QIIQ Productions is designed to educate youth and support emerging artists as they honor their American culture as well as the ancestral heritage within the Native American, African, and Latino Diaspora. By reflecting, re-enacting and celebrating their past and present, artists begin to see oneself and the world differently while exploring humanity's universal truths.

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About QIIQ

QIIQ Productions is designed to educate youth and support emerging artists as they honor their American culture as well as indigenous cultures across the continents. By reflecting, re-enacting and celebrating their past and present, youth begin to see oneself and the world differently while exploring humanity's universal truths.

QIIQ Productions began in 2003 and offers introductory theater classes and productions for children and young adults in Brooklyn. QIIQ produces folkloric plays from the Native American, African, and Latino Diaspora, contemporary plays co-created by youth, family drama classes, and pre-professional workshops which focus on a particular skill for new actors. Workshops and classes are fee-based and held Sundays at the Corridor Gallery in Clinton Hill, which is owned by Brooklyn's own artist, novelist, poet and creator of HBO's groundbreaking Def Poetry, Danny Simmons.

Acting Classes

Inspired by 2008's new classes, Broadway Babies (for 2 & 3 year olds) and Drama Tots (for children ages 4-7), QIIQ carries year-round workshops for young children and t heir family. Family Theater Workshops provide storytelling, creative movement, voice, comedy, acting exercises, and theater games for the youngest and brightest stars.

QIIQ signature program, First Stages, introduces youth ages 8-12 to the complete theater experience. The program is designed for students who may have minimal performing experience, but a lot of energy and desire to learn the craft of acting. Through low-pressure participation, children share their own ideas and understand the creative process while enhancing reading, writing, comprehension, teamwork and leadership skills. In June 2005, First Stages received an award by the Community Education Council for District 13 for Providing Children with Invaluable Service &Time.

YATI: Young Adult Theater Intensives, carries workshops that introduce teenagers age 13 and above to monologues, scene studies, classical and contemporary plays, and workshops of their original improvisational work. Young adults focus on character development, making inferences from a work, and improvisation as key tools for the stage and develop supportive and professional relationships among their acting partners.

Being a great conduit for higher learning, the educational community can benefit from=2 0the performing arts. QIIQ can provide workshops and residencies in public schools and youth organizations where students can participate in character analysis, acting exercises, spoken word, monologue work, scene studies, and play-writing. Pre-school children also have access to drama and their unique voice with StorytellingintheHood. Created day-care specialist Evelyn Evans Mitchell, daycare providers, home-school parents, Sunday school teachers, hospitals, foster homes, after-school, and kindergartens can receive QIIQ workshops as well through one-day or multiple storytelling workshops and performances.

As a local and diverse community theater, QIIQ aims to be an ethnic spectrum; home to artists who search for a theater where they can cultivate their talent. To increase the accessibility of the arts in diverse communities of Brooklyn, QIIQ seeks to share the stage with other arts organizations. Past collaborators include Creative Outlet, Salt & Pepper Mime Theater, Spoke the Hub, Children's Dance Workshop, multi-disciplinarian Atiba N. Kwabena, poet Ben Valentin, and storytellers Tammy Hall, Stephen#Wolf' Wilson, Lonnie Harrington, and many other vibrant emerging and established actors, playwrights, designers, and educators of the city.
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QIIQ Productions graciously receives support as a sponsored group of The Field, a not-for-profit organization serving the New York City performing arts community.

For information about how you can support QIIQ Productions through tax deductible donations, volunteer time, or in-kind contributions, please contact Jennifer Davis, Executive Director, (718) 625-3015.

Email: Q2Q4U@aol.com. The Field is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501©)3 organization serving the New York City performing arts community. Contributions made to The Field and earmarked for QIIQ Productions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by the law.

For more information about The Field contact:
The Field, 161 6th Avenue, New York, New York, 10013,
Phone:(212) 691-6969, Fax: (212) 255-2053,
Web: http://www.thefield.org. E-mail: info@thefield.org.
The Field's latest annual report may be obtained, upon request, from The Field or from the Office of the Attorney General, Charities Bureau , 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271