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SUMMARY:Of Penguins\, Albatrosses\, Pelicans and Kings: Refugees from Nazism at Penguin Books
DESCRIPTION:To mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of Penguin Books\, Dr. Anna Nyburg\, author of Émigrés: The Transformation of Art Publishing in Britain (Phaidon\, 2014)\, will pay tribute to the disproportionately large number of former refugees from Nazi Europe who contributed to the company’s extraordinary success. \nPenguin Books was founded by Allen Lane in 1935 and would radically change British reading habits\, educating\, informing  and entertaining the public for generations through their affordable and widely available books. \nRight from the beginning\, Penguin Books owed a debt to German publishing and book production\, inspired as the company was by the then ultra-modern Hamburg-based Albatross Books. Since William Morris’ Kelmscott Press\, German and British book producers and designers had influenced each other’s work\, with the result that when the National Socialists came to power\, those mainly Jewish book artists\, designers and authors fleeing to Britain could use their existing contacts in Britain to find work. \nAuthors such as Stefan Lorant and François Lafitte wrote Penguin Specials while Jan Tschichold and Hans Schmoller oversaw the important typography and page design that signalled the slim volumes’ modernity. Berthold Wolpe\, Romek Marber and Germano Facetti created the Penguin covers that helped to sell the books\, while Schmoller and Dieter Pevsner (son of Penguin author and editor Nikolaus Pevsner) became major figures in the running of the company. Last but no means least\, it was two Viennese refugees\, Wolfgang Foges and Walter Neurath (later to co-found Thames & Hudson)  who thought up and created the first King Penguins. \n  \nTo book\, click here \nImage: book covers
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/of-penguins-albatrosses-pelicans-and-kings-refugees-from-nazism-at-penguin-books/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250324T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250324T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T142333
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SUMMARY:Schools on the move: Bunce Court\, Gordonstoun and Camphill. A talk by Marjorie Downward
DESCRIPTION:As a result of exile from their homelands\, Jewish refugee educators founded many schools in the UK. The schools were mostly boarding schools based on the principle of  ‘Landerziehungsheime’ – ‘countryside educational homes.’  In their early days\, the primary aim of all these schools was to support young Jewish refugees as they faced the challenge of establishing a new identity  and coming to terms with an unfamiliar and alien environment. This talk by Marjorie Downward will focus on the outstanding educational work of Anna Essinger\, founder of Bunce Court School in Kent\, Kurt Hahn and Karl König\, founders of Gordonstoun and Camphill respectively\, both of them in Scotland. \nA retired musician and composer\, Marjorie Downward  is an independent researcher on a wide range of topics related to aspects of 19th\, 20th and 21st century social history\, including the lead-up to war and the after-effects of war on society as a whole. She has been involved in editing stories of WW2 refugees\, European Voluntary Workers and POWs who came to England and stayed.  Marjorie has also helped several authors with their researches\, including on the pioneers and WW2 years of Gordonstoun School and the Jewish X Troop. \nMarjorie is currently researching the life and work of Lola Hahn-Warburg in conjunction with the vital role played by the Quakers in the rescue of Jewish children and adults from Germany and Austria; also Lina Richter\, a remarkable German Jewish suffragette\, humanitarian\, author and teacher and Susanna Lachmann\, one of Germany’s finest female violinists. Thanks to Kurt Hahn\, both Richter and Lachmann found refuge in Britain in the 1930s and made a profound contribution to Gordonstoun School. \nBooking details here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/bunce-court-gordonstoun-and-camphill/
CATEGORIES:Educational events,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250403T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250403T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T142333
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SUMMARY:**POSTPONED**From Publishing Innovator to Corporate Dealmaker: Paul Hamlyn & the Transformation of UK Publishing
DESCRIPTION:Please check back soon for a new date for this event \nAn émigré who moved to the UK with his family at the age of seven from Nazi Germany\, Paul Hamlyn (né Hamburger\,1926-2001) was an innovative publisher who re-engineered the publishing model and systemised creativity. This approach led him to float his second business\, Octopus Publishing Group\, on the London Stock Exchange\, which arguably transitioned UK publishing from the era of family-owned and eponymous publishers to the conglomerate-dominated landscape of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. No less a democratiser of books than Allen Lane of Penguin and others before him in the nineteenth century\, Hamlyn was a major figure in the industry whose cultural and commercial significance has not been as fully acknowledged by book historians as it should have been. \nHamlyn’s career can be divided