Little Happenings: Photographs of Children by Dorothy Bohm
Special display of photographs of children by leading London-based photographer
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V&A Museum of Childhood Cambridge Heath Rd, London, United Kingdom
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Great British Jews: A Celebration
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomThis playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
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National Portrait Gallery trail and online exhibition
National Portrait Gallery St Martin’s Place, London, United KingdomNational Portrait Gallery’s 20th Century galleries highlight portraits of or by artist-émigrés from Nazi Europe
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Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomThis playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
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Émigré designers in the V&A’s Archive of Art and Design
V&A Blythe House 23 Blythe Road, London, United KingdomSome of the most important contributors to British design in the mid- and late-twentieth century were Jewish émigrés, many of whom who escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s or survived the persecution of the Second World War to make their homes in Britain in the 1940s. The working archives, and some private papers, of 28 Jewish designers and practitioners are represented in the AAD.
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Soldiering on: Czech Freedom Fighters in Great Britain 1940 -1945
Czech Embassy Cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, United KingdomMarking the 80th anniversary of the 1939 occupation of Czechoslovakia the event showcases the work by refugee filmmakers Jiri Weiss and Karel Lamač who captured the fellow countrymen in short films for the Ministry of Information.
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Dorothy Bohm: Colour Photographs
Avivson Gallery 49 Highgate High Street, London, United KingdomThe Avivson Gallery is pleased to announce its next exhibition, a selection of small and exquisite colour prints, many of them images never seen in public before, by doyenne of British photography Dorothy Bohm
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Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomThis playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
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The Experience of the Kindertransport – Film Screening & Panel Discussion
The Laboratory, Dulwich College Dulwich Common, London, United Kingdom80 years ago 10,000 children came to Britain as unaccompanied refugees on the Kindertransport from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, escaping Nazi Europe. Following a screening of some extracts of interviews, the panel discussion with two former Kinder, chaired by Dr Bea Lewkowicz, Director of the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive, will explore how the Kinder adapted in Britain and how they dealt with being separated from their families and their homes
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Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolfgang Suschitzky
Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United KingdomFollowing the rise of Fascism in Vienna in the 1930s, brother and sister Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–73) and Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016) found sanctuary in Britain, where both became leading documentary photographers. This display offers a rare opportunity to see a substantial group of photographs by brother and sister together.
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Berlin/London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Wiener Library’s summer 2019 exhibition showcases the remarkable work of German Jewish photographer Gerty (Gertrud) Simon
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Refugees, Newcomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post, 1938-56
Peltz Gallery 43, Gordon Square, London, United KingdomThis exhibition brings together for the first time over sixty original prints by renowned émigré photographers Gerti Deutsch and Kurt Hutton, together with Bert Hardy and Haywood Magee, revealing Picture Post magazine’s stories of refugees and immigrants to Britain from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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Edith Tudor-Hart, the Bauhaus and Isokon
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United KingdomLeyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, authors of new publication ‘Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain’ will speak about Bauhaus graduate Edith Tudor-Hart, her photography of the Isokon building and the émigré community in 1930s London.
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The Social Eye of Picture Post
Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United KingdomPicture Post magazine was the publishing sensation of the 1940s and early 1950s. Founded by anti-Nazi refugee journalists and photographers it blended continental large format photography with British social documentary to produce moving, funny, hard-hiting stories about Britain in times of war and peace. This event will hear from the two co-curators, Professor Amanda Hopkinson and Mike Berlin, about the themes they have explored in the current exhibtion at the Peltz gallery: Refugees, Incomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post (4 June-5 July) with Professor Lynda Nead and Professor Steve Edwards in discussion.
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Talk: Women Exile Photographers in Britain
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomWhen Gerty Simon was forced into exile in 1933 she was one of many photographers who fled Germany and Austria during the 1930s. John March has made a study of the group of two dozen women exile photographers, some well-known, and others with brief or unrecognised careers.
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20:20 vision
Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road, London, South Kensigton, United Kingdom20:20 vision is a dynamic arts and community legacy project from not-for-profits Salusbury WORLD Refugee Centre and FotoDocument, which celebrates the contribution of refugees to the UK. The project focuses on 20 children from diverse backgrounds who arrived in the UK circa 1999 and casts a long lens over their lives and achievements fast forwarding 20 years later to 2019.
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‘You, me and those who came before’: Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United KingdomAs part of Refugee Week Festival 2019, Counterpoints commissioned the celebrated photographer, Jillian Edelstein to respond to this year’s theme of the festival – ‘You, me and those who came before’. The result is a stunning series of portraits featuring first and second generation ‘refugees’, many of whom are public figures who we would not commonly associate with displacement.
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‘You, me and those who came before’: V&A
V&A Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London, United KingdomAs part of Refugee Week Festival 2019, Counterpoints commissioned the celebrated photographer, Jillian Edelstein to respond to this year’s theme of the festival – ‘You, me and those who came before’. The result is a stunning series of portraits featuring first and second generation ‘refugees’, many of whom are public figures who we would not commonly associate with displacement.
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The Bauhaus in Britain
Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United KingdomThis free display considers connections between Germany’s Bauhaus School (1919–33) and the visual arts in Britain
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Émigré designers in the V&A’s Archive of Art and Design
V&A Blythe House 23 Blythe Road, London, United KingdomSome of the most important contributors to British design in the mid- and late-twentieth century were Jewish émigrés, many of whom who escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s or survived the persecution of the Second World War to make their homes in Britain in the 1940s. The working archives, and some private papers, of 28 Jewish designers and practitioners are represented in the AAD.
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Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomThis playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
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Stories of Migration from Picture Post Magazine 1938–56
Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate, London, United KingdomTo coincide with the exhibition Refugees, Newcomers & Citizens the ACF will host a special talk with Amanda Hopkinson, daughter of Austrian photographer Gerti Deutsch and Picture Post editor, Tom Hopkinson. She will discuss the photographers and stories featured in the exhibition alongside the contribution made to British life by very different groups of immigrants, from those arriving on the Kindertransport to the SS Empire Windrush generation.
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