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Fall 2009 Event Schedule
“Voice to Vision”
September-November, Waterloo Center for the Arts
September 23-October 25, UNI Gallery of Art Showcases
The Voice to Vision (V2V) Project is a multidisciplinary, multimedia, intergenerational endeavor, bringing together Holocaust and genocide survivors and artists to collaborate on new works of visual art.
The Voice to Vision exhibit at the WCA and the UNI Gallery of Art is a partnership between UNI Department of Art, the WCA, and the Holocaust and Genocide Education Program. The exhibit will be the largest ever in the history of the V2V Project. For information about the exhibit at the WCA, visit www.waterloocenterforthearts.org/exhibitions-galleries.html.
Presentation: “Collaboration in the Voice to Vision Project”
Wednesday, September 23, 7 p.m., Waterloo Center for the Arts
V2V Project Director David Feinberg and Floriane Robins-Brown, a participant in V2V and Executive Director of the Nibakure Children's Village in Rwanda.
Curator’s Lecture by David Feinberg
Thursday, September 24, 7 p.m., 111 Kamerick Art Building, UNI
Floriane Robins-Brown will also make a presentation, and both speakers will field questions. An opening reception will follow.
Lecture: "Before and After Rwanda's Genocide: Creating Memory"
by Ellen J. Kennedy, Interim Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota; Director, Genocide Intervention Network-Minnesota
Tuesday, October 20, 7 p.m., 109 Curris Business Building
Memory is the final stage in genocide. What are the processes by which national and individual memories are constructed? How do these memories influence justice, reconciliation, and future relationships? Memory can be the last victim in a genocide.
Ellen Kennedy was the recipient this year of an "Outstanding Citizen" Award by the Anne Frank Center
Film Screening and Lecture:
"The Challenge to Us of Holocaust Rescuers"
by Pierre Sauvage
Tuesday, October 6, 7 p.m,. Auditorium, Kamerick Art Building, UNI
Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage will discuss and show excerpts from his three documentaries dealing with rescuers during the Holocaust, and with the American and American Jewish response to the crisis.
The event will be followed by a reception.
