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Our Mission
Our mission is to transform lives through theatre and music. We continually strive to be a leading creator of new and quality music theatre, producing work with professional artists and communities, and in doing so making a lasting contribution to all those involved.
We believe that music and theatre can transform lives – hence our aim is to make a fundamental and lasting contribution to the communities in which we live and work.
Theatre in the Quarter empowers individuals and communities to find their voices as creators and performers, and build their self-confidence. We are passionate about nurturing and developing talent and skills, particularly with young people.
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- We empower individuals and communities – we enable voices to be heard and make people’s lives better for having worked with us.
- We create high quality and original new work, inspired by the lives of people in a broad range of communities.
- We bring communities together – our projects provide a platform for better understanding between communities, generations, and cultures. We foster a sense of belonging and civic pride.
- We nurture new talent and develop people’s skills and self confidence.
- By working in communities (e.g. schools and youth clubs in ‘hard to reach’ communities), giving people a taste, sign-posting them to new activities, creating opportunity and aspiration.
- By giving young people the chance to express themselves through devising creating and performing theatre.
- By creating the opportunity for people of all ages and backgrounds to work alongside professional artists.
- By taking people out of their usual environments, e.g. giving the young girl on the estate the chance to perform alongside professional artists in places like Chester Cathedral, Manchester Piccadilly Station or Hampton Court Palace.
- Young people from schools and youth clubs in hard to reach communities, across the borough and beyond.
- Young people who we attract to our youth theatre groups.
- Work experience and placement students with a keen interest in the performing arts as a career.
- Adult participants from a broad range of experience and backgrounds.
- Performing arts graduates and early career artists looking for opportunities.
- Mid-term career artists.
- Chester, Blacon, Ellesmere Port, and other areas of Cheshire.
- Touring in Cheshire, North West of England, and beyond.
- We have achieved a huge reach by taking our performance projects out to Theatres, Village halls, Schools, Churches, Site specific locations (railway stations, city/town squares cathedrals, palaces). Our work has featured on: BBC radio, On-line, YouTube, TV.
Why sponsor us?
Our challenge is to sustain and grow our work in a climate where public funding is increasingly limited and certainly no longer guaranteed.
Theatre in the Quarter has an impressive legacy of making an impact on many people’s lives through the work we create together. We have achieved this for over a decade on limited funding from Arts Council England, local authority and other trusts. There is a real appetite for our work to continue and grow, reaching out to people of all ages and backgrounds right through to emerging and thriving professional artists.
TiQ engages over 4,000 people a year in meaningful theatre activity, and reaches over 20,000 a year. We are passionate about wanting this impact to continue, and with your financial support we can.
Told through the eyes of a nine year old boy and his parents, 'A story about George' highlights the impact that leading theatre company Theatre in the Quarter has had on this little boy's life and his hopes and dreams for a better future.
Friends of TIQ
Join today and help us celebrate
over a decade of life-changing theatre
Theatre in the Quarter has involved, excited, challenged and entertained thousands of people over a whole decade. From theatres to street corners, palaces to cathedrals and schools to village halls, lives have literally been transformed as artists and actors have created magical new pieces of theatre with adults, children, musicians and dancers from across the region. This is a company which is highly regarded for producing work which has a real impact on those taking part and those who experience it.
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By joining Friends of TIQ you will be supporting a local community organisation that transforms lives young and old through music, dance and drama. Your membership will help TIQ to keep on offering opportunities to people of all ages to get involved in the arts in their community and beyond.
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