This year starts a three-year program 'Threads in Common' exploring 'community'. Through artistic expression we will weave together our Threads in Common, nurturing respect and connection through understanding. Please click on the arrow for a snapshot of 2025.
We recognise that threads, when joined together, engender strength and resilience. As individuals and communities, when we come together and share our various stories and experiences, our social fabric and our respect for self and others benefits. This, in turn, reduces social isolation, fosters cultural understanding, and supports local networks for personal pride, sense of place and belonging.
Culture and the arts play an important role in the Threads in Common project; providing experiences that bring people together. The impact lies in a greater appreciation of, and harmonious relationships between, people from all backgrounds, cultures, gender, sexuality, skills, and life experiences in our communities.
Over the next three years through artistic expression, we will explore 'community' weaving together our Threads in Common, nurturing respect and connection through understanding.
Full details available soon.
Guidance + Reflections
It's about making sure we are creating activities that help foster healthy connected communities and vibrant liveable towns. Your guidance provides a deeper insight into what we are doing well, what we can improve on.. and an opportunity to see if we are making a positive difference in people's lives, whether we are relevant, or needed. Please click here to join the conversation.
Artwork: Perceptions is a large-scale artwork across twelve narrow canvases, created collaboratively in 2018 by our first international artist-in-residence Lupe Gallo with youth from Carnamah, Coorow and Perenjori. The work is part of the North Midlands Community Art Collection
Workshops, Exhibitions + Events!
Click here to jump over to our Facebook Events page with all up-and-coming creative workshops, events special exhibitions, community projects plus everything in between.
North Midlands Project Events Page.
Creative Group SUPPORT
Are you thinking about starting up a new creative community group in the North Midlands, or need some assistance with one already running? Get in touch! We can help with planning, marketing, insurance and providing a space for the group to run activities. #StrongerTogether
Creative Hub
Strengthening our Creative Community Together
This resource is for artists, arts workers and arts enthusiasts to learn, participate, and connect with what they love. Click here to discover more. All ideas, feedback or content suggestions are warmly welcomed through the make it better contributor's portal
#StrongerTogether
NoticeBoard
Share + discover arts activities happening in the Mid West
All are welcome to check out and post about creative activities, workshops, gigs, launches, exhibitions, projects and events happening in the Mid West.
If it’s creative and happening in the Mid West, click here and post away!
CREATIVE @ HOME
If you're at home, we encourage you to keep active, creative and connected with our expansive Act Belong Commit Creative @ Home program. Can you recommend an addition to the program? Would you like to do a live-streamed gig or workshop? Click here to get in touch!
Creative activities, online courses, virtual exhibitions and much more. Open 24/7 online!
REgional Arts WA Network
North Midlands Project is the Mid West Hub !
Looking to change the way the regional arts sector talk to each other, Regional Arts WA has partnered with strategically aligned local organisations to grow a Network of Hubs across the state.
The Hubs themselves engage and respond directly to their local communities by providing on-ground support for their needs. Their role is to increase local decision making, strengthening relationships with local governments and stakeholders, whilst seeking development opportunities for artists and arts workers within their communities.
By having Hubs then connect back to a state-wide Regional Arts Network, assists in building a sustainable and thriving ecosystem of connected creative regional communities who work together in collaboration.
The network is a Regional Arts WA initiative, proudly supported by Minderoo Foundation and The Ian Potter Foundation, with funding from the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund.
You can find out more on the Regional Arts Network here.
We're proud to work with Healthway to promote the Act Belong Commit message through our Creative Community Program. Our many thanks to the Government of Western Australia, Healthway and Act Belong Commit for helping keep our community happy, healthy, creative and connected.