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SUMMARY:Milein Cosman: Capturing Time
DESCRIPTION:Online Talk\nOn Wednesday 24 March at 6pm\, to mark the centenary of the artist’s birth\, art historian Ines Schlenker\, author of Milein Cosman: Capturing Time\, will give a talk about German-born artist Milein Cosman (1921-2017)\, who came to the UK in 1939 and soon established herself as one of this country’s most fluent and prolific draughtswomen. This will be followed by a shorter talk by Richard Martin\, Visual Arts Curator at the Royal College of Music\, about the RCM’s recent acquisition and digitisation of over 1300 of Cosman’s drawings of musicians. \nTo book click here. \n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/milein-cosman-capturing-time/
CATEGORIES:Fine Art,Lectures,Music,What's On
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LOCATION:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/milein-cosman-capturing-time/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164718
CREATED:20210104T092107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T093855Z
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SUMMARY:Tom Blau