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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 12h

🌊 We're at the #IUCNcongress !

Explore impactful youth art from Bow Seat’s Ocean Awareness Contest at the People’s Choice Award Art Exhibit - and vote for your favourite 🎨💙

📍 Exterior of Nature-Based Education Pavilion
🗓️ Oct 9 | 14:30–15:30 & Oct 13 | 14:00–16:00

Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 16h

We had a blast learning how to make climate cartoons with New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro at our virtual workshop ''How to Make a Climate Cartoon,' in partnership with the Youth Ocean Initiative ✏️🌍

Thank you Tom!
#ClimateArt #YouthEmpowerement #BowSeat

Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 2d

Bow Seat at #ClimateWeekNYC 2025 🌍✨

🎨 Ocean Awareness Contest artwork showcased at @ExplorersClub
🌱 Panel on the #UnitedByNature initiative at Doris Duke Treehouse
💫 Inspired by events + partners across the city

Learn more about Bow Seat at: bowseat.org

Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 3d

🖐 The 2024 #BowSeat Ocean Awareness Contest invited youth to Tell Your Climate Story. From tree-planting hopes 🌳 to warming ocean 🌊, young artists like Anna Darido & Carrie Li show how art can move hearts and hands toward action.

Explore: bowseat.org/gallery

#ClimateArt

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 4d

⏰ Last chance! Less than 30 mins to RSVP for Bow Seat x YOI’s climate cartoon workshop with New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro! 🎨

Oct 4 | 11am–12pm EST | Free

Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#ClimateArt

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 4d

Afghanistan is reeling after a series of earthquakes and aftershocks since Sept 4, claiming 2,200+ lives and displacing thousands in Kunar province.

A trusted local NGO, HOAD, is on the ground bringing relief where it’s needed most.

Donate: www.hoad.org.af

#Afghanistan #EarthquakeRelief

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 6d

Jane Goodall may be gone, but her spirit lives on💚

Wounda, a chimp, once “close to death,” was rescued in 2004, given Africa’s first chimp-to-chimp transfusion, and later released into the wild. She embraced Jane in gratitude, then became Alpha of her group and mother to Hope.

#JaneGoodall #Youth

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 12d

Reminder: the #NatureForAll 30x30 Art Contest is looking for your submissions!

Students, show us your vision of Earth if 30% of land & water are protected by 2030 💙

Submit via Padlet. Top works will be featured at the IUCN World Conservation Congress.

🔗 natureforall.global/festival-nat...

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 19d

🚨 Only 100 spots! 🚨

Join Bow Seat + Youth Oceanic Initiative for a free workshop on making a Climate Cartoon with New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro 🖊️

📅 Oct 4 | 11am–12pm EST

👉 RSVP now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 21d

You tell us!

By @washdnr on Ig

#ocean #crab #marinebiologist #deepsea #art #youth #océan #meme #funny #crabbie #crabs #humour #europeancrab

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 23d

🌊 The 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest is here! Your Story, Our Ocean invites ages 11–18 to share how the ocean sustains, protects & inspires us— through art, writing, film & more. 💙 Cash prizes up to $1,000!

📅 Deadline: June 8, 2026
🔗 bowseat.org/contest

#BowSeatContest #OceanAwareness

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 25d

Only 2 days to go until the big reveal of the 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest theme!

Today’s Hint #2 is here to stir your imagination… Can you guess what this year’s focus might be?

Drop your prediction in comments!

#OceanAwarenessContest #3DaysToGo #Art #Contest #Youth #Painting

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 26d

Only 3 days to go until the big reveal of the 2026 #OceanAwarenessContest theme!

Every year, the theme sets the stage for powerful stories and artwork from young people around the world, and this one might just surprise you.

Any guesses on what this year’s focus could be? 👀💭

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 26d

In just 4 days from today we announce the official theme for the 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest. Stay tuned with us and watch out our feed over the next few days for clues :)

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · 27d

See the pinned message in the comments (we promise this is the last clue!)

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · Sep 7

Today we’re featuring some powerful student artworks that remind us that creativity can be a compass for change. From reimagining polluted ocean to showing the delicate threads connecting people, wildlife, & climate, these past artworks reflects the world we live in today.

🔗 www.bowseat.org/gallery

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · Sep 5

🌍 Applications are open for Earth Echo U.S. Ocean Protection Ambassadors! If you’re 17-22 and ready to lead campaigns for our ocean this is your moment! Gain funding, training, & mentorship to advance ocean protection. Apply by September 17 at: bit.ly/OPA-apply

#GenSea

Ocean Protection Ambassadors

bit.ly

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · Sep 3

#NatureForAll 30x30 Art Contest!

Students, show us your vision of Earth if 30% of land & water are protected by 2030 💙

Submit via Padlet. Top works will be featured at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, Abu Dhabi (Oct 9–15).

🔗 natureforall.global/festival-nat...

#30x30 #Art #Youth #CallForArt

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · Sep 2

After more than a decade as Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs, we’re embracing a name that reflects who we are today— and where we’re headed.

Say hello to Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation. ✨

#CreativeActionInConservation #Art

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Meghan Jones @studio-mbj.bsky.social · Aug 5

In progress! Shrimp friends, a painting all about little friends in a deep ocean cold water coral garden, shrimp nominally named Cornelius (not yet painted) and Reginald (in progress) by my silly and excellent children #deepsea #deepseacreatures #deepocean 🐡🦑 #coldwatercoral #unseenoceanscollective

An in progress impressionist painting of shrimp in a cold water coral and sponge garden, part of a series based on deep water corals off the coast of Alaska. Acrylic on canvas, #painting #impressionist #modernimpressionism #artist 🦑🐡 #acryliconcanvas

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · Aug 28

🚨 Applications for the 2025 True Blue Fellowship close in 3 days

If you’re 13–24 with an arts-driven project for the ocean, waterways, or climate, apply for up to $2,500 in grants, mentorship, and capacity-building support to bring your vision.

🔗 www.bit.ly/TrueBlueFellowship

#grants #art #youth

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · Aug 18

Bow Seat Alumni Spotlight

This month, we shine the spotlight on Gwenan Walker, an artist and animator whose work bridges folklore, science, and environmentalism. Gwenan is using creativity as a tool for advocacy and impact.

#Ocean #Environmentalism

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · Aug 10

Alumni Spotlight | This month, we’re turning the spotlight on Cynthia Zhang, whose creativity and commitment to monarch butterfly conservation are inspiring peers and communities.

www.bowseat.org/news/cynthia-zhang-leading-with-art-advocacy-and-vision/

#Ocean #Youth

Cynthia Zhang: Leading with Art, Advocacy, and Vision | Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs

By Tana Valmond, Bow Seat Alumni Advisor & 2024 Future Blue Youth Council member The Alumni Spotlight Series is a celebration of Bow Seat's alumni as they continue to make waves in the world. This se...

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · Aug 9

Bow Seat Alum Spotlight | Today we’re featuring Charmaine Mupara from Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe! Charmaine first joined the Bow Seat community as a 2022 Fellowship Program grantee and now brings her energy and insight to the #Future Blue #Youth Council.

Read more at bowseat.org/news/from-gr...

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Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation @bowseat.org · Aug 9

Happening today! Join us to get insights into our True Blue Fellowship programming.

RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#Grant #GreenGrant #Webinar #Art #Youth

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