Your gift will help artists and communities create work that builds voice, confidence, belonging, and possibility.
Rehearsals at Divadlo Andrea Bagara, Nitra
This summer, Dramatic Adventure Theatre will bring artists to Eastern Slovakia to make theatre in real relationship with community — side by side with local partners, local artists, and young people whose voices and stories belong front and center.
In many of the communities DAT serves, meaningful access to arts education and programming is limited. And for many artists — especially those with fewer resources, fewer connections, or fewer opportunities to travel — work like this can feel out of reach. Your gift helps close that gap.
Your gift opens this project to more artists, including overlooked and less-resourced traveling artists as well as local artists whose presence is essential to the honesty, depth, and impact of the work. And your gift helps create theatre that amplifies local voices, strengthens confidence and belonging, preserves culture, grows creative problem-solving and leadership, and gives people space to imagine beyond the immediate needs of the moment.
PASSAGE does not end when the residency ends. The work deepens with DAT Drama Clubs, and each artist involved will be imprinted by the experience. This community-rooted way of making work will find its way into the artists' future classrooms, rehearsal rooms, and home communities.
Together we can create magic in Slovakia this summer.
"A gift of a few hundred dollars helps close two access gaps at once: bringing meaningful theatre into communities that deserve more of it, and opening this life-shaping work to artists who might otherwise be left out.
Your gift helps make PASSAGE possible for more artists and supports community-rooted theatre that can amplify local voices, strengthen belonging, grow leadership, preserve culture, and widen what feels possible.
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Interested in underwriting artist access? →DAT continually invests in communities with little to no access to arts programming — through workshops, events, mentorship, and the long-term drama club partnerships that outlast any single residency. Your gift sustains that investment.
Go beyond the core goal and open PASSAGE to more artists whose presence can deepen the work and widen who gets to participate.
Increase support for local artists and collaborators in Slovakia so the work can build deeper confidence, belonging, leadership, cultural pride, and community connection.
Invest more deeply in the relationships, local leadership, and shared creative process that continue shaping artists and community long after the residency ends.
What changed me was not just being in Slovakia. It was making something in real relationship with people whose stories, artistry, and presence changed how I understand theatre and community.
This work matters because it helps people find voice, confidence, connection, and possibility through shared creation. It strengthens artists, young people, and community at the same time.
Rehearsals at ETP Slovensko partner school, Nitra
The PASSAGE process: making theatre with the community
What artists carry home can keep rippling outward for years
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PASSAGE is not just about getting artists to Slovakia. It is about creating shared work in community that can build voice, confidence, belonging, leadership, and possibility. Every gift helps widen that impact.
We've crossed $4,300 toward our goal. Thank you for helping open this project to more artists and strengthen the community-rooted work at its heart.
This work only becomes real when artists are in relationship with community, making something together on the ground in Slovakia. That is where voice, belonging, confidence, and possibility begin.
We're raising funds to help bring artists to Slovakia this summer so PASSAGE can create the kind of shared work that strengthens artists, communities, and the future they imagine together.
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Every gift — at any level — sends an artist into the work and keeps it honest and open.
