Breaking Walls Warsaw, Poland 2017

Breaking Walls, a not-for-profit, international creative writing, performance and peacebuilding initiative, ignites global dialogue between the leaders of tomorrow by creating artistic, educational and community-building opportunities for youth to become those empathetic, system changing leaders.

To ensure that Breaking Walls creates a sustainable collaboration, we offer three levels of involvement for youth participants: artists write and perform their original work for a live audience; ambassadors who are former artists now youth facilitators mentoring the artists through the writing and performance process; and, associates who are participants from past Breaking Walls initiatives who have become prominent leaders in their home communities. Each young man and woman returns to their home community after our twelve-day, intensive writing, performing, ensemble building experience having explored their imagination; and, embraced their creativity as the catalyst for compassion, collaboration, accountability, and commitment – ready to nurture a world where we can all trust one another.