Kobietostan (literally Womenstate) is a project about women, for women, by women. Kobietostan is the condition of the contemporary woman, the mythical Women’s State, the inflorescence of women’s beauty. It’s the multidimensionality of a woman and of her role inside the society.
The project was initiated by the Wroclaw-based actress Agnieszka Bresler, who since 2012 has been co-creating and co-leading the theatrical projects of Jubilo Foundation, all aimed at people in danger of social exclusion. Agnieszka invited the London-based Italian theatre director Irene Ros to work on the project. Irene has been actively experimenting and creating within the theme of gender equality in almost all of her performances with Ursa Maior Teatro and Cut Moose. Wroclaw-based photographer Magdalena Madra and actress Mariae Smiarowska will also participate in the project as guest artists.
Kobietostan is an attempt of creating a space for the beauty of excluded women. The project expresses an immediate need of recognising and showing the excluded woman in the contemporary perspective of women’s empowerment, equality and emancipation.
The artists will lead a series of meetings and workshops in two places – Female Detention Centre of the Penitentiary Prison No1 in Wroclaw and Saint Brother Albert Shelter for Women and Mothers with Children.
The workshops will feed the artists in the process of creating an original performance, inspired by the exploration of the contemporary state of women.
The results of the work will be shared on Sunday 4th December 2016 at 7pm in Barbara.