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SUMMARY:'The Ark': Wedgwood and European Refugees\, 1933 -1945
DESCRIPTION:Between 1933-1945\, thousands of European refugees escaping Nazi persecution sought refuge in Britain. Due to an apathetic British Government\, assistance for refugees was the responsibility of individuals\, organisations\, and businesses\, such as Wedgwood. Unfortunately\, their efforts of the latter have remained unexplored\, as have the stories of those arriving into their care. Through archival material and collections held at the V&A Wedgwood Collection\, this talk by Michael Ruddy will reveal how the Wedgwood Family and Company worked resolutely to help those being oppressed across Central Europe. \nMichael Ruddy is an Assistant Curator at the V&A Wedgwood Collection\, situated in Barlaston\, Stoke-on-Trent. He joined the V&A from Arts Council England\, where he worked in the ELU and GIS teams. He has also worked at Leonard Cheshire\, supporting the digitisation of the Charity’s historically important sound collection\, and at Boughton House cataloguing the Buccleuch Collections. Michael has completed a BA History degree from the University of Derby and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester. In addition to ceramics\, his other research interest is the role of museums in social justice and representation. \nImage: Terracotta Bust of Ulla Goodman\, ca. 1940 \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-ark-wedgwood-and-european-refugees-1933-1945/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Educational events,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250619T180000
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SUMMARY:In the English Tradition? Rima Model Gowns in the 1940s
DESCRIPTION:In 1939\, Leo and Greta Neumann established the fashion business ‘Rima Model Gowns’ at 8 St. George Street\, Hannover Square\, London. Within just a few years\, Rima became one of London’s leading wholesale couture firms. The couple worked closely with established English textile mills and innovative modern émigré textile designers to produce their garments and were known internationally for their quintessentially ‘English’ garments with a twist. \nThe Neumanns’ success was achieved despite incredibly difficult circumstances. The couple\, as Austrian Jewish émigrés\, escaped Hitler’s regime in 1938 and faced many challenges upon arrival in England. Through garments and archival material\, this paper recreates the remarkable story of one of London’s most significant fashion businesses of the 1940s and its founders. \nLiz Tregenza is a lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies at London College of Fashion and runs her own vintage business. She is the author of Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond\, 1930-1970 (2023) and co-editor of Everyday Fashion: Interpreting British Clothing since 1600 (2023). She was awarded her PhD by the University of Brighton in 2018. \nImage: Conker colour wool suit jacket by Rima made for export\, 1941 \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/in-the-english-tradition-rima-model-gowns-in-the-1940s/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Educational events,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250624T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250624T193000
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SUMMARY:Käthe Schuftan\, ‘Prophetess of Spirit’: the rediscovery of a forgotten artist
DESCRIPTION:“She believed in creative energy . . . She has lived\, and always with her art and her great energy tried to provoke everybody else to live\, in the light of freedom\, in the light of spirit; and if\, therefore\, we could have a way of remembering her\, let us always remember her as a prophetess of spirit and of freedom. That is all that she would want from us.” \nFrom the eulogy given by Eugene Halliday at Käthe Schuftan’s funeral \nThis is the story of the German Jewish refugee artist Käthe Schuftan (born Breslau 1899) who arrived in Manchester in June 1939 after suffering greatly at the hands of the Nazis and having had much of her work destroyed. She became an important figure in the artistic community of Manchester\, teaching and inspiring young artists and exhibiting her work\, but following a retrospective organised by a close friend after her death\, her work disappeared and she was forgotten. But not by an eight year old child who\, over fifty years later\, discovered documents which led her to retrace Käthe’s steps\, meeting people who had bought her paintings which had eventually resurfaced decades after her death\, thus leading to the rediscovery of the life of this remarkable woman. \nHephzibah Yohannan is an artist and writer\, once the child who was eight years old when Käthe Schuftan died\, too soon\, in 1958. She is currently working on the biographies of Käthe and of her friend the artist\, writer and psychotherapist Eugene Halliday; and is the editor of the Halliday Review and of the Melchisedec Press\, an independent publisher. \nImage: Portrait of Käthe Schuftan by Eugene Halliday \n  \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/kathe-schuftan-prophetess-of-spirit-the-rediscovery-of-a-forgotten-artist/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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SUMMARY:Kosher Giraffe Trilogy: A talk by Hugo Max
DESCRIPTION:‘There’s an old Jewish joke that giraffe meat would be kosher\, if only we knew where to cut the neck…’ \nIn his latest publication Austrian-British multidisciplinary artist Hugo Max explores the internment of his great-grandfather as an ‘enemy alien’ on the Isle of Man during the Second World War. \nThis book showcases a triptych of exploratory narrative films and accompanying projects that include documentaries\, paintings\, writings\, musical performances and collaborations that were created in the process of researching his family history. \nInspired by the creative spirit of the refugee community who were held in requisitioned hotels on the island\, these projects consider the intersection of fact and fiction in family memory and celebrate creativity as a source of cross-cultural communication and hope. \nTo mark the publication of his new book Kosher Giraffe Trilogy\, Max will share the journey of his research as the fourth-generation descendant of an internee and will discuss the featured films and paintings. \nHugo Max (b. 2002) is a British-Austrian filmmaker\, painter and musician. He graduated from The Ruskin School of Art / Magdalen College\, Oxford in 2023 with a degree in Fine Art and studied film at the Friedl Kubelka School for Independent Film\, Vienna. \nHis filmography as a writer-director includes Dissonance\, a short film observing a string quartet in rehearsal; he also performs live improvised scores to silent films on solo viola at venues across the UK. He has lectured on improvisation and multidisciplinary practice at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.\nHugo is the author of three books: Kosher Giraffe Trilogy (2024)\, The Dissonance Book (2023) and The Stanley Series(2020). \nImage: film still \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/kosher-giraffe-trilogy-a-talk-by-hugo-max/
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SUMMARY:The Glyndebourne Émigrés
DESCRIPTION:Nils Grosch\, Professor of Musicology at the University of Salzburg\, Austria\, will give a talk to mark the publication by Clemson University Press (USA) and Liverpool University Press of The Glyndebourne Émigrés: Operatic Mobilities in Southern England\, 1934-1940\, an anthology of essays edited by Prof. Grosch and Beth Snyder and the first book to explore in depth the important but hitherto under-examined role played by the emigrés in the early years of Glyndebourne Opera. \nIt remains a little-known fact that despite the popular perception of Glyndebourne as representing the quintessence of Englishness\, it would almost certainly never have come into existence had it not been for the involvement of refugees from Nazi Europe – most notably Artistic Directors Fritz Busch and Carl Ebert\, and General Manager\, Rudolph Bing\, but also conductor Hans Oppenheim\, singers Irene Eisinger and Ina Souez\, and répétiteur Jani Strasser\, among others. \nIn its first years of existence\, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera set out to internationalize English opera culture\, both by attracting international artists and leading proponents of a new concept of opera production and by giving émigrés the chance to further hone skills developed in Central Europe and beyond. \nImage: book cover (detail) \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-glyndebourne-emigres/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Lectures,Music,What's On
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