Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs

Bow Seat is the world’s largest environmental youth program for the creative arts. Since 2011, it has engaged over 38,000 young creatives from more than 142 countries through our hallmark initiative, the Ocean Awareness Contest, which invites youth to research environmental topics and portray what they learned via different forms of creative arts. It also supports a diverse, international group of fourteen Bow Seat program alumni working together to embolden their peers to advocate for the environment. These young leaders serve as mentors for the True Blue Fellowship, which provides funding to youth who want to conduct environmental projects in their communities through a creative arts lens. Bow Seat’s mission is to build a community of youth empowered to connect, create, and communicate for our blue planet.