Past Projects

At Crossroad Arts, we work with leading artists across Australia in the development and presentation of new and original theatre, film, music, dance and visual arts.

2024 Projects

Featured

Youth Week

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.

Art Party Afternoons

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.

Jason Wing & Maddison Gibbs Workshop

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.

Make Your Mark

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.

C.R.U.S.H 2024

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.

LOOSE ENDS 2024

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 2024

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.

2023 Projects

Featured

Moving Image

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.

Time of our Lives

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.

HeART (beats)

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 2023

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.

C.R.U.S.H 2023