Insiders Outsiders Festival

Dorothy Bohm: Mexico 1950s-1970s
2022-09-02 12:00 - 2022-10-01 18:00 (Europe/London) | Somers Gallery, 96 Chalton Street, London, NW1 1HJ, United Kingdom
Between 2 September and 1 October, the Somers Gallery in central London (previously the home of the UK Mexican Arts Society) will play host to an exhibition of black and white vintage photographs entitled Mexico 1950s-1970s – many to them never seen in public before – by nonagenarian Dorothy Bohm, who came to this country from Lithuania as a young teenager in June 1939.
For further information, click here.
Image: Dorothy Bohm, Mexico, 1970’s (detail)

Dorothy Bohm: A World Observed
2022-09-28 - 2022-11-13 | Kaunas Photography Gallery, Vilniaus gatvė 2, Kaunas, 44280, Lithuania
Image: Dorothy Bohm, Zoo de Vincennes, Paris, 1988 (detail)
The retrospective exhibition, Dorothy Bohm: A World Observed, will be on view at the Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania between 28 September and 13 November, as part of the programme of events accompanying Lithuania’s stint as one of the European Capitals of Culture.
For information about the gallery and the exhibition, click here and about Kaunas 2022, click here.

Image: Detail from Out of Darkness
The festival also includes a powerful interactive installation by UK-based second generation artist Jenny Kagan entitled Out of Darkness inspired by her parent’s experience of the Kaunas Ghetto during World War Two, which runs until 30 October.

Seeking Utopia
2022-10-01 19:30
Saturday 1 October sees the first of a number of performances, devised for the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth, of ’Seeking Utopia’, a programme of words and music in which violist Shiry Rashkovsky, pianist Viv McLean and music critic and author Jessica Duchen join forces to explore the unlikely friendship and close working relationship between the composer and the violist Lionel Tertis, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants. This first performance takes place at Amersham Music Club; the second on 16 October at the Conway Hall; the third on 4 November at Music at 22 Mansfield Street (contact Bob Boas), and the fourth at JW3 on 24 November.
Image: Ralph Vaughan Williams © Ralph Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust
