Camp Counterpilot 2026

A creative development intensive for Would-Be Troublemakers. Presented by Counterpilot and supported by Metro Arts.

LEARN THE ART OF TROUBLE, MISCHIEF AND WELL-MEANING CHAOS

Counterpilot is throwing open their cabin doors and sharing their process with Camp Counterpilot! Through a series of workshops led by their core team, learn the art of trouble, mischief and well-meaning chaos.

In this five-part workshop series, Counterpilot will facilitate a first-stage creative development process with a crash course on ideation, devising, prototyping and collaboration.

Suitable for any rebellious artist – whether your practice is emerging, or you’re just looking for sideways inspiration. Through this process, Counterpilot will provide you with a deeper insight into their thinking and approach to interdisciplinary making. But they’ll also help you find your own idea, and flesh it out into a dynamic performance proposal.

Who is this for?
This series of Camp Counterpilot explores collaborative process. Small groups of 2-5 may apply together – only one person needs to apply on behalf of the group. Individuals can also apply and expect to be matched with new collaborators in the workshops.

Camp Counterpilot is best suited to artists with some form of practice and a willingness to play with process. Both emerging and established artists are encouraged to apply.

Dates
Applications are open now and close midnight, Friday 6 March.

The workshops will run every Wednesday, from 1-29 April from 6-9:30pm.

Price
This is a FREE workshop – participants chosen via an application process.

Location
The workshops will take place in the Metro Arts Studios, located at 97 Boundary Street, West Village, West End, QLD 4101.

Applications
Please contact info@metroarts.com.au if you are having any trouble accessing the form or would like to speak to someone about the program/applications process.

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2025 PARTICIPANT EXPERIENCES

“Camp Counterpilot was tremendously supportive and creatively nourishing… I loved it. More please.”

“Truly so insightful to… [be] led through a series of creative activities that scaffolded the thinking we needed to do!”

“Counterpilot is a fantastic company… it’s quite rare to be able to be part of a company’s process around ideation, what a treat.”

Counterpilot

Counterpilot is an award-winning collective of interdisciplinary artists based in Magandjin (Brisbane, Australia). Together, we create unique and immersive arts experiences — activating audiences with new technology, rich design, and transmedia storytelling.

We seek to provoke refreshed perceptions through acts of trouble, mischief and (low-key) chaos. By subverting real social circumstances, we co-opt our participants as authentic performers. In this way we are harnessing what we believe to be the most exciting thing about theatre — the live audience. We play in the space between people, and we poke at the tensions that bind us. Often designed for intimate audiences, and always grounded in artistic rigour, our work is for the adventurous, the experience seekers, and the ones looking for something… more.

According to The Age, “nobody else is making work quite like this”

Counterpilot is directed by Nathan Sibthorpe, with core creatives Christine Felmingham and Mike Willmett, and producer Nicholas Southey.

Regular faces here at Metro Arts, Counterpilot have presented and developed a number of boundary pushing works including Pigeon Fool, Scaredy House and the Matilda award-winning Adrift.

Acknowledgements

Images courtesy of Mike Willmett.

Counterpilot is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Education.

Queensland Government

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