Crossing The Line started as a project funded by the EU’s Creative Europe programme in the years 2014-2017. The project was a collaboration between three European theatres, all leaders in Europe in the field of theaters working with actors with intellectual disabilities. These theaters are, in addition to Moomsteatern, Mind the Gap in UK and Compagnie de l’Oiseau-Mouche in France. The aim of the project was to learn from each other through meetings and workshops, as well as to share our common knowledge and experience with others. Not least to like-minded organizations in Europe. The first project ended in January 2017 with a joint theater festival – Crossing the Line Festival – in France, with participants from 11 different countries.

What started as a project has since expanded into a network of theaters that meet regularly to find different ways to collaborate. The common goal of the network is to create international job opportunities for actors with learning disabilities and autism, to develop our organizations by learning from each other and to change the whole European cultural map! We want the professional theater world to be inclusive and to discover the artistic diversity on offer.

During the years 2018-2021, Moomsteatern was involved in the project Ogmius, within the framework of the EU programme Erasmus+ and in collaboration with Mind the Gap in England and Compagnie de l’Oiseau-Mouche in France. The project was co-financed by Region Skåne.

From 2019 until January 2023, the Trasna Na Líne project took place, within the framework of Creative Europe. The partnership in this project included Moomsteatern, Compagnie de l’Oiseau-Mouche, Blue Teapot Theater Company in Ireland, Theater Babel in the Netherlands and Teatr 21 in Poland.

At the center of the Trasna Na Líne project was the second edition of the Crossing the Line Festival, which was to be held in Galway in May 2020, as part of the European Capital of Culture year. The pandemic got in the way of this and the theaters instead created a digital festival where audiences could enjoy performances online free of charge between September 16 and November 25, 2021.

More information about crossing the line can be found on the network’s own website: www.crossingtheline.eu