Are you a curator or writer interested in exploring how memory translates across generations and community groups? Are you interested in how artistic practices can create spaces for critical exploration and nuanced conversations around current and past events? Are you interested in exploring questions around how we remember atrocity and why?
We are looking for a cultural-translator-in-residence to help us make the stories in our archive accessible to new audiences in Kirklees. We seek to have archive materials translated into languages widely spoken by minority communities in the North of England (e.g., Arabic, Gujarati, Romanian, Panjabi, Polish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Urdu, etc). Applicants are not expected to be a speaker of community languages themselves, but we particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of migration or conflict.
We understand cultural translation as the process of negotiation meaning across language, communities, generations and time.
The cultural-translator-in-residence will be invited to explore Holocaust Centre North archive and identify materials they feel have contemporary relevance. Holocaust Centre North is a museum based in Huddersfield which tells the story of Jewish survivors of the Nazi genocide who rebuilt their lives in the North of England. We care for the collections of over 150+ Jewish refugees and families.
The cultural-translator-in-residence will be asked to design a series of workshops for community groups, which facilitate encounters with archive materials from Holocaust Centre North Archive and create frameworks for collaborative translation. Bilingual interlocutors and translation assistance will be made available for delivery of workshops.
Translations resulting from workshops will be gathered in a publication with reflections on the process and collaborative work by the cultural-translator-in-residence.

For more info, sign up for our info sessions on March 24th at 12.30 PM or March 24th at 5.30 PM.