Prague Pride Festival 2024 thematic concept

We all know that word.

Those of us who have a family know it, and even those of us who don’t have a family know it.

The word family is a weapon, a disciplinary element, a tool to maintain structure and order.

It represents hope – hope for an end to loneliness, for new beginnings, for care and for a future.

It represents both happiness and pain.

A family is our home, a family is the people who have shaped us and who have made us who we are today. No matter if the path has been full of sunshine or full of thorns. A family is a set of beliefs and opinions about the world and how things should be done. We do things this way at home, how about you?

A family passes down traditions.

Family are those we have chosen to be our family. Family are our dogs, our cats, our guinea pigs, our fish.

A family is made up of a father, a mother and children, we hear from pulpits and parliamentary benches.

According to childcare reformer Zdeněk Matějček, a family is a community that shares its time, space, anxieties, and hopes, where all learn life skills by living together, where all give and receive, form their personalities and have the opportunity to mature into wisdom, and where mutually shared joy is an essential component of everything.

So it’s okay to be scared and not know what to think about things because you’ve never talked about them at home. Come to our festival and we can talk about them together.

What is a family anyway?
What have our families taught us?
What kind of family do we want to have? Do we want to have one? And if we do already have one, how do we ensure that everyone feels good in it?
How do families come into being and how do they cease to exist?
How to live in a family?
That’s how we do it in my family, how does yours do it?
Do Pride festivals create a sense of belonging (to a family)? Are we one big queer family, regardless of different opinions and other differences?