Thank you to all of our visitors, partners, volunteers and collaborators!

2017 has been an amazing year at The Higgins Bedford. We have worked with our community partners on some brilliant exhibitions, displays and events including #BreaktheStigma, Sankofa, Voices - Different pasts, Shared Future, Romance & Rebellion, Blue Sky Thinking, BedPop Science Lab and Fun Palaces and much more. We have welcomed many new volunteers, and our amazing volunteer team have contributed nearly 10,000 hours of volunteer time. We have lots to look forward to in 2018 too. Below is a little bit about events coming up in January.

Saturday 20th January   £20

On 20th January join exhibition curator and author of 'Silent Witnesses', Christiana Payne, Fiona Stafford and David Boyd Haycock at this study day which includes lunch and refreshments. Tickets available via Bedford Corn Exchange. Click here for more information.

https://www.bedfordcornexchange.co.uk/events/whats-on/details/?id=2367

Holocaust Memorial Day - Anne Frank and Family

Anne Frank and Family, an exhibition of family photographs by Otto Frank, taken before World War Two will be free to visit at The Higgins Bedford from 24th January – 18th February 2018. The exhibition has been brought to The Higgins Bedford by the Anne Frank Trust and forms a central part of Bedford’s Holocaust Memorial events.

The exhibition has been shown in St Paul’s Cathedral, London, as well as New York, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. It is accompanied by a collection of period toys, clothes and books, reflecting those captured in the photos, as well as educational resources for younger visitors.

The exhibition will also include stories and photographs from people affected by genocide from URUMURI – the Rwandan Survivors’ Association in the UK and Remembering Srebrenica.

A programme of free events will accompany the exhibition, including:

• Wednesday 24th January, 6.30pm: Survivor stories from Rwanda
• Wednesday 31st January, 6.30pm: Survivors stories from Srebrenica
• Wednesday 7th February, 6.30pm: Eva Clarke, who was born in Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria on 29 April 1945 will share her story
• 13 – 16 February: The Higgins Young Peoples’ Panel (HYPP) will lead a series of activities related to the exhibition and the theme of The Power of Words during February half-term.