Real stories, real people – Everybody Now!
About
Everybody NOW! create participatory arts experiences that generate joy.
Specialising in large-scale community participation, we are nationally recognised for our ability to create highly professional and innovative arts projects, with high-impact community benefits.
Our unique brand of art-making, playfully moves between genres encompassing performance, music, writing, dance and visual arts.
Through joyful acts of togetherness and artful, optimistic disruption Everybody NOW! creates opportunities for artists; communities and audiences to come together in new ways.
Real People. Real Stories. Every Body Now.
Work With Us
We partner and collaborate with a diversity of organisations, artists, community groups, festivals, Governments, venues, arts presenters and aligned businesses. We create new artistic projects directly with our partners, we tour and present existing projects, we facilitate creative workshops for community and corporates, and we lead community engagement and cultural development strategy and roll out.
What We Do
New Work & Presentations
We create new works and commissions, at home on the Gold Coast, and by invitation in communities around Australia.
We present our existing works nationally in festivals, venues, and in partnership with local governments and aligned organisations.
Our annual program is a mix of creative developments, works-of-scale and flexible, nimble and responsive opportunities of varying scales.
Artist & Artform Development
We regularly mentor and train artists and producers formally and informally in best-practice community-engaged art-making.
Our Artist-In-Place Residency Program, launched in 2025, brings artists and communities together to forge new and innovative ways of working. It supports artists to explore community practice in a supportive environment, over a multi-year period and seeds new work for the future.
We actively contribute to sector development through industry engagement and we evaluate our work with rigour, sharing our expertise, learnings and findings openly.
Creative & Connected
Creative and Connected is a diverse, artist-led workshop series, with deliberate health, wellbeing and social cohesion outcomes.
These free or low cost workshops, invite communities to learn new skills, ignite their creativity, connect with others and discover the power of art to calm your mind and lift your spirits.
This program is ever-evolving and we can design workshops specially for your group, organisation or business.
The workshops are delivered in community settings, in schools, aged-care, hospitals, public events, corporate workshops and more.
Creative Partnerships & Collaborations
We provide strategic creative expertise across sectors including the arts, government, health, education, and corporate environments.
Combining cultural leadership, artistic excellence, and robust strategy, we design and deliver tailored programs, and large-scale projects that respond to community needs and strengthen the connection, relevance, and long-term impacts of our partners.
Our well-developed systems make us nimble, collaborative, and effective in complex contexts. Our team includes strategy and impact specialists, community facilitators, creative producers, technical and production expertise and multidisciplinary artists.
Grounded in our ‘Approach to Practice ‘we prioritise co-creation, safe, accessible and inclusive participation, deep listening, and measurable outcomes.
Our Purpose
To move communities through transformational arts projects.
Our Vision
For everybody to feel connected, empowered and valued through participation in the arts.
Our Values
Inclusivity
We create inclusive, democratic and intergenerational creative spaces.
Quality
We are dedicated to high-quality artistic outcomes and meaningful collaboration with communities.
Joy
We are joy generators who work to nurture a sense of connection and belonging through the arts.
Integrity
We treat the stories shared with us with integrity and respect. We cultivate an honest, accountable and ethical culture.
