Pride and Dignity (Panel discussion), June 2022

Pride month is upon us and Art27scotland will be celebrating it with the event organised by the Polish artist in residence: Robert Motyka. Following the series of workshops and meetings that Robert held with the Polish community, we focus on Pride and Dignity this year.

About this event

The obstacles that the LGBTQ+ community in Poland faces and how Robert and the other activists have assisted the Polish same-sex couples in legalising their relationships in Scotland. At the moment, Polish law defines marriage only as a union of a man and a woman, but many Poles and their partners travelled abroad to Scotland (before Brexit) and other countries, to see how their lives could be if the community’s rights were recognised in Poland. The event will consist of a panel talk with Robert Motyka and Basia Mindewicz – the artists and activists from the Polish LGBTQ+ community in Scotland – discussing the challenges of their home country and how their fight for dignity and recognition of rights can be supported. They will be joined by Stephen McCabe – a therapist with over a decade’s worth of experience specifically supporting LGBT+ communities, focusing on the therapist’s insights on self-care and wellbeing. The panel talk (in English) will be illustrated with Robert’s large-scale projections based on the press cuttings documenting the process in the Polish media.