Life Skills for Creative Humans

This free workshop aims to challenge and expand your creativity. Explore new ideas around creative thinking!

Flying Arts and Mackay Regional Council present this free workshop which aims to challenge and expand your creativity. Explore new ideas around creative thinking. Experience fun methods to shake yourself out of your comfort zone. Define your why, nurture the conditions for your work to evolve. Learn strategies to bring your creative ideas into the world.

This workshop is perfect for artists who are looking to expand their creative skillset, who might be at the beginning of a new project or would like to refresh their energy for a current project. Also for anyone who would love to spend some time being creative within a small group of like-minded people.

What to bring:

• Pens, paper for writing/drawing/notes
• An item of clothing you no longer use but think of as ‘creative’
• An item that you no longer use but think of as ‘something for the future’

WHEN:

10am-2pm

WHERE:

Jubilee Community Centre - Mackay Room

CATERING: Light snacks provided

IMPORTANT - Please carefully read the terms and conditions before making a booking:

• Photography Permission: Please be aware that this event may be photographed and posted to Mackay Regional Council, Creative Mackay and Flying Arts Facebook page.

• All program attendees should be in good health prior to attending (eg. no runny noses, coughs, temperatures).

• This venue is wheelchair accessible.

• We value access and inclusion for all so will endeavour to meet specific access needs as requested. Please let us know if you have access requirements to enable you to attend this event.

• By making a booking you agree to all the above.

Melania Jack is a multimedia artist working in projection art, mapping, sound, digital collage, and performance. Based in Gimuy (Cairns) for the past seven years, their work has exhibited at NorthSite Contemporary Arts Cairns, Umbrella Studio Townsville, and in group exhibitions at Bundaberg Regional Gallery, Outerspace Gallery (Judith Wright Arts Centre), and the Victoria Society of Arts in Canada for IWD.

Over two decades, Jack’s practice has evolved from live performance and music to digital art, projection, and sound installations in gallery environments. As a queer and non-binary artist, their work frequently explores themes of gender, labour, and technology, employing frameworks like glitch feminism in projects such as Pressing Topics, Mother Controller, and the video-sound performance series Not Performing (My Gender).

Flying Arts Alliance is an arts and cultural development organisation which has been delivering visual arts projects and services to regional and remote Queensland since 1971. The organisation has played a significant role in inspiring artists and communities, as well as helping to overcome the impacts of regional isolation and remote living.