Community connections workshop - high school program

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.

I can. I dream. I uncover. 

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. 

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 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!

Join us at Artspace Mackay for a visual arts workshop led by Alun Rhys Jones

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.

Poetry, music and songwriting

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. 

Drop in and say gidday!

A Crossroad Arts artist with disability will facilitate a drop in workshop as part of Youth Week celebrations. The artwork created during this workshop will contribute to our major production UNLOCK THE CITY. 

Bring your own project!

Do you have an existing arts project that you are looking to finish? Are you looking to meet up socially with other artists? 

Art Party Afternoons recognises all of our unfinished projects (crochet, painting, craft, zine, artist book, comic, scribbles…whatever you are working on!). The monthly art hangs will connect our like minded community to get creative inspo and provide you a place to make. 

Design a mural!

Join us at the Crossroad Arts office as we welcome acclaimed Sydney based artist Jason Wing to facilitate a workshop teaching skills in digital street art design. This workshop will culminate in a Youth Week event celebrating the launch of Jason Wing’s large scale mural.

Future faces of Mackay!

A series of graffiti and film workshops with high school students with disability in Sarina and Mirani. Participants will create a series of large scale murals with mapped projections and animations that will form the set for Crossroad Arts major production UNLOCK THE CITY.

Community.Regional.Up Skill.Haven

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! 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. Suitable for 15 years and over.

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!

What if the Keys to the City were bestowed upon you?  Keys that would give you as an esteemed citizen the freedom to unlock secrets and mysterious stories of Mackay? 

Crossroad Arts’ performers give you the chance to explore the City through their eyes and ears presenting you with a fresh new perspective on the familiar and unfamiliar city in which you live.

Short Film Making!

Participants who are neurodiverse, have ADHD or are on the Autism Spectrum are invited to explore the world of filmmaking. Meet like minded people and be guided through the process and production of making a short film.

Enrol early to secure your place as there are VERY limited numbers for this workshop.

How do we mark time and special occasions? How do the seasons and nature also help determine this?

To celebrate Artspace Mackay’s 20th anniversary Crossroad Arts has been invited to partner with Artspace to facilitate a series of digital animation workshops.

Access is Love

Our HeART(beats) Access is Love project aims to help build a world where accessibility is understood as an act of love, instead of a burden or an after-thought.

Street View Gallery

Want your own exhibition? Our office has blank walls ready to be adorned with your art! There will be three opportunities in 2022 for artists to have their work exhibited for a month in our street side gallery in the heart of Mackay.

Community.Regional.Up Skill.Haven

Crossroad Arts is partnering up with Dancenorth (Townsville) and La Boite Theatre Company (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!

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. Suitable for 15 years and over.

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!

Major Production

Breathe In is multimedia piece incorporating poetry, film, music and projection that reveals how fragile the line between connection and isolation can be. It is a collaborative disability-led work that explores an alienating alternate world of existence.