Connecting Narratives for Change Festival 2025 | Theme 3: Whole Communities

In Theme 3, we will explore more ways we can gather as whole communities.

Through a series of workshops, conversations and experiential activities, we want to explore: What can we learn from each other? What can we do differently when we get together?

Our programme partners for Theme 3:

• Artably
• Brave Feats Student Care x Daughters of Tomorrow
• Green Nudge
• InSchool
• Singapore Government Partnerships Office (SGPO)
• Studio Dojo
• The Black Sampan

View the full programme lineup: here.

• All-day Pass: $90 w/ GST
• Early-bird All-day Pass: $72 w/ GST - Save 20%

This ticket gives you full-day access to the programmes for the theme of your choice, which include the Opening Session: Citizen Circles, x2 Parallel Breakout Sessions of your choice and the Closing Session: Un-Panel.

• Single Session Pass: $39 w/ GST

This ticket gives you access to x1 Parallel Breakout Session of your choice. Lunch and light refreshments will be provided!

Please note: Single Session Pass is only available in limited quantities for selected Parallel Breakout Sessions.

• Pay-it-Forward: $☺

We want to ensure that members of different communities are able to access the festival. If you would also like to contribute, the proceeds from the Pay-it-Forward option goes towards a complimentary or discounted ticket to individuals or communities who may not otherwise be able to afford it. This contribution will help us give others the same meaningful experience that you’ll have at the festival!

We believe in the accessibility of the festival. If cost is a concern, please reach out to us at [email protected] and we’ll work with you to find a solution.

Connecting Narratives for Change Festival is an annual community festival for anyone interested in change-making in Singapore. Each year, we gather at Common Ground Civic Centre to work on the things that matter to us that need to change.

At the festival, we collaborate with socially-oriented organisations from different industries and sectors who are the Resident and Community Partners at Common Ground Civic Centre. Through experiential activities, each of our programme partners will respond to these social concerns through their perspectives and expertise, unique to their own domains.

This year, we want to explore how we can live the Good Life - by building healthier homes, creating kinder workplaces and gathering as whole communities.

• Theme 1: How can we build healthier homes? - PROGRAMME INFO
• Theme 2: How can we create kinder workplaces? - PROGRAMME INFO | TICKETS
• Theme 3: How can we gather as whole communities? - PROGRAMME INFO | TICKETS

We are a cultural-change consultancy that leads a civic centre with a mission to create whole communities. We help you work on what's not working for yourself, your people and your organisation so that we can all do better together.

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This festival is in collaboration with the Resident & Community Partners of Common Ground Civic Centre. Our Resident & Community Partners comprise socially-oriented organisations from various sectors, industries and organisation types.

Get to know our Resident & Community Partners:

Artably | Brave Feats Student Care | Daughters of Tomorrow | Green Nudge | InSchool | Kontinentalist | Lepak Conversations | Myles & More | Singapore Government Partnerships Office (SGPO) | Studio Dojo | The Black Sampan | Werable

Info: Arrive at Common Ground Civic Centre for registrations between 8:30am - 9:30am. Coffee and light refreshments will be waiting to help ease you into the day! After registrations, feel free to mingle, meet other attendees or find a spot in the Civic Centre for quiet time - whatever you need to help you kickstart the day. The opening session will begin promptly at 9:30am.

Info: Is the Good Life a Shared Life? In this opening Citizen Circles, we’ll begin by exploring whether the Good Life is something we can create on our own or something we must build together. From access to resources to connection and community, how are our lives shaped by others? Together, we'll reflect on just how interconnected we really are and what that means for how we live well.

Info: Light refreshments will be available all day - partially catered by the local businesses located in Bedok Central!

Info: In Parallel Breakout Sessions A, choose to gather in community around the key topics of: success, end-of-life, collective impact, and community animals in shared spaces.

Info: Lunch will be provided - catered from the local businesses located in Bedok Central!

Info: In Parallel Breakout Sessions B, choose to gather in community around the key topics of: caregivers of neurodiverse children, ethical research, accessibility & inclusion in art, and how we talk to each other.

Info: Light refreshments will be available all day - partially catered by the local businesses located in Bedok Central!

Info: What needs to be explored so that more of us can live the Good Life? In this closing Citizen Circles, we’ll come back together as a large group to get curious about the many unique, and sometimes deeply niche, but all equally necessary pieces that make up the larger puzzle of the Good Life. There are many different things that are important to many different people – all needed to live the Good Life. We invite you to explore the worlds you are curious about and those you never thought to wonder about before.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Common Ground Civic Centre & Consultancy, 21 Bedok North Street 1, Bedok, Singapore

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