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Creative Arts Performance Group – Holocaust 2017
January 2017 National Holocaust Memorial Event
Report written by Callum M 2D
7.2.17
The Holocaust National Memorial event took place on the 26th of January this year in Bishopbriggs Academy. Here at Boclair Academy, we held a local event for the schools in the Bearsden and Milngavie area on the 24th of January. It was about remembering all past genocides and holocausts in the past where situations have been bad and lives have been lost. The Boclair Academy event was being held for the benefit of three schools, Boclair, Bearsden, and Bishopbriggs Academy. The event was in the lead up to the national event at Bishopbriggs, which there will be more about later on. You can listen to an interview with one of the lead actors elsewhere afer this report.
The event started with an amazing performance from a school cellist, Nick Dow, which was accompanied by an audio track, with singers, dancers, and three amazing poets. The poem was read by Megan Woods, Rosa Ferguson, and Olivia Maguire, it was called ‘Then They Came For the Jews’.
During the EDC event, the group listened to a woman called Saskia Tepe tell us a haunting story about how her mother had been captured in Nazi Germany, and she had been sent to Auschwitz, but managed to jump out of an open top train into snow to save herself. She spoke about the troubles her mother faced trying to recover after the war and about how she, herself, was born in a camp for Jewish survivors.
The groups also listened to Umutesi Stewart speak, who was a survivor of the Rwanda genocide. She was forced at the age of thirteen to leave the country and carry her siblings to the Congo jungle losing one of malnutrition and assault along the way. She also had to witness her own mother being burnt to death in their home.
The event in Bishopbiggs Academy was the national event where the same people spoke and an orchestra played alongside a singer to entertain those attending the event. There was also a different East-Dunbartonshire school performing a Jewish psalm.
The Holocaust Memorial Day National Event Local Event East-Dunbartonshire was a very poignant, moving ceremony and many EDC pupils have been educated alongside these events about the horrors of genocide.
Callum 2D6
Calum M, also from 2D conducted interviews with pupils from S2 regarding the Holocauast events.
January 2017 ‘The Great Barrier Reef’ Podcast 7th February
Max and Stuart in S2 interview Mrs Bone and pupils in their Geography class about the new project on The Great Barrier Reef. They created this first BBC @ Boclair Podcast using Pro Tools in the Music Technology class.
AUDIO OF INTERVIEWS ON DEDICATED BBC @ BOCLAIR PAGE
