What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
“Arbeit Macht Frei – Work sets you free” was the legend above the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the single biggest lie ever sold to the world. For more than one million Jewish people this was the gate to interminable suffering and eventual death. It was only when the war was brought to an end and the gates to this hell on earth were thrown open, that the world witnessed the extent of the atrocities that the Nazi’s had wrought on humankind.
Tirweddau Dychmugol-Faesiol is an exhibition about the imaginary realm and the personal kingdom of dreams. Drawing inspiration from the Welsh Chwedlau and Mabinogi -rich veins of Welsh myth, legend, and folklore passed down over generations- Seren’s work is filled with symbolism drawn from the threshold of dreams and reality.
Every year representatives of all political parties gather at the Cenotaph alongside members of the Armed Forces and the general population to commemorate Armistice Day. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, that moment at which the canons fell silent and the fighting of the previous four years ceased. Ever since that day we have been called upon to ‘Never Forget’.
Finally, after months of disruption things have finally quietened down here on ‘The Corner’. The simmering tensions created by displaced drug related activities, accentuated by the occasional machete attack, seem to have calmed down and the kind of peace that used to pass for normal has returned.
Productivity and growth are buzzwords on the lips of society’s so called leaders at all times. Many from all sides, take a sneering swipe across the bows of the working class vessels when they talk about getting people into working again.
