- Projects
Project Name: Peregrinus at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025
Implementation Period: August 7–11, 2025
Task Description: Participation of KTO Theatre in The Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund – a state targeted fund.
Program Name:
Promotion of Polish Culture Abroad
Funding Amount: PLN 180,000
Project Name: aKTOmaR — 4th Edition of the Interuniversity Performance Art Review
Implementation Period: January 21–23, 2025
Task Description:
The 4th edition of aKTOmaR, the Interuniversity Performance Art Review, will take place from January 21 to 24, 2025, at KTO Theatre in Kraków. aKTOmaR is the only event in Poland dedicated to students of art universities offering programs related to action art, performance art, spatial practices, and moving image. The event aims to foster exchange and confrontation of students’ skills and teaching methods of academic lecturers.
aKTOmaR continues the tradition of student reviews showcasing the work of young creators — debutants and interdisciplinary artists working in performative arts at the beginning of their artistic journey. The review’s goal is to create a recognizable experimental platform on the Polish cultural map that integrates the academic, theatrical, and local communities.
aKTOmaR serves to establish cooperation between schools, artists, curators, and other entities involved in performance art.
Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund — a state targeted fund.
Funding for the project is provided from the resources managed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Program Name:
Artistic Education 2025
Funding Amount: PLN 77,400.00
Total Project Value: PLN 104,150
Date of Agreement Signature for Financing or Co-financing:
March 17, 2025
Project Name: TEATR POLSKA
Program Name: Teatr Polska
Implementation Period: September 1 – November 30, 2023
Project Aim:
The aim of TEATR POLSKA is to facilitate access to the best theatrical performances by Polish theatres for residents of towns without institutional theatres. The program promotes theatrical art and works to reduce economic barriers to theatre access, especially in locations distant from major theatrical centers.
As part of the project, KTO Theatre will present the play ARCADIA, directed by Jerzy Zoń, with choreography by Eryk Makohon, in the following cities:
Jastrzębie-Zdrój | September 15 | Municipal Cultural Center
Wodzisław Śląski | September 17 | Nasz Wodzisław Association
Ełk | November 3 | Ełk Cultural Center
Bieruń | November 18 | Bieruń Cultural Center
Pawłowice | November 19 | Pawłowice Community Cultural Center
Nowy Sącz | November 24 | Małopolska Cultural Center SOKÓŁ in Nowy Sącz
Czechowice-Dziedzice | November 25 | Municipal Cultural House in Czechowice-Dziedzice
Limanowa | November 26 | Limanowa Cultural House
The TEATR POLSKA program has been organized since 2009 by the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute.
Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Project: ICEBREAKING
Programme: Visegrad Grants
Dates: 15.07 – 31.12.2023
Four partners to produce a street performance act focusing on closing the distance between V4 citizens and Ukrainian refugees. ICEBREAKING will be an original physical-visual expression of social inclusion that tells stories of people living in mixed communities through theatre. A theatre that breaks down the prejudices, portrays the benefits of global coexistence and gets people closer together.
As part of the project, workshops integrating Polish and Ukrainian citizens will be held on August 17-20, 2023 at the KTO Theatre.
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The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
- The Fragrance of Time ONLINE, FITS Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Rumunia
Project: The Fragrance of Time – performance recording and promotion on the Internet.
Programme: Promotion of Polish culture abroad
Dates: 15.09.2020 – 28.12.2020
Online broadcast of the KTO Theatre’s iconic performance The Fragrance the Time at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, ROMANIA.
This year’s edition of one of the most significant European theatre festivals is a review of emblematic performances in the world’s theatre of the last three decades. The transmission of The Fragrance the Time as part of this unique festival edition will present the show to a wider audience creating new opportunities for international artistic collaboration.
Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
- Study visit of the KTO Theatre in Norway
Project: Study visit of the KTO Theatre in Norway – meeting with the Four Shades of Theatre project partners
Programme: Culture Programme within the EEA Grants for 2014-2021
Outcome 2 Access to arts and culture improved
Bilateral Cooperation Fund – visit of Polish institution representatives to Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein
Dates: until 10.2021
The purpose of the study visit is to establish cooperation with Norwegian artistic and educational institutions in the field of performing arts, dance, visual arts, as well as broadly understood arts education, and to prepare for the Four Shades of Theatre project. The study visit will last 3 days; we will meet with five institutions in Norway.
Funded by the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport and the EEA Grants for 2014-2021.
Project: Four Shades of Theatre
Programme: Culture Programme within the EEA Grants for 2014-2021
Outcome 2 Access to arts and culture improved
Dates: 01.02.2021 – 31.10.2022
The Four Shades of Theatre project aims to expand and strengthen the cultural offer of the KTO Theatre, which will move into its new home in 2021. The new building opens up a wide range of possibilities for creating a modern cultural space, corresponding to contemporary European trends in cultural activity in the area of performing arts and arts education.
Within the Four Shades of Theatre project we will prepare four intertwining cycles oscillating around various theatrical forms and touching on four topics related to the condition and problems of the contemporary world:
- Theatre of the roots – folklore, ethnotheatre
- Theatre without words – integration with people with disabilities
- Performance – body and ecology
- Open theatre – new technologies, new media
Funded by the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport and the EEA Grants for 2014-2021.