into two distinct parts: in the first\, he is the outsider who becomes an innovative publisher; in the second after the float of Octopus floated in 1983\, he acquired insider status owing to his corporate dealmaking prowess. He first merged Octopus with Heinemann in 1985 and then sold it to Reed International in 1987. He would also become a major philanthropist\, setting up the Paul Hamlyn Foundation in the same year. \nSince 2002\, Marcus E. Leaver has been a trade book publisher running businesses on both sides of the Atlantic\, primarily in the illustrated non-fiction and children’s publishing genres\, namely Chrysalis Books\, Barnes & Noble Publishing\, The Quarto Group and Welbeck Publishing Group. Since selling Welbeck in late 2022 to one of the major trade publishers\, he completed the first year of an MA in the History of the Book and started a new business\, Gemini Books Group. In this second year of his MA\, he is writing his dissertation on Paul Hamlyn. \nImage: Paul Hamlyn\, circa 1985. Photo by Gemma Levine/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/from-publishing-innovator-to-corporate-dealmaker-paul-hamlyn-the-transformation-of-uk-publishing/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250527T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250527T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T142333
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SUMMARY:Rogues and Scholars Boom and Bust in the London Art Market\, 1945–2000
DESCRIPTION:James Stourton’s entertaining\, informative and very readable book Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market\, 1945–2000\, recently published by Bloomsbury and singled out as the Times Best Art Book of the Year\, 2024\, tells the colourful story of the London art market from the immediate postwar period to the turn of the millennium and introduces us to ‘a glorious rogues’ gallery of clever amateurs\, eccentric scholars\, brilliant emigrés\, cockney traders and grandees with a flair for the deal’. For the purposes of this talk for Insiders/Outsiders\, James will pay particular attention to the ‘brilliant emigrés’\, among them Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer\, Herbert Bier\, Erica Brausen\, Annely Juda and many more… \nJames Stourton is a British art historian\, a former Chairman of Sotheby’s UK and the author of Great Houses of London\, British Embassies\, and the authorized biography of Kenneth Clark. Stourton frequently lectures to Cambridge University History of Art Faculty\, Sotheby’s Institute of Education and The Art Fund\, and is a senior fellow of the Institute of Historical Research. He also sits on the Heritage Memorial Fund\, a government panel which meets to decide what constitutes heritage and should be saved for the nation. \nImage: book cover (detail) \nTo book\, click here. \n  \nFestival supporters can purchase Rogues & Scholars for £20 plus P&P (RRP £30) from the Bloomsbury website\, using the code INSIDERSOUTSIDERS. The code is live now and will work until 27th July. \nOverseas customers can order from the UK site using the code.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/rogues-and-scholars/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Fine Art,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250617T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250617T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T142333
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250619T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T142333
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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
DTSTAMP:20260411T142333
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250626T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250626T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T142333
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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/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250630T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250630T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T142333
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T193000
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SUMMARY:Hans Hess: The Goods have become the Gods
DESCRIPTION:To mark the recent publication by the Manifesto Press of Volume 3 of Hans Hess: Selected Writings\, Dr. Lucy Burke\, Academic Director of the new Hans Hess Foundation\, will introduce us to an important but hitherto under-examined art historian\, curator and left-wing cultural activist. \nBorn in Erfurt in 1908 into an affluent and cultured German-Jewish family (his father Alfred was the owner of a successful shoe-manufacturing company and an important collector of avant-garde art)\, Hans Hess spent a year at the Sorbonne before going to the USA\, familiarising himself with advertising techniques and the relatively new discipline of market research. \nPurged by the Nazis from his job at Berlin’s Ullstein publishers\, he left Germany in May 1933. He went first to Paris where he worked as an advertising copywriter\, then to London where he worked with John Heartfield in the Free German League of Culture and edited the magazines inside Nazi Germany and Germany Today. \nWar saw him interned in Canada before finding work as Deputy Keeper of Art at the Leicester Museums and Galleries\, moving in 1946 to be curator at York Art Gallery and also artistic