Carry Gorney: ‘Send me a Parcel with a Hundred Lovely Things’

Nationwide arts festival celebrating refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British cultureMarch 2020 marked the official end of the festival, but also the beginning of a longer-term commitment to celebrating the impact of this remarkable generation of émigrés under the Insiders/Outsiders umbrella

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“Foreigners Mum, are we foreign?”… “No”, she said. “You’re English, Daddy used to be foreign.”

In her memoir <a href="http://www.carry-gorney.co.uk/sendmeaparcelpagetemp.htm" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Send me a Parcel with a Hundred Lovely Things</a>, Carry Gorney considers how her own life was shaped by her refugee antecedents’ experience of displacement and reinvention – ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times. The book includes extracts from her parents’ letters, revealing a historic resentment and suspicion of refugees and a unique picture of the internment camps on the Isle of Man.The latter will form the focus of this online event, which will comprise a dramatised reading by two professional actors – Michal Horowicz and Matthew Romain - of some of these moving extracts.In Carry’s own words: “working over many years as an artist, film maker, writer and psychotherapist. I have used creative arts to create and enhance communities by linking lives. My goal has always been to strengthen the threads which connect us across beliefs, across ethnicity and across time.”For more information about Carry and her work, see <a href="http://www.carry-gorney.co.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Carry Gorney: Writer and Artist</a>This event is held in partnership with <a href="https://www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jewish Renaissance </a>magazine.For details of other events in this series, click <a href="https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/events/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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