Speaking of Us…

events Programme

At the Symposium in Dresden, we invited practitioners working with Jewish art, culture and difficult heritage to reflect together on self representation, narrative ownership and curatorial responsibility in today’s Europe. Responding to the growing marginalisation and instrumentalisation of Jewish voices, we created a protected, bilingual and professionally rigorous space for dialogue.

We designed the semminar as an in person, multi session event combining panel discussions, working groups and facilitated conversations with the audience. Artists, curators, researchers, educators and activists from different European contexts shared their practices and experiences of working between institutional frameworks and lived Jewish realities. We focused on questions of agency, visibility and alliance building in increasingly constrained cultural environments.

We addressed the symposium to professionals engaged in Jewish cultural work and memory practices, as well as to NGO representatives, community leaders, educators, students and independent activists. The event strengthened transnational exchange, fostered peer learning and supported the building of professional networks.

The event marked the first collaboration between partners from Dresden and Krakow and laid the groundwork for sustained future cooperation. We realised the event within the project ReActMem Rescue Memory Activism Art and Public Remembrance, co funded by the European Union. The documentation of the seminar will serve as a basis for follow up activities, including online formats and podcast based conversations.

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