Creativity in Terezin

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Cambridge Forum presents a benefit concert for the Terezin Music Foundation and Cambridge Forum.

Terezin was a model concentration camp serving as a way station to Auschwitz and as a Nazi propaganda tool to dispel rumors of the Final Solution.  Red Cross inspectors found children taking art classes.  Composers wrote music for the camp ensembles to perform.  Poets and playwrights created new works.  Most were murdered in the Shoah.

How can creativity flourish in such terrible circumstances?  How do the works of art produced under such duress compare with those created under less stressful conditions?  Many artists suffer--illness, poverty, loneliness--for the sake of their art.  What can we learn about the connection between creativity and suffering from the extreme case of artists in the Holocaust?

Performances by the Hawthorne Quartet and the Underground Railway Theater of works created in Terezin and contemporary works inspired by the artists of the holocaust are followed by a panel discussion featuring Mark Ludwig, director of the Terezin Music Foundation and the Hawthorne Quartet;  Debra Wise of the Underground Railway Theater, artist Catherine Cabaniss, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Anna Ornstein, and  psychologist Ellen Winner explores the relationship between creativity and stress, using the works created in Terezin as examples.

Tickets:  $100 (includes reserved seating and reception with the artists prior to the concert);  $50 (includes reception); $25 (general admission); and $10 (students 12-18 with ID). For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit www.cambridgeforum.org