director of the triennial York Festival. In 1967 Hess was appointed Reader in the History and Theory of Art at the new University of Sussex and wrote extensively on art history\, Marxism and visual culture. Most of these thought-provoking texts remained unpublished in his lifetime and were only rediscovered a few years ago. \nDr Lucy Burke works in the School of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her current research explores contemporary cultural and historical representations of disability and care – focusing specifically on dementia and learning disabilities – and the role of the arts in social justice. Forthcoming monographs: Why Should We Care (Manifesto Press)\, and Dementia Culture (Liverpool University Press). Her interest in Hans Hess returns her to her PhD which explored class and cultural politics in the interwar period. \n\nImage: Hans Hess: Selected Writings \n\nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/hans-hess-the-goods-have-become-the-gods/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251101T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251101T130000
DTSTAMP:20260411T142333
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour - Modernist Hampstead
DESCRIPTION:Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s such as The Sun House by Maxwell Fry\, and 66 Frognal by Connell Ward and Lucas. Much of the architecture echoed design trends in Europe and the walk includes passing housing by the émigré architects Ernst Freud and Erno Goldfinger. Elements of eighteenth-century architectural design were also an influence for some architects. \nPassing some more recent examples and of course striking non modernist Hampstead buildings\, this walk will finish at the iconic and idealistic Isokon flats in Belsize Park which were famous in the 1930s for enabling Bauhaus designers and refugees to live here to escape the Nazi regime. \nThis tour is timed to coincide with the opening hours of both 2 Willow Road (needs to be booked 2 weeks in advance) and the Isokon Gallery which you may like to visit afterwards \n  \n  \n\n\nBook here \n  \nMeet in the forecourt outside Wagamamma\, 58-62 Heath Street\, London NW3 1EN \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/modernist-hampstead-3/
LOCATION:Forecourt outside Wagamamma\, 58-62 Heath Street\, London\, NW3 1EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Walks,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251103T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251103T160000
DTSTAMP:20260411T142333
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour - Diverse London - Art and Refugees in Hampstead
DESCRIPTION:In the late 1930s the Hampstead Art scene rallied support to rescue artists trapped in Czechoslovakia under Nazi rule. Led by the refugee lawyer/artist Fred Ulman and his aristocratic English wife Diana Croft from their Downshire Hill house\, they formed the artist refugee committee. We learn about how their house became a refuge for artists and about the organizations that they were involved with. We visit sites Uhlman was known to frequent and discuss the role of his artistic friends and neighbours and consider other refugees who settled in Hampstead during this time. \nBefore or after the tour you may wish to visit the Isokon Gallery and/or 2 Willow Road (advance booking required). \n  \n\n\n\nBook here. \n  \n\nMeet in the forecourt outside Wagamama\, 58-62 Heath Street\, London\, NW31EN. \nYou can check travel options at the Transport for London Journey Planner. \n\nPicture: The Coffee Cup\, Hampstead which Fred Uhlman frequented by Marilyn Greene
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/walking-tour-diverse-london-art-and-refugees-in-hampstead/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Walks,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251104T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251104T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T142333
CREATED:20251015T090435Z
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SUMMARY:Comrades in Art – For Peace\, Democracy and Cultural Freedom
DESCRIPTION:In the autumn of 1933 a group of twenty-something largely unknown artists and designers felt impelled to begin organising against the threat of fascism and war. They determined to create a London-based artists’ auxiliary in support of progressive causes. \nWithin two years the Artists International Association had won the support of some of the best-known artists of the era from Laura Knight to Henry Moore and was staging the landmark exhibition Artists Against Fascism and War in Soho Square. By April 1937\, with a membership approaching a thousand\, the AIA organised the First British Artists Congress – an event that laid the groundwork for positive postwar developments. \nAndy Friend’s new book – Comrades in Art\, Artists Against Fascism 1933-43 sets the rich history of the AIA in a global context. In this talk he will discuss how recently re-discovered sources have shed new light on the role of political emigrés from its first founding meetings to the landmark For Liberty exhibition\, held in the spring of 1943. The young founders of the AIA succeeded in reaching upward generationally and outward politically to build a broadly based organisation with strong international links. In doing so they united artists of many different aesthetic persuasions in opposition to divisive populism\, authoritarianism and oppression – how they did so is a tale for our time. \nAndy Friend was involved in community politics in the 1970s and worked for the Greater London Council in the 1980s before becoming Chief Executive of the City of Melbourne in the 1990s. After returning from Australia\, he held senior positions in a number of major infrastructure organisations. In 2017 Andy published Ravilious & Co; the Pattern of Friendship and co-curated the eponymous Towner Gallery touring exhibition. In 2020 he wrote John Nash – The Landscape of Love and Solace (2020) and co-curated its accompanying Towner touring exhibition. Artists International – The First Decade\, curated by Andy\, is showing in the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Archive Gallery at Tate Britain until March 2026. Comrades in Art – a more extensive exhibition – will open at the Towner Eastbourne on May 6th 2026. \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/comrades-in-art-for-peace-democracy-and-cultural-freedom/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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SUMMARY:Activism Through Art: Edith Tudor Hart in Britain
DESCRIPTION:Sociologist Larry Ray\, one of the contributors to the anthology Poverty for Sale: Edith Tudor Hart in Britain\, recently published by MuseumsEtc\, will give a talk about the life and work of photographer and committed communist Edith Tudor Hart. Born in Vienna\, she settled in the UK in 1933 and went on to produce a powerful body of images that bear witness to her profound sympathy for the young\, the underprivileged\, the disabled and displaced. \nThis major new publication\, described by one reviewer as “a reminder of the power of activism through art” and by another as an overdue “documentation of her important photographic contribution and her often tragic life”\, provides a comprehensive overview of the largely-unknown work of Edith Tudor Hart (1908-1973) during her forty years living in Britain. It is extensively illustrated with over 200 images (many published for the first time)\, original letters and documents held in leading international museums\, galleries and private collections – including pages from her recently discovered personal scrapbook. \nLarry Ray is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent. He has published and taught extensively on social theory and philosophy\, postcommunism\, the politics of Holocaust memory in Poland\, the sociology of violence\, and photographic aesthetics. His book Violence & Society was first published in 2011; the second revised edition appeared in 2018 and includes an analysis of violence and the visual. His article on ‘Social theory\, photography and the visual aesthetic’ published in Cultural Sociology in 2020 won the annual SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence. He has a long-standing interest in the photography of Edith Tudor Hart\, and his essay ‘Social Realism and Edith Tudor Hart’ is included in Poverty for Sale. \n\nImage: Edith Tudor Hart \n\nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/activism-through-art-edith-tudor-hart-in-britain/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour - Diverse London - City Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
DESCRIPTION:Walking Tour \nThe City of London has always been home to immigrant communities. This walks winds its way through the City streets and highlights immigrants who made a mark here in a literal way as it is home to some of their sculptures and reliefs. We will discover the first official public sculpture\, the Monument which was carved by Caius Gabriel Cibber a Danish immigrant; a drinking fountain by French refugee\, Aimé-Jules Dalou; mosaics by Russian born Boris Anrep and perhaps the most significant contribution of sculptures are by a number of refugees from Nazi Europe who settled in the UK such as Naomi Blake\, Frank Meisler\, Oscar Nemon and Georg Ehrlich. The tour finishes with the most recent sculpture\, Unity\, 1992 by a Croatian refugee from former Yugoslavia\, Ivan Klapez. \nPlease note that a couple of sculptures may not be accessible to view due to security or building work issues. \n\n\n\nBook here. \n\nMeet outside the front of St Botolph’s Church\, Aldgate High Street London EC3N 1AB
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/walking-tour-diverse-london-city-public-art-by-refugees-and-immigrants-3/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Walks,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251203T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251203T193000
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SUMMARY:The Refugee and the Survivor – a Family Story
