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Reimagining performance through

radical storytelling,

cultural truths,

and fearless connection.

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We are here To give you options

Music education rooted in self-awareness, music history you’ve never been taught, and artistic training that starts with seeing yourself fully.

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Laura Kendall

Morrison Center for the Performing Arts

“As a musician and Producer, Jessica Harned is one of the most exciting talents I have ever met.”

Audience Member

“The live music was fantastic and so dynamically played. Seeing the musicians move around the stage was exciting. It was amazing to see so many women and so many women of color. The poet's voice and expression was incredible.”

  • A woman with dark curly hair wearing a crown and a red dress, playing the violin with musical notes floating around her

    CQ Education Program

    Classical Queens Podcast episodes, turned into supplemntary classroom lessons. Where students get to connect with musicians of the past through reading their storys, interactive activites, and through aural learning.

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    CQ Community Programming

    Take a look at what CQ is regulary up to within the commnuity’s of Idaho and beyond!

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    CQ Embodies

    We want to expand our communities and take you on the journey that led to creating expansive and groundbreaking new work. Join this program, and join the CQ journey, of becoming who we want to be within our artforms, thorugh first honoring the self.

  • Three performers in colorful costumes and accessories, holding hands and dancing in a hallway with a striped floor. The person on the left is shirtless, wearing blue pants and a blue headpiece with purple feathers. The middle person wears glasses, a purple dress with a patterned skirt, and a headwrap. The person on the right wears a bright yellow dress with a flowing skirt, and has big curly hair.

    CQ Over The Years

    A little sneak peak on our growth from a research paper, to now a community.