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Current public exhibitions

Anne Frank+You at Leeds Metropolitan University, Gandhi Hall, James Graham Building, Headingley Campus
3rd - 26th June 2008

Girl visiting AF+You.jpgWe are pleased to vist Leeds with our flagship exhibition in partnership with Leeds Metropolitan University and Leeds City Council.

Open free of charge to staff, students, schools and the public from 3 to 26 June, 7 days a week, with the exception of Thursday 12 June when the exhibition will be closed.

 

 

 

Additional events include:

2 June 2008 - Anne Frank [+ you} Launch

11 June 2008 - Finding a Voice (Studio Theatre)

12 June 2008 - Anne Frank Birthday Event

19 June 2008 - Film: An Independent Mind

23 June 2008 - Seminar: Learning from the Holocaust

25 June 2008 - Seminar: Cultures of War

For more information, please link to www.leedsmet.ac.uk/annefrank

Click here for press coverage of the Leeds exhibition

Anne Frank and Family at Manchester Jewish Museum
1st April - 25th June 2008

Manchester Jewish Museum is located in the premises of the former Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue on Cheetham Hill Road. The building, completed in 1874, is a listed building of historical importance. Since the building became redundant through the movement of the Jewish population away from the area, it has been completely restored, returned to its former glory and listed Grade II*. It re-opened as a museum in March 1984.

Exhibition opening times:

Monday-Thursday 10.30 to 4.00
Friday group booking by appointment only
Saturday closed all day
Sunday 10.30 to 5.00

Admission £3.95 adults, £2.95 concessions (including admission to museum)
Tel: 0161 834 9879 for school or group bookings

Anne Frank + You at Blackburn Cathedral attracts 13,000 visitors

The organising team of Anne Frank and You at Blackburn Cathedral have been thrilled with the public response to the exhibition.  Canon Chris Chivers, who initiated the project, said: “Anne Frank + You not only brought more people to Blackburn Cathedral in one month – over 10,000 – than we have ever had for such an exhibition or event, and an amazing buzz right across the town and region, it also brought together a rainbow coalition of Lancashire’s citizens.

Seeing young Muslims in conversation with a local rabbi, or watching Christians and Muslims together, wrestling with the horrors of the Holocaust: these are images no-one could easily forget. They were a window onto a changed community: the community that the exhibition has helped us to build.”

Canon Chivers also spoke about the positive response from the Muslim community to the exhibition on BBC Radio 4 Sunday worship.  

Anjum Anwar MBE, who chaired the Blackburn Anne Frank steering committee, was delighted that they had exceeded their hoped for target of 100 schools coming, an astonishing number considering one of the weeks was half term.

Minsiter visits Anne Frank Trust offices

Ed Balls visits Anne Frank officeSecretary of State for Children Schools and Families Ed Balls (second left) paid a visit to the Trust’s office’s in May. Mr Balls was very keen to hear about our work in schools and prisons, and promised to try to visit one of these projects soon.