The Kultura Powiązań Foundation was established on the initiative of actor Przemysław Wasilkowski, its founder, and actress and cultural animator Adrianna Cudnik. The Foundation’s main goal is to build interpersonal bonds through cultural activity, as well as bonds between people and nature, intercultural connections, and links between long-standing traditions and contemporary life—seeking everything that builds and strengthens community. In the field of performing arts, the Foundation’s work focuses on developing the idea of “the ecology of theatre,” in which theatrical creation serves not only an artistic purpose but also a social one, functioning as a tool for nurturing social ties and for building a broadly understood culture of connections.
The Foundation operates across multiple fields: theatre, education, and social work. The themes explored in the Foundation’s theatre productions include issues of violence and abuse within the arts, the redefinition of male identity in the contemporary world, and the exclusion of older people from participation in social and cultural life. The Foundation also carries out long-term theatre projects in which performative practices are used as tools for working with intergenerational memory, building local social capital, counteracting social exclusion, and educating children and young people.
Members of the Foundation also develop work in the area of theatre pedagogy by running summer day camps for children from small towns in the poorest regions of Poland. These projects are funded by the Theatre Institute in Warsaw and implemented under the “Summer in Theatre” programme, from which Foundation members have received support multiple times. The Kultura Powiązań Foundation also maintains ongoing relationships with other non-governmental organisations in Poland and abroad, united by a shared goal: promoting and developing the idea of the ecology of theatre.
- Przemysław Wasilkowski Actor, director, theatre educator, and PhD in Theatre Arts; founder of the Kultura Powiązań Foundation. From 1994 to 1999 he worked at Jerzy Grotowski’s Workcenter in Pontedera, Italy. Since 2008 he has been a lecturer at the Sewruk Acting Studio in Olsztyn. As an actor, he has collaborated with many theatres in Poland and abroad, including: the Nowy Theatre in Łódź, the Polski Theatre in Poznań, Teatr Studio in Warsaw, the Silesian Theatre in Katowice, the Grotowski Institute, and Teatr Pieśń Kozła in Wrocław, as well as Teatro Zona Castaglia and LabPerm di Domenico Castaldo in Turin, ARCAT, and Atelier Monique Stalens in Paris. His original productions (“Lament Doctoris Fausti”, “SAM”, “Ballyturk”) have been presented and awarded at numerous festivals in Poland and internationally. He is the originator and producer of many long-term cultural projects in which theatre has served as a tool for educational and culture-building activities.
- Adrianna Cudnik
is a Cultural Animation Specialist at Dom Kultury Śródmieście in Warsaw. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Arts from the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw and serves as Vice President of the Kultura Powiązań Foundation. She co-created and coordinated theatre day camps for children as part of the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute’s national programme “Summer in Theatre” (2024 and 2025 at the Municipal Cultural Centre in Łukta, and in 2021 at the Cultural Centre and Municipal Library in Orneta).
She is also the co-creator and project leader of “Fragments of Memory. The Traveling Theatre of Warmia and Mazury” within the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage programme Kultura Dostępna 2025, as well as “Traveling Home Theatre” (2024) and “Home Theatre of Social Memory” (2025) within the National Centre for Culture programme Culture – Interventions.
An actress and graduate of the Sewruk Acting Studio in Olsztyn, she made her stage debut in 2016 in “The Magician of Lublin” directed by Janusz Kijowski. She has performed in productions directed by Gabriel Gietzky, Piotr Sieklucki and Jacek Bończyk, as well as in radio theatre productions for Polish Radio Olsztyn. From 2020 to 2023, she collaborated with the Boston-based theatre collective AnomalousCo on the international project “Beckett and Virtuality.” In 2022, she joined the cast of “Ballyturk” directed by Przemysław Wasilkowski, and in 2024 portrayed Elisabeth Åsbrink in “Malexander” directed by Rafał Sabara. - Cezary Łepek is an actor and a graduate of the Aleksander Sewruk Acting Studio at the Stefan Jaracz Theatre in Olsztyn. He also holds a degree in Sociology from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and completed postgraduate studies in Cultural Management at the Jagiellonian University. He has collaborated with the Stefan Jaracz Theatre in Olsztyn, the Contemporary Theatre in Kraków, the Polish Stage in Cieszyn, and the Polish Theatre in Warsaw. He has also trained in the Meisner technique.