Our Partners

Founded in 2016, Shoqata Artistike “Eja në Teatër” is an independent cultural organization

dedicated to contemporary theatre, interdisciplinary performance, and audience

development in Albania. Through collaborations with national theatres, cultural

institutions, municipalities, and independent artists, the organization creates artistic

projects that combine performance, education, social engagement, and cultural heritage.

Its vision is to become a dynamic artistic platform recognized nationally and internationally

for promoting theatre and performing arts as tools for education, social dialogue, and

cultural transformation.

“Eja në Teatër” focuses on empowering emerging artists, engaging

new audiences, and developing innovative artistic experiences that connect contemporary

creation with collective memory, cultural identity, and community participation.

A central focus of the organization is artivism and socially engaged theatre, using the stage

as a space to raise awareness and encourage dialogue around urgent social issues, including gender equality, domestic violence, discrimination, and social exclusion. Through

performances, community-based projects, and educational initiatives, “Eja në Teatër” aims

to create emotionally impactful artistic experiences that foster empathy, critical reflection,

and civic awareness.

The organization believes in the transformative power of art to encourage critical thinking,

foster inclusion, and build stronger connections between people, culture, and society through impactful and socially engaged artistic projects.

NGO Inclusive Theater Association “ART-Playback” is a non-governmental organization established in June 2018 in Ukraine

The main goal of NGO is to build dialogue inside and between different communities, spreading ideas of diversity, ecology style of life and thinking using participatory theatre.

Experience

Since 2015 (when it was an initiative), we carry out various socio-cultural activities (trainings, performances, festival), held for different groups of people: women, internally displaced people, people with disabilities, IDPs, LGBTIs, national communities, teens and others. During the events, participants explore topics of dialogue, human rights, develop empathy through the theater approaches. 

Methods of work: Playback Theatre, Documentary Theatre, elements of the Theater of the Oppressed, art therapy, NVC, dance, music. We work with human stories that allows to consider a person and his\her truth, find similarities and differences, learn to act first within the theater, and then - in life.