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SUMMARY:Refugee Artists and Craftworkers in Derry\, Northern Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Derry city\, aka Londonderry\, was one of the first places in Northern Ireland to which refugee workers from Vienna came to escape Nazi persecution. A Viennese businessman who had already settled in London was able to take advantage of Northern Irelands New Industries Development Act (1937) to found enterprises in Newtownards and in Derry\, comprised of workshops run by crafts workers from Vienna with local trainee employees. Many of the master craftsmen employed had run their own businesses in Vienna\, designing\, manufacturing and selling machine knitwear\, leather work\, wooden and stuffed toys\, hats and ornaments. Outside of work\, several of the immigrant workers had other skills in the arts\, such as piano playing and photography. \nThis talk by Philippa Robinson will focus on two visual artists employed at “Londonderry Continental Novelties”\, who did not run manufacturing businesses\, but did have useful design skills. Henrietta Friedek Roddy had illustrated childrens’ books and Zerline “Nini” Steiner was an accomplished portrait painter. \nAnother way for women to get permission to come to the UK was to work as a domestic servant. After the war was over\, survivor Edith Hofmann of Prague came to stay with her older sister who had come to Derry as a domestic worker. Edith spent two years in school at Londonderry High School before moving to London for further study. As an artist\, Edith Hofmann Birkin later became particularly well-known for her powerful depictions of ghetto and death camp scenes. \nPhilippa Robinson has spent most of her adult life in Northern Ireland. Although she knew of the still functioning synagogue in Belfast\, it was only on a visit to the Irish Jewish Museum in Dublin that she learned that there was once a Londonderry Hebrew Synagogue (1894-1948). Her interest in learning more became stronger after she returned from temporary work teaching English in Poland. She has presented talks locally\, and prepared an exhibition for Holocaust Memorial Day which was exhibited in Waterside and Central Libraries. She also wrote an article in Irish for “Lá” about the refugee resettlement camp in Millisle\, Co Down. \nTo book\, click here \nImage: Portrait by Zerline “Nini” Steiner
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/refugee-artists-and-craftworkers-in-derry-northern-ireland/
LOCATION:Insiders Outsiders\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Design,Fine Art,Lectures
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SUMMARY:Marian Mahler: both famous and mysterious
DESCRIPTION:Marian Mahler (1909-1982) was born in Wies\, Austria and settled in the UK in 1937. She studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) as well as architecture\, with Josef Hoffmann\, from late 1928 until early 1933. His friendship with Alistair Morton of Edinburgh Weavers led to her first designs for a UK company\, in 1939\, with other influential British manufacturers following suit. Postwar she became a respected and prolific designer\, producing book covers\, textiles\, wallpaper and other graphic products\, most notably for David Whitehead\, contracted to this Lancashire firm until c.1970. However\, she is only well-known as a 1950s’ “star” and much of her work and life is difficult to pin down. This lecture by eminent design historian Mary Schoeser aims both to introduce her life and career to a wider audience\, and to reassess her position and influence within the world of British professional designers. \nMary Schoeser FSRA is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the V&A\, and Patron of both the Bernat Klein Foundation and the School of Textiles\, Coggeshall. She is a writer\, curator\, archivist and lecturer who has specialised in textiles and wallpaper for 46 years. \nImage: textile design by Marian Mahler\, rayon\, c.1947
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/marian-mahler-both-famous-and-mysterious/
LOCATION:Insiders Outsiders\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260709T091500
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SUMMARY:A Tonic to the Nation: Refugees and Immigrants at the Festival of Britain
DESCRIPTION:A day symposium\, an exhibition and a concert \nSt John’s Church\, Waterloo\, 73 Waterloo Road\, London SE1 8TY\n\n\n\nScheduled to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Festival of Britain\, this one-day symposium will explore an important but still widely overlooked aspect of the Festival and its legacy: namely\, the disproportionately large creative input of those from (mostly) Jewish immigrant families and of former refugees from Nazism – many of them imprisoned behind barbed wire as so-called ‘enemy aliens’ only eleven years earlier. \nIn so doing\, it will invite a closer critical scrutiny both of the nature and extent of that input and of the complex issues of postwar cultural renewal\, national memory and identity\, patriotism and assimilation\, both then and in the present – and by extension highlight the creative contributions of more recent immigrants and their descendants to this contemporary British life. \nComprising a lively mixture of illustrated talks\, discussions\, a concert and the Royal College of Music exhibition ‘Music\, Migration and Mobility’ about émigré musicians from Nazi Europe in Britain\, the symposium programme is aimed at both a general and a specialist audience. \nFor further information about the exhibition\, click here and the concert click here. \nThe project is initiated and organised by Monica Bohm-Duchen\, founding director of Insiders/Outsiders\, an ongoing celebration of the contribution made by refugees from Nazi Europe to British culture\, in partnership with St John’s Waterloo. Restored after being bombed during WWII\, it became the official church for the Festival of Britain and home to two major paintings by German-Jewish émigré artist Hans Feibusch. The symposium and concert form part of “Now I make a leaf of voices“\, a series of events celebrating St John’s Festival of Britain heritage\, which runs between July and December 2026. \nThe symposium has the support of Counterpoints Arts\, a leading national organisation in the field of arts\, migration and cultural change in the present. We are also grateful to the Shoresh Charitable Trust and the Werthwhile Foundation for their financial support and to Jewish Renaissance for acting as our press partner. \nThe summer issue of the magazine will feature a special section on the Festival of Britain. \n\nTo book\, click here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/a-tonic-to-the-nation-refugees-and-immigrants-at-the-festival-of-britain/
LOCATION:Insiders Outsiders\, United Kingdom
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