Raise Your Voice – Raise Your Banner

This Pride Month, we’re inviting young people to get creative—and get loud.

As part of our Proud Spaces project, we’re putting protest, pride, and solidarity front and centre this Pride month. One of the powerful ways we’re doing that is by inviting young people and youth groups from Youth Work Ireland’s membership to design their own protest banners, slogan and chant and bring them along to the Dublin Pride Parade.

This is more than just making art or being creative, it’s about having a voice and using it. It’s about critically asking – What does it mean to feel proud? Who gets to feel safe? And what do we want the world to hear when we take up space together?

Pride is a celebration, but it’s also a protest, and for many LGBTQI+ people around the world, especially in places where their rights are under threat, Pride is still a fight for visibility, safety, and justice. With this initiative, we want to create space for young people to reflect on those overlapping struggles, and express what matters most to them.

Through banner-making and chants, we’re inviting young people to tap into the long tradition of protest art, where words, colour, and creativity become tools for resistance. Whether it’s a bold slogan, a symbol of solidarity, or a demand for justice, every banner and every chant tells a story and every voice counts!

So if you’re a young person, a youth worker, or someone supporting a youth group grab some materials, start the conversation, and make something that speaks truth to power and then bring it with you to Dublin Pride and let it fly high.