Insiders/Outsiders

Charleston Firle, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Monica Bohm-Duchen will discuss the importance of cultural cross-fertilisation with eminent art historian and curator, Norman Rosenthal and novelist Esther Freud

£16

Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe

Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus Penton Rise, London, Kings Cross, United Kingdom

Encounters in Art: Women Émigré Artists: Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Milein Cosman, Else Meidne

Elman Poole Concert: Egon Wellesz and other Emigrés in 1930s Britain

Lincoln College, Oxford Turl St, Oxford, United Kingdom

This concert will feature some of Egon Wellesz' works, written before and after his emigration, alongside those of fellow emigrées Ferdinand Rauter, Karl Rankl, Hans Gál and Robert Kahn, who all have recently featured in the research and performance project ‘Singing a Song in a Foreign Land’ at the Royal College of Music.

Free

Book Talk: A Small Dark Quiet

Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom

Miranda Gold​ will be discussing her haunting novel, A Small Dark Quiet​, with ​writer, critic and former deputy director of English PEN​, Catherine Taylor​.

Free

Insiders/Outsiders Talk: Monica Bohm-Duchen

Five Leaves Bookshop 14a Long Row, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Refugees from the Nazis and their contribution to British visual culture: a talk by art historian, Monica Bohm-Duchen, the creative director of the Insiders Outsiders Festival

£3

Edith Tudor-Hart, the Bauhaus and Isokon

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, authors of new publication 'Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain' will speak about Bauhaus graduate Edith Tudor-Hart, her photography of the Isokon building and the émigré community in 1930s London.

Celebrating Jewish Architecture – Routemaster Bus Tour

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

Jump on board a classic Routemaster! In this tour with architecture expert Joe Kerr, you will have the chance to see buildings designed by famous Jewish architects whose work was crucial to the rebuilding of twentieth century London

£30

The Social Eye of Picture Post

Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom

Picture Post magazine was the publishing sensation of the 1940s and early 1950s. Founded by anti-Nazi refugee journalists and photographers it blended continental large format photography with British social documentary to produce moving, funny, hard-hiting stories about Britain in times of war and peace. This event will hear from the two co-curators, Professor Amanda Hopkinson and Mike Berlin, about the themes they have explored in the current exhibtion at the Peltz gallery: Refugees, Incomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post (4 June-5 July) with Professor Lynda Nead and Professor Steve Edwards in discussion.

Free

Talk: Women Exile Photographers in Britain

The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom

When Gerty Simon was forced into exile in 1933 she was one of many photographers who fled Germany and Austria during the 1930s.  John March has made a study of the group of two dozen women exile photographers, some well-known, and others with brief or unrecognised careers.

Free

20:20 vision

Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road, London, South Kensigton, United Kingdom

20:20 vision is a dynamic arts and community legacy project from not-for-profits Salusbury WORLD Refugee Centre and FotoDocument, which celebrates the contribution of refugees to the UK. The project focuses on 20 children from diverse backgrounds who arrived in the UK circa 1999 and casts a long lens over their lives and achievements fast forwarding 20 years later to 2019.

Émigré designers in the V&A’s Archive of Art and Design

V&A Blythe House 23 Blythe Road, London, United Kingdom

Some of the most important contributors to British design in the mid- and late-twentieth century were Jewish émigrés, many of whom who escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s or survived the persecution of the Second World War to make their homes in Britain in the 1940s. The working archives, and some private papers, of 28 Jewish designers and practitioners are represented in the AAD.

Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk

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

This playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.

Free