On 16 May ACRUX will launch at Carriageworks, Sydney with A Night of Light— the largest Amnesty event ever held in Australia.

Through live performance, art, fashion, and film, ACRUX will illuminate the stories of children in detention centres and active conflict zones—while returning audiences to the light of childhood that endures: to love, play, wonder, and hope.

ACRUX is Amnesty Australia’s new National Youth Collective: an unprecedented team of young people leading in fashion, film, art, music, sport and journalism in Australia—who plan to take human rights conversations beyond political silos and into the cultural spaces that shape our generation. Named for one of the brightest stars in the Australian night sky as a symbol of hope—ACRUX knows that Amnesty's unparalleled global platform has the potential to connect people across difference and distance. Or as the team likes to say: 'to make giving a sh*t normal again'. 

In a historic first, A Night of Light will take place simultaneously with Amnesty youth across continents—from Japan to Belgium, Argentina to Ukraine. The night marks the global launch of The Constellation: an international network of Amnesty youth collectives, each renamed after a star in their country’s night sky and connected to create coordinated global projects.

Amnesty International was founded on a simple belief: “it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”. Beginning on May 16, the next generation of Amnesty plans to come together to light the entire night sky.

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