Krakow LGBT Culture Festival "Culture for Tolerance",

We invite you to take part in the fourth edition of “Culture for Tolerance” Festival, which
will take place in Cracow from 19th to 22th April 2007.

„Culture for Tolerance”, i.e. the days of gay and lesbian culture are a review of all creative projects that are created by, for or about LGBT people – which means homosexual, bisexual and transgender people. The Festival started in 2004 and “Culture for Tolerance” Foundation is its organiser.
What is to be expected of the fourth edition of the Festival? First of all, an enlarged Queer Café
series, and also movie screenings, workshops and March of Tolerance. The terms: religion, nation
and community are some of the leading motives this year. “I love Poland?” is one part of this
project. Can gay men and women consider themselves Poles? What does sexual orientation have
to do with patriotism? Is the term “nation” still useful? How does mainstream culture marginalise
and exclude “inconvenient” elements of biographies of it main heroes and heroines? The Karol
Szymanowski Philharmonic Hall stands in the centre of Kraków. But is the homoerotic subtext
of Karol Szymanowski’s art officially considered a part of the great composer’s musical legacy?
And what about Polish 19th c. writer, Maria Konopnicka and her relationship with a painter,
Maria Dulebianka? Many more examples of the kind can be found.
We also want to examine how the categories of national, ethnic and sexual identity interact and
overlap. What is more, we will discuss the ways in which LGBT people experience and express
their spirituality.
As a part of the series of workshops we invite you to take part in cross-dressing class (devoted to
the art of dressing up in a way typical of the opposite sex), workshop for bisexual people and
safer sex workshop.
During film screenings you will see movies which proved to be internationally successful but
surely will not be showed in Poland soon.
And anyone who wants to overtly express their opposition to homophobia, marginalisation and
violence in all possible forms, is welcome to join us in the colourful March of Tolerance, which
will begin at 1 PM on Saturday, the 21st .

See you in Cracow!