Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
Artist refugees in the last hundred years and their influence on British art
24 events found.
Events
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Royal West of England Academy Queens Road, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Albert Reuss Exhibition
Truro Cathedral High Cross, Truro, Cornwall, United KingdomThe works of Reuss are expected to attract art lovers and those interested in his story and will be an integral part of the Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 display and event.
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Between Departure and Arrival: Re-Assessing the Work of Ilse Aichinger and Helga Michie
Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate, London, United KingdomTwin sisters Ilse Aichinger and Helga Michie responded to the tremors of the 20th century through different creative media. This international conference will be the first occasion where their oeuvres in literature and the visual arts will be examined conjointly and considered as reflections of personal experience and in the context of their time.
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Between Departure and Arrival: Re-Assessing the Work of Ilse Aichinger and Helga Michie
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomTwin sisters Ilse Aichinger and Helga Michie responded to the tremors of the 20th century through different creative media. This international conference will be the first occasion where their oeuvres in literature and the visual arts will be examined conjointly and considered as reflections of personal experience and in the context of their time.
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Talk: Judith Kerr
The recent death of the famous children’s writer, Judith Kerr, an old family friend, received an enormous amount of attention. Many of her best-known books have been loved by generations of young children. Tributes pointed out that she was a German Jewish refugee.
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Child Survivors’ Drawings of the Genocide in Darfur
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThis exhibition features drawings by child survivors of the genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Sudanese government forces and the Janjaweed militia against non-Arab Darfuri people since 2003.
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From Heartfield to Memes: Lessons from History
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, London, United KingdomSabine Kriebel discusses the significance of John Heartfield’s mass-circulation photomontages in today’s era of the meme.
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Holocaust Memorial Day – Songs of Arrival
Manchester Central Library St Peter's Square, Manchester, United KingdomAs part of Holocaust Memorial Day, Manchester Jewish Museum’s song-writing group will present an initial performance of songs inspired by the moving stories of Jewish Refugees arriving in Cheetham in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Talk: Albert Reuss, Artist and Refugee
Truro Cathedral High Cross, Truro, Cornwall, United KingdomTo commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945, Susan Soyinka, Reuss’s biographer, will be in conversation with Revd John Halkes, who was a personal friend of the artist.
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Belonging and not Belonging
RNCM 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, United KingdomTo coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day 2020, Monica Bohm-Duchen, the initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, will reflect upon her experience of working on the project, and Norbert Meyn, a professional tenor and the initiator of Singing a Song in a Foreign Land will give a talk-cum-recital about his on-going research on émigré musicians and composers.
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Gideon Klein: Portrait of a Composer
RNCM 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, United KingdomWritten and devised by David Fligg, this theatrical presentation portrays, for the first time, the Czech-Jewish composer Gideon Klein’s pre-war life. Featuring three actors from the MMU School of Theatre, with music by Klein, Mozart, Hindemith and Janáček performed by the Theseus Quartet, it gives an account of artistic and Jewish life in Prague immediately before, and during, the German occupation, and of Gideon’s struggles to survive imprisonment.
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George Him: A Polish Designer for Mid-Century Britain
The House of Illustration 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, London, United KingdomSpanning George Him’s long and versatile career as both an independent designer and as one half of the prolific Lewitt-Him partnership (1933-1954), the exhibition will include iconic wartime propaganda posters for the Ministries of Food and Information, corporate branding for El Al airlines and adverts for clients like Schweppes, Technicolor, the Post Office and The Times.
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The Life of Herbert Bier through his Archive
Wallace Collection Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, LondonThis will be a chance to view the archive material and hear a talk on the life of the art dealer Herbert Bier (1905-1981) in the Visitors’ Library at the Wallace Collection.
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Dissent and Displacement: A Modern Story – Monica Petzal and Margarete Klopfleisch
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomAn exhibition in two parts: wall-mounted prints by Monica Petzal; and sculptures and works on paper by Margarete Klopfleisch
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Belonging and Not Belonging: An Art History Day School
Royal West of England Academy Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomJoin Peter Wakelin, the curator of ‘Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art’ for an Art History Day School packed with fascinating stories of émigré artists and the impact of displacement. Peter will unpack some of the context in which this exhibition sits, and give an overview of this wide topic.
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Farewell to Vienna: A New Beginning
St John-in-Bedwardine Parish Church 1A Bromyard Road, St Johns, Worcester, United KingdomSt John-in-Bedwardine Parish Church, Worcester Join Ensemble Burletta on a journey from the Vienna of Mozart and Brahms, to the dark days of pre-war Austria and the flight of Jewish-born nationals from the Nazi regime. As part of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, they perform works for clarinet and strings celebrating the musical links between Vienna and […]
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A Stranger in a Strange Land
JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United KingdomA two day workshop led by Harriett Goldenberg
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Dissent and Displacement Public Seminar Series
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomLived and Imagined Histories : Some Thoughts on the Work of First and Second Generation (Jewish) Visual Artists
Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, presents the series’ opening seminar, in honour of the new exhibition at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester.
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The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II – Book Launch
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to launch the publication of Michael Rosen’s new book The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II.
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From Streamform to Arts and Crafts
East Finchley Tube Station High Road, London, Greater London, United KingdomThis walk travels back in time looking at inter-war architectural styles on the North side of Hampstead Garden Suburb finishing with arts and crafts cottages. It includes Belvedere Court by Ernst Freud
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Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum Burgh House, New End Square, London, United KingdomIn this event, the authors of Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain, Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, tell the story of the Isokon, the Pritchards artistic network and the legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain.
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*Postponed* Another Eye: Women Refugee Photographers in Britain after 1933
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, London, United KingdomThis Women’s History Month, we celebrate some remarkable women who escaped Nazi persecution and helped to transform Britain’s photography scene.
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Farewell to Vienna: A New Beginning
JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United KingdomJoin Ensemble Burletta on a journey from the Vienna of Mozart and Brahms, to the dark days of pre-war Austria and the flight of Jewish-born nationals from the Nazi regime.
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How ‘the most dangerous spy in history’ was recruited in Hampstead
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum Burgh House, New End Square, London, United KingdomFor the Kuczynskis, fighting fascism by helping the KGB was a Hampstead family business.
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