Third Culture Children

This interdisciplinary project is aimed at both children and adults, addressing the phenomenon of “third culture” experienced by children of the Polish diaspora and multicultural families. Third culture children, also known as global nomads, spend a significant part of their developmental years in a culture different from that of their parents’ homeland. As a result, they experience a layered identity, being emotionally connected to multiple cultures simultaneously without fully identifying with any single one.

Functioning between several worlds, these children carry the values of both their parents’ country of origin and the country in which they are growing up.
They cannot-and should not-sacrifice one part of their cultural identity for another. We believe that Polish diaspora children, who have often been seen merely as carriers of their parents’ knowledge and identity, have the right to cultural self-determination and the creation of their own cultural worlds.

• Strengthens intergenerational connections
• Fosters intercultural understanding
• Emphasizes the transnational dimension of
  Polish theatrical art