Would you like more fun & joy in your life?
Our mission is to uplift, inspire, empower, educate & entertain through creative play, music, rhythm & joyful expression!
Professional Arts-Health facilitators, musicians, theatre-makers, therapists and educators, we have the perfect combination of expertise to deliver high quality interactive experiences that promote positive health and wellbeing and support the creative flourishing of individuals.
Offering bespoke programs, uplifting workshops and engaging performances, our unique multi-artform approach helps strengthen and empower communities across a wide range of sectors, including:
Own Your Beat Multi-Arts Wellbeing Interventions
In 2024, The Joy Dispensary completed an exciting project, supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland – to develop, trial, and conduct research on our Own Your Beat Multi-Arts Programs, tailor-made to promote positive mental health and wellbeing and foster inclusion across four community sectors: Youth At-Risk, Diverse Abilities, Mental Health, and Seniors.
We evaluated the wellbeing and flourishing outcomes of 20 community artists who trialled our programs – an integration of musical, rhythmic, movement and play-based art-forms, and discovered some compelling results! Watch this space for a full report on the data!
The project culminated in bespoke content that we offer in situ (& soon to be online!) and further refining our Arts-Health Facilitator Training Module to provide health industry professionals/educators the skills and confidence to deliver their own high quality, creative interventions!
Here’s some of our awesome community artists exploring and sharing their zombie powers!
“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce
“Love The Joy Dispensary - Wonderful organisation of experienced and multi-talented individuals enhancing lives and building communities through musical creativity and participation. The world needs more of this”.
– Dr Mary Broughton (Director of Research & Senior Lecturer in Music Psychology, University of Queensland)
We’re also the creators of an addictive music theory card game – Oom-Pah!
Our intention is to revolutionise music education and empower people to be more confident musicians all around the globe with our super addictive music brain training card game!
“Oom-Pah! is genius! There is so much to it! Scales, chords, intervals, etc… Practically it’s a text book in a card game! It is an easy and fun way of learning music! Highly recommended!”