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  • Insiders/Outsiders – An Evening with Monica Bohm-Duchen and Sir Norman Rosenthal

    Waterstones 68-69 Hampstead High Street, London, United Kingdom

    Insiders/Outsiders, published by Lund Humphries to accompany the nationwide arts festival, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe. Independent art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the festival, will be in conversation with Sir Norman Rosenthal, Exhibitions Secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts, London between 1977 and 2008, to discuss their shared interest – both personal and professional – in the rich cultural terrain covered by the book.

    £7.00

  • Naomi Blake 1924-2018 – Artist Open House

    Artists’ Open House 41 Woodside Avenue, London, United Kingdom

    For 50 years Naomi Blake gave life and shape to sculpture dedicated to victims of the Holocaust, while expressing positive hopes for the future and the promotion of understanding between faiths. As part of the East Finchley Artists Open House Festival you are now invited to view Naomi’s home, studio and beautiful sculpture and hear her inspirational story.

    Free

  • Naomi Blake 1924-2018 – Artist Open House

    Artists’ Open House 41 Woodside Avenue, London, United Kingdom

    For 50 years Naomi Blake gave life and shape to sculpture dedicated to victims of the Holocaust, while expressing positive hopes for the future and the promotion of understanding between faiths. As part of the East Finchley Artists Open House Festival you are now invited to view Naomi’s home, studio and beautiful sculpture and hear her inspirational story.

    Free

  • Being Second Generation: with Gaby Glassman

    JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United Kingdom

    More than 70 years after the Holocaust, children of survivors and refugees will explore together how it has affected their lives. This workshop will be led by Gaby Glassman, a psychologist and psychotherapist who has facilitated second generation and intergenerational groups in the UK and abroad since the 1980s.

    £9

  • My partner is Second Generation, I am not: with Gaby Glassman

    JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United Kingdom

    A workshop exclusively for those living with Second Generation of the Holocaust. The session will enable partners of second generation to explore their own “unique” circumstances with others.

    £9

  • Stories of Migration from Picture Post Magazine 1938–56

    Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate, London, United Kingdom

    To coincide with the exhibition Refugees, Newcomers & Citizens the ACF will host a special talk with Amanda Hopkinson, daughter of Austrian photographer Gerti Deutsch and Picture Post editor, Tom Hopkinson. She will discuss the photographers and stories featured in the exhibition alongside the contribution made to British life by very different groups of immigrants, from those arriving on the Kindertransport to the  SS Empire Windrush generation.

    Free

  • Refuge Britain: Stories of Emigré Designers (film)

    University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United Kingdom

    Lecture given by member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London

    Free

  • Refuge Britain – Stories of Emigré Designers

    University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United Kingdom

    Senate House, University of London Aspects of Exile Refuge Britain – Stories of Emigré Designers Speakers: Anna Nyburg and Robert Sternberg Refuge Britain is a 45 minute documentary film made by Anna Nyburg and Robert Sternberg, which will be screened alongside a Q&A. Framed by the life of a recent refugee from Pakistan, the film uses archive footage and conversations […]

  • The Life and Work of Martin Bloch

    New College of the Humanities 19 Bedford Square, London, United Kingdom

    Charlotte Grant, talks about her grandfather Martin Bloch (1883-1954), a German-Jewish artist who came to Britain as a refugee in 1934. This talk reflects on Bloch’s artistic vision and considers his legacy as a colourist and teacher.

    Free

  • Naomi Blake 1924-2018 – Artist Open House

    Artists’ Open House 41 Woodside Avenue, London, United Kingdom

    For 50 years Naomi Blake gave life and shape to sculpture dedicated to victims of the Holocaust, while expressing positive hopes for the future and the promotion of understanding between faiths. As part of the East Finchley Artists Open House Festival you are now invited to view Naomi’s home, studio and beautiful sculpture and hear her inspirational story.

    Free

  • Brave New Visions

    St George Street Gallery, Sotheby’s 1-2 St George Street, London, United Kingdom

    A group of émigrés, who had fled Nazi-dominated Europe, resolved to embrace the future and introduce avant-garde European and British artists to the public and press.

    Free

  • Brave New Visions

    St George Street Gallery, Sotheby’s 1-2 St George Street, London, United Kingdom

    Brave New Visions shows how in bleak post-war London, a group of émigrés who had found sanctuary in Britain in the 1930s re-made their lives and introduced avant-garde European and British artists such as Naum Gabo, Oskar Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters, Graham Sutherland and Ben Nicholson to the broader public.

