Virtual Summer Workshops in Theater and Art for Students

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust has adapted its celebrated Voices of History programs to virtual workshops for summer 2020.

The workshops offers students the opportunity to create meaningful artistic reflections in various mediums. Students learn about the Holocaust through the museum’s extensive collection of artifacts, informative sessions with museum staff and dialogue with Holocaust survivors. The students then interview the survivors and collaborate with them to develop their ideas into theater performances and art or photography exhibits.

The final projects capture the personal stories of the survivors, the students' understanding of this history and their dedication to shaping the future of Holocaust education.

The Voices of History Art and Resilience Workshop will be held June 15-19. The students will work with art mentor Holocaust survivors to create art pieces inspired by iconography and narratives. Students will draw inspiration from reflections on their own life and family experiences. Through the virtual visual arts experience, students will discuss how art is a powerful catalyst for expression, can help in processing painful memories, and act as a pathway in finding resilience. The workshop will conclude with a virtual gallery exhibition of the students’ art and artist statements. The program is presented in partnership Milken Community Schools and is open to non-Milken students.

In partnership with the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, the museum is holding a Virtual Theater Workshop. In the digital two-week program, students will work with Holocaust survivors to write, direct and act in a theater performance. Through the virtual theater experience, students will create a performance that draws on history and social justice issues today and in their own lives.

Tuition is free for the art workshop (with donations suggested) and $150 for the theater workshop with need-based scholarships available.

More information, including times, is available at http://lamoth.org/education--resources/summer-workshops-for-students/.

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the first survivor-founded Holocaust museum in the United States, is a primary source institution that commemorates those who perished, honors those who survived, and houses the precious artifacts that miraculously weathered the Holocaust. Since 1961 the museum has provided free Holocaust education to students and visitors from across Los Angeles, the United States and the world, fulfilling the mission of the founding Holocaust survivors to commemorate, educate and inspire. The museum is open seven days a week, and admission is always free. lamoth.org