Charity and artist research after conversation with Natalia Szemis from Wielozmysły Foundation
Continuing to dig deeper as well as noticing how the one valuable situation from my Fringe Warsaw Norblin exhibition from Sep 2025 seems to be making a full circle as we discuss Motherhood, mental health and various ways in which post partum and new mothers might benefit from collective singing, dancing and art making. We discuss the work of Pamela Bożek (b. 1991, lives in Warsaw), who is a visual artist and human rights activist, feminist, founder of collective projects involving refugees. Graduate and DFA student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Her practice frequently involves working with local communities and ethnic minorities in Poland.
There is an idea from Natalia’s friend Paula, who has started creating a proposal for “fundacja mamy kryzysy psychiczne spotkania weekend warsztaty psychoterapeutyczne” Mothers Experience Mental Health Crises Foundation – Weekend Meetings and Psychotherapeutic Workshops. I mentioned I would love to get involved and I am now, while waiting for Paula’s pdf from Natalia, exploring options of getting grants to fund such projects. Actually, it was mostly triggered by Betty Leung mentioning in our tutorial how difficult and competititve it is to get these grants. I don’t know why but I have had a few situations in my life, when I was told something was very difficult to achieve and that motivated me even more to prove that it could be done.
Additional routes to research from Natalia:
pamela bożek – https://arsenal.art.pl/en/exhibition/politics-of-inaccessibilities/
” Nie wszystko złoto” (Not All Gold), 2022
stowarzyszenie nomada – https://nomada.info.pl/en
dom matki warszawa dla matek – https://wcpr.pl/osoby-w-kryzysie/dom-dla-matek-z-maloletnimi-dziecmi-i-kobiet-w-ciazy-etezja
feminoteka – https://feminoteka.pl/wspolpraca/szkolenia
kobiece watki – https://www.przemockid.pl/
fundacja mamy kryzysy psychiczne spotkania weekend warsztaty psychoterapeutyczne – pdf Paula