How to Participate

Be an Upstander Showcase

Find out how you can participate in the Be an Upstander Showcase, an event that empowers students to recognize injustice and use their strengths to create change.

In a museum gallery, students exhibit projects on easels. Two students speak with adults about their work. Partially obscured.

The Showcase

The Be an Upstander Showcase is an annual event which amplifies your voices as students, providing an opportunity to display your projects and share the work you’re doing for human rights with the public. Students are invited to share their work in public places within various cities and talk with visitors about how they are taking action and turning injustice into justice.

In a museum gallery, a student talks to three people next to a life-size drawing of themself.

One student and two adults stand on opposite sides of a table with posters on it.

Share Your Project

Share your project on human rights alongside other students and present your work to members of the public.

Showcase projects should include the following elements:

A visual, artistic, musical or interactive element (past projects have included displays, works of art, infographics, interactive activities, short films, songwriting, or recorded podcasts);
Information to create awareness and engage the public about a current human rights topic;
Talking points about your work and human rights action for you to share with the public.

Share Your Music

Inspired by the Beyond the Beat: Music of Resistance and Change exhibition, share your music inspired by human rights at a busking station at the showcase and present your work to members of the public.

Musicians should prepare the following elements:

An introduction about your work and human rights action for you to share with the public before performing live;
1–2 songs or pieces that you can perform live;
A poster that can be displayed at your busking station telling the public about who you are and what human rights cause inspired your music;