The Dora Love Prize 2013
Building Bridges – Fostering Futures
Wednesday 23 January 2013, 7.30pm-9.30pm
Schools across Essex and Suffolk presented their entries in the form of readings, art, film, poetry, performance and music, culminating in the award of the 2013 Dora Love Prize.
The overarching theme for the 2013 Dora Love Prize is "Building Bridges – Fostering Futures": bridges between survivors of the Holocaust and today’s younger generations, bridges of understanding why genocides and hate crimes happen and what we can do to fight them, bridges between countries, between ethnic groups, between religious groups, between different sexual orientations, between disabled and able-bodied people – bridges leading away from intolerance, hatred and discrimination and into a future where everyone takes personal responsibility for his or her neighbour.
Ten schools presented their projects on the night, and The Dora Love Prize 2013 was awarded to Year 9 students from Farlingaye High School in Woodbridge for their project More Than Just a Number. The project included assemblies with every year group, the selling of wristbands with a number referring to a Holocaust victim who could be researched on the school intranet and asking students to make a pledge on specially-designed postcards.
Professor Schulze said Farlingaye High School took the top prize as their project took the concept of the Dora Love Prize to heart. “It engages young people about the importance of not forgetting the past as well as looking to a future without discrimination. The students executed their ideas beautifully, and in doing so touched the whole school. This project clearly has the potential to reach out even further into the wider community.”
The jury, which included Holocaust survivor Frank Bright, highly commended all the projects that were presented at the Lakeside Theatre, saying that all of them demonstrated inspiration, dedication and engagement. The next Dora Love Prize will be awarded during the University of Essex Holocaust Memorial Week 2014.
Venue: Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