Where Innovation & Creativity Meets Community

Welcome to The Social Commons—a new kind of base for artists, makers, and independent thinkers navigating the shifting terrain of creative life.


We’ve all felt it: the constant shuffle between pop-ups, short-term gigs, coworking desks that feel more corporate than creative. What’s missing is continuity. A place that doesn’t vanish when the funding cycle ends. A place that feels steady, welcoming, and alive with possibility.


That’s what we’re building with The Social Commons.


Opening in the coming months on the Northern Rivers–Gold Coast border, The Commons is a cultural home for young people (18–35) making and shaping across music, media, design, writing, performance, and social impact. It’s not a hype machine or a polished showroom. It’s a base. A place to work, gather, experiment, and belong without pressure.

Welcome to The Social Commons—a new kind of base for artists, makers, and independent thinkers navigating the shifting terrain of creative life.


We’ve all felt it: the constant shuffle between pop-ups, short-term gigs, coworking desks that feel more corporate than creative. What’s missing is continuity. A place that doesn’t vanish when the funding cycle ends. A place that feels steady, welcoming, and alive with possibility.


That’s what we’re building with The Social Commons.


Opening in the coming months on the Northern Rivers–Gold Coast border, The Commons is a cultural home for young people (18–35) making and shaping across music, media, design, writing, performance, and social impact. It’s not a hype machine or a polished showroom. It’s a base. A place to work, gather, experiment, and belong without pressure.

Welcome to The Social Commons—a new kind of base for artists, makers, and independent thinkers navigating the shifting terrain of creative life.


We’ve all felt it: the constant shuffle between pop-ups, short-term gigs, coworking desks that feel more corporate than creative. What’s missing is continuity. A place that doesn’t vanish when the funding cycle ends. A place that feels steady, welcoming, and alive with possibility.


That’s what we’re building with The Social Commons.


Opening in the coming months on the Northern Rivers–Gold Coast border, The Commons is a cultural home for young people (18–35) making and shaping across music, media, design, writing, performance, and social impact. It’s not a hype machine or a polished showroom. It’s a base. A place to work, gather, experiment, and belong without pressure.

Where Innovation & Creativity Meets Community

Where Innovation & Creativity Meets Community

What it will include

  • Coworking zones for focus and collaboration

  • Soundproof studios & rehearsal rooms for recording, rehearsing, experimenting

  • Residency pods for deeper dives into projects

  • Multipurpose rooms for workshops, talks, and group work

  • Performance + showcase space for music, screenings, and installations

  • Creative café for low-cost hangs and casual connection

  • Digital lab for editing, design, and storytelling

  • Community lounge & quiet zones for slowing down and being present

  • Outdoor garden & music area for gathering and creative rest

  • Daily co-working and studio access

  • Music nights, open mics, exhibitions, roundtables, screenings

  • Creative seminars on AI, wellbeing, ethics, and sustainable careers

  • Residency programs with space, mentorship, and low-stakes visibility

  • Partner projects with councils, youth services, and creative orgs

  • Space hire for community-led events and recordings

  • Peer-to-peer support: check-ins, feedback circles, community agreements

What it will include

Ideas, Adaptation & Connection as the Pulse of Cultural Infrastructure

Creative life feels scattered—cafés, borrowed studios, home desks. Spaces appear, then vanish. Pop-ups bring energy but fade fast. What’s missing is something steady—an anchor.

The Social Commons is that anchor: a cultural home where creativity, connection, and care belong together. Not coworking dressed as community. Not a venue chasing hype. A place to return to—after the show, between projects, before you know what’s next.

Here, continuity matters. Time for ideas to grow, for people to find each other, for work that doesn’t fit quick outputs or fast funding cycles. The Commons is a rhythm, not a moment—holding space for making, resting, failing, and starting again.

Our first location is a prototype, rooted in the Northern Rivers and Gold Coast, but built for challenges felt nationwide—rising costs, digital fatigue, disconnection, freelance precarity. Flexible yet enduring, it’s not about polish or clout. It’s about belonging. And this is only the beginning.

Ideas, Adaptation & Connection as the Pulse of Cultural Infrastructure

An Invitation

We’re forming the founding community now. If you want to be part of shaping this from the ground up, join the waitlist. Bring your ideas, your questions, your unfinished projects.

Because The Social Commons isn’t about perfection.

It’s about building the cultural home we’ve all been waiting for.

An Invitation

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We respectfully acknowledge the First Nations Peoples globally, and pay tribute to Elders past, present, and emerging. As participants in Australia’s creative industry, we honour the Traditional Custodians of these lands—the Midjungbal, Yugambeh, Arakwal, Meanjin, and Gadigal peoples. Indigenous Australians are the world’s oldest continuous storytellers and artists. We celebrate the cultural richness and wisdom of all Indigenous and First Nations peoples, whose deep connection to land, sea, and sky continues to inspire. We accept the invitation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart to walk together for a better future.

Copyright © 2025 Lorikeet Network

All rights reserved.

ABN: 53 393 523 535

return home

We respectfully acknowledge the First Nations Peoples globally, and pay tribute to Elders past, present, and emerging. As participants in Australia’s creative industry, we honour the Traditional Custodians of these lands—the Midjungbal, Yugambeh, Arakwal, Meanjin, and Gadigal peoples. Indigenous Australians are the world’s oldest continuous storytellers and artists. We celebrate the cultural richness and wisdom of all Indigenous and First Nations peoples, whose deep connection to land, sea, and sky continues to inspire. We accept the invitation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart to walk together for a better future.

Copyright ©

2025 Lorikeet Network

ABN: 53 393 523 535

All rights reserved.

return home

We respectfully acknowledge the First Nations Peoples globally, and pay tribute to Elders past, present, and emerging. As participants in Australia’s creative industry, we honour the Traditional Custodians of these lands—the Midjungbal, Yugambeh, Arakwal, Meanjin, and Gadigal peoples. Indigenous Australians are the world’s oldest continuous storytellers and artists. We celebrate the cultural richness and wisdom of all Indigenous and First Nations peoples, whose deep connection to land, sea, and sky continues to inspire. We accept the invitation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart to walk together for a better future.

Copyright ©

2025 Lorikeet Network

ABN: 53 393 523 535

All rights reserved.