Lyrically intense

Participants joined acclaimed Brisbane spoken word artists Angela Peita, Anisa Nandaula and phenomenal Cairns based hip hop artist Morganics for a 3 day workshop series to create their own original poetry and songs based on difference, bias and uncomfortability.

Extreme glare

Audiences were invited down laneways to listen into interviews and view large scale portrait paste ups created by those that are considered to be marginalised. This unconventional street gallery debunked myths and challenged media portrayals of those that are often misrepresented in our society.

Arts meets business

Five performers who also identify as having disability each had a week long residency in a local Mackay business to interview workers, clients and customers about the themes of uncomfortability & unconscious bias.

Intergenerational quilting

Visible Threads engaged the young and the young at heart in this unique quilting project! Young people from Mackay District Special School, residents from Homefield Aged Care Centre along with students and community members from the rural town of Winton collaborated with photographers and quilters in this exciting series of workshops!

Community. Regional. Up Skill. Haven

C.R.U.S.H was an exciting 3 days of workshops in contemporary movement, performance and theatre making for all abilities to foster community and nurture a new crop of fresh and crushingly sweet talent in Mackay.

UNCOVERED is our 3 year local touring project aims to uncover untold stories.

An Unconventional Tour is tour 2 of the 3 part series and explored the uncomfortability that comes with closeness, the strange and unfamiliar and address where our unconscious biases come from, how opinions and attitudes are formed.

Kooky . Social . Inclusive

Crossroad Arts in association with Mackay Entertainment and Convention Centre (MECC) presented LOOSE ENDS 2019 - Kooky. Social. Inclusive.

Loose Ends was our kooky social performance evening coinciding with International Day of People with Disability. It was an opportunity for all members of the community to come together and embrace and celebrate diversity in this unique performance event.