Fwd: Hannah Frank News September 2010
Fiona Frank
HANNAH FRANK NEWS SEPTEMBER 2010
Hannah Frank at the Hidden Lane Gallery – Invitation to Private View and Special Reception.
The next Hannah Frank exhibition is now all set up and you are invited to the preview this week and to a special evening reception later in the exhibition after the Jewish High Holy Days.
“Hannah Frank at the Hidden Lane Gallery”, 1081 Argyle Street, Finneston, Glasgow, G3 8LZ, runs from Saturday 10 September to Saturday 30 October. Opening times, 11-5, Tuesday to Saturday.
The Private View is at 5 p.m. on Friday 9 September and the Evening Reception is on Wednesday 6 October at 5 p.m. Please accept this as your private invitation to either or both events - and forward it to a friend!
This exhibition is the first since Hannah Frank’s death, and includes the largest collection of Hannah Frank sculptures to be put on show for 20 years. It also includes four original Hannah Frank drawings from the 1920s and 30s that have resurfaced in a private collection in Norwich and haven’t been seen by the public since the 1970s. There will be an opportunity to bid on these ‘new’ drawings at the exhibition* as well as purchase signed prints and canvas reproductions of Hannah Frank art. Some bronze sculptures, books, prints – some signed – and cards, will also be on sale at the exhibition.
Also on show will be original poems – and the Hannah Frank drawings that inspired them – written by the winners in all age categories of the first ever Hannah Frank Poetry Competition. The prize giving for this international competition took place at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow on what would have been Hannah’s 102nd birthday – 23 August 2010.
Vanessa Austin Locke, who won the adult category of the competition, said: “I feel honoured to have had the opportunity to essentially collaborate with an artist whose work and legacy really touches me. Hannah’s work represents three themes that I feel very close to; the feminine, the fey and cultural Judaism. These were the strands that I tried to weave through my poem.”
Schools and writing groups are invited to arrange to visit the gallery and run their own small sketching or poetry workshops during opening hours: there is room for 16 people to sit in the lower level of the gallery. Call the gallery on 0141 204 3139 to book a time. We also have four open, FREE Poetry Workshops set up with room for up to 16 at each workshop – call the gallery to reserve your place.
Tuesday 14th September 2 p.m. -3.30 p.m. – open poetry workshop – all welcome
Tuesday 5th October 2 p.m. -3.30 p.m. – open poetry workshop – all welcome
with Catherine
Wallace, Avril Graham, Sandra Holmes and Pauline Green from the Routes into
Learning project.
Tuesday 26th October (schools
workshop - primary schools 11 a.m. -12 noon, secondary schools 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.)
– we suggest that each school might bring two or three talented poets accompanied
by a teacher.
Saturday 30th October, 2 p.m. - 4
p.m. Poems inspired by Hannah Frank in the style of the Scottish Border Ballads
with William
Bonar from St Mungo's Mirrorball Poets' Network
0141 204 3139
Hannah Frank on BBC Radio Manchester
You can hear me on BBC Radio Manchester talking about the poetry competition with Ed Horwich. It’s on up to next Monday 13th September - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p009qcck/Jewish_Citizen_Manchester_06_09_2010/ and go 18 minutes in (or about 14 minutes in if you want to listen to some great Klezmer music).
Poetry Competition Prize-giving
There are some photos of this event on the ‘I Love Hannah Frank’ Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6406946&l=bdc61a86bd&id=661976095
Each poet recited their poem against a projected backdrop of the drawing that had inspired them. Those who were unable to attend had their poems read put by Barbara Spevack, Auntie Hannah’s great-niece, who is an actress.
Glasgow Life recently acquired some original Hannah Frank works for its permanent collection at Kelvingrove Museum. The drawings and woodcuts were on show at the prize-giving and it was the purchase of these drawings (Wrap Thy Form, and I Sought Thee But I Found Thee Not) plus a set of woodcuts, which had funded the poetry competition. Hugh Stevenson, Curator of British Art at Kelvingrove, described my aunt as “an important Glasgow artist”. He added: “In addition to our delight at acquiring these superb works of art we are also gratified to know that we have contributed in some way towards the success of this poetry competition.”
The names of the poets plus all the winning poems, together with the drawings which inspired them, are on the Hannah Frank website http://www.hannahfrank.org.uk on the ‘poetry competition’ tag.
Hannah Frank in Lancaster in December 2010
An exhibition of Hannah Frank prints and canvases
will be on show at the Gregson Community Centre, Moor Lane, Lancaster,
throughout December 2010. A special showing
of the film ‘Hannah Frank, The Spark Divine’ – by former Lancaster resident,
award-winning filmmaker Sarah Thomas – will be shown on Saturday 11th
December at 6.30 p.m. in the main hall, where viewers can also order a meal
from the inventive Gregson menu. The
event is followed by a Klezmer dance with The Klatsch and Yiddish storytelling
evening with Deputy Storyteller Laureate Shonaleigh.
Best wishes
Fiona Frank
niece of the late Hannah Frank
please let me know if you wish to come off this list or any other news!
**The 'New' drawings on which you can bid at the exhibition (we will also take bids by phone from 11th September during gallery opening hours):
'Ex Libris Arthur Frank' 1929 - this is the drawing which some of you may have seen on the Hannah Frank print leaflet - you can see an image of the print here http://tiny.cc/71o2p
Head with Diamond Floor. Pencil, pen and ink. 1936. (In 'Hannah Frank, Footsteps on the Sands of Time' page 14)
A lady murmuring low words of hopeless love. 1929. pen and ink. http://tiny.cc/fq1u0
Rarely rarely comest thou, Spirit of Delight/ Shelley. 1927. Pen and ink. http://tiny.cc/wls0o