A new initiative for teens and young adults in Peterborough, South Australia.
Sundays
Starting 9 November 2025
@Peterborough Youth & Community Centre
- 2.30pm – 3.30pm (11-15 years)
- 4pm – 6pm (16-25 years)
Free weekly sessions facilitated by professional creatives. Exploring and creating multi-artform and multi-disciplinary community & creative outcomes.
Theatre | Exhibitons | Murals | Projection Art | Music | Writing | & more
Any questions? Contact hello@partofthings.org or Alysha on 041 626 7391.
The Peterborough Youth Arts Collective* is free but you must register.
* the collective will be formally named by the groups themselves, this is a working title!
What will we do?
2.30pm – 3.30pm
(11-15 years)
In 2025/2026, the 11-15 year old group will be making a theatre show for Adelaide Fringe, designing murals, creating things we can sell at markets, and whatever else the group decides!
4pm – 6pm
(16-25 years)
In 2025/2026, the older group will be making a multi-artform walking theatre experience, co-creating murals, producing and creating other public artworks and youth-led events, and whatever else the group decides!
Both groups facilitated by Alysha Herrmann & Nic Tubb.
A project of Part of Things, jointly delivered with the District Council of Peterborough.
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Alysha Herrmann (she/her) lives, loves, and creates from regional South Australia. She is an award winning independent creative producer, writer, performance-maker, and community organiser, and the co-founder of Part of Things. Alysha makes and produces installations, experiences, presentations, poetry, digital exchanges, performances, and other creative things in all kinds of strange places, including real-life loungerooms, train stations and backyards.
Alysha works across disciplines in the arts, mental health, community & regional development, youth work, education, social justice and social enterprise to bring community ideas to life.
Alysha writes and creates experiences about vulnerability, community, hope, grief, forgiveness and belonging. She is best known for her work collaborating with young people and regional communities and is a Regional Arts Australia Fellow and an Australian Rural Leadership Program Fellow. She currently serves on the boards of Outback Theatre for Young People and Carclew, and she also works as a highschool English teacher in regional SA.
Recent creative work includes Writing the River Rising for Country Arts SA, We repeat ourselves. There is no cure for Neoterica, Drowned in the Saltbush Review, Guthrak for Under the Microscope, Bush Food Cook Off 3175 for Illuminart’s Constellation, The Riverland of Rax for Critical Stages and Paines Plough’s Come to Where I Am Australia. Her written work has been published by Currency Press, Griffith Review, Rochford Street Press, Routledge, Ginniderra Press, The Dirty Thirty, ABC Open and others.
Nic Tubb is a high school teacher with a passion for storytelling, digital technologies, embedding creativity and creating real-world connections to learning tasks. He currently teaches Photography, Film, Drama, Research Project, Science and Video Game Design in the Mid-North. He has facilitated workshops for both regional and metro teachers and is currently writing resources for Creative Arts Association Australia.
Alongside his work as a teacher Nic is a digital artist, technician, performer and co-creator of professionally produced and funded creative projects. These have included Crack Theatre Festival shows in Newcastle, multiple performances for Adelaide Fringe Festivals. He holds multiple Advanced Gymnastics accreditations and is a coach for Port Pirie Regional Gymnastics Academy and Jamestown Gymnastics Club. He has created building sized projection art for Festival Fleurieu, Berri Barmera Council and other independent projects. He is also a co-founder of Part of Things, a creative ideas hub and gathering place dedicated to regional South Australia.
Nic has collaborated with Restless Dance Theatre and Illuminart to bring internationally recognised talent and skills to regional South Australia. He has then mentored local artists developing these skills in the community and growing capacity for displaying the region’s creativity.
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