UNCOVERED is a 3 year local touring project as part of Mackay Festival of the Arts

The project reveals stories from those that are under represented or misrepresented, marginalised and overlooked. Through collaborative and original storytelling we take audiences on unexpected tours where we create, disrupt & provoke in public and unconventional spaces. We aim to shake up & shift societal norms.

Kooky. Social. Inclusive

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!

Community.Regional.Up Skill.Haven

Crossroad Arts is partnering up with Dancenorth (Townsville) will produce an exciting 2 days of workshops in contemporary movement, performance and theatre making to nurture a new crop of fresh and crushingly sweet talent!
C.R.U.S.H is suitable for all ages, bodies, minds and levels or artistic experience - from raw beginner to highly accomplished performers, and/or dancers.

Explore a world where beauty is not ruled by notions of perfection

This 3 day multi art workshop that will take place during the September school holidays at Artspace, Mackay. Through music, movement and visual arts participants will be invited to respond to Artspaces’ current exhibition, ‘Curious Affection’ by acclaimed artist, Patricia Piccinini.

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.

Kooky . Social . Inclusive

Loose Ends #2 was a kooky, social performance evening featuring unique and unusual performances by local and interstate artists with and without disability in partnership with the Mackay and Entertainment Convention Centre.

Crossroad Arts heads west!

Students and teachers from St Patricks and Winton State High School enjoyed the experience of workshops held by Crossroad Arts.

Major Production

Audiences were invited to uncover the lesser-known side of Mackay on our unlikely bus tour.

Kooky . Social . Inclusive

Loose Ends #1 was a kooky, social performance evening featuring unique and unusual performances by local and interstate artists with and without disability at the accessible cocktail bar, Dirty Martini’s.

Dancing with Ansel

Dancing with Ansel was an exhibition of new and original works held at the local café The Grazing Goat, showcasing the photographic works of Crossroad Arts Ambassador and Artist in Residence, Brenden Borellini.

Floating - Meetings with Remarkable People

‘Floating – Meetings with Remarkable People’ Stage 2, was a cross-cultural development project linking people from Australia and Japan who were affected by natural disasters.

Nagoya - Confusion Inclusion

In late 2015 the directors of Popai Inc, Miki and Hikaru Yamaguchi travelled from Nagoya to Mackay to begin negotiations with Crossroad Arts on a new collaboration. The dance/film project was called ‘Confusion Inclusion’.

Troika

Troika: Red, Blue, White was a large-scale project we worked on over several months that captured 20 dances in three new and original films, screened over three nights.

Cry of the Curlew

In January 2015, 9 puppeteers with disability from Crossroad Arts travelled to Japan to join with Japanese dancers, Shin Sakuma and Hiromi Mita, in the staging of ‘Cry of the Curlew’, a new and original theatre performance, in Nara.