Yarra Youth Services

05/10/2026

The last school term of the year is here! Check out our programs for Term 4 in the slides above 👆🤾🏾‍♀️🧵⚽️☀️

✨ MONDAYS:

🎤 RISING HIGH (MUSIC) with Yarra Youth Services at Yarra Youth Centre
Ages 12-25 | 4-7pm
Contact: Matt 0429 776 406

✨ TUESDAYS:

🍴 LIVING IT UP with Yarra Youth Services at Yarra Youth Centre
❓ Ages 14-25 | 5.30-8:30pm
📲 Toyin 0427 762 674

🫟 THE BENCH with Yarra Youth Services at Yarra Youth Centre
❓ Ages 12-25 | 4pm-6pm
📲 Chris P 0402 483 092

🫆 SCREENPRINTING with Yarra Youth Services at Yarra Youth Centre
❓ Ages 12-25 | 4pm-6pm
📲 Chris P 0402 483 092

✨ WEDNESDAYS:

🎮 DROP IN with Yarra Youth Services at Yarra Youth Centre
❓Ages 12-25 | 4-6pm
📲 Toyin 0427 762 674

📚 Future Pathways with Yarra Youth Services at Yarra Youth Centre
❓Ages 15-25 | 4-7pm
📲 Naima 0458 048 481

🧵FASHION with Yarra Youth Services at Yarra Youth Centre
❓Ages 12-25 | 4-6pm
📲 Chris P 0402 483 092

✨ THURSDAYS:

🎨 OPEN STUDIOS (ART) with Yarra Youth Services at Yarra Youth Centre featuring Aisyah Kirana Parallel Play Club
❓Ages 12-25 | 4-6pm
📲 Chris P 0402 483 092

🎤 RISING HIGH (MUSIC) with Yarra Youth Services at Yarra Youth Centre
❓Ages 12-25 | 4-7pm
📲 Matt 0429 776 406

✨ OTHER:

❗️RICHMOND YOUTH HUB:
Head to Richmond Youth Hub for the Richmond program or head to the link in our bio!

📲 9205 5555
📍 156 Napier Street Fitzroy 3065
⁉️ Any questions, send us a message or give us a call!

01/10/2026

🎨✨ ATTN LOCAL ARTISTS — this one’s for you!

Yarra City Council is looking for contemporary artists to exhibit in 2027 and we want to see our community represented! 🙌

📍 Exhibition spots available at:
— Fitzroy Library
— Bargoonga Nganjin – North Fitzroy Library
— Carlton Library Light Boxes (outdoor!)

🗓️ What’s on offer:

🖼️ Bargoonga Nganjin Library & Fitzroy Library
Two 12-week exhibitions
📅 Feb–Apr & Aug–Oct 2027
💰 $1,600 exhibition fee (excl. GST)

💡 Carlton Library Light Boxes
Two outdoor displays of 25 weeks
📅 Feb–Jul & Aug–Jan 2028
💰$2,000 exhibition fee (excl. GST)

This is a beautiful opportunity to get your work seen by the wider Yarra community and bring arts and culture into everyday spaces 🌟

🔗 Check the link in bio to submit your Expression of Interest!

Know an artist who should apply? Tag them below 👇🎨

17/09/2026

🌸🏀 Our SPRING SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM is here! Check out what we have on during the break 🎨🎬

🍵 GIRLS MATCHA WORKSHOP & CHERRY BLOSSOM PICNIC with Yarra Youth Services at Yarra Youth Centre
🌸 A relaxed afternoon of matcha, good vibes and spring picnic fun
❓Ages 12-25 | 1-5pm

🎳 BOWLING EXCURSION with Yarra Youth Services Meet at Yarra Youth Centre
❓Ages 15-25 | 2-4pm

🩹 FIRST AID TRAINING with Yarra Youth Services & Neighbourhood Justice Centre at Yarra Youth Centre ❓Ages 15-18 | 10-3:30pm

🏀 RICHMOND BASKETBALL COURT GRAND OPENING with Yarra Youth Services at Richmond Youth Hub
❓All ages | 1-5pm

🎵 SONGWRITING & PRODUCTION WORKSHOP with Yarra Youth Services at Yarra Youth Centre
❓ Ages 12-25 | 12-5pm

🏊 SWIMMING EXCURSION with Yarra Youth Services Meet at Richmond Youth Hub ❓Ages 10-17 | 1-5pm

🎨 ALI & PAIGE GALLERY EXTRAVAGANZA with Yarra Youth Services at Potter Museum of Art, Buxton Gallery
❓Ages 17-25 | 12-4pm

👨‍🍳 MASTERCHEF COMPETITION with Yarra Youth Services at Richmond Youth Hub
❓Ages 10-18 | 1-5pm

🎤 QUIZ & KARAOKE NIGHT with Yarra Youth Services at Yarra Youth Centre
❓Ages 12-25 | 3-7pm

🎬 MOANA MOVIE EXCURSION with Yarra Youth Services & Meet at Richmond Youth Hub
❓Ages 15-25 | 12-6pm

📲 Text the program contacts for more info and to sign up!

