoralty elections.

Photography: Sachi Kapadia

East Auckland Schools Charity Concert

Attracting over 380 people, this was a joint-project between the East Auckland Schools head students and the Howick Youth Council which raised money for mental health awareness — with a great line up of rock bands, dancers, school cultural groups, singers and more.

Photography: Douglas Bagg

AMETI 

— Youth Consultation

Consulting youth on aspects of the most significant public transport project happening in East Auckland. Our consultation covered a topic where youth voice was lacking despite public transport changes disproportionately affecting young people. We presented our consultation findings to Auckland Council's Planning Committee and the Auckland Youth Advisory Panel.

Photography: Irra Lee

East Auckland Youth Film Festival

Young aspiring filmmakers were given the chance to submit films they had created for judging by professionals. These films were then showcased in a public viewing at a real cinema, which was enjoyed by the public, and represented an amazing opportunity for young filmmakers. Supported by Monterey Cinemas in Howick, and attracting over 100 audience members in 2019.

Howick

Youth

Survey

Two years in the making, the Howick Youth Council’s Youth Survey is the most comprehensive look at the state of East Auckland's rangatahi.

Pride Allied

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Supported by RainbowYOUTH. Pride Allied connects youth from East Auckland’s LGBTQIA+ community and allies in a safe, casual, and fun environment. Young people around the community came together to share their experiences, listen to speakers, and play board games. 

Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash

#ByElectionWishes

#ByElectionWishes was produced in collaboration with Auckland Youth Advisory Panel member Veisinia Maka. An educational campaign focused around encouraging youth voting in the sudden and unexpected 2018 Howick ward by-election. This included social media videos, a candidates forum and educational material to educate first-time voters on the candidates and the power behind voting in local elections.

Photography: Irra Lee

The organisations and schools we work with

Macleans College, Botany Downs Secondary College, Pakuranga College, Ormiston Senior College, Edgewater College, St. Kentigern College, Elim Christian College, Howick College, Sancta Maria College

Learn more about our projects through the docs in the Resources tab.