DESCRIPTION:This illustrated presentation by Michael Lewis weaves together the story of his parents\, of his father\, a refugee from Nazi persecution and his mother\, a Holocaust survivor. It draws on her memoir\, A Time to Speak (1992) and Michael’s own book\, Flight from Prague – the Making of a Refugee (2025)\, which for the first time tells his father’s story. \nHarry Lewy and Helene Katz came from Trautenau\, today Trutnov\, then in Austria Hungary\, now in the Czech Republic. They were friends from childhood. \nIn 1938 Michael’s father fled for his life when\, after Munich\, his Sudetenland home was incorporated into the Nazi Reich. A refugee\, embarked on a life of uncertainty and fear\, loneliness and isolation\, unwanted and penniless\, he eventually found sanctuary and work in Belfast. \nIn 1938 his mother was married to Paul Herrmann and living in Prague\, having successfully completed professional training as a choreographer\, teacher and dancer. In 1942 she was deported to Terezin / Theresienstadt\, in May 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau and in July 1944 to Stutthof. She survived. Widowed and seriously ill\, she returned to Prague in June 1945. \nFinding her name on a list of survivors\, Harry made contact. In 1947 they married in Prague before settling in Belfast. The family changed its name to Lewis in 1949. Helen gradually recovered her health and had a distinguished career as an innovative choreographer and then author\, widely recognized and honoured as an inspirational figure. Behind her achievements against all the odds stood Harry’s quiet unstinting love and support. \nMichael Lewis was born in Belfast. He taught for 35 years in comprehensive schools\, becoming the headteacher of King Edward VII School in Sheffield between 1988 and 2008. After retirement he served for 14 years as a lay Employment Tribunal member\, a member of the Teaching Regulation Agency Teacher Conduct panel and of the Independent Ethics Panel of South Yorkshire Police. In 2009 The University of Sheffield awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. He lives in Sheffield\, is married to Petra and has two sons and three grandchildren. \n\nImage: Harry and Helen’s wedding\, Prague 16 June 1947 \n\nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-refugee-and-the-survivor-a-family-story/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Dance,Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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SUMMARY:Creativity & Forced Migrations
DESCRIPTION:Burcu Dogramaci & Owen Hatherley in Conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen \nCan it be a coincidence that two books examining afresh the profound impact of the refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe on British culture have seen the light of day within just a few months of each other? What\, more precisely\, was the nature of that impact? And how\, in particular\, was London changed forever as a result? These will be just three of the questions to be addressed by their authors in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen\, art historian and founding director of the Insiders/Outsiders project. \nLondon Exile: Metropolis\, Modernity and Artistic Migration by Burcu Dogramaci of Munich University\, was published by Leuven University Press in September. In the words of one reviewer\, the book “constitutes the definitive history of how the cultural workers who fled Nazi Germany―from artists\, photographers\, designers\, and sculptors to publishers and gallerists―were shaped by their emigration. It also tells the story of how these immigrants left indelible marks on their city of refuge… remaking it into the celebrated modern cultural metropolis that it is today.” \nThe Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley was published by Allen Lane earlier this year to considerable interest and has been described by one reviewer as “a brilliant work of history… Owen Hatherley makes a fierce and elegant case for British culture as a living tapestry made ever brighter by newcomers to our strange island.” \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/creativity-forced-migrations/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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SUMMARY:Paul Hamlyn: Outsider\, Innovator\, Dealmaker
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the career of Paul Hamlyn (né Hamburger) (1926-2001)\, a story of personal ambition\, publishing innovation\, and industry change. Hamlyn was a visionary who made a lasting impact on twentieth-century publishing\, yet until now his story has received limited recognition in book history. An émigré who moved to the UK with his family at the age of seven from Nazi Germany\, Hamlyn became a publisher who accumulated significant wealth during his lifetime but is now mainly remembered for his philanthropy towards the arts. \nHamlyn’s career had three distinct phases. Initially\, between 1949 and 1970\, as an outsider\, he started selling remainders\, then began publishing reprints from other publishers before creating his own titles. Subsequently\, between 1971 and 1983\, at Octopus\, as an innovator\, he developed an illustrated mass-market publishing model that exploited technological advances\, capitalised on the expanding middle classes in key markets\, and embraced the opportunities presented by globalisation. The final phase was as a dealmaker\, from 1983 to 1987\, when\, in a dizzying fifty-month period\, he floated Octopus on the London Stock Exchange\, merged the youthful Octopus with the venerable Heinemann\, and sold the entire business to Reed International less than two years later. \nNearly twenty-five years after his death in September 2001\, Hamlyn’s legacy remains complex. In the academic field of book history\, he is limited to a small part that acknowledges his commercial success but neither celebrates nor examines it. From a publisher’s perspective\, Hamlyn’s legacy as an innovator in book publishing is underestimated. This talk will analyse both his commercial achievements and his publishing innovations. It will raise Hamlyn’s profile in post-World War II book history as a significant publisher