The Mixit Refugee Youth Arts Project ignites the Silo Park with CROSSROADS
This summer Auckland’s revitalised waterfront area Wynyard Quarter will be taken over by one of the city’s most
important and dynamic youth projects
A series of exhilarating performances will storm the concrete jungle with a high voltage site-specific exploration using
drama, dance, acrobatics, film, music and design
Directed by Wendy Preston with an inter-disciplinary creative team of leading artists including Moss Patterson, Chris
Graham, Mike Baker, Peter Hobbs, up and coming film team Votre Arme and designer Jessika Verryt
Crossroads features 30 young performers from a diverse range of refugee, migrant and local communities. The
multi-cultural cast come from; Burundi, Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Fiji, NZ, Palestine, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan,
Tanzania and Tonga. As the young performers soar through the Silo’s city space, they will bring to life their personal
stories of journeys, boundaries crossed and new territories entered. Imaginative and powerful young voices - expressed
with creativity, courage, humour and celebration
In the four days leading up to the weekend event the process of completing the performance on the Silo Park site will be
open to public view
January 12th and 13th three free performances will be mounted daily:
12, 2, and 4pm
Housed within the former industrial territory of the Silo interiors will be an innovative sound, film and photographic
installation exploring the underlining performance themes while also offering a window into the Mixit Project. This
installation will run throughout the weekend in-between performance events
Mixit is an inspirational multicultural youth project that uses the arts as a platform for empowerment, connection and
for young people with refugee backgrounds to ‘mix it’ with migrant and local youth.
Visit www.mixit.co.nz