Peer-to-Peer Exchange Programme

As the wider world is continually filled with violence and oppression which gradually infiltrates our daily lives, it is important to secure brave and safe spaces for fellow practitioners who are working at the intersection of arts, communities and social impacts to come together, learn from each other, grow collectively and dream about the futures.

Through this Peer-to-Peer Exchange Programme, we are gatheringa group of individuals who are passionate about driving social change through cultural work. As a cohort, we share wisdom, knowledge and experience as a hive with dignity and respect for each other and build a stronger sense of community with love and kinship as key elements, without compromising anyone’s trust, safety and comfort. We see this work to be continued and amplified in the future as a peer network.

Investment - our resources

- A 15-member cohort of cultural workers, artists of multiple disciplines, writers, journalists, theatre directors, producers and more

- Over 60 participants from various fields and background joining with their lived experience expertise

- A crowdfunding campaign to cover access costs (e.g. transportation for participants with high-level pain) and logistical costs(e.g. workshop materials, refreshments)

We gathered cultural makers to come together and learn from each other. This is a space to tend our garden of hope for futures of coexistence, freedom and justice for all.

We have curated sessions with the cohort investigating, sharing and working on topics surrounding but not limited to the following themes:

  • Non-extractive multicultural learning
  • Safe and brave spaces for all
  • Imagining regenerative and restorative futures
  • Ecology and us in capitalist societies
  • Nature, migration and the queer practices
  • Trauma-informed art practices
  • Diversity, diaspora, neuro-safety and borders
  • Community-centred art-making practices
  • Rest as resistance - the long game
  • Liberating healthcare systems
  • Being artists, activists and being okay
  • AI, technology and democratic organising
  • Navigating through systems of funding and organising