Re-Opening of the Merz Barn
Artists mobilise against Fascism?
Tuesday, June 19th 2022: 2 – 3.30 pm
Commemorating the artists designated as ‘Degenerate’ by the Nazis – an artists’ anti-fascist memorial day in support of the Ukraine
“It’s 1937 all over again.. with the systemic and brutal destruction of the Ukraine’s artistic and cultural heritage by Putin’s Fascist hordes”.
exhibition, Munich 19th July 1937, that resulted in March 2022 by Putin’s Russian military. 600 the persecution and exile of many of Germany’s women and children, and local artists who had leading modernist artists and intellectuals. been sheltering inside were killed.
You are invited to the Opening and Re-dedication of the anti-fascist ‘Entartete Kunst’ Artists Memorial Garden at Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn in Elterwater from 2 to 3.30 pm on Tuesday 19th July 2022. The event marks the 85th anniversary of the infamous Munich ‘entartete Kunst’ Exhibition (1937) that marked the mass flight of the proscribed ‘Modern’ artists to Europe and America.
The Opening will be conducted by Billy Welch (Shera Rom), leader of the UK Gypsy Romani community (www.travellerstimes.org.uk/features/billy-welch-appleby). Also attending will be invited representatives from CDEC Ambleside, the LAAL Cooperative, Wigton (neuro-diverse arts collective), Anti Racist Cumbria, the UK Artists’ Union, All Saints Church Chapel Stile, South Lakes and Jewish community, the Polish community, and other colleagues from local schools, the LGBTQ community, Disability Rights, Arnside Homes for Ukraine, and the Seventh Day Adventist Church (tbc).
Free Entry and on-site Parking
For more information please contact Celia or Ian at the Merz Barn: 015394 37309.
Mob. 07796 607167 e. littoral@btopenworld.com.