A founder and co-creator of Strefa WolnoSłowa, director, culture animator, graduate of the Faculty of Theater Studies at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theater Academy in Warsaw and the Polish School of Reportage. She studied at the DAMS department at the University of Bologna, where she also collaborated with Teatro dell’Argine for many years. She directs performances, conducts theater workshops for children and adults, and has been organizing intercultural performances, workshops and theater activities with Strefa WolnoSłowa for many years.

A specialist in promotion and contacts with the media, co-producer of Strefa WolnoSłowej performances, co-creator of the Stół Powszechny cafe and the cultural program of the Stół Powszechny and the Ogród Powszechny, leading workshops for toddlers and kids. Co-creator of the performance and sensory-sound installation for children FOREST. Graduate of the Faculty of Theater Studies at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theater Academy in Warsaw ,a student of the Faculty of Drama and Directing at Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático in Madrid. She worked in the press department at the Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art and as a radio reporter at Chilli Zet and Radio Plus.

A producer of performances and assistant to multicultural workshops of Strefa WolnoSłowa, project coordinator, incl. Ogród Powszechny, Stół Powszechny – a place of local activity, responsible for the administration of the foundation’s projects. A graduate of the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. Student of Culture Management at the Jagiellonian University and Art Promotion at the University of Łódź. In 2014, she dealt with promotion and contact with the media at the International Festival of Street Theaters in Jelenia Góra. In 2015, she worked on the organization of the Tri-City edition of Touch Theater. With the foundation since October 2015.

Curator, cultural manager. Her practice focuses on reintegrating art with everyday life, overcoming elitism in art institutions, and empowering individuals working with people outside the high art audience. She works with underrepresented artists, especially in situations of cultural exclusion that may result from the center-periphery dichotomy or limitations practiced by cultural institutions.

Born in 1996 in Ukraine, living in Poland since 2016. From 2013 to 2016, he studied at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine). Since 2018, he has been associated with the Strefa WolnoSłowa. He has participated in performances such as: “Gods” (2018), “Turn on the Boiler. Let There Be at Least Warm Water Waiting for Me” (2019), “It Starts with Bees. Notes” (2020), “Space Odyssey 2021” (2020/2021, Zygmunt Hübner Powszechny Theater), “The Water is Very Cold, But I Cannot Stay on the Shore” (2021, as a member of the dramaturgy group). On behalf of the Strefa, he participated in the international art project “The Lockdown/De Opsluiting” (2019, Antwerp). He has published in several Polish-language print and online media (including “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna”), and in the summer of 2020, he made his debut with a text in “Krytyka Polityczna” as part of the “mikrozamówienia” project, carried out by Jasna 10: Warsaw Center of Krytyka Polityczna.

He is a Kenyan living in Warsaw. An activist, community and youth leader, he has been involved in pro-social activities and working in NGOs from an early age. He was appointed by the Office of the Ministry of Decentralisation and Planning to work as a youth community project coordinator in Nairobi. Stanley is a development manager by training and also studies political science, social media and street photography. He has been in Strefa WolnoSłowa since January 2024 and co-coordinates the Youth Creative Practices Lab project, where he is responsible for leading team building, mentoring and group decision-making activities. He is the coordinator of the artists’ database Migrart.waw.pl.

As a performer, dancer and musician, he has been associated since 2008 with the Komuna / Warszawa theater and since 2016 with the theater and performative activities of the Strefa WolnoSłowa foundation. Intergenerational Movement Choir. A graduate of the 3rd Academy of Theater Practices in Gardzienice, he also did a two-year course in Choreography at the Center of the Centrum w Ruchu collective. He is a co-creator of the artistic performance and dance collective Grupa Ruchoma and the open choreographic initiative Przestrzeń Wspólna. He also works as a sports instructor.

An actor, director, and writer. In 1994, he founded Teatro dell’Argine in Bologna and was its art director for many years. A dozen or so years later, he gathered 30 performers from 14 countries living at that time in Bologna and created the Cantieri Meticci organisation as well as the MET theatre and culture centre. For years he’s been working with multicultural groups, migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Italy. He stages plays and organises interactive theatrical performances engaging locals of places where he creates. He worked in such countries as Germany, France, Sweden, Morocco, Palestine, Brazil, Bolivia, and Iran.

