Creative space welcomes new tenants

SEVEN entrepreneurs are ready to take their businesses to the next level thanks to a three-month free of charge residency program at Emporium Creative Hub.

The hub, an initiative from ACMI, is a COVIDSafe coworking space providing desks, meeting rooms and a studio to local creatives.

Manager of Emporium Creative Hub David Hughes said it’s important that local businesses have a dedicated place to work and the space offers unique networking opportunities and interactions.

“We really wanted to support creatives in transitioning back into COVIDSafe workspaces,” he said.

“We thought that a great way to do that would be to offer them these sponsored desk opportunities.

“They have these opportunities now to connect with these different people to take their business and their ideas forward so that’s really exciting.”

The seven new tenants range from photographers, to copywriters and drama directors.

Director at Props Theatre Alise Amarant said the Emporium will allow her to separate home life with work life.

“I work at home around my kitchen table where if you haven’t done the dishes then that kind of distracts you,” she said.

“Here you’ve got different spaces to walk to, you can go to the couch if you want to you can go to the meeting room if you need to.”

Copywriter Tim King said he needed a change of scenery after working from home through lockdown.

“It wasn’t that I was being too stagnant with my copy, but I did find a few of my work practices begin to fall down a little bit,” he said.

Meanwhile photographer Peta Brain said working at the Emporium will help her continue to develop her business, Captured By Peta.

“It feels like I’ve turned a new leaf,” she said. “I saw the space had reopened and thought that maybe things in the business had shifted enough that I deserved a space of my own to do what I love.”

Emporium Creative Hub offers different residency which can be explored at emporiumcreativehub.com.au.