Make/shift Festival

Make/shift is a festival of future-making in and around Walyalup Fremantle.

With 20 unique events across a dynamic two weeks from 4th to 18th September 2026, Make/shift Festival includes:

• a conversation series taking on the biggest questions of our times with the help of some of our brightest minds,
• a diverse public program of creative events, exhibitions, and performances to give you a taste of the futures we could make, and
• the Make/shift Summit as the festival’s grand finale: a one-day assembly on future-making strategy and practice.

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.

Applications are open for volunteers

View the events here 

Register here