The BezGraniz festival is held by the BezGraniz social project – an international initiative working with multiple issues related to the public perception of disability. As well as offering practical solutions for people with disabilities, — for example, a special headhunting agency, — BezGraniz regularly creates large-scale social projects aimed to change the ways people see, perceive and treat a ‘different’ body.

BezGraniz makes an effort to reduce the irrational fear and disbelief people feel towards a different body, — fear and disbelief that mainly exist due to the lack of information and understanding. On the other hand, we try to help people with ‘different’ bodies to stop feeling excluded, marginalized and rejected by society. Using a variety of approaches, we try to make disability and disabled people more visible in the Russian society – in both literal and symbolic meanings. That’s why we constantly introduce projects that center on ‘visibility improvement’ and ‘attitude correction’. One of such projects is our large-scale BezGraniz Couture International Fashion Biennale that supports those fashion designers designers who create clothes and accessories for people with special needs. The biennale years alternate with special-project years, and multi-genre BezGraniz festival is our newest project of the kind.

The Acropolis festival brings together scientists, artists, enterpreneurs, journalists, designers, writers and other public figures. Together we form a unique team that tries to make as many people as possible aware and supportive of our goals.