Sopoteka invites you to a meeting with dr. Izabela Morska and Małgorzata Drohomirecka - authors of the illustrated fairy tale for children The Secret of the Cat Family. This is an educational fable, which shows how important values are friendship, solidarity and shared dreams. It tells the story of how extraordinary childhood can be when you grow up in an unusual but at the same time world-opening family.
The Secret of the Cat Family is the first rainbow fairy tale set in Polish reality and created by Polish authors. - 'It is an educational fairy tale, which shows how important values are friendship, solidarity and a shared dream. It tells about how extraordinary childhood can be when you grow up in an unusual but at the same time world-opening family. The fairy tale is supposed to be like a vaccine for prejudice, discrimination and loneliness in a peer group,' - we can read in the invitation.
According to the organisers, the book encourages people to ask questions: What is it like for children to face quite adult challenges? Why is school important? How to cope with adversity? This fairy tale can guide children who grow up in conventional families to see that a friend or colleague from a less conventional home deserves solidarity and friendship.
About the authors:
Dr hab. Izabela Morska, author of various poetry and prose, born in Gdynia, devoted her most important novel, Absolute Amnesia, to girlhood coming of age amidst patriotic and solidarity myths. In 2018, she received the Julian Tuwim Literary Award for lifetime achievement, and in 2020 she was honoured with the Pomeranian Literary Award Wiatr od morza. At the University of Gdańsk, she deals with creative writing and believes that everyone can be taught to write better.
Małgorzata Drohomirecka is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk at the Faculty of Painting and Graphics. She lives and works in London, but is keen to enter into dialogue with Polish history and painting - a series of paintings Polonia_2020, an MKiDN scholarship programme - Culture on the Web in 2020. In 2019, Galeria Żak in Gdańsk hosted an exhibition of her drawings Pająk-Feniks, inspired by her reading of Maria Janion's Women and the Spirit of Dissidence.
The meeting will be divided into two parts: for adults and children and will be hosted by dr Anna Strzałkowska, a scientist, sociologist and psychologist, lecturer at the WNS UG, activist, involved in actions for diversity.
The Sopot Library, Tolerado Association for LGBT People and Lambda Warsaw invite you to the meeting on August 24, 2021, at 5 pm. Willingness to participate should be reported by e-mail: sopoteka@mbp.sopot.pl.