We have a Holocaust Memorial Day event in Newcastle coming up on Tuesday 23rd January.
Please see here information from the Newcastle City Council Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 booklet:
"A LIVING TRADITION
EXHIBITION & EVENT
The Fragility of Freedom
Bewick Hall, City Library
23 January, 5.30pm | FREE
An exhibition and event which illustrate the fragility of freedom using recent examples
of repression, persecution and genocide in Iran and Bosnia.
The exhibition, ‘Woman, Life, Freedom in Iran’ by Parisa Panahi, focusses on
contemporary Iran and shows the ease with which freedom can be, and has been,
withdrawn. Parisa Panahi will also speak at the event, where music, poetry and visual and verbal presentations will be used to explore the genocide in Bosnia in July 1995 and the
uprising and repression in Iran in 2022. It will reflect on the response to those
atrocities by the people of Newcastle, examine the welcome extended to those fleeing them by the people of the city, and celebrate the restitution of their freedoms."
There will also be an examination of how people in Newcastle have struggled for their rights, and still do and music from Newcastle and Iran and poetry form Bosnia.
Peter Sagar has also been busy writing pieces for NE Bylines, which can be read here: Peter Sagar, Author at North East Bylines
Please see here information from the Newcastle City Council Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 booklet:
"A LIVING TRADITION
EXHIBITION & EVENT
The Fragility of Freedom
Bewick Hall, City Library
23 January, 5.30pm | FREE
An exhibition and event which illustrate the fragility of freedom using recent examples
of repression, persecution and genocide in Iran and Bosnia.
The exhibition, ‘Woman, Life, Freedom in Iran’ by Parisa Panahi, focusses on
contemporary Iran and shows the ease with which freedom can be, and has been,
withdrawn. Parisa Panahi will also speak at the event, where music, poetry and visual and verbal presentations will be used to explore the genocide in Bosnia in July 1995 and the
uprising and repression in Iran in 2022. It will reflect on the response to those
atrocities by the people of Newcastle, examine the welcome extended to those fleeing them by the people of the city, and celebrate the restitution of their freedoms."
There will also be an examination of how people in Newcastle have struggled for their rights, and still do and music from Newcastle and Iran and poetry form Bosnia.
Peter Sagar has also been busy writing pieces for NE Bylines, which can be read here: Peter Sagar, Author at North East Bylines
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