Unbreakable, Together
- Your voice has power.
- Your story has impact.
- You are not alone.
A space where voices rise, stories heal, and power is reclaimed.
We stand with those silenced by violence, discrimination, and fear—because your story matters. Through theatre, education, and solidarity, we transform pain into power, isolation into connection, and survivors into changemakers.
When stories are spoken, healing begins. When people listen, change happens.
This is why we are doing this.
Theater for Healing.
Theatre is more than art—it is a tool of resistance, a space for truth, and a catalyst for justice. At FADO, we use Socially Engaged Theatre to confront gender-based violence, amplify survivor voices, and challenge societal norms that enable silence and oppression.
- Theatre workshops help victims of gender-based violence regain agency and become facilitators for others.
- Artistic expression fosters conversations that challenge discrimination against all genders and identities.
- FADO unites educators, therapists, artists, and anti-violence centers across Europe.
The FADO Pathway
A stage for those the world tried to silence
What happens when a victim of gender-based violence tells their story and they are not interrupted, not doubted, not told to soften the edges of their pain?
Something shifts. Something unbreakable takes form.
The FADO Pathway is that space—a process of turning whispers into declarations, shame into testimony. It’s not therapy, but it heals. It’s not just art, but it transforms. Those who step onto the stage leave with a story fully owned, a voice fully claimed.
The FADO Web Platform
A safe place for those for who must stay unseen to stay safe
Not everyone can step forward. Not everyone can risk being seen.
For those who resist in silence because speaking out is dangerous, the FADO Web Platform is here.
A private, protected digital space where the first steps toward freedom can be taken safely. Some stories need time, FADO doesn’t demand, only invites. Browse our theatre exercises, guides, community spaces and find solidarity online.
Guidelines for replicability
What happens here should happen everywhere
A movement doesn’t survive if it depends on a single stage, a single city, a single group of people.
FADO is more than a project—it’s a blueprint for something bigger.
The guidelines for replicability take everything we’ve learned—the theatre techniques, the survivor-centered approach, the way we build trust—and lay it out clearly for educators, artists, and advocates to pick up and carry forward. Whether in a classroom, a shelter, or a rehearsal space, the work continues. Because no victim of gender-based violence should have to wait for someone else to give them a voice.
The FADO Workshops & Performances
Where silence ends and the story begins
There’s something about an empty stage that changes people.
It’s just wood and light until someone stands there and speaks.
Then it becomes history, reckoning, release. Across France, Italy, Spain, and Serbia, victims of gender-based violence are coming together—not to be actresses, but to be seen. Through guided workshops, they’ll shape their experiences into something powerful. And then, they’ll step forward and say it all out loud. No shame, no apology. Just truth.
Network Building & Sustainability
Stronger together, louder than ever
One person speaking up is courage.
A hundred voices speaking together? That’s change.
FADO is building a network—educators, artists, activists, anti-violence centers—across Europe and beyond. And long after the final performance, the platform will stay up, the workshops will continue, and the voices will still be rising. Because this fight doesn’t end when the curtain falls.
