As part of a national project encouraged by the Welsh Assembly Government, Flintshire County Council is developing an Art Exhibition to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on Thursday 27 January 2011.
Flintshire schools, artists and residents are invited to submit creative work telling an “Untold Story” which is the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2011. This can include a piece of writing, a poem, a photograph or art work in any medium, or mixtures of these forms. Older residents who have experiences relating to the events and “untold stories” of this period of history are particularly welcome to submit a creative piece of work or memorabilia.
The exhibition will take place in the gallery at the Holywell Art and Craft Mill on Thursday 27 January and on limited hours during, Friday 28 and Saturday 29 January. A local artist will be invited to select pieces of work to join the main Welsh Holocaust Memorial Day Exhibition being arranged by the Vale of Glamorgan Council which will be touring venues in the Welsh counties.
Subject to availability, there will be two screenings planned of a new film from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre called, “Winston Churchill : Walking With Destiny.” This film may also be available for community groups to screen.
Cllr Arnold Woolley, DipIM, MCMI, Leader, Flintshire County Council made the following comment about the Flintshire HMD Event:
“After the Allied Forces overran the Nazi concentration camps at the end of WWII, General Dwight D Eisenhower, the Allied Forces Supremo in Europe, went to see them for himself. Having seen what he did, he called upon all of the mass media of the time to photograph, record and itemise every awful detail of what they were seeing, because he foretold that there would be those who would deny that it had happened.
“Well, it did happen and millions of innocent Jews, and others, died awful deaths because of man’s inhumanity to man. We all need to be reminded of that fact. For that reason I welcome and applaud Holocaust Memorial Day and the event in Holywell, starting on 27 January, 2011. I hope the entries will be many and varied and the visitor numbers high.”
Selected exhibition entries will be displayed online at Flintshire County Council’s website. All artwork should be framed or mounted on card if possible and submitted to the Arts, Culture and Events Section at Flintshire County Council by Friday 21 January 2011 at Library Headquarters, Flintshire County Council, County Hall, Mold, Flintshire CH7 6NW. For further information about the exhibition or how to submit jpeg and pdf files, contact Beth Ditson, Community Events Officer on 01352 702472.
Any pieces of work completed before Friday 17 December 2010, can be sent to join the main exhibition in the Vale of Glamorgan which is being opened on Tuesday 11 January 2011 and will be attended by the First Minister of the Welsh Assembly, Carwyn Jones AM.
