Running from May 1-8th, Youth Week is a festival that celebrates the diversity and exuberance of youth community engagement and creativity in Canada and abroad. Initiated by Youth Action Network in 1995, Youth Week has run for 14 years, bringing together dynamic, socially concerned young individuals and youth-led organizations for an inspiring week of events. Please check out all of this years amazing events here.-This year Youth Week 2009 will focus on Art and Activism, and will highlight creative ways in which youth are contributing to dialogues of social justice as well as their communities as a whole. Goals of the Week ¸ CHALLENGE concerned youth to take concrete steps from awareness to action¸ BUILD a strong global network of youth working for just and sustainable communities¸ CELEBRATE the initiative and creativity of young people¸ PUBLICIZE positive examples of youth initiative and activism¸ PROMOTE critical youth participation in and access to democratic processes and mediaCore Values of the Week 1. popular education, grassroots action and real involvement in decision-making - led by youth2. exploring peaceful, alternative approaches toward a just and sustainable world3. respecting the diversity of identities, needs, beliefs, cultures and actions4. appreciating and building on what has been achieved by the generations before us