Looking beyond the Bauhaus: The New Frankfurt

The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, London, United Kingdom

Modernism sans frontières

Speaker: Wolfgang Voigt, former Deputy Director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM), Frankfurt

£5 – £12

The Gift of Music: Cosman Collection

Royal College of Music Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, Prince Consort Road, London, South Kensigton, United Kingdom

This evening of art, music and history celebrates the donation to the Royal College of Music of Milein Cosman’s collection of drawings of musicians.

£5

The Merzspiel

Theatre by the Lake Studio Theatre by the Lake, Lakeside, Keswick, Cumbria, United Kingdom

KURT SCHWITTERS has hijacked the body of British actor PAUL BRIGHTWELL in order to re-present MERZ, his one-man art movement, live on stage

£7 – £12

Britain and the British in Novels and Memoirs

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

Aspects of Exile – Lecture Series

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

Series of lectures, organised by the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies, at the University of London’s Institute for Modern Languages Research

Free

Jewish Book Week

Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United Kingdom

Aurelia Young, daughter of the sculptor, will be in conversation with art historian Patrick Bade.

£9.50

Modernist Hampstead Walk

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

Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s

£9 – £12

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.

£9

Book Launch, Hans Keller 1919-1985: A musician in dialogue with his times

Guildhall School of Music and Drama Silk Street, London, City of London

Alison Garnham and Susi Woodhouse present their new centenary biography of Hans Keller, in an evening of music and readings. On Hans Keller’s birthday itself, the Belcea Quartet perform Haydn’s Op.76 No.2 and Britten’s Third Quartet (which Britten dedicated to Keller).

Free

Words: Insiders / Outsiders

Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United Kingdom

Words: Jewish Book Week. Anna Nyburg, Daniel Snowman and Monica Bohm-Duchen. Insiders/Outsiders examines the extraordinarily rich contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom.

£9.50

Recollections of Hans Keller

Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United Kingdom

Study day and concert celebrating Hans Keller’s centenary, featuring discussion with musicians who knew Keller, a music workshop, film showing and concert by the Elias Quartet.

Haunted by History

Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom

A selection of recent essay films – poignant, thought-provoking, sometimes darkly humorous and frequently disturbing – made by UK-based members of the so-called ‘Second Generation’, namely, the children of refugees from Nazi Europe and/or Holocaust survivors, whose work explores the complex and necessarily problematic legacy of their families’ experiences.

A Celebration of Hans Keller

The Menuhin Hall Cobham Road, Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, United Kingdom

A celebration of Hans Keller by the Yehudi Menuhin School, where Keller taught chamber music in the 1980s.
On Hans Keller’s birthday itself, the Belcea Quartet perform Haydn’s Op.76 No.2 and Britten’s Third Quartet (which Britten dedicated to Keller).

Hans Keller Centenary – Belcea Quartet

Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United Kingdom

On Hans Keller’s birthday itself, the Belcea Quartet perform Haydn’s Op.76 No.2 and Britten’s Third Quartet (which Britten dedicated to Keller).

£14 – £16