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Dear Sunflowers SINGING WORKSHOPS at Dewsbury Fire Station Community Room (access from Low Street entrance)

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Tickets are now available for Dear Sunflowers SINGING WORKSHOPS at Dewsbury Fire Station Community Room (access from Low Street entrance), Dewsbury between Wednesday 24th April 2024 and Wednesday 5th ...

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Charlotte Salomon. A great inspiration.Charlotte Salomon is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel (Life? or Theater?: A Song-play) consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in hiding from the Nazis.Her father, Albert Salomon was a surgeon, her step-mother a professional singer.After Kristallnacht in 1938, Charlotte was sent to the South of France to live with her grandparents, already settled in Villefranche-sur-Mer near Nice. They lived in a cottage in the grounds of a luxurious villa L'Ermitage (now demolished) owned by a wealthy American, Ottilie Moore, who went on to shelter a number of Jewish children. Charlotte left L'Ermitage with her grandparents to live in an apartment in Nice, where her grandmother attempted to hang herself in the bathroom. Charlotte's grandfather then revealed the truth to Charlotte about her mother’s suicide, as well as the suicides of her aunt Charlotte, her great grandmother, her great uncle, and her grandmother's nephew. Shortly after the outbreak of war in September 1939, Charlotte's grandmother succeeded in taking her own life.Charlotte Salomon began her extraordinary series of 769 paintings – entitled Life? or Theater? – by stating that she was driven by “the question: whether to take her own life or undertake something wildly unusual”.In the space of two years, she painted over a thousand gouaches, working with feverish intensity. She edited the paintings, re-arranged them, and added texts, captions, and overlays. She had a habit of humming songs to herself while painting. The entire work was a slightly fantastic autobiography preserving the main events of her life – her mother’s death, studying art in the shadow of the Third Reich, her relationship with her grandparents – but altering the names and employing a strong element of fantasy. Charlotte also added notes about appropriate music to increase the dramatic effect, and she called Life? or Theater? a ‘Singespiel’ or lyrical drama.By September 1943, Charlotte Salomon had married another German Jewish refugee, Alexander Nagler. The two of them were dragged from their house and transported by rail from Nice to the Nazi ‘processing centre’ at Drancy near Paris. By now, Charlotte Salomon was five months pregnant. She was transported to Auschwitz on 7 October 1943 and was probably gassed on the same day that she arrived there (October 10).* * *More about Charlotte Salomon, including her complete oeuvre, at the Jewish Cultural Quarter:jck.nl/en/page/charlotte-salomon-introduction and jck.nl/en/node/3396 (really worth visiting!)andThe complete work: charlotte.jck.nl/en/* * *All images in this album will be ordered chronologically. ... See MoreSee Less

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We're very excited that the singing/music workshops for 'Dear Sunflowers' start next Wednesday night, the 24th, at the community room at Dewsbury Fire Station 7pm to 9pm with professional artists Natalia Mirckun from the Ukrainian British Friendship Association and AnSatellite Arts Satellite Arts. Full details below. No experience required though of course skilled singers are welcome as well as those who want to try out something new. We're very pleased that some members of Dewsbury Community Choir are getting involved and some of our Ukrainian friends. THE 'DEAR SUNFLOWERS' PROJECT BEGINS IN EARNEST THIS WEEK - AT LAST. ... See MoreSee Less

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Nearly at target now with our Crowdfunding campaign (91% - yay!). One more grant to land in our account and we're there! Thanks so much to Kirklees One Community for contributing from both of their Grassroots Fund and the Thornton Family Fund. Your support is SO appreciated! ... See MoreSee Less

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