Thirteen Hawke's Bay youths have been given a rare chance to speak their minds to a captive audience at the Harcourts Hawke's Bay Arts Festival.
The Furnware Ambassadors for the Hawke's Bay Arts Festival devised their own piece Manawa Whenua – Spring of Fragrant Water to rapturous applause.
"It is
an exploratory story about how they fit in," festival education coordinator Daniel Betty said.
"Puti Lancaster and I worked together to invite them all to come to a workshop over a weekend and then we selected a group of them to participate in the devising process."
Original music was an integral part of the performance, which featured one of last year's ambassadors, Isobelle Walker.
