Create. Connect. Collaborate.

About Shared World Collective

Welcome! Shared World Collective is a Newcastle, Australia-based social enterprise dedicated to creating opportunities for human connection through participatory arts & culture projects.

Activities and Vision

We organise workshops, community art projects, exhibitions, seminars, performances and media productions designed to:

• Facilitate dialogue and experiential learning;

• Mobilise creative talents and abilities;

• Make space for equity in representation; and

• Further mutual understanding and appreciation among the diverse people and cultures that make up our shared world.
  

Our story

We are Katrina and Alissa, two long-time collaborators and friends with a shared commitment to human rights and creative sense-making. We founded Shared World Collective in 2021 as a home for our participatory arts projects. Our previous collaborations include she: true stories, ordinary and extraordinary (2013-2014), tea & thread: portraits of middle eastern women far from home (2016-2018), and Unfold: Exploring your story through creative practice (2021). We love to bring people together to explore cultural phenomena through creative processes and to invite dialogue among our participants and audiences. We use visual and verbal storytelling to create multi-voiced, multi-perspective works that address questions and themes in areas such as forced migration and resettlement, women’s and minority rights, and diverse aspects of identity.