Donations
Your donations will help us showcase Brisbane’s unknown talents, make them visible, and give space for Meanjin (Brisbane) to celebrate them and be inspired by them.
We are trying to raise at least $10,000 for our very first musical ‘Community Choir: The Musical’! This is not just any musical… This is an opportunity for local community choirs all over Brisbane to be seen and heard; for non-professional performers to step out into the limelight and showcase their talent; and for those new to production, a learning and development opportunity they’ve been craving for. We are bringing this production to the absolutely stunning Thomas Dixon Centre (home of the Queensland Ballet in West End, Brisbane, Australia) in the first week of September over four shows - it is going to be so raw, so beautiful, and so funny - but we can’t get there without your help!
Can you help us? Your donations will contribute towards:
Reducing the cost our community performers will need to pay to participate to fund the production
Offering a number of free scholarships for participants who cannot afford to take part but show incredible enthusiasm and potential
Properly compensating our world-class creative team of musicians, tutors, directors, facilitators, lighting and sound engineers, designers and more - who are currently providing heavy donation hours to get us to production
Covering performance and rehearsal venue related costs
Creating costume items and props
Offering mentoring and work experience opportunities to young creatives wanting to work in the community music space
And so much more!
Click on the “Donate” button below to donate now - a huge massive thank you for any and all donations.
Even donations as small as $10 can facilitate some of the achievements in the above!
We are a registered charity with DGR (Deductible Gift Recipient) status - so all donations are tax deductible.
Photos by Kate Davies of KD Photography
Some brief testimonials from our current choir members to stir how important putting on this musical is for our community…
At school, I was lucky to be part of a fantastic music department, always involved in musical theatre productions. I loved it—every moment spent singing and performing. But after graduating, life happened. Work, family, everything else took over, and before I knew it, more than 40 years had passed without any opportunities to perform. Cheep Trill offer me this space to create again, to be part of musical theatre. I am so grateful!
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Joining this choir has actually helped me find my way back to myself—to the creative me I had sort of lost touch with over the years. It’s like coming home to that part of me that just needed to be awakened again. And what I love most is that Cheep Trill is so welcoming to everyone, regardless of where we come from or who we are. It’s a beautiful mixture of talent, courage and creativity.
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I’ve always had this urge to sing, to let my voice be heard, but I didn’t want to do it alone. I wanted to be part of something bigger—something where I could sing with others, alongside people who felt the same way, people who understood the joy of creating music together.
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Cheep Trill has literally been a lifesaver for me. There have been times in my life when I didn’t think I’d make it through, but the choir has always been there, offering comfort, connection, and light.
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I was in a difficult situation—feeling isolated, unhappy, and just stuck. Singing has always been a source of comfort for me, and I was looking for a way to reconnect with that joy, that spark, and to find a sense of community, which I have found with Cheep Trill. Being part of a choir also connects me to my Welsh heritage, and honestly, it feels like coming home to something that has always been a part of me.
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I had lost myself somewhere along the way. I found myself unable to answer a simple question from a friend: “What do you like to do in your spare time?” The silence that followed was deafening. I didn’t know who I was anymore. Somewhere between the roles I played and the life I’d built, I had disappeared.
A couple of days later, I was talking to the same friend again, and in a moment of vulnerability, I blurted out, "I like to sing." As soon as the words left my mouth, I felt something stir inside me. It was as if I had uncovered a part of myself I had buried long ago. The next day, I found myself on Google searching for a community choir.
Starting that choir was an act of courage. I had no idea what to expect, and honestly, I was terrified. But something inside me told me I needed to take this step, to rediscover who I was beyond the roles I’d played. And with each rehearsal, with each note sung, I found more courage—not just to sing, but to face harder things in my life. I began to reclaim pieces of myself that I had forgotten existed.
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