Actors with disabilities feel iconic in the exhibition on the main stage of Sigulda

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Diva, Policeman, Rebel, Queen … Each image speaks with its own, saturated message. Culture creates the icons that we, the members of society, dream about and build relationships with. Icons tell of the eternal struggle of human existence between hope and despair, dreams and reality, limitations and possibilities. Thanks to the work of the Glada Hudik troupe, people with mental disabilities have taken their place on the theater stage and achieved considerable international success. Therefore, the exhibition will be on view at the cultural center “Sigulda Devons” exactly where it fits – on the big stage of the “Radix” hall. At a time when the scenes have become empty due to the Covid-19 crisis, they are gaining the ability to be reborn in a new form!

The Swedish Museum of Photography “Fotografiska” is one of the largest and most influential photo museums in the world. The museum always strives to address its viewers with socially relevant topics that make you think and encourage real change. Diversity, democracy and equality for all are important values ​​that are also evident in this exhibition, created by Swedish set designers and costume designers Helen Anderson and Linda Sandberg together with photographer Emma Svensson. The photo exhibition is a path to the true inclusion of a part of society that we see so seldom in everyday life and which has historically always remained invisible.

The exhibition is realized within the framework of the educational project “Children are not born with prejudices” – this is another initiative of “Glada Hudik”, from 2017 the organization “Riga City“ Child of Care ”” also participates in it. The project addresses primary school students, discussing exclusion, mobbing, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as meeting young people whose mental rhythms are determined by mental disabilities and thus raising awareness that different societies enrich and need each other.

In Sigulda, visitors to the exhibition can also read the book “Never stop to embrace!”, Which summarizes the findings of the actors of the “Glada Hudik” theater – full of both warmth and wit. Exhibition “Icons – an exhibition on the right to be!” The cultural center “Siguldas devons” (Pils Street 10, Sigulda) is open until December 10 on weekdays from 10.00 to 19.00, but on Saturdays – from 11.00 to 15.00 Admission to the exhibition is free.