Happy New Year to all our members and friends.
This email has just one item, a great opportunity to be involved in a new exhibition at More Music. There will be another email next week with the customary roundup of all things happening in and around Morecambe.
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ORDINARY PEOPLE – INTERESTING LIVES
An exhibition produced by Morecambe Artists Colony for Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
We will observe and explore the theme of ordinary-ness through the juxtaposition of seemingly banal and unrelated imagery with factual/statistical information about the 1939-1945 Holocaust, the genocides in Cambodia (1975-1979), Rwanda (1994), Bosnia (1995), Darfur (2003- present).
Concept
Please provide an existing photo of yourself and an ‘ancestor’ and some writing that describes the image and a connection to the Holocausts/Genocides.
We will then ‘process’ the photo and edit the words to present them in a frame for an exhibition at More Music, opening on January 25th.
REPLIES PLEASE TO morecambeartistcolony@gmail.com ASAP (ideally before 16th January).
Examples (these are draft ideas)
Freda Mabel Johnstone with Shane Alexander Johnstone photographed at Butlins Holiday Camp. Photo taken 1963, less than 20 years earlier Auschwitz Holocaust prisoners were marked by a registration number tattooed on the left breast or the inner forearm. These tattoos were just one of the ways in which the victims were dehumanised. Between 1939 to 1945, The Nazis persecuted and murdered six million Jewish men, women and children in ghettoes, mass shootings, and extermination camps.
Claus Moser and Lotte Moser photographed outside Buckingham Palace where Claus had just received a knighthood for his work for Government Statistics. Photo taken in 1971, 35 years after Lotte and her family escaped from Berlin. As economic migrants they were welcomed into this country and settled and became part of the UK’s working community. In contrast today refugees struggle to get into the country and once here face the most arcane processes.
Resources and thinking about the issues can be found here https://www.hmd.org.uk/what-is-holocaust-memorial-day/this-years-theme/
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Click on the link above to send an email. Please include as much detail as possible, along with appropriate image(s).
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Morecambe Artist Colony offers two levels of membership:
Membership: Costs just £12 per annum. Members have a profile on the MAC website, receive email news updates, have their work promoted on our social media, and the opportunity to participate in MAC exhibitions, collaborate on projects and have full voting rights at AGMs.
Associate Organisation: For up to 3 Memberships from a single organisation such as a gallery, arts event planning company or creative production company. Costs £20 per annum. Organisations have a profile on the MAC website, have their work promoted on our social media, receive regular news updates, event and private view invitations and have a single voting right at AGMs.
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