Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk
This 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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Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United Kingdom
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Litz Pisk’s Pedagogic and Artistic Influence on Post-War British Theatre
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture given by member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London
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Schwitters Spoken Loud and Softly: Florian Kaplick live performance
Cample Line Cample Mill, Cample, Dumfriesshire Scotland, United KingdomIn a special event to mark the closing of Heather Ross’ installation The Loud and the Soft Speakers, musician and performer Florian Kaplick (the main protagonist in Ross’s installation) will give a live performance of Kurt Schwitter’s two most iconic works. This will include a performance of Schwitters’ seminal sound poem The Ursonate (approx 40 mins) and a new interpretation of his famous poem An Anna Blume.
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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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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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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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20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
London College of Communication Elephant and Castle, United Kingdom20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
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The Escape Act – A Holocaust Memoir
Jacksons Lane 269a Archway Road, London, United KingdomA one-woman theatre show incorporating circus and puppetry, it is the true story of Irene, a Jewish acrobat who survived the Holocaust hiding and performing at a German circus. The show switches between past and present, intersecting Irene’s life with the performer’s experiences growing up a grandchild to Holocaust survivors.
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The Escape Act – A Holocaust Memoir
Circomedia St Paul’s Church, Portland Square, Bristol, United KingdomA one-woman theatre show incorporating circus and puppetry, it is the true story of Irene, a Jewish acrobat who survived the Holocaust hiding and performing at a German circus. The show switches between past and present, intersecting Irene’s life with the performer’s experiences growing up a grandchild to Holocaust survivors.
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East West Street: A Song of Good and Evil
Southbank Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United KingdomA partly staged reading inspired by international human rights lawyer Philippe Sands’ award-winning bestseller about the Nuremberg trials.
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The Escape Act – A Holocaust Memoir
CircusMash 2 Vicarage Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, United KingdomA one-woman theatre show incorporating circus and puppetry, it is the true story of Irene, a Jewish acrobat who survived the Holocaust hiding and performing at a German circus. The show switches between past and present, intersecting Irene’s life with the performer’s experiences growing up a grandchild to Holocaust survivors.
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The Escape Act – A Holocaust Memoir
The Lowry Pier 8, The Quays, Salford, United KingdomA one-woman theatre show incorporating circus and puppetry, it is the true story of Irene, a Jewish acrobat who survived the Holocaust hiding and performing at a German circus. The show switches between past and present, intersecting Irene’s life with the performer’s experiences growing up a grandchild to Holocaust survivors.
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20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
Willesden Library 95 High Road, London, Willesden, United Kingdom20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
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20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
Brent Civic Centre Engineers Way, London, Wembley, United Kingdom20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
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Making Theatre in Exile
The Hampstead Jazz Club Duke of Hamilton Pub, 23-25 New End Road, London, United KingdomDelving into a suitcase full of sketches, songs and letters, the theatre group brings to life the little-known story of the Laterndl Theatre in Hampstead, established by a group of exiled actors and writers from Nazi-occupied Austria during the Second World War. Rekindling the Viennese tradition of political cabaret, they reflect on their new surroundings and hopes for the future and bring a beacon of light to the 30,000-strong traumatised refugee community.
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The Ballad of the Cosmo Café
St Peter’s Church Hall Belsize Square, Belsize Park, London, United KingdomAn imagined immersive ‘singspiel’ recreating this much-loved café in Finchley Road, in St Peter’s Church Hall, Belsize Park. Based on selected memories and stories from the Cosmo research group and translated into lyrics by the Cosmo writers group.
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The Ballad of the Cosmo Café
St Peter’s Church Hall Belsize Square, Belsize Park, London, United KingdomAn imagined immersive ‘singspiel’ recreating this much-loved café in Finchley Road, in St Peter’s Church Hall, Belsize Park. Based on selected memories and stories from the Cosmo research group and translated into lyrics by the Cosmo writers group.
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Festival of Belonging
Manchester Central Library St Peter's Square, Manchester, United KingdomFrom March 7-14th – featuring one-off events and nights of comedy, theatre, storytelling, films and visual arts to examine how we assimilate in new places, explore what makes us feel that we belong and question what happens when we do not.
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Londoni Pódium Cabaret
Liszt Institute 17 Cockspur Street, London, United KingdomAn immersive tribute to the 1930s uniquely Budapester humour as presented in London by Hungarian Jewish émigrés a hundred years ago.
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Velkom to Inklandt: Poems in my Grandmother’s Inklisch
Virtual EventA one-woman performance inspired by Sophie Herxheimer’s 2017 poetry collection Velkom to Inklandt: Poems in my Grandmother’s Inklisch.
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Velkom to Inklandt: Poems in my Grandmother’s Inklisch
Virtual EventA one-woman performance inspired by Sophie Herxheimer’s 2017 poetry collection Velkom to Inklandt: Poems in my Grandmother’s Inklisch.
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Velkom to Inklandt: Poems in my Grandmother’s Inklisch
Virtual EventA one-woman performance inspired by Sophie Herxheimer’s 2017 poetry collection Velkom to Inklandt: Poems in my Grandmother’s Inklisch.
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The Art of Making Theatre: Pamela Howard in Conversation with Pavel Drábek
Virtual EventPamela Howard in conversation with Pavel Drábek about her new ‘graphic memoir’, The Art of Making Theatre: An Arsenal of Dreams in 12 Scenes
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The Laterndl: A Light in Dark Times
Das Laterndl (The Little Lantern) was the first and largest of a number of German-language theatres run by exiles in London during the Second World War.
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