deserving greater recognition for those innovations. It will also recognise the duality of his publishing legacy and why Hamlyn may not have received the reputation he merits. \nSince 2002\, Marcus E. Leaver has been a trade book publisher running businesses on both sides of the Atlantic\, primarily in the illustrated non-fiction and children’s publishing genres\, namely Chrysalis Books\, Barnes & Noble Publishing\, The Quarto Group and Welbeck Publishing Group. Since selling Welbeck in late 2022 to one of the major trade publishers\, he has completed an MA in the History of the Book at the University of London and started a new business\, Gemini Books Group. His dissertation was about Paul Hamlyn. \nImage: Paul Hamlyn\, circa 1985. Photo by Gemma Levine/Hulton Archive/Getty Images \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/paul-hamlyn/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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SUMMARY:Romek Marber (1925-2020): The Man who Vowed Never to Return
DESCRIPTION:Romek Marber is probably most famous for the design of over seventy book covers for the Penguin Crime series in the 1960s as well as for the development of the Marber grid which made the layout of Penguin cover pages consistent across titles. \nHowever\, even most people who knew him had little idea of his back story. This was to change in 2010 with the publication of his memoirs of pre-WWII life growing up in a small town in Poland and his survival as a Jew under Nazi occupation. The title of his memoirs is No Return: Journeys in the Holocaust. World War II broke out when Romek was thirteen. By the end of the war he had survived life in the Bochnia ghetto\, experienced the disappearance of his twin sister\, mother and grandparents (to be murdered in Belzec)\, slave labour in concentration camps and being left for dead with typhus in a pigsty in Bavaria. After liberation Romek spent a year as a Displaced Person in Italy until he was finally able to join his surviving brother and father in the UK. In due course he would establish himself as one of Britain’s most talented and distinctive graphic designers. \nRomek’s niece\, Elaine Sinclair (born Marber)\, will provide background on Romek’s family and life in Poland and his experiences during WWII. Romek wrote his memoirs\, initially for the family\, as a result of her persuasion. She is an occupational psychologist. \nHer lifelong friend Naomi Games\, who also knew Romek well\, will describe Romek’s career and present some of his work. Naomi is the daughter of designer Abram Games. She has worked for many adult and children’s publishers and has written sixteen books\, including six about her father\, as well as producing a film on him and running his archive. \n  \nTo book\, click here. \n\nImage: Profile of Romek Marber\, Copyright Romek Marber Estate
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/romek-marber-1925-2020-the-man-who-vowed-never-to-return/
CATEGORIES:Design,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260216T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260216T193000
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SUMMARY:The Cassirers and their Circles
DESCRIPTION:The Cassirers were a remarkable German Jewish family – highly successful in business and leaders of European culture. Their circle included intellectuals\, artists and scientists from Einstein and Van Gogh to Thomas Mann\, Max Beckmann and Delius. Major collectors and patrons of the arts\, they introduced the Impressionists to Germany\, founded a famous progressive school attended by Thomas Mann’s son Klaus and Raymond Klibanksy and were instrumental in the foundation of the Warburg Library in Hamburg. Ernst Cassirer\, the philosopher\, is perhaps the best-known member of this generation\, but Richard Cassirer the neurologist\, and Paul and Bruno Cassirer\, the art publishers\, also made a significant mark on society. The Second World War and the Holocaust fragmented the family\, driving most of its members from Germany to Britain\, Sweden and America and much of the family’s wealth and art collections were stolen. But even in exile\, the family continued and continues to have an impact\, particularly in the arts and in academia. \nThis talk by Dr. Juliet Sychrava gives a brief overview of the family\, touching on its origins and focusing on some of the influential individuals who lived and worked between the end of the 19th century and WW2. In particular\, it looks at some of the paintings\, photographs and other objects that were significant in the family’s life\, and what they reveal both about the Cassirers and their times. It is a personal view from a Cassirer descendant which draws on family memories as well as published and unpublished material to look back from England today to the family’s heyday in early 20th century Germany. \nDr Juliet Sychrava holds a D Phil (English\, Philosophy) from Corpus Christi College\, Oxford. She is the author of Schiller to Derrida: Idealism in Aesthetics (Cambridge University Press 2010). She had a career as a financial journalist\, in corporate communications\, and in sustainability; she is now retired and is working on a book about her family. \n  \nTo book\, click here. \n\n\nImage: Ernst Cassirer and his granddaughter Irene
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-cassirers-and-their-circles/
CATEGORIES:What's On
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