Dora Love Prize Introduction Day for Key Stage 2/3
Thursday 26 September 2013, University of Essex, Colchester Campus
For Key Stage 2/3 students who want to become involved in the Dora Love Prize, a one-day event at the University of Essex, Colchester Campus on Thursday 26 September 2013, will mark the starting point.
During this one day, we will inform teachers about the kind of resources that we can make available, but even more importantly, students have a chance to speak with two survivors and hear their stories, listen to extracts of interviews that Dora Love gave, learn what students did for last year's project, and at the end of the day come up with ideas for the kind of project they want to embark upon in the following six to eight weeks.
Projects can come from any area, ranging from the creative and performing arts to history, religious studies and politics and including projects based in the local community. Taking an approach that is not based on one single traditional discipline but combining several could also be a good way of encouraging us to come together to build stronger and more tolerant communities.
The submissions to the Dora Love Prize can be a written report, but we equally welcome poetry, posters, photographs, performances and any other form that encapsulates the main theme.
The winners of the Dora Love Prize will have a chance to present their projects during the University of Essex Holocaust Memorial Week at the Lakeside Theatre, and their school will receive an award to support Holocaust awareness and general human rights education.
We hope that participation in the Dora Love Prize will support what schools are already teaching, and add an additional dimension through project focused work, increasing the understanding of the importance of the subject matter and through active personal involvement embed the learning at a deeper level.
We would hope to get a firm commitment from schools at the end of the one-day event that they will participate in the Dora Love Prize 2013-14, and that their students develop a good sense of the kind of project they want to undertake.
The Dora Love Introduction day is free to attend, although places are limited.
Programme
- 09.40 - arrival and registration Lecture Theatre Building Foyer (refreshments and water provided)
- 10.00 - welcome LTB 8
- 10.30 - introduction to the workshops and transfer to the Teaching Centre
- 10.40 - Workshop 1
- 11.25 - comfort break
- 11.35 - Workshop 2
- 12.20 - Lunch
- 13.30 - work in school groups
- 16.00 - final plenary session LTB 8
- 16.30 - close
Workshops
- a) After Stutthof concentration camp: exploring the Holocaust through the poetry of Dora Love. (Nadine Rossol)
- b) Porrajmos: the untold story of the ‘Gypsy’ Holocaust (Rainer Schulze)
- c) Journeys: Jews in Nazi Occupied Europe (Frank Bright)
- d) Arts Workshop: Performing arts (Jordana Golbourn)
- e) Arts Workshop: Visual Arts (Kate Beckwith)
Booking and further information
The Dora Love Introduction Day is free to attend, although places are limited.
If you would like further information or to book places, please email Rainer Schulze, rainer@essex.ac.uk, or Julie Storey, jstorey@essex.ac.uk.
Directions
Directions to the University of Essex Colchester campus
Parking
Parking will be available on campus for school parties attending the event.