🌊⏳ Only 3 months left to enter the 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest!
If you're 11–18, share your voice through art, writing, film, music, poetry, or multimedia and help spark conversations about the future of our blue planet. 🎨🎬✍️
Learn more at: bowseat.org 💙
Bow Seat was honored to take part in the Climate Stories Listening Sessions organized by the Massachusetts Office of Climate Innovation and Resilience. 🎨
Youth artwork helped spark reflection and conversation on climate resilience. 🌱
Thanks to all who participated.
Wildlife is still wild. Still worth protecting. 🐾
For World Wildlife Day, we’re highlighting 10 powerful artworks by young artists reflecting on biodiversity, fragility, and coexistence.
Explore the full collection: www.bowseat.org/gallery
#WWD #WorldWildlifeDay2026
Our Bow Seat Team holding the Bronze!
In November, we received the Bronze Award at the 5th Annual Anthem Awards, i the category: Community Engagement, Sustainability, Environment and Climate.
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🌊 The ocean is wilder than you think.
Endless wonder. Untold mysteries.
And so much worth protecting.
Dive into these cool facts about our global ocean 💙🌎
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Can documentary art become advocacy?
In “Let Interviews Lead,” Jina Song explores how listening can reshape climate storytelling - and why interviews might be the most powerful place to begin.
Read more: bowseat.org/news/let-int...
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This week, Bow Seat led four workshops with youth at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester 🎨🐟
Ages 5-12 explored the Japanese art of Gyotaku, creating fish prints with sumi ink and rice paper - blending creativity, culture, and ocean appreciation.
Every reveal was pure joy. 🌊
Happy #LunarNewYear 🐎
In the Year of the Horse, Beijing-based Bow Seat filmmaker Zixuan (Fiona) Yang explores healing and harmony through connection with a horse.
Wishing you courage, balance & moments of peace in nature 🌿✨
Watch the film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ii...
🔬Today we celebrate the women and girls shaping science - and the young artists translating complex research into powerful visual stories.
🎨 Explore our featured gallery for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science:
bowseat.org/gallery
#WomenInScience #BowSeat
❄️ An Ever-Changing Winter 🌍
What does winter look like in a changing climate? 🌡️
These 9 student artworks explore shifting seasons, fragile ecosystems, and winter’s quiet beauty as it transforms before our eyes 🎨
Swipe through and see winter through young eyes ✨
Artivism isn’t just art.
It’s action. 🎨🌍
At Bow Seat, young people use storytelling, film, photography, and words to challenge systems, protect the planet, and imagine a better future.
This is what art looks like when it moves people to act. 🎨🌍
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Creativity isn’t optional in environmental action - it’s essential. 🌍
Bow Seat empowers young people to turn art and storytelling into environmental impact.
What story would you tell for the planet?
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Last week, Bow Seat joined innovators, leaders & changemakers at the Earthshot Innovation Award Ceremony at the JFK Library. 🌱
What idea would you bring into the room? 💭💡
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What happens when the places that once let us breathe disappear? 🌱
Breathe, Despite by Chaebeom Lim transforms loss into reflection - showing a human face built from trash, marked by the damage we inflict on nature. Yet at its core, nature still lives and breathes.
In Seattle, environmental activism looks like art 🎨🐟
Artist Austin Picinich’s Save Our Salmon uses murals and community paint days to raise awareness about the hidden streams salmon depend on to survive.
Read how art can protect ecosystems ⬇️
bowseat.org/news/environ...
Meet Malika Gizzat, Bow Seat's Alumni Advisor 🌍
A creative environmental activist, Malika uses video storytelling to communicate environmental issues.
Former 2023 #FBYC & #WorldOceanDay Youth Advisor - now mentoring the next wave of leaders. 💙
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A historic moment for the ocean 🌊
The High Seas Treaty has officially entered into force. Ratified in September 2025, it is the first legally binding agreement to protect marine life in the high seas: ocean areas beyond national borders.
A major win for our shared ocean. 🌍
We’re excited to announce the 2026 True Blue Fellows 💙
These young leaders are launching creative, self-initiated projects for ocean and climate action - proving that youth voices drive real change. 🌊🌍
Learn more: bowseat.org/programs/tru...
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