Coming to the University of Bedford this Friday 22 November is the award-winning international touring exhibition by filmmaker Liz Crow. Resistance: which way the future? takes as its starting point the Nazi programme of mass-murder which targeted disabled people and became the blueprint for the larger holocaust. What turned doctors and nurses into killers? What stopped ordinary people from speaking out? And what does this history mean for all of us today?
Over ten years in the making, the exhibition recently returned from its run at Washington DCʼs Kennedy Center, where a visitor wrote “One of the most powerful things I have ever experienced. I was so amazed by it, I went back to see it twice more. A month later it is still with me.”
The opening drama follows the story of Elise, a patient who sweeps the institution in which she lives. She watches buses full of patients leave and return empty. When her turn comes, she knows what’s in store. Based on real events, this is the story of one woman’s resistance in the only way she could.
Director Liz Crow says “This is an episode of history that is virtually hidden, yet the values that underpinned it still echo through disabled people’s lives today. We can’t change history, but we can learn how to influence the future. The events of the holocaust came to an end because ordinary people resisted. I want audiences to feel inspired to get involved, be effective and find the courage to be a part of change. Resistance deals in a difficult subject but is infused with a sense of possibility.”
Resistance opens at the University of Bedford on Friday 22 November and runs until Thursday 15 December.
Open weekdays 9.00 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 16.00.
For evening and weekend bookings, please arrange with Natasha Reynolds on [log in to unmask] or 01234 7933834.
Wheelchair access. Subtitles, BSL interpretation, audio description. Suitable for individual and group visits, for aged 11+ to adult. Run time 30 minutes.
More information at www.roaring-girl.com/productions/resistance-on-tour/.
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