We are a community Not For Profit Association dedicated to ACTIVATING our City’s spaces, celebrating and CONNECTING the Mandurah community and ENGAGING with community residents to have their voices heard.

Shape Mandurah aims to CONNECT through hosting regular activities and events, ENGAGE by listening and community participation and SUSTAIN in educating about place making, activation, marketing and design. Shape Mandurah is all about hosting events and projects to make Mandurah awesome, and encouraging other individuals and groups to do the same.

Our vision includes pop-up galleries, community gardens, art installations and beyond… we want to activate your imagination and explore the possibilities. Finally, and most importantly we would love to see the community shape Mandurah as a hub of positive activation and creativity. We are here to build resources and bring people together. Ultimately it is up to the residents, business tenants and the rest of the community to show us what Mandurah should be.

Last winter,we held a successful Winter Wonderland event, with a pop-up bar, ice-skating rink and winter-themed activities. The event helped local businesses to continue to trade whilst the main road was out of action due to a new bridge being built.

We manage monthly food truck festivals. This has been hugely successful in not only activating an otherwise dead carpark space, but also helping to encourage residents to get out and about on a Tuesday night, which is normally very quiet for Mandurah. We try to keep the event local with as many local vendors as possible. Weare able tomake a profit, which allows the group to put these funds back into other projects.

We created an art walk, where community members were able to submit ideas of art installations they wanted to create in the city centre. Winners received a cash prize to create their artwork and then it was showcased over a weekend with a map, allowing residents and visitors to follow the art trail and view the different pieces, and vote for a winner. We hosted “Good nights” week night pop-up music gigs in an underutilised commercial space.

We also hosted Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of food vans throughout November and December 2017. The vans ran a 10-week cooking class program and taught participants everything from preparation to cooking a full meal and instilled the importance of the farm to plate mentality and healthy eating. Every community can benefit from this approach.

A community garden is high on our listto re-energise an under-utilisedcity centre garden and turn it into a hub for community participation, education and interaction. We want to activatequiet areas through events, interactive art work and discovery trails to help to create a link between our much-loved foreshore, with other back streets. We are keen to start the trend of exploring laneways and encourage residents to delve deeper into the Mandurah city grid.

More SOUPS are planned, an initiative which allows residents to pitch their ideas on what they would like to see in Mandurah, with the winner receiving a cash prize to put their idea into action. We love this concept as a way of interacting with the community and allowing residents to get involved directly.

Shape Mandurah loves Mandurah and our community. We are excited to be a part of a culture shift to encourage Mandurah residents to “do” for our community!

Find out more about Shape Mandurah at:

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https://www.instagram.com/shapemandurah

Or email us at [email protected]

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