Free man walking

Theatre as a tool for detainees’ integration.

Free man walking – theatre as a tool for detainees’ integration is a European Project that has Teatro dei Venti as leader partner and aufBruch (Germany), Fundacja Jubilo (Poland) and UPSDA (Bulgaria) as partners. The four organizations share the problems and needs related to the art of practising theatre in prison with prisoners and aim to improve the effectiveness, feasibility and sustainability of theatre work in prisons, as a means of social and personal rehabilitation for detainees.
The project is co-founded by Creative Europe.

The project, that will lead to the realization of the four performances, has not as sole purpose the construction and staging of four shows: Freeway Project wants to take care of an approach and training program for theatre operators (selected through a public call).
The general objective of the project is to strengthen and improve through learning and through the exchange of knowledge the capacities of all those cultural operators who perform and realize theatre activities in prison.
The workshop for theatre operators consist of two different steps: a first part of training with directors and a second part of work in prison with actors-inmates.