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|location=Poznań, Poland | |location=Poznań, Poland | ||
|description_of_content=Rodrigo Garcia's play ''Golgota Picnic'' is a critique of modern day consumerism through a deconstruction of the message of Jesus. | |description_of_content=Rodrigo Garcia's play ''Golgota Picnic'' is a critique of modern day consumerism through a deconstruction of the message of Jesus. | ||
|description_of_incident=''Golgota Picnic'' was scheduled to be performed at the | |description_of_incident=''Golgota Picnic'' was scheduled to be performed at the Poznań Malta Festival on June 26th and 27th. The festival organizers canceled the performance because of threats of violent protest and riots from religious and far-right groups. | ||
Conservative Law and Justice (PiS) Member's of Parliament, Małgorzata Sadurska and Andrzej Jaworski, filed a motion with the prosecutor's office on July 2, 2014 ensuring that the play would not be performed anywhere in Poland. The motion claimed that the play "offends religious sentiment" and describes the play as “pseudo-art, full of scenes of obscenity, profanity and pornography." | Conservative Law and Justice (PiS) Member's of Parliament, Małgorzata Sadurska and Andrzej Jaworski, filed a motion with the prosecutor's office on July 2, 2014 ensuring that the play would not be performed anywhere in Poland. The motion claimed that the play "offends religious sentiment" and describes the play as “pseudo-art, full of scenes of obscenity, profanity and pornography." | ||