Over the past five years, Makhampom Art Space has expanded its role beyond being a creative production house emerging as a powerful hub of community-based art, intercultural collaboration, and decolonial learning. Its partnerships span across local, regional, and global networks, involving a range of co-productions, artistic residencies, youth empowerment programs, and grassroots development work. These collaborations fall into several categories:

Co-productions (Artistic collaboration)

• Co-design & Co-curation (Shared process facilitation)
• Residency & Exchange (Artist/youth/volunteer mobility)
• Long-term Partnerships (Education & community systems)

1. Artistic Co-Productions

The Overlapping (2024)

• Type: Dance & Video Arts Co-Production
• Collaborators: Queer performers, ethnic youth, AI researcher, community members
• Theme: Intersectionality across identity, gender, generation, labor and technology
• Highlight: Deep co-creation with marginalized voices from Chiang Dao

Dream Home (2025)

• Type: Thai–Japanese Collaborative Art Project
• Supported by: Japan Foundation
• Theme: Redefining “home” through performance, spoken word, and collaborative paper-based visuals
• Format: Youth-to-youth creative exchange, both online and on-site
  

Watch Me Breathe (2022)

• Type: Testimonial Theatre
• Collaborators: Rohingya refugees, ethnic communities from Myanmar
• Theme: Displacement, trauma, and silence under military regimes
• Approach: Performed through breath, gaze, and silence where voice was once denied

2. International Residencies & Exchanges

Toy Factory- Plot SEA Project (2024-2025)

• Partners: Singaporean and SEA performance artists + Chiang Dao local artists
• Format: 15-day co-residency
• Focus: Identity, co-existence, and Southeast Asian futures
• Method: Co-facilitated process-based performance within community settings
  

Tracing Roots (2023–2026)

• Type: Humanitarian volunteer program with creative arts
• Partners: European Solidarity Corps (ESC), local communities
• Focus: Youth empowerment, statelessness, and community-led resilience
• Outputs: Indigenous learning centers, gardens, participatory rituals
  

International Conference of Insecurity (Bern, Switzerland, 2021-2022)

• Partners: Artists from 7 countries
• Theme: Precarity across digital, social, and national structures
• Format: Multi-vocal performance and conceptual exploration

3. Collaborations with Arts and Cultural Institutions

BIPAM (2022)

• Event: Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting
• Role: Production manager for “Ownership”
• Focus: Stateless artists from Chiang Dao reclaiming identity and space through performance
  

Japan Foundation

• Support Role: Funded and coordinated Dream Home project
• Contribution: Facilitated youth-led intercultural creation and touring
  

Goethe-Institut (Thailand & Southeast Asia)

• Emphasis: Artistic research, digital exchange, and intercultural storytelling

4. Local Collaborations: Schools & Communities in Chiang Dao

Learning Stations: Chiang Dao Learning City

• Partners: 8 local schools, hill tribe communities, local education offices
• Initiative: Developed “learning stations” based on local wisdom
• Examples: Organic farming gardens, Natural dyeing workshops, Ceramics for healing and Shamanic storytelling labs.
• Approach: Integrated SDGs, IB curriculum, and hands-on community-based education
  

Youth Theatre for Transformation

• Partners: Terre des Hommes, Thai civil society networks
• Focus: Empowerment of marginalized youth (stateless, LGBTQ+, ethnic) through theatre camps and dialogue forums

5. Art as Public Protest & Civic Expression

Ra-Ta-Pla-Phao: The Tragedy (2020–2021)

• Format: Protest performance in public spaces
• Collaborators: Chiang Mai art activists
• Theme: Political violence, collective grief, and reclaiming public narrative
  

Act Up Chiang Mai (Ongoing since 2019)

• Format: Transformative theatre festival
• Theme: Art Acts Listen – centering marginalized voices in civic discourse
• Audience: Artists, activists, youth leaders, and ordinary citizens

Strategic Insights

• Makhampom serves as a cultural bridge connecting local wisdom with global dialogues.
• Their collaborations emphasize horizontal partnerships; everyone involved is a co-creator, not a recipient.
• Their strength lies in localizing global tools to amplify community voice and ownership.
• Their impact goes beyond art; it reshapes structures of learning, power, and solidarity.

For Makhampom and the Free Theatre team, Dialogue Theatre is not just an artistic methodology, it is a philosophy of living together, of transforming conflict through empathy, and of practicing humanity through deep listening. As they believe, understanding cannot be achieved through reason alone. It requires space. It requires presence. And Dialogue Theatre offers one such space, where people can meet, reflect, and begin again together.