25°CSiberut Island
Engage — For Creatives & Makers

For Creatives& Makers

Six culinary precincts with live music, a world-class maker campus, formal performing arts academies, and an indigenous cultural heritage that informs everything from visual language to spatial design. If you make things, perform things, or build things, this island was designed with you in mind.

The Campus

M Labs Maker Co-Work Campus

M Labs is the anchor of Makers Corner — the island's live-work maker neighbourhood. The campus houses a Tool Library, professional-grade Fab Studios with CNC routers, laser cutters, and industrial 3D printers, plus specialist rooms for wood, metal, ceramics, jewellery, and textiles. Membership tiers range from Day-pass access to permanent Corporate Pod memberships.

Micro Studios

Growth Pods and Studio Space

35m² micro-studios — the island's lowest-barrier entry point for makers wanting a permanent foothold. Each Pod features power, Wi-Fi, workbench surfaces, and natural light. Shared infrastructure (storage, firing kilns, photography) is available at M Labs. Larger studios, Maker Residences for live-work accommodation, and the Maker Hotel for visiting artists round out the ecosystem.

Community

Build-with-the-Maker, Open Studio Night & Maker Markets

Build-with-the-Maker offers bookable workshops where guests work directly alongside a practising maker. Monthly Open Studio Nights open every working studio to the whole island — consistently the most-attended event. Maker Market Weekends transform the precinct into a pop-up retail village: direct-to-consumer sales, no intermediary, the maker available to discuss every object.

Residencies

Artist and Performer Residencies

Six and twelve-month competitive residencies providing studio or rehearsal space, M Labs access, accommodation, and a production budget. Residents contribute a public outcome — exhibition, performance, workshop series, or documented body of work. The Artist and Performer Visa is the formal immigration pathway for residency participants and independent creatives.

Make Your Mark

M Labs, Growth Pods, artist residencies, Open Studio Nights — everything you need to create, exhibit, and sell.