No One Is Left Behind – Creative Meeting of Theatre Practitioners Working in Prisons
The Dom Kultury Foundation is implementing the project “No One Is Left Behind”, aimed at developing and exchanging practices of cultural education in prisons through theatre and artistic activities. The project brings together the experience of organisations from Poland, Italy and Ireland and focuses on working with Prison Service staff and incarcerated people.
The main element of the project is a two-day meeting to be held in Warsaw on 23- 23 September 2026. Participants will include cultural and educational officers working in units under the Regional Inspectorate of the Prison Service in Warsaw, as well as educators and artists from partner organisations.
The programme includes workshops, creative work and a panel discussion devoted to the exchange of experience in cultural education and artistic work in prisons. The workshops will be led by an international team of trainers and artists, including representatives of the Italian organisation CCO – Crisi come Opportunità, which has long been implementing educational and artistic activities in juvenile detention centres and communities at risk of exclusion.
An important part of the project are also activities carried out directly in Warsaw prisons. Alongside the meeting, workshops for incarcerated people – stand-up and theatre-based – will be conducted in cooperation with the Kobietostan Association and the Association of Creative Initiatives “Windą w bok” (Klub Komediowy).
The project will culminate in a stand-up performance developed jointly by the workshop participants. The event will be open to the public and recorded. The recordings, along with materials from the panel discussion, will be published on the Foundation’s website as a practical resource for those working in the field of cultural education in prisons.
The project is implemented in international partnership with CCO – Crisi come Opportunità (Italy), Education Services to Prisons within the City of Dublin Education and Training Board (Ireland), the Kobietostan Association and the Association of Creative Initiatives “Windą w bok” (Klub Komediowy).
Funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the National Centre for Culture programme SYNERGIE. 2026 Edition.
