Vision

Macnas will continue to promote popular community celebration through the creative arts and will open doors to self-expression and public performance in an encouraging, informal and inclusive way. Macnas will enhance the community’s sense of shared connection and pride, find the cracks in conventional ways of presenting cultural events and invent its own forms and processes to harness and shape a collective energy.

Macnas will continue to attempt the impossible; the proposal so vast or ambitious that conventional wisdom says it can’t be done. Then Macnas will do it. And when the impossible is collectively achieved the energy created is like a buzz. This is the essence of the Macnas experience and approach and is often described as “doing the Macnas.” Within the cycle that Macnas fashions, some of which the company has control over and some of which it doesn’t, the intention is to create a moment in time, a spark. But while it is in essence ephemeral, the hope is that the effect or impact is long lasting, contributing to a collective sense of identity.

We dream the extreme. And so can you. Every Macnas performance will take participants and audience on an exciting journey, with unique, original pieces of theatre, spectacular parades and street events.