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About Us

ITC’s Mission
To facilitate the creation of excellent professional performing arts by supporting, developing and representing the people who manage and produce it.

Core Purpose
ITC will strive to perform a vital facilitating role for the performing arts. It will encourage and sustain performing arts practitioners and organisations by:
•   Providing comprehensive advice and support services to performing arts businesses so that they can concentrate on creating high quality, imaginative art
•   Providing a strong voice for the UK performing arts sector – raising its profile and representing its interests with policy makers
•   Uniting a community of performing arts professionals where sharing of good practice and peer-learning can take place
•   Empowering, educating and energising arts professionals through professional development suitable to all stages of their careers

Values
ITC believes that the performing arts:
•   Have the power and potential to change lives – being a vehicle for social, emotional and intellectual development
•   Must be available and accessible to the ‘many’ not just the ‘few’
•   Succeed most effectively when people are put before profit
•   Thrive on excellent, entrepreneurial management
•   Can be trusted to achieve great success and excellent value for money with responsive, sufficient and flexible public subsidy

Objectives
•   Provide a powerful, authoritative, independent voice for UK performing arts
•   Recruit, develop and support a team of expert staff to serve the membership
•   Provide relevant and practical services in order to remove the barriers to creating excellent performing arts work
•   Promote the best possible working conditions and a viable career path for artists and managers
•   Raise the profile of the professional performing arts in particular new work for new audiences.
•   Build the management skills of the sector by providing a wide range of high quality professional development opportunities.
•   Promote equality of opportunity and access in the performing arts.

In pursuit of these objectives ITC will:
•   Be responsive to need and potential
•   Reflect the culture of the sector - light-on-its-feet and non-institutional
•   Facilitate activity, liberate creativity, unlock imagination
•   Learn, develop and be aware of opportunities and ready to take risks
•   Be reliable, trustworthy and efficient in delivery. Provide leadership to the sector

Want to know more about how ITC can support you and your organisation? Check out what we do or meet the ITC team


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ITC Membership Leaflet