Foundation “Culture without barriers”

The Foundation is active in various cultural spaces, wanting everyone – regardless of degree and type of disability, material or family situation – to have the opportunity to systematically and independently participate in film screenings, theatre performances, to be able to enjoy culture. Some examples of the Foundation’s initiatives:

• free online film screenings with audiodescription, subtitles for the deaf
• Polish Dance Theatre’s performance ‘Romeos&Julias unplagued. Traumstadt’ with audiodescription and subtitles for the deaf
• Rock’AD’Roll: workshop on creating audiodescription for music album covers
• Warsaw’s downtown tenements and their courtyards – a walk with audio-description

The Foundation’s activities consist of various actions, which makes it important and useful as an example for professionals in the cultural sector. Its members organise or help to organise events for people with disabilities. They also train representatives of cultural institutions, local authorities and businesses in communication and responding to the needs of people with disabilities (workshops on accessibility, empathy, inclusion, for people of all ages).

Foundation “Culture without barriers” (“Kultura bez barier”)

NGO (Non-governmental organisation)

https://kulturabezbarier.org/

https://kulturabezbarier.org/

Poland

The aim of the Foundation is to make culture accessible to people with various disabilities, mainly people with visual and hearing impairments. The Foundation promotes an inclusive culture and and works on creating and consulting accessible solutions for museums, theatres and other cultural institutions. It conducts workshops and trainings focused on breaking down barriers related to disabilities and creating conditions that enable people with various disabilities to receive culture freely and satisfactorily.

The project SUCCESSIBILITY – ensuring coordination of the government’s Accessibility Plus programme. Co-financed from European Union funds

Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Katarynka Foundation, Integration Foundation, Małopolski Instytut Kultury in Krakow

The Foundation cooperates with numerous cultural institutions, local government and business. Members of the Foundation are members of expert and advisory groups in city and provincial administrations and ministries.

Among the guides and tutorials produced by the Foundation are pictograms illustrating accessibility under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-SA 3.0). This means that they can be used (indicating the author), modified (indicating these changes) and distributed (under the same licence as the original file, i.e. the Foundation file).

Guide for the cultural sector on ensuring accessibility accessible here

Invitation to national and international projects (“Academy of Champions. Educational project”, “Access-me” webinar series, “Accessibility Leaders Network 2020”), festivals where the Foundation is responsible for accessibility for people with disabilities. Grants from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Co-financed by the City of Warsaw & individual donors

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Trainings for representatives of cultural institutions, local authorities and businesses in communication and responding positively to the needs of people with disabilities (workshops on accessibility, empathy, inclusion, for people of all ages).

PL and EN

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