  • Artbooks for all, from Vienna to London, Panel Discussion 

    St George Street Gallery, Sotheby’s 1-2 St George Street, London, United Kingdom

    Elly Miller, daughter of Béla Horovitz, co-founder of the Phaidon Press, and Constance Kaine, daughter of Walter Neurath, co-founder of Thames & Hudson, will be in conversation with Anna Nyburg, who has researched the histories of both publishing houses.

    Free

  • The Realities of Restitution, Panel Discussion

    St George Street Gallery, Sotheby’s 1-2 St George Street, London, United Kingdom

    Richard Aronowitz will illustrate the lengthy process of provenance research at Sotheby’s, Shauna Isaac will discuss her family’s landmark restitution victory – United States vs Portrait of Wally, René Gimpel will shed light on a current case involving his family, and Abby Brindley will offer a legal view.

    Free

  • Navigating the Art World, Panel Discussion

    St George Street Gallery, Sotheby’s 1-2 St George Street, London, United Kingdom

    Amanda Gray, Partner, and Jon Sharples, Associate, both of Art Law, Mishcon de Reya LLP and Tom Christopherson, former European General Counsel at Sotheby’s, Legal Consultant at Bonhams, and Head of Art and Law Studies at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and Gilane Tawadros from DACS, will discuss how those entering the art market can best navigate this world – from the very start of their careers to ensuring their standing in the longer term.

    Free

  • To Catch an Art Thief

    St George Street Gallery, Sotheby’s 1-2 St George Street, London, United Kingdom

    Richard ‘Dick’ Ellis, former head of New Scotland Yard’s Art Squad, will unravel the intricacies in finding and recovering stolen art. He will reveal how his leads include an international network of both law enforcement officials and criminals. Dick has solved several high profile cases including the theft of Edvard Munch’s The Scream from Norway’s National Gallery, and Audubon’s Birds of America lifted from the State Library in St. Petersburg.

    Free

  • Hampstead’s Pioneers of Modern Art

    Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

    In the first half of the 20th century Hampstead was home to some of the era’s most pioneering artists. We will walk in the footsteps of the Slade School artists. In Downshire Hill we learn of the artistic Carline family and will also discuss the role that Roland Penrose, Margaret Gardiner and Fred and Diana Uhlman played in the art world in the years leading up to, and during, the Second World War. We walk to Belsize Park to learn of the Modernists including Henry Moore, Piet Mondrian and Barbara Hepworth whom Herbert Read described as living as a “nest of gentle artists” and conclude with the refugee designers who stayed at the Isokon flats.

    £9 – £12

  • The Laban Summer School

    The University of Bedfordshire, Bedford University of Bedfordshire Pollhill Avenue, Bedford, United Kingdom

    Every year The Laban Guild holds a Summer School which explores the work of modern dance pioneer Rudolf Laban in a contemporary context. The work of Laban, who took refuge in the UK from Germany in 1938, gained great popularity in dance and physical education and still plays a key role in actor training.

  • The Pilgrim’s Progress Story: Private View

    Martyrs’ Gallery Star Brewery, Castle Ditch Lane, Lewes, United Kingdom

    Martyrs’ Gallery is presenting an exhibition of words and images that depicts and celebrates Hans Feibusch’s allegorical mural Pilgrim’s Progress.

    Free

  • The Pilgrim’s Progress Story: Exhibition

    Martyrs’ Gallery Star Brewery, Castle Ditch Lane, Lewes, United Kingdom

    Martyrs’ Gallery is presenting an exhibition of words and images that depicts and celebrates Hans Feibusch’s allegorical mural Pilgrim’s Progress.

    Free

  • Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate performed by Florian Kaplick

    Cample Line Cample Mill, Cample, Dumfriesshire Scotland, United Kingdom

    As part of CAMPLE LINE’s Summer 2019 Edition, Florian Kaplick will perform Kurt Schwitters’ sound poem Ursonate, a vocal piece consisting of four movements, an overture and finale. Schwitters began writing Ursonate in 1922 and first performed it in 1925 before publishing it in 1932 as ‘Sonate in Urlauten’ (Sonata in Primordial Sounds).

    Free

  • The Freuds in Hampstead Walking Tour

    Hampstead London, United Kingdom

    Explore the memories of the Freud family in Hampstead in this walk led by Blue Badge Guide Rachel Kolsky.

    £15

  • Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939

    Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United Kingdom

    A new mobile exhibition about the Kitchener camp rescue of Jewish refugees to Britain in 1939

    Free – £20