The Refugees who made the Festival of Britain
To mark the seventieth anniversary of the Festival of Britain, design historian Harriet Atkinson will give this talk
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Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm
Online screening, and Q&A, of the 2018 documentary
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Migration, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second Generation (Jewish) Artists
Virtual EventThis interdisciplinary symposium focuses on visual artwork by international (Jewish) artists of the post-Holocaust generation
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A Walk Through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
Virtual EventIn this virtual, scenic walk through Highgate, we discover its history and important architectural experiments in urban living
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Hiddensee: Annie Freud in Conversation with Jacqueline Saphra
Virtual EventAnnie Freud will read from her new book, and be in conversation about her work with fellow poet Jacqueline Saphra.
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studio potter Hans Coper
To coincide with the centenary display of his work at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Understanding WW2 Internment Through Postal History
Virtual Event‘Who, When, Where, and Why?’
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Janina Bauman: Beyond These Walls
Lydia Bauman will talk about her mother, the writer
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A New Life for Inherited Objects: The Art of Evy Cohen
A talk by a descendent of the Haimaki Cohen family sheltered during World War Two by Princess Alice, mother of the late Prince Philip
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Walking Tour: A Walk through Highgate Experiments in Urban Living
In this scenic walk through Highgate, we discover its history and important architectural experiments in urban living
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The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
David Herman will lead a discussion with Eva Hoffman, Philip Boehm and Adam Freudenheim about this powerful and prescient novel
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Alice Schwab: One Woman’s Emigration from Heilbronn to England
Baroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger DBE will be in conversation with Joachim Schloer about her redoubtable mother Alice (Liesel) Schwab
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Bertha Bracey and the Quaker Rescuers
From the rise of Hitler in 1933 to post-Holocaust Europe, the Quakers played a huge role in saving Jewish lives.
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The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hitlist
Historian Sybil Oldfield will be in conversation with writer and journalist Caroline Moorehead about fascinating new publication.
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Torn Threads: Aspects of the Life and Work of Textile Designer Otti Berger
Artist Judith Raum will be joined by design historian Tanya Harrod to evoke the life & work of Yugoslav-Jewish textile designer Otti Berger (1898-1944)
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Music and the Émigré Photographers: Companions in Creativity
A rich array of musical images by émigré photographers will evoke the deeply cultured milieu in which so many refugees from Nazism lived.
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Leonhard Adam: ‘Dunera Boy’, Lawyer, Anthropologist and Artist
Mary-Clare Adam, Leonard’s daughter, will highlight the dramatic events in his life on two continents before and after the two World Wars
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Hope after catastrophe: The Art of Dante Elsner
The talk will be given by Dante’s granddaughter, Maia Elsner whose poetry explores the nature of intergenerational memory
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Sanctuary in the City: Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
Virtual EventFollow in a virtual tour through the City of London discovering public art by first genration refugees and immigrants to Britain.
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Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture
Historian and curator Tessa Murdoch will examine the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of Huguenot refugees
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A Jewish Jesus: Art and Faith in the Shadow of World War II
Virtual EventA groundbreaking one-day conference
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Becoming Gustav Metzger, Uncovering the Early Years 1945-59
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum 108a Boundary Road, off Abbey Road, London, United KingdomThis is the first museum exhibition to examine the little-known formative years of refugee artist and activist Gustav Metzger
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Avram Stencl: The Yiddish Poet of Whitechapel
This illustrated talk by Rachel Lichtenstein examines the life and work of London’s foremost Yiddish poet Avram Nachum Stencl
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Walking Tour – Modernist Hampstead
In this walking tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards.
£9.00 – £12.00