Young AWoN is growing!

During a rich and intense week of in-person work and public events held in Brussels earlier this month, while AWoN’s Board and Staff were working on the next chapter of the Network, not so far away, in another room, Young AWoN was starting to blossom!

In Warsaw, last September, a small group of youth, based in Poland and the Netherlands and coming from many horizons, had met and started imagining ways of working together towards a more diverse and welcoming Europe. In the beginning of this Spring, while the world only seems to keep on falling apart more and more, they were twenty to gather  in the capital city of European politics, to meet, and talk but not only this time.

YAWoN participants chatting in the garden
The zine-making workshop was facilitated by artists and activists Annette Kouwenhoven
and Mohammed Ba, from the CityZine collective
YAWoN participants presented their zine and shared about their collective work process on the last day of the workshop

During a three-day workshop facilitated by CitiZine artists Annette Kouwenhoven and Mohammed Bah, YAWoN participants put their stories, knowledge, anger and hopes into texts, images, T-shirt and a microphone. They came up with a digital magazine and podcast series that they will soon be sharing more about – and a lot of ideas to make their voices heard and grow their movement. Stay tuned!

Cover: YAWoN participants working on the first issue of their digital magazine, Brussels, April 2026. @Joanna Zychla. All rights reserved

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