Memorial Gestures 2 – Rey Conquer
"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"
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Memorial Gestures – Exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills
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. Free tickets to the opening …
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Memorial Gestures 2 – Irina Razumovskaya
“It was their lives, but what will be left when it only becomes our history?”
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Robert Eaglestone on “Poetry After Auschwitz: Walking in West Cornwall with the Ghost of Great-Aunt Hilde”
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 …
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Letter Writing after the Shoah
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 …
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Memorial Gestures 3 – Open Call
Artist Residency Programme 2024–2025 @ Holocaust Centre NorthApplications close: Tuesday 20th of August – 9am (GMT) Memorial Gestures is a remote residency programme for artistic research supporting artists, writers and translators. Over the course of …
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Memorial Gestures 2 – Matt Smith
I am an artist who works mainly with craft-based media, often in relation to collections and archives. My practice often explores marginalised, and particularly LGBTQ+ lives and how they have been included or excluded from …
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