🌿🎨 WELLNESS IN THE WHITSUNDAYS
Youth Art Competition 2025
Theme: “What Does Wellness Mean in Your Community?”
🖌️ About the Competition
Calling all young creatives aged 8–18 years across the Whitsunday region!
Share your vision of wellness, connection, and community through art.
We celebrate inclusion, diversity, and culture, inviting all youth — including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people — to express their stories of wellness, belonging, and connection to land and sea.
Your artwork might explore:
💧 Connection to Country and ocean
💛 Diversity, identity, and inclusion
🎶 Art, dance, and cultural expression
🌸 Healing, happiness, and hope
🏆 PRIZES – Supporting Local!
✨ 1st Prize – $50 Voucher to a local Whitsunday business
✨ 2nd Prize – $25 Voucher to a local Whitsunday business
✨ 3rd Prize – $25 Voucher to a local Whitsunday business
All entries will be proudly displayed online as part of Wellness in the Whitsundays, with winners chosen by community vote.
🏅 Winners Announced: December 15th, 2025
📅 KEY DATES
Opens: October 31st, 2025
Entries Close: December 1st, 2025
Community Voting: December 5th–10th, 2025
Winners Announced: December 15th, 2025
📬 HOW TO ENTER
Create your artwork on A3 paper or as a digital file.
Include your name, age, school (if applicable), and contact details.
Email your entry or a clear photo/scan of it to:
📧 divergenttherapies@gmail.com
(Subject: Art Competition Entry)
📜 RULES
One entry per person.
Artwork must be original and created by the entrant.
Must reflect the theme “What Does Wellness Mean in Your Community?”
All mediums welcome — traditional, digital, or mixed.
Parental/guardian consent required for entrants under 16.
By entering, you agree your artwork may be shared publicly (with credit).
🌺 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT & VALUES
We acknowledge the Ngaro, Gia, and Juru peoples, Traditional Custodians of the Whitsundays region, and pay our deepest respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.
This initiative celebrates youth voices, cultural diversity, and creative connection — showing that wellness grows when our community comes together in art, care, and respect.
**** CAN BE A PHOTOGRAPH but MUST be able to produce the original
******Winners will be announced via the Website & Facebook and contacted via phone and email.
********Prizes valid for 6 months.