Community is our driving force
Everything we do as a company is underpinned by the belief that creating artistic works that challenge
assumptions through inclusive collaboration ultimately builds stronger communities.
Participants with and without disability and who are d/Deaf are invited to create original costumes and learn creative makeup techniques to design and create characters.
Explore the world of visual arts with workshop facilitator Hannah Izard. Get creative in a safe and accessible environment and learn how to make art for art's sake! Hannah will encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and teach you different tools and techniques on how to make art for fun and as a way to express positive practice.
In this exciting partnership with Artspace Mackay, participants with and without disability and who are d/Deaf will be invited to respond through drama, movement and music to their current exhibition. Come along and learn new skills, build your confidence and make new friends in a safe, fun and inclusive environment!
Participants with and without disability and who are d/Deaf are invited to put on their favourite stretchy pants and get moving! These weekly dance and movement workshops are designed for those wanting to learn new skills, build confidence and also make new friends in a safe, inclusive and fun environment.
In this workshop, anyone can learn creative techniques in a unique and inclusive environment that will inspire them to create their own group and individual performances. Learning different techniques, you will build your confidence in performance and explore ways to share your stories on the stage in any mode or medium your heart desires. Remember, every great story starts with a SPARK!!
Participants with and without disability and who are d/Deaf are invited to let all inhibitions go and get wild in this workshop that explores untapped imaginings through movement, sound and theatre making techniques.
These weekly workshops are designed for those wanting to learn new skills, build confidence and also make new friends in a safe, inclusive and fun environment.
Want your own exhibition? Our office has blank walls ready to be adorned with your art! There will be three opportunities in 2025 for artists to have their work exhibited for a month in our street side gallery in the heart of Mackay.
Videos created throughout the year will be projected onto Crossroad Arts’ street facing double Window Gallery which is situated in the heart of Mackay’s CBD in the bustling Wood St cafe precinct.
This will not only promote Crossroad Arts programs at night in a high traffic area but will also contribute towards the revitalisation of the City Heart.
Crossroad Arts is partnering up with Dancenorth Australia (Townsville) and Undercover Artist (Access Arts Brisbane) to produce an exciting 3 days of workshops in contemporary movement, performance and theatre making to nurture a new crop of fresh and crushingly sweet talent!
Celebrate diversity at our kooky, social and inclusive performance evening!
As well as strutting our stuff on the evening we also ask people to dig deep as LOOSE ENDS is also our annual major fundraiser. Please support us by grabbing a ticket for a night to remember as we showcase performance, music, live painting, dance and quirky antics from a cross section of the community!
SCOPE is a 3 day theatre workshop intensive in visual storytelling for young d/Deaf and hard of hearing people. We gather to see and to uncover the infinite possibilities of each individual’s identity through visual vernacular, confidence to be yourself and using imagination to discover d/Deaf and hard of hearing perspectives.
A series of graffiti, visual and digital art workshops with high school students with disability in Sarina and Mirani alongside Street Artist Muddy Grimes. The visual arts workshops will culminate in a community public art work that fosters pride.
Alun is an Australian-based artist, whose practice focuses on themes related to identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. Recent work has investigated the use of the body, gender, celebrity, form, language and colour in a post internet, late capitalist, consumer society.
His work questions the human condition and its relationship to visual media.
A Crossroad Arts artist with disability will facilitate a series of drop in workshops as part of Youth Week celebrations. The artwork created during this workshop will contribute to our major production.
Are you interested in learning more about theatre production but prefer to work behind the scenes? Do you want hands-on experience in a professional theatre venue? This year Crossroad Arts in association with the Mackay Entertainment and Convention Centre will launch technical and production training for FREE!
Do you collaborate with or support an artist with disability? Alongside Crossroad Arts artists, Artists in Residence and Ambassadors, we invite all supports and collaborators to training on how to be an artist support. An artist support provides access and creative support during workshops, projects or major productions.
