Holocaust Memorial Week 2013 programme
Monday 21 January
Twilight Zone Café: 'The opposite of art is indifference' – How can the Arts respond to the Holocaust?
Love Bistro@The Minories, 74 High Street, Colchester
6.30pm-8.00pm
Free
East 15 Acting School’s Andrea Brooks gives an introduction to the main theme of Holocaust Memorial Week 2013.
Tuesday 22 January
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies (LiFTS) Open Seminar
LTB 10, University of Essex
5.00pm-6.30pm
Free
Dr Nina Fischer, University of Konstanz, Germany will talk about Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost: In Search of Six of Six Million; part memoir, reportage, mystery, and scholarly detective work.
London Klezmer Quartet: Klezmer - A Living Tradition
Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex
8.00pm-9.30pm
£5/8
Lakeside box office: 01206 873 261 / www.lakesidetheatre.org.uk
The London Klezmer Quartet present an exuberant recital of the celebratory and soulful music of pre-war Jewish Eastern Europe, offering an introduction to each piece and sharing personal insights.
Wednesday 23 January
Dora Love Prize 2013: Building Bridges – Fostering Future
Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex
7.30pm-9.30pm
Free
Schools across Essex and Suffolk present their entries in the form of readings, art, film, poetry, performance and music, culminating in the award of the 2013 Dora Love Prize.
Thursday 24 January
Can there be Art about Auschwitz?
Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex
7.30pm-9.30pm
Free
Panel discussion with Antony Penrose, Lee Miller Archives, artist Robert Priseman, and composer Bill Smith, The Life and Death Orchestra. Chaired by Professor Rainer Schulze, the event explores what can art do to enhance our understanding of the Holocaust today.
Friday 25 January
Being 'Other' – The Holocaust on Stage
Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex
7.30pm-9.00pm
£5/8 - Lakeside box office: 01206 873 261 / www.lakesidetheatre.org.uk
An evening of short performances and video screenings relating to the Holocaust and how we view people today who are different to us. Following the performance there will a Ceremony of Light on Square 5, to commemorate victims of the Holocaust and other genocides.
Saturday 26 January
Film screening: Shoah
LTB 10, University of Essex
9.30am-9.00pm (with breaks)
Free
Claude Lanzmann's powerful remembrance of the Holocaust, with testimonies from survivors, witnesses and perpetrators. A unique opportunity to see the film in its 9½-hour entirety.
Sunday 27 January
Holocaust Memorial Day
All week
Wo ist das Vögelchen? (Watch the birdie!)
Artist in residence Martha Haversham will be creating a participatory artwork that evolves and changes through the week. Watch out for more details online.
Booking
To book free events call: 01206 872400 or e-mail: events@essex.ac.uk.
For paid events, contact Lakeside box office: 01206 873 261 / www.lakesidetheatre.org.uk