ART & HOLOCAUST

Project facts

Project promoter:
Tatra Gallery in Poprad(SK)
Project Number:
SK-CULTURE-0040
Status:
In implementation
Initial project cost:
€122,100
Donor Project Partners:
Jewish Museum Oslo(NO)
Other Project Partners
Jewish Culture Museum(SK)
The Faculty of Dramatic Arts
Academy of Arts(SK)
The Secondary Grammar School Kukučínova Poprad(SK)

Description

The project attempt to commemorate, educate and affect senses of the young generation and of the general public through the various artistic events, educative lectures, film projections and also by direct engaging of the students and young people in the creative action. The gallery has suitable spaces for the realization of all activities. The project partners will organoze exhibitions on extremism. In the exhibition (“City and Space Remember”) of the project, individual artists will also address the topic of the fate of women during the Holocaust. The project deals with issue of Roma inclusion and empowerment mainly in the professional lectures of PhDr. Martin Korčok, PhD., who is the chairman of The Roma Genocide Commission of The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and also in individual exhibitions.The project fundamentally supports the social inclusion of other vulnerable groups, especially Jews.The whole project points to the fight against racism, extremism and xenophobia through individual activities.

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