YORKSHIRE
Holocaust Centre North, Huddersfield
Through Our Eyes
This is an interactive multimedia exhibition driven by survivor testimony, focusing on 16 children and young people who survived Nazi persecution across Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. See personal photos, artefacts and documents, together with an original prisoner uniform and other items from the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora. The survivors reveal their experience of discrimination, persecution, escape, hiding, ghettos, forced labour, concentration camps and liberation.
No end date specified
HD1 3DH. 01484 471939. www.hcn.org.uk
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
William Kentridge: The Pull of Gravity
In the first exhibition of William Kentridge’s sculpture outside of South Africa, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents over 40 works by the Jewish artist. The Pull of Gravity takes audiences on a multisensory journey into Kentridge’s world, using a variety of materials, including metals, paper, plaster, wood and found objects. Alongside the pieces, a series of short films will be shown across 20 metres of screens that wrap around viewers, revealing an insight into Kentridge’s studio and the workings of his mind. Read more about William Kentridge’s work in the Spring 2025 issue of JR.
Until 19 April
WF4 4JX. www.ysp.org.uk
ART
Thursday 11 December
Pre-Chanukah Whisky Tasting
Lord Mayer Councillor Dan Cohen leads this annual Chanukah whisky tasting, where participants can sample five cask-strength whiskies. Followed by dinner, including festive delicacies like latkes and doughnuts.
8pm. From £36. Chabad Lubavitch Leeds, LS17 8AD. www.judaismlive.com Top of Form
