Socially engaged short animation – Future Tales Project for Zero Tolerance

Credits:
Animation produced by Wee Dog Media
Robert Motyka: Visual concept and development
Szymon Felkel: Motion Graphics support
Annie George: Voice over
Eve Allan: Voice over recording
Piotr Motyka: Audio editing

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ZERO TOLERANCE:

Poster for future tales. background image is a linocut.

We worked with Feniks Counselling, Personal Development and Support Services, Scottish Arab Women AssociationAmina the Muslim Women’s Resource CentreSaheliyaGovanhill Housing AssociationEdinburgh Rape Crisis Centre to run workshops with minority ethnic women and trans women to talk about what a Scotland free of violence against women and girls would mean for them.

These workshops were a space to explore a Scotland free from men’s violence against women and girls by looking at women’s place in traditional fairy tales and how we may rewrite these narratives. Women wrote new fairytales and illustrated them using linocut.

Thank you to all the women that shared their experiences and vision for ‘A Scotland free from men’s violence against women and girls’ with us.

Read the fairytales and view the artwork in our brochure:

We were delighted to be work with the following artists in this project:

Marta Adamowicz, a visual and sound artist and illustrator of Polish origin, based in Glasgow, dealing mainly with social issues. Her artwork has been a part of many, prestigious open exhibitions in Scotland and London. She has received the An Talla Solais award on the RSA Open.

Robert Motyka, a Polish born, New Scot by choice video maker, projection artist and projection mapping lecturer. He is also actively supporting EU citizens’ rights and the Polish LBGT community. His recent interest is exploring art as a tool for social change and examination of the role of the artist in creating collaborative spaces for local communities.

Marzanna (Mana) Antoniak, culture animator and Govanhill Open Museum founder & coordinator. Mana is a culture animator, community development worker, trainer, and a language teacher with a special interest in working with people who have had little experience of formal education. She has worked on numerous projects celebrating cultural connections through art, music, poetry, and languages, and programmed cross-cultural festivals and events around Scotland and beyond. Marzanna can communicate in English, Polish, Russian, Arabic, Slovak, Ukrainian, Spanish & Persian.

Kasia Jackowska, a highly knowledgeable arts professional with more than 9 years of experience in Edinburgh’s creative industries, mainly visual arts but also theatre and arts engagement. She managed the visual arts department and delivered a versatile and well received arts program, initiating, and maintaining the Scottish and international dialogue between contemporary artists and curators. Kasia worked with people from different walks of life, artists at different stages of their careers but also the youth and ethnic minorities.

Our 30th Event

We held our 30th anniversary event on Tuesday 29th of November 2022, during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence.

Through the artwork and words of women in Scotland, we envisioned a Scotland free from men’s violence against women and girls and discussed how we can make this vision a reality. We displayed artwork from our Future Tales project and launched the above video.

How you can get involved

We know ending violence against women and girls in Scotland is possible. To make it happen we need to end gender inequality and tackle all forms of oppression and discrimination. We also know that to end it, everyone needs to be a part of theconversation.

We invite you to imagine a future in which gender inequality is thing of the past.

  • Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for discussion and updates on our 30th! 
  • Watch and share our Future Tales video.
  • Read our Future Tales art brochure.
  • Watch this space for more…