Watershed

Wynyard TAS


Watershed is a relatively new initiative for Big hART piloted in July 2022 in Wynyard North West Tasmania. Housed within a state-of-the-art multi-purpose facility situated on the banks of the Inglis River, Watershed is a creative industries hub connecting multiple generations across the community and providing training, skills, and opportunities for creative development.
Watershed is a new approach for our work in North West Tasmania.  As a bricks and mortar space, Watershed is a housing for opportunity. The project uses a place-based approach driven by respect for the environment and our local ecology to building creative resilience through equity of opportunity.  Watershed is about belonging, connectedness to where we live, and a sense of well-being.
Watershed is curated around 4 seasonal programs a year. The programs promote literacies such as digital literacy, mental health first aid, cultural and environmental literacy, and skills-based workshops such as printmaking, and songwriting.
Additionally, programs are designed to promote community wellbeing and belonging by including seasonal feasts and music gigs. These are complemented by a series of events promoting lifelong learning including talks, screenings, symposiums, and workshops.
Over the first 12 months, Watershed has also acted as a development hub for creative works with performances and artworks created within the space being presented and toured around the state. This will continue throughout 2025 with a new residency program launching in the first half of the year.

Contact: Olivia Beamish, Watershed Creative Programs Producer

olivia@bighart.org