Northern Arts Hub

A community Arts hub providing studio/co-working spaces for artists, cultural practitioners in the north to create a thriving centre for creativity and artistic enterprise:
• Artists’ studio space
• Gallery space
• Retail Arts space
• Cultural Exchange where community members can learn from artists
• Musicians’ corner
• performance space – simple stage an temporary seating for community use
It’s a place where artists share resources, ideas, skills, talents and work together to create exhibits, performances, sharing their skills with community members. The project is in partnership with the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) and Multicultural Arts (MAV).

At both MAV’s Cultural Leadership Gathering and Whittlesea’s Unconference, local artists highlighted the need for a community arts hub in the outer north. Since then, 167 artists joined the new Creative Art Practitioners of Whittlesea (CAPOW) and BSL hosted the Emerge in the North Arts Exhibition, involving over 60 multicultural artists, all calling for an Arts Hub. There is a severe shortage of community spaces to house ongoing studio and artistic practice. This space is designed to create exciting arts and community cultural exchanges generating shared artistic projects, also recognising that artists can become socially isolated when working from home.