Locations

This project is being realised by the Borderland Foundation in Sejny, Poland, in partnership with the New Culture Foundation, Bela Rechka, Bulgaria, and Laundry, Birmingham and the Black Country, UK.

The Borderland Foundation was established in 1990 in the town of Sejny in north-east Poland, close to the border with Lithuania. They have been active since 1990 in conducting intercultural work mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in Western Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia and Northern America. Originally members of the influential Polish theatre group Gardzienice, designed to bring city theatre to rural areas, Borderland run performance, music and visual arts programmes.

The New Culture Foundation is a cultural organisation based in Bela Rechka, north-western Bulgaria (Varshetz municipality). It is a non-governmental private organisation registered 2003 in Sofia and working as an interdisciplinary network of journalists, artists, writers, new media designers and volunteers.

Laundry is an association of artists based in the West Midlands of the UK. They develop projects both as individual practitioners and in collaboration with each other; utilising a wide range of artistic disciplines, working creatively in community contexts and with a diversity of Members use a wide range of artistic practices and methodologies - photography and film, visual arts, oral history, performance, writing and digital media - working creatively in community contexts and with a diversity of cultures.

Two associate partners will participate in the project - the Etz Hayim Synagogue in Chania, Crete and the Centre for National and International Studies in Baku, Azerbaijan.

For more information about the partners and locations click the links on the right.