The Complete Freedom of Truth

The first small seeds of The Complete Freedom of Truth (TCFT) began in 2008 when Opera Circus (web site when it’s launched) was invited to meet with a group of young artists in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina Inspired by their dreams we began to organise youth and school exchanges, artists workshops, skills training and courses, residencies, performances, job shadowing and much else in Bosnia, Serbia, France, Croatia, Italy, Brussels, Portugal and the UK). This has continued till 2022.  

If it sounds like our work has come to an end; it hasn’t. 

But the way we have funded this work has to change due to the destruction that is Brexit and the subsequent loss of the EU funding grants that enabled all these young people to participate for free in these powerful and life enhancing journeys in the UK and Wider Europe. There were of course many other generous funders and donors over the years, but Youth in Action, Creative Europe and Erasmus + in particular, were the core support upon which we built everything.

Research, courses, networking, relationships, artistic collaborations, new opportunities and much else will continue including exploring ideas for a home base in the EU.

We can’t list all the hundreds of people who have made all of this possible. We will just say a huge thank you to all of you, you know who you are.

UK Charlemagne Prize TCFT 2016

The prize, jointly awarded by the European Parliament and the International Charlemagne Prize Foundation, is open to initiatives by young people aged 16-30 involved in projects that promote European and international understanding.

Articles & Stories

Keep in touch

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If you want to see more of what happened to TCFT during these 15 years watch these documentaries made by the film maker and writer Robert Golden in collaboration with everyone who participated. The activities and young people’s voices speak for themselves.

2013 - Like a Film in My Mind

2015 - Srebrenica

In August 2015 TCFT went to Srebrenica in Partnership with 12 European Organizations and a 120 People from the ages of 15 - 65, participants, artists and facilitators. The following films tells the story.

2017 - Sarteano

As the final residency of our current Erasmus+ project, the aim of TCFT Sarteano was to bring forward ideas of how to make our communities more creative, united and peaceful. We brought together 120+ young people, artists and facilitators from across Europe, Africa, the Middle East & Asia as part of this process.

2014 - TCFT Bryanston

2016 - Bournemouth

In August 2016 over 100 young people, artists, activists and facilitators gathered at Bournemouth University for two weeks of creative collaboration, cultural exchange and discussions that matter most to young people.

2018 - Bridport & Blackburn

2022 - Izazov!/TCFT in Sarajevo

This video is a fragment of a 5 day workshop led by Robert Golden in Sarajevo for the Changing the Story programme. Six young people from Bosnia & Herzegovina, England and Italy took part and are now making films which are about their concerns for the state of their countries and life in general.

Izazov! is part of international research programme Changing The Story with workshops led by photographer and filmmaker Robert Golden

Young people from across Bosnia & Herzegovina came together to take part in a series of workshops and discussions on filmmaking, activism and art led by Robert Golden. The week together in Sarajevo was the beginning of a process where participants will produce a series of documentary films tackling the issues and ideas they care about.

The workshops are part of a collaboration between Opera Circus, TCFT, Humanity in Action BiH, King’s College London and the Centre for World Cinemas & Digital Cultures for an international research programme asking how the arts, heritage, and human rights education can support youth-centred approaches to civil society building in post-conflict settings across the world.

The TCFT community co-created a number of new projects in Croydon, East Sussex & Dorset in the UK, Sarteano in Italy, Loznica in Serbia and Brussels in Belgium.

Our lessons and values have been shared at conferences, workshops and seminars at a local and international level in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brussels and Strasbourg, in Italy, Greece, Serbia and the UK.

The Book

Partners

You can found out more about the work of the partners, artists and facilitators from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Georgia, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Serbia and the United Kingdom by clicking the links below.