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ABOUT US
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The
Bielsko Artistic Association Grodzki Theatre was founded
in 1999 in the town of Bielsko-Biala (southern part of Poland,
100 km from Cracow, 60 km from Katowice, 30 km from the Czech
border).
The Association groups artists, pedagogues and culture
promoters engaged in artistic work with children, teenagers,
adults and
the elderly from the socially excluded groups. The latter
include physically and mentally disabled persons, children
and youths
from families at risk, young offenders, victims of alcohol
and drug addictions, and all those alienated from the mainstream
of social and cultural life.
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The main activities of the
Assocation include:
- theatre, ICT, fine arts and creative writing workshops
- editing projects (newspapers, books, documentaries)
- vocational training programmes for socially excluded
groups
- training programmes in drama education for instructors,
teachers and therapists
- creating a data-base of amateur theatre movements
of socially excluded groups
- local and regional integrative events (the annual
Beskidy Festival of the Small and the Big, open-air
performances,
presentations, Christmas events)
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The Association operates
mainly in the Bielsko-Biała region, gradually expanding
to cover the whole area of the southern
provinces of Poland, with special attention paid to the
needs of little centres in towns and villages. The Grodzki
Theatre
is the only non-profit organisation in the region with
such a complex and wide artistic program to combat social
exclusion.
The Grodzki Theatre Association is based in the historic
building of the Military Cultural Centre in Bielsko-Biala,
at 27 Broniewskiego
street. The Association uses the Centre's offices, lecture
halls and theatre stage. Every year it obtains funding
for and runs about twenty five theatre groups in various
community
and resocialisation centres in Bielsko-Biala.
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The Bielsko Artistic Association Grodzki has been able
to work with people disconnected from the mainstream
of social life
thanks to many grants and awards from Polish and international
institutions and fundations, including the EU programmes,
Soros Foundation, Kultura Foundation, Pro Publico Bono
Foundation
and the European Competition Culture 2000. Our programme
of computer animation for vulnerable and marginalized
groups received
an award in the Minerva (Socrates) Competition, as
the only Polish project in 2003.
In December 2004 The Grodzki Theatre Association obtained
an industrial heritage building from the Mayor of Bielsko-Biala
(four floors, 2000 m2). The Association has established
a Vocational
Rehabilitation Unit there: a printing house and a bookbindery,
where 40 people with disabilities are employed. Occupational
Therapy Workshop was also opened in the building providing
a day care unit for 30 disabled persons.
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