"The Opposite of Art" Workshop with Désiré-Joseph Katihabwa and Helen Lynch - Aberdeen Central Library

Holocaust Memorial Day is an opportunity to reflect not only on the genocide of Jewish, Roma and Sinti people in the Second World War, but also on the (all too many) genocides which have taken place since. Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day January 2026, join Rights Campaigner Désiré-Joseph Katihabwa and University of Aberdeen Creative Writer Helen Lynch for a creative workshop shaped in response to these themes. How can we, writing today, engage imaginatively with these people and events (and the huge displacements of people that often accompany them), and how can we express our own place in relation to them, and to past, present and future generations?

Sponsored by Aberdeen Holocaust Memorial Day Committee.