Part of Something Good

The redakcjaBB project brings together creative young people from Bielsko-Biała and the surrounding area. 

"...I'm participating in the world and I'm thinking about the cruelty. Many of us contribute towards systems of cruelty when actually, there must be a reinforced attempt by all of us to contribute kindness and solidarity and space for one another's differences to emerge. That's what culture is for me.
So when I talk about cruelty, what I mean is, there is a cruel side to what it means to be a human being. But we can't simply rest with that statement. I'm not a religious person so I don't look to something else to tell me how to be kind. I have to look to myself and others. Culture is the way we civilise ourselves and remain positive, remain hopeful that we can progress with our empathy towards others. These might sound like very simple ideas but there are now over 8 billion people on our planet. The planet isn't getting bigger, resources are not getting more plentiful, so we have to learn to share. And if we don't share, we're going to become a more cruel society.
I'm not prepared to be part of the world that's more cruel every day. I want to contribute to something that is kinder, and we find a way of sharing those resources in a humanistic way, and in a way which is based on solidarity, not individual concepts of “it's my right to consume as much as I want”..."

Read the conversation between redakcjaBB and Chris Baldwin about theatre, culture, audience, the big European initiatives and the city of Bielsko-Biała: