The Extra Mile is a project aligned with Crossroad Art’s Road through the Woods program.
With support from Rio Tinto, Arts Qld, Mackay Regional Council and The Australia Council for the Arts. Crossroad Arts has partnered with Bluecare to roll out a series of multi art workshops, in visual art, photography, drama role play, storytelling and theatre. The primary focus of the program is to engage people in the elderly community in meaningful creative activities for the purpose of enhancing their intellectual, emotional and creative quality of life.
The program followed a series of meetings with Bluecare in 2012 and began with a pilot project at Homefield Agedcare in March 2013 with residents in the Memory Support Area.
The program has already created a strong body of work that will culminate in a series of on-line and public exhibitions. The bags and cards will be sold at Crossroad Arts new artshop which will open in October.
The success of the 2013 pilot project has led to the Australia Council for the Arts through Community Partnerships to fund an expansion of the program in 2014 in the Mackay and the Isaac Regions. The Beyond Boundaries program will include schools and aged care centres coming together in an intergenerational celebration of creativity in the arts.
