SHAKING THE WALLS

Shaking the Walls brings together organisations from five European countries operation in the scope of performing arts. Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre from Poland is the leader of the project, the partners are as follows: Cooltour - Kulturní centrum Cooltour Ostrava z.ú., from Czech Republic, RaTaTam - Reykjavik Art Group from Iceland, Parrabbola - community theatre collective from London, Great Britain and An Grianán Theatre from Letterkenny, Ireland... Our project aims to exploit specifically the metaphor of the wall of indifference, which perhaps is the most blurred and undefined boundaries separating humans in today's world, both as individuals and social or ethnic groups. We would like to establish cooperation based on identifying "walls" (barriers, boundaries, problems) in partnering countries and subsequently, through inter-cultural creative dialog, art and education find ways of raising public awareness of the issues tackled, and reach solutions. The range of considered issues..

Primary location: Gdańsk Poland