About Our Freedom: Then and Now
Our Freedom: Then and Now is a new UK-wide, locally-led arts and creative programme which will produce 60 new pieces of work reflecting on what ‘Our Freedom’ means to local people and their communities, following the 80th anniversary of VE/VJ Day.
North Lanarkshire Events
George Loudon: Letters Home
Friday 10 October, 2pm
As part of our Our Freedom: Then & Now project join our archivist to learn more about George Loudon and his letters held in our Archive collection. He served as an engineer with the Royal Engineers, was captured in May 1941 and sent to Stalag XVIII-A. From his letters home we hear about his time there, his thoughts about his fellow prisoners, his fiancée at home and finally his escape in 1944.
Book a free place here: https://culturenl.co.uk/rbi9
Our Freedom Community Photo eBook
As part of North Lanarkshire’s involvement in the Freedom: Then & Now project, we are inviting you, the public of North Lanarkshire, to help us create a community photo eBook. The idea behind the eBook is to give you a place to showcase what freedom means you now in the present day using photography.
You can even include a short paragraph to explain why your photo portrays freedom to you. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has written a poem for the UK wide project which might give you some inspirations. You can read it here.
Your photo and accompanying text could then be included in the final version of an eBook made available to our library members via our eLibrary service BorrowBox. A selection of photos will also be used to form part of an exhibition which will be displayed with our Immersive Rooms.
Deadline for submissions is Friday 31 October.
