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MISSION STATEMENT
Theatre
LESBOS presents a unique opportunity to bring together artists and community members from the UK, the USA and Greece to synthesise insights and knowledge exchange / sharing.
Focus on FRAGILE and RESILIENT cultural work in communities in conflict.
Create ETHICAL and reconciliatory cultural work
Create PERFORMANCE as a means to explore and share relevant strategies for conflict transformation
UPDATES
2025
Excellence in
high-calibre, DIVERSE, CHALLENGING theatre
Engagement of Community
Pedagogy and Education for Democratic participation, asking DIFFICULT questions and making DIALOGUE possible
Discussion on the ideas and human conditions in our MODERN WORLD.
NURTURING of talent and skill in a uniquely rewarding environment.
LESBOS explores what can happen when language is instrumentalised, decontextualised and turned against its former emancipatory function. Within the chronological impetus of less than one hundred years, we are witnessing the virulent re-emergence of all five conditions of fascism as set out by philosopher Jason Stanley alongside numerous studies and observations by Hannah Arendt, Timothy Snyder, Victor Klemperer, Bertrand Russell, Umberto Ecco and many others. We are all exposed to this “descent to fascism” says historian Snyder, through traditional but also technological and complex digital means.
In that sense, WE ARE ALL EXILES