Thursday May 1, 2008
DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE: Cameron Art Museum Opening Reception for "Art & Social Conscience: Holocaust"
Thursday, May 1, 2008
CAMERON ART MUSEUM (3201 S. 17th St.)
6 pm Cameron Art Museum Members Reception / 7 pm Public Reception
For more information, contact the Cameron Art Museum at 910.395.5999 or visit cameronartmuseum.com.
This program is part of Days of Remembrance 2008, a week long series of lectures, films, performances, outreach and exhibits surrounding Yom HaShoah, a time of remembrance for those who died in the Holocaust. In 2008, Yom HaShoah will be commemorated throughout the world on May 2nd.
Cameron Art Museum's new exhibition Art and Social Conscience: Holocaust begins a 5-month run with a special opening reception. The exhibition is comprised of work by art faculty members from the University of North Carolina statewide system, responding to the Holocaust and its larger context of mankind's inhumanity to man. The May 1st opening reception will also feature a 7:30 p.m. multi-media presentation by special guest, Gottfried Wagner about his new opera Lost Childhood.
ABOUT GOTTFRIED WAGNER
Gottfried H.Wagner, born in 1947 in Bayreuth, studied musicology, philosophy and German philology in Germany and Austria and made his PHD on Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht at the University of Vienna, published later as a book in Germany, Italy and Japan. At the centre of his studies are German culture and politics of the 19th and 20th century, in connection with Jewish culture and history. His studies have been published in 11 languages. He works internationally as a multimedia director and writer. He has received numerous awards for his artistic and academic activities, as well as for his humanitarian involvements, and is member of the Austrian and Liechtenstein Pen Club.
In 1992, Wagner co-founded with Dr. Abraham Peck "The Post- Holocaust Dialogue Group". His autobiography "The Twilights of the Wagners ", published first in Germany in 1997, created world-wide interest and was translated into 7 languages.
Since 1983 he has been living in Italy. He is co-author of the book "Our Zero Hour: German and Jews after 1945--Family History, Holocaust and New Beginnings Historial Memoirs" published in 2006. In that same year, Wagner also published "Redemption from the Redeemer: Israel and Richard Wagner."
Photo: One of the featured artists, Annie Hogan (East Carolina University), Journey 3, 2006, Type C photograph, 50 x 40
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