Modernist Hampstead Walk
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
£9 – £12
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Being Second Generation with Gaby Glassman
JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United KingdomMore 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 LondonAlison 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 KingdomWords: 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
Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Optimism and aging
The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, London, United KingdomModernism sans frontières
Speaker: Rachel Rose Smith
£5 – £12
Recollections of Hans Keller
Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United KingdomStudy 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 KingdomA 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 KingdomA 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 KingdomOn 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
Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm
Screening includes a private viewing of the exhibition Little Happenings: photographs of Children by Dorothy Bohm
£5
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund
Daunt Books 51 South End Road, London, United KingdomThe hugely influential Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building, was commissioned by visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by architect Wells Coates. Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain (Batsford) by Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund tells the extraordinary story of Isokon, and how its network of residents helped shape modern Britain.
£5
Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Accents in Art
The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, London, United KingdomModernism sans frontières
Speaker: Monica Bohm-Duchen
£5 – £12
Four Parts of a Folding Screen
Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United KingdomBased on documents found in Berlin archives, Four Parts of a Folding Screen explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime.
Hans Keller Centenary Celebration
Clare Hall Herschel Road, Cambridge, CambridgeCambridge University Library (home of the Hans Keller Archive), the Faculty of Music and Clare Hall combine in a day of talks, discussion and music celebrating Hans Keller’s Centenary.
Talk: ‘Albert Reuss in Mousehole, The Artist As Refugee’
Royal Cornwall Museum River Street, Truro, Cornwall, United KingdomAlbert Reuss (1889-1975) was a Jewish émigré artist. Born in Vienna, he fled to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution, losing family, possessions and his reputation as an artist. In 1948, he moved to Mousehole, Cornwall, where he continued to work as an artist, but his style changed dramatically, reflecting the trauma he had suffered.
£4 – £7
“Child Migrants Welcome?”
Migration Museum at The Workshop 26 Lambeth High Street, London, United KingdomCome to the screening of a series of short films about the welcome and non-welcome experienced by young people who have migrated to the UK – from Syrian children on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, to Iraqi Kurdish youth in Norwich, to Eritreans in Harrow and Polish children in Sidmouth.
£5 – £8.97
A Celebration of Czechoslovak Culture in Wartime Britain
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomSenate House, University of London Aspects of Exile This series of lectures, running from February to December 2019, will be given by members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London, who all have a strong interest in German-speaking exile from Nazism. The lectures cover a broad…
Free
London’s Czechoslovak Institute during World War II
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture 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