Silence is safer. They chose to speak.
Belarus Free Theatre brings Official. Unofficial. Belarus. to the Venice Biennale — a work created in exile, under pressure, shaped by censorship, surveillance and forced displacement.
This is not a metaphor.
This is how culture survives when it is pushed outside the state.
What you encounter here is built from real experience — from voices that have been silenced, watched, imprisoned, erased.
Your donation does not support “an exhibition.”
It protects the people who made it possible.
It keeps artists working when they are meant to disappear.
It keeps this voice alive — visible, audible, impossible to ignore.
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If this work reaches you, don’t stay outside it.
Stand with them. Donate.
Please give what you can and #StandWithBelarus.