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Omar Mir, member of Holocaust Museum LA\u2019s honorary board of directors. Courtesy of Holocaust Museum LA<\/p>\nHolocaust Museum LA, the anchor institution of the Goldrich Cultural Center, has added international tech executive Omar Mir to its honorary board of directors while announcing Mir\u2019s support to expand the museum\u2019s \u201cTestimony of Truth\u201d experience.<\/p>\n
Omar Mir, member of Holocaust Museum LA\u2019s honorary board of directors. Courtesy of Holocaust Museum LA<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very appreciative to Dr. Omar Mir for his partnership with Holocaust Museum LA at The Goldrich Cultural Center,\u201d Goldrich Center CEO Beth Kean said. \u201cOmar\u2019s leadership in international technology coupled with his commitment to promote education that inspires positive action in confronting and combating hate align with Holocaust Museum LA at The Goldrich and its mission.\u00a0With his expertise and support for the \u2018Testimony of Truth Virtual Experience,\u2019 students and visitors will be able to hear powerful firsthand accounts and continue to dialogue with Holocaust survivors, even in a post survivor world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTestimony of Truth\u201d is an exhibit at the Pan Pacific Park-based museum and cultural center that enables visitors to have interactive conversations in real time with virtual Holocaust survivors and survivors of other genocides. It features a new 60-seat state-of-the-art theater dedicated to virtual survivor conversations. Utilizing groundbreaking holographic and voice recognition technologies created by the Steven Spielberg-founded USC Shoah Foundation, the virtual survivor experience provides visitors with the real-time opportunity to have an interactive conversation with Holocaust survivor Ren\u00e9e Firestone.\u00a0It will also have access to the USC Shoah Foundation\u2019s entire library, which features survivors from different countries and backgrounds.<\/p>\n
A July 22 announcement from the museum says Mir is joining Holocaust Museum LA\u2019s honorary board of directors as a technology advisor while also providing transformational support to advance the museum\u2019s modernization efforts and technological ambitions. Based in the U.K., he is the international board member of World Wide Technology and a leader in advanced technology and innovation, known for his work at the forefront of immersive technologies and digital transformation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a profound intersection between technology and memory. We aren\u2019t just digitizing data\u2014we are creating a way for the human spirit and the truth of these testimonies to endure,\u201d Mir said. \u201cIt takes a deep commitment to authenticity to ensure these stories are passed down with their integrity intact.\u201d<\/p>\n
A July 30 concert at the Skirball Cultural Center \u2014 part of the Skirball\u2019s ongoing Sunset Concerts Series \u2014 featured post-rockers Tortoise.<\/p>\n
Among those in attendance was Skirball CEO and President Jessie Kornberg, who introduced the band by saying its commitment to exploration and experimentation resonated with the museum\u2019s Jewish-informed mission of celebrating freedom, multicultural expression and the fostering of human connection.<\/p>\n
As Tortoise, a five-member band, performed on Thursday night, hundreds of guests gathered in the Skirball courtyard enjoyed wine, beer, hot dogs and the feeling of community. Many bobbed their heads or even danced while others appeared entranced by the instrumental quintet\u2019s unusual time signatures. The group, which doesn\u2019t have a singer, creates atmospheric, layered sounds, where electric guitars and keyboards collide with dueling drummers and xylophones.<\/p>\n
Considered pioneers of \u201cpost-rock,\u201d which avoids traditional rock-and-roll or blues structures \u2013 verse-chorus-verse \u2013 in favor of instrumental soundscapes that build slowly toward emotional peaks, Tortoise performed for nearly an hour before returning for a much-deserved encore.<\/p>\n
Drummer and producer Kassa Overall served as the evening\u2019s opening act. The evening also included DJ sets.<\/p>\n
The free concert summer concert series at the Skirball is sponsored by the Bilger family. This year marks the 29th season of Sunset Concerts at the Skirball, which features a series of outdoor concerts on Thursday nights during the summer. <\/p>\n
The longstanding concert series kicked off just a year after the Skirball Center opened to the public in 1996. What began as a monthly dinnertime concert held inside the museum\u2019s restaurant soon transformed into a full-fledged series that has featured the likes of Sierra Leone\u2019s Refugee All Stars; Israeli singer-songwriter Yasmin Levy; and the New York City-based Klezmatics.<\/p>\n
The July 30 program with Tortoise was the third concert in this year\u2019s series, which wrapped up on Aug. 6 with performances by Annie and the Caldwells, a disco-soul outfit from Mississippi, and gospel group the Campbell Brothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holocaust Museum LA, the anchor institution of the Goldrich Cultural Center, has added international tech executive Omar Mir…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-427212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}