RichmondYouthHub YarraYouthServices

29/08/2026

Yesterday our team headed out to the Northwest Local Government Area Youth Crime Forum alongside local government areas across the region 👥

We heard from some incredible speakers on Victorian crime prevention - diving into what’s driving youth crime, how we can better understand it, and most importantly, what we can all do together to make a real difference for young people in our communities. 💡

Always grateful for spaces that bring people together to have these important conversations. The work doesn’t stop here! 💪

23/08/2026

✨⛑️ FREE FIRST AID TRAINING ⛑️✨

Yarra Youth Services and the Neighbourhood Justice Centre offering free First Aid training, delivered by St John Ambulance Victoria St John Ambulance Victoria

🩹 Party Ready First Aid (Ages 15–18)
📅 Wednesday 23 September
🕙 10:00am – 3:30pm
📍 Jack Dyer Pavilion, corner of Highett and Gleadell Streets, Richmond
🥪 Lunch provided

🩹 First Aid Training (Ages 18–25)
📅 Wednesday 30 September
🕙 10:00am – 3:30pm
📍 Yarra Youth Centre, 156 Napier Street, Fitzroy
🥪 Lunch provided

Spaces are limited, so get in quick! You can register now via the link in the bio 🔗

Learn practical first aid skills, meet new people, and gain knowledge that could help save a life ❤️

13/08/2026

✨ Know a young person who’s out here making a difference? ✨

Last year, young person and regular at the Yarra Youth Centre took out the Young Person of the Year award at the Yarra Community Awards — and this year, it could be someone YOU know! 🏆✨

The 2026 Yarra Community Awards nominations are NOW OPEN and we want to see young people from our community get the recognition they deserve 🥰

Whether it’s someone who’s been showing up for others, leading something incredible, or just quietly making Yarra a better place — nominate them! 🙌

🗓️ Nominations close Sunday 23 August

🔗 Check the link in bio to nominate today!

14/07/2026

18/06/2026

☆☆☆ AIRS Exhibition opening tomorrow 19th July @ ACU Gallery ☆☆☆

Featuring works from artists in residence
Aisyah Kirana Aisyah Kirana
F3ral 𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵
Mas Mas :)
2 Halves as A Whole 2 HALVES AS A WHOLE

Come 2 HALVES AS A WHOLE the opening night of our 2025/2026 Artists In Residence(AIR) exhibition to see the culmination of and celebrate our AIRS work during their residency.

There will be a performance by Aisyah Kirana at 6:30pm and music from DJ Skills participant LibertyB throughout the night. Read on for some words from the artists about the exhibition:

Live, LOL, Love is a critical exhibition that explores how resident artists from the Yarra Youth Centre - Aisyah Kirana, F3ral, Mas, and duo 2 Halves as A Whole - negotiate sincerity and performance within the white cube. Featuring a distillation of the artists' year-long practice and practise, each navigates what it costs to make art meaningfully (and playfully!) in subversion of institutional expectations.

A multidisciplinary body of work-including sculpture, assemblage, screen, and performance-reveals the friction between emotional labour and commercial demand, professional artifice and truth-telling, and the isolating pressures of artistic production versus the intrinsic desire for community.

Though their material approaches diverge, each artist cultivates an intimate rapport with viewers, appealing to personhood through aesthetic nostalgia and thematic play. Their works attend vulnerable, universal human experiences-sleeping, coming-of-age, performing the role of "adult," of "accomplished," and of "artist."
What emerges is a shared language of tenderness and self-reflection, giving the exhibition's title a wry openness that holds both earnestness and irony at once.
Live, LOL, Love traces the idiosyncratic, humorous, and heartfelt terrain where contemporary art is lived.

Opening Night: Friday June 19, 6PM - 8PM
Exhibition runs: 19 June - 5 July
Where: ACU Melbourne Gallery,
26 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 3065
All welcome