Aegis Students is the youth arm of the Aegis Trust committed to campaigning, educating, and fundraising to end genocide. Since 2006 Aegis Students has worked as a grassroots organization in universities and schools in the UK, Rwanda and USA.
Here is their new project:
This week from the 1st to the 5th July Aegis Students is working in partnership with the Wiener Library, Britian’s largest archive relating to the Holocaust and Nazi era, to bring five enthusiastic students the opportunity to research, design and install three mini-exhibitions in the library’s reading room display cases.
This exhibition will showcase materials from the library’s collection, such as leaflets, newspaper cuttings and photographs, alongside modern day items that are relevant to the work of The Aegis Trust. The vision for this project is to ‘make the past speak to the present’ and so the group of participants are tasked with curating an exhibition which draws on some of the themes and topics of genocide both past and present. In choosing the themes and content of the cases the group will hope to convey a message through their items, which holds a contemporary significance.
The Wiener Library will be offering those taking part extensive training on how to put an exhibition together, from the conception of an idea to the selection of objects and items to display. As well as putting the exhibition together, participants will also be writing a publicity article about the project, which will be published on the Wiener Library blog. Once completed, the exhibition will be on display at the Library in Russell Square for six weeks so why not go along to see it for yourself!
More info on the Aegis Students website.
