Bond Street Theatre utilizes the performing arts to provide joy and laughter, educational enrichment, trauma relief, post-conflict rehabilitation and cultural stimulation as a path to peace.
The company works directly with disadvantaged communities and collaborates with local artists as a means to promote cross-cultural understanding. We create educational and artistic programs for refugee camps, theatres, universities, schools, and centers for women and children.
The company works in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Albania, Romania, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Israel, Indonesia, China, Japan and elsewhere.
“Ambassadors for Peace, Armed with Slapstick” – The New York Times
Bond Street Theatre has been working in Afghanistan since 2003. Our long-term goal is to introduce culturally sensitive theatre-based educational programs into Afghan schools, especially targeting girls who have few outlets for creative physical expression and to help revitalize the arts after years of cultural repression.
Learn more about our uplifting performances and theatre programs for children, women, teachers, and University students in Kabul and the rural northern provinces, and about our ongoing collaboration with Exile Theatre of Kabul.
Bond Street Theatre is currently working in India in collaboration with Exile Theatre of Afghanistan, and local Indian theatre groups. Our goals are:
- artistic collaboration with professionals in the theatre arts,
- training programs in “social theatre” techniques for teachers or trainers,
- theatre-based programs for children to encourage self-expression, creative thinking, and teamwork,
- establishing a South Asian Social Theatre Institute for the study of social theatre and a place for artists to share ideas.
Bond Street Theatre has an ongoing commitment to peace in Balkans. Find out more about our work in refugee camps during the 1999 Kosovo crisis, our tour of Romeo & Juliet in post-war Bosnia and Kosovo with Theatre Tsvete of Bulgaria, the Balkan Youth Reconciliation Seminars in Romania and Bulgaria, and exchanges with theatre groups in Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Kosovo which led to creating the Performing Artists for Balkan Peace network.
After four years working closely with artists across the Balkans, the idea to bring these vibrant artists together was natural. The Performing Artists for Balkan Peace was created to bring together professional theatre companies, individual artists, and theatre practitioners from across the Balkans to exchange, discuss, and create new work that addresses the issues of the region.
The new network is devoted to the active pursuit of social progress and artistic cooperation through the performing arts, and strengthening the role of the artist in the community. The PABP collaborates on original performance projects and involves local communities through site-specific works, workshops and outreach.
Highlights from our work in Israel, Brazil, Colombia, Pakistan, China, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere.
Bond Street Theatre has an active Arts-in-Education program that brings us to schools, libraries and community centers throughout the New York area. In addition, our workshop programs have served as a means for healing in many situations. The group has created special programs for the children and families of 9-11 victims, workshops on Native American reservations, and projects with inner-city children and with other groups for whom the arts can serve to heal, uplift and inspire.
%90 of all of our funds go to program expenses.
Bond Street Theatre
2 Bond Street
New York, NY 10012 USA
info@bondst.org
phone:
(212) 254-4614
fax:
(212) 460-9378
