Making, Tracing: A Journey Back From England to the Polish Stetl
Virtual Event
Talk by David Jones about his discovery that his creative work in clay & installation has become a medium for expressing his Jewish heritage
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Jussuf Prince of Thebes – Re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten talent from Safed
Berlin-based art historian and curator Dorothea Schöne will give a talk entitled ‘Jussuf Prince of Thebes – Re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten talent from Safed’.
Free
Charmian Brinson: Working for the War Effort
Virtual Event
Prof. Charmian Brinson talks about her fascinating new book, Working for the War Effort: German-Speaking Refugees in British Propaganda during the Second World War.
Free
Home Movie: Caroline Pick, Susie Orbach
Film screening & discussion with filmmaker Caroline Pick & psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and writer Susie Orbach.
Walking Tour – Modernist Hampstead
Forecourt outside Wagamamma 58-62 Heath Street, London, United KingdomIn this walking tour we'll discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards.
£9 – £12
The Ensemble Burletta: Concert
Stockbridge Church 7b Saxe Coburg St, Edinburgh, United KingdomThe Ensemble Burletta will be giving a concert at Stockbridge Church in Edinburgh which includes émigré composer Hans Gál’s Serenade for Clarinet, Violin and Cello.
Tribute to Architect Peter Moro
Virtual Event
Alistair Fair introduces the life and work of émigré architect Peter Moro, on the occasion of his new monograph on him.
Free
Edith and Kim: A Novel by Charlotte Philby
Virtual Event
Charlotte Philby, granddaughter of Kim Philby, talks about her riveting new novel, Edith and Kim, published on 31 March by HarperCollins.
Free
Schools on the Move: Postponed
Virtual Event
Marjorie Downward will give a talk entitled ‘Schools on the Move’, which will examine three pioneering educational projects – Gordonstoun and Camphill, both in Scotland, and Bunce Court in Kent
Artists As Hybrids: A Talk by Stephen Duncan
Virtual Event
Stephen Duncan FRSS will be talking about his career as a sculptor in both the UK and Italy.
Sanctuary in the City: Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
Virtual Event
Follow in a virtual tour through the City of London discovering public art by first generation refugees and immigrants to Britain
£8 – £16
Red Sea – Red Square – Red Thread. A Philosophical Detective Story
Virtual Event
New book by leading scholar Lydia Goehr, in conversation with Steven Gerrard and Daniel Herwitz.
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.
A conversation with Jas Elsner on the art of his father, Dante Elsner
Camden Image Gallery 174 Royal College Street, LondonA conversation with Jas Elsner on the art of his father, Dante Elsner
‘Following Dante’ – Maia Elsner Poetry Reading
Camden Image Gallery 174 Royal College Street, LondonPoet, Maia Elsner, will be reading past work and new pieces inspired by the art of her grandfather, the late Dante Elsner (1920-1997)
Stolperstein for Ada (Anna) van Dantzig
3 Golden Square London, United KingdomCeremony to lay a Stolperstein for Dutch-Jewish paintings conservator Ada (Anna) van Dantzig
Charlotte Salomon: A Life Before Auschwitz Lecture
Virtual Event
Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943):
A Life Before Auschwitz
Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen
Marginalised Spaces and Émigré Artists
Virtual Event
The second in a series of summer research seminars on The Arts of Postwar Britain 1945–1965 with Sheridan Palmer and Jane Eckett