Augusta, Maine - Join us for an Open House at the Michael Klahr Center prior to the May 20th Casco Bay Tummlers’ concert at Jewett Hall Auditorium. There will be tours of the building, a glimpse of our program plans for 2012-2013 and refreshments.
The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine is a new fixture on the UMA Campus. The striking facility, which is adjacent to Katz Library, features a class room, exhibit hall, and small function room/gallery, and is the host to nearly 200 events and meetings per year.
The centerpiece of the HHRC is the film “Were The House Still Standing”, a striking and compelling documentary of interviews with Maine Holocaust Survivors and Liberators created by UMA professor Robert Katz.
The center also features a permanent exhibit and film about Michael Klahr, the Holocaust Survivor for whom the building is named.
The current program of the HHRC is Bully 2.0, a month-long examination of the issues of bullying in Maine.
During the 2012/2013 academic year, HHRC will join the UMA community in focusing on the issues of hunger in the world. For HHRC, that focus will be placed on the issues of how food and water supply are connected to human rights issues in America and the world.
One feature of the year will be a striking visiting exhibition by North Carolina sculptor Mitch Lewis entitled Toward Greater Awareness. The exhibit includes stoneware, resin and terra cotta sculptures created in response to the genocide in Darfur which began in 2003.
Other programs being planned include explorations and discussions of the issues of food insecurity as it relates to human rights, as well as an examination of the uses of food and water as tools in the years leading up to the occupation of Europe and holocaust during the second World War.
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