In Person
Regina
This event has ended.
2024
Jan 27
2:00 PM
— 4:00 PM
Art Gallery of Regina in the Neil Balkwill Centre
2420 Elphinstone Street
Regina SK
S4T7S7
Treaty 4 Territory
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Cost: Free
Special Event
ArtsArts: VisualMulticultural: Intercultural
Six Million Stitches: A Performance by Mindy Yan Miller and Marcus Miller
Multi-sensory and experiential rather than didactic, Six Million Stitches provides a visceral experience of loss that allows people to reflect on the enormity of lives lost in the Holocaust and an outlet for mourning and remembrance of their own feelings and experiences of loss.
Mindy and Marcus' stirring performance first creates a situation in which people are quiet and attentive for a prolonged period of time. Giving time to silence for reflection, consideration, and remembering and honouring the deceased is integral to the memorial process.
Mindy will resume an embroidery in human hair, which she began and halted in 2017 due to the emotionally demanding nature of the work, while Marcus writes and erases the names of 600 people who were murdered in the Holocaust accompanied by a recording of Mindy whispering these names.
These are the first 600 names from the Pages of Testimony, Yad Vashem. Each 100 names represent one million of the six million Jews murdered. The meagre remains of this performance — whispers, a sprinkling of chalk dust, a tangle of hair both revealing and obscuring a Star of David on a band of yellow wool — stand in for the meagre remains of concentration camps and a terrible event, now fading from many public memories.
Discussion following the performance presented in partnership with the Regina Multifaith Forum.
Mindy and Marcus' stirring performance first creates a situation in which people are quiet and attentive for a prolonged period of time. Giving time to silence for reflection, consideration, and remembering and honouring the deceased is integral to the memorial process.
Mindy will resume an embroidery in human hair, which she began and halted in 2017 due to the emotionally demanding nature of the work, while Marcus writes and erases the names of 600 people who were murdered in the Holocaust accompanied by a recording of Mindy whispering these names.
These are the first 600 names from the Pages of Testimony, Yad Vashem. Each 100 names represent one million of the six million Jews murdered. The meagre remains of this performance — whispers, a sprinkling of chalk dust, a tangle of hair both revealing and obscuring a Star of David on a band of yellow wool — stand in for the meagre remains of concentration camps and a terrible event, now fading from many public memories.
Discussion following the performance presented in partnership with the Regina Multifaith Forum.
2024
Jan 27
2:00 PM
— 4:00 PM
Cost: Free
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
- Deaf / Hard of Hearing
- Sight Impairment
- Safe and Inclusive Space