9 Nov 2026
Three students from John Paul College in Kalgoorlie have shone in this year’s Youth on Health, WA’s premier youth arts festival .
The Festival drew over 3000 competitors across WA with the College’s cohort winning in the monologue and original music categories.
Sydney, Year 12, won the monologue category and claimed the most prestigious award with her piece Mr Money Man.
‘The theme of this year’s festival was health is wealth, so I had to make a monologue around that theme,’ she said.
‘So, my monologue was called Mr Money Man,
I just did a comedy about this money man talking about how humans destroy their health to get wealth.’
Sydney’s monologue critiqued human nature and its search for money and our own accomplishments rather than our actual selves and mental health
Finbar and Eva joined Sydney in the top four for the monologue and duologue category.
YOH Fest, first established in 1998, is a leading forum for youth health education in West Australia, allowing thousands of school students to take part in an innovative and revolutionary approach to health education through the arts.
It uses the arts platform for primary and secondary students to explore important health issues and convey these health messages to their peers; by researching, constructing and presenting their creations around the annual health theme in the form of drama, dance, song, short film and visual arts.