A performer, choreographer, producer, dance instructor. She conducts the foundation’s multicultural workshops, prepares stage movement and choreographies for the performances of Strefa WolnoSłowa. A graduate of Choreography and Dance Theory as well as the Intercollegiate Multimedia Specialization at the University of Music in Warsaw, and also the Gardzienice Academy of Theater Practices. The stage forms realized by her oscillate between dance theater, theater and performance. She has shown her works, among others, at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, the Theater Institute, the Praga Theater, the CCA Laboratory, OPT Gardzienice, the Mazovian Cultural Institute, the Center of Polish Sculpture, and at festivals and stages in Poland, Germany, Belgium, Ukraine, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. She has collaborated with, among others, Gardzienice Theater, Makata Theater, Akt Theater, Amanitas Theater (CZ), Instant Acts (D). As a producer, she has realized several dozen interdisciplinary art projects and festivals. For over 10 years, he has been conducting workshops and regular classes in dance with fans, improvisation, physical theater and dance at the Fan School, World Cultures Center, Common Table and in cooperation with Polish and foreign cultural institutions.

A cultural researcher, activist. Author of the books: Zwrot polityczny  (2009) and Right to Culture (2018). Co-editor of i.a. in the volume Art with community (2018), compiled together with Izabela Jasińska and Jaśmina Wójcik, with whom he has been constantly collaborating on projects involving local communities since 2013. The most widely known is their activity with the community of former employees of the Ursus factory, which lasted almost a decade, summed up in the full-length creation documentary Symphony of the Ursus factory (2018). Stokfiszewski also collaborated with, inter alia, the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, with the Rimini Protokoll collective and artists: Artur Żmijewski, Paweł Althamer and Katarzyna Górna. He is a member of the Krytyka Polityczna team, the council of European Alternatives and the international think-tank “Minim – Municipalist Observatory”. He constantly cooperates with the European Cultural Foundation.

She is a ethnologist, translator, and writer. A graduate of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań with degrees in Serbian and Croatian philology, ethnology, and cultural anthropology. She spent her scholarship year in Serbia, in Novi Sad and worked in non-governmental organizations in Belgrade. She wrote prose pieces for Serbian magazines and is the author of the play Tica u Kavezu. She was instrumental in the organization of Novi Sad’s International Theater Festival Sterijino Pozorje and Poznań’s International Slavic Theater Workshops. She ran workshops for children and worked in cultural institutions and a publishing house, among other places. She is a project coordinator, writer, and initiator as well as coordinator of various creative projects. Since 2018, she has been associated with the Strefa Wolnosłowa, where she primarily supports the drama group.

He is best known as a Saxophonist, Composer and Educator. He has taken part in numerous world tours and appeared on TV and Radio many times.Known for being a member of psychedelic rock band Spiritualized throughout their heyday from the late 1990’s to the early 2000’s as a soloist and arranger appearing on the albums, “Let it Come Down, Amazing Grace and Live at the Albert Hall.
With Spiritualized he recorded at Abbey Road Studios with the New Orleans legend Dr John, playing and arranging horns for his album Anutha Zone. Spiritualized completed many tours with such notable artists as Radiohead and Neil Young, they even managed to get into the Guinness book of records by performing the Highest gig in the World in a freestanding building (at the time Toronto’s CN Tower)
Before Spiritualized Ray was a member of revered post rock band Moonshake who were signed to the classic London label Too Pure alongside PJ Harvey.  After recording groundbreaking albums within what is now known as the Post Rock genre, the band eventually split after numerous tours and dwindling album sales. During this time Ray also appeared on recordings with Cornershop and Stereolab. PJ Harvey recorded with Moonshake as a guest vocalist. With his own band Skree he released two acclaimed underground albums, and with his free jazz band Solar Fire Trio, he released three critically acclaimed albums.  With SFT, he toured the UK supporting the legend that is, Julian Cope. Later signed to the label Ninja Tunes, with the band Loka Ray played on and arranged musician the album Passing Place. Now based in Warsaw PL, Ray continues to play live and record with his bands, Light Star Guiding and Casting Lots as well as being a major player in the Polish improvised music scene where he also conceived and conducts both the Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra and the Sound in Space Orchestra. Ray also runs improvised music workshops and teaches classes about the history of free jazz and improvisation. Under the Strefa WolnoSłowa umbrella he is the composer for all of their theatrical performances and installation pieces.
He also continues to record occasionally with more well known artists. Some names he has recorded and performed with ; Sonic Youth, Suicide, Moose, Lush, Stereolab, Durutti Column, AMP, the Duke Spirit, Cornershop, Six By Seven, Damo Suzuki, Thighpaulsandra, Soulsavers – Mark Lanegan, Gallon Drunk, Michael J Sheehey, Dead Skeletons, Mark Gardener (Ride) and Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab). In the improvised music world he has collaborated with Eddie Prevost, a founder member of the legendary AMM, and recorded and played concerts with many improvisers including ; Peter Brotzmann, Satoko Fuji, Augusti Fernandez, Paal Nilssen Love, Philip Marks, Chris Corsano, Brigitte Kuepper, John Butcher, Lol Coxhill, Carlos Zingaro, John Edwards, Martin Kuchen, Jeffrey Morgan and Evan Parker.