Make/shift is a festival of future-making which ran for the first time in September 2026 in Walyalup Fremantle.
Brought to you by Good Together and Berlin Creative, at the heart of Make/shift is the idea that the future is something we make, and that if we want just, sustainable, and joyful futures, we need to challenge the ones we're being offered and roll up our sleeves to make better ones.
Make/shift took place on the lands of the Whadjuk people of the Nyoongar nation. We acknowledge their elders who have cared for this Country throughout time, and who know more about resistance and adaptation in the face of crisis than we ever will.
Why Make/shift?
Something feels different. To a lot of us it seems like the world is getting faster and more confusing instead of better, the future isn’t something to look forward to anymore, and our change work has lost its energy. A lot of days we feel overwhelmed and isolated, as futures we don’t like are decided by someone else.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Make/shift is about questioning the futures on offer to us, and exploring the more ambitious, creative, and participatory responses we need to take on the biggest challenges of our times and build the futures we really want.
Make is about rolling up our sleeves: building, organising, creating, experimenting, and trying new things. Shift is about changing the stories, systems, and habits that shape our lives. Put them together, and you've got a festival for people who think we can do better than trying predict or prepare for the future: we can help create it.
Get in touch!
If you’ve got an idea you want to bring to a future version of Make/shift, you can help us out with funding, venues, promotion or something else, or you want to chat to us about another project entirely - we’d love to hear from you.
Get in touch with the team at hello@goodtogether.studio anytime.
