Category: Memorial Gestures

Memorial Gestures 4 – Open Call

Posted by Paula
March 4, 2026

Artist Residency Programme 2026–2027 Applications close: April 7th – 10am (GMT) Memorial Gestures is a remote residency programme for artistic research into Holocaust Centre North’s Archive. Now in its fourth year, we are excited to … Keep reading

Memorial Gestures 3 – Laura Nathan

Written by Laura Nathan
June 24, 2025

“Above all, I wanted to celebrate the flaws, the vulnerability, and the resilience which makes us human.” Keep reading

Memorial Gestures 2 – Rey Conquer

Written by Rey Conquer
May 21, 2025

"I wanted to know what happened when ordinary language ran out: the ways that people find to communicate in writing with those from whom they have been separated by war and persecution" Keep reading

Memorial Gestures – Exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills

Posted by Paula
April 26, 2025

Memorial Gestures runs from Friday 6 to Saturday 28 June 2025 at The 1912 Mill, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, Pudsey, West Yorkshire. The exhibition opens Thursday 5 June at 6pm. Exhibition Information: Memorial Gestures Curated … Keep reading

Memorial Gestures 2 – Irina Razumovskaya

Written by Irina Razumovskaya
March 11, 2025

“It was their lives, but what will be left when it only becomes our history?” Keep reading

Robert Eaglestone on “Poetry After Auschwitz: Walking in West Cornwall with the Ghost of Great-Aunt Hilde”

Written by Robert Eaglestone
December 12, 2024

Holocaust poetry is hard to write and can horrify for the wrong reasons: the “so-called artistic rendering of the naked physical pain of those who were beaten down by rifle butts contains, however distantly, the … Keep reading

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Letter Writing after the Shoah

Written by Tom Hastings
September 12, 2024

Tom Hastings, Holocaust Centre North’s first writer-in-residence, reflects on a workshop he delivered at the Queer Yeshiva Summer Intensive on 27th August 2024, using materials from the Holocaust Centre North Archive. During my time as … Keep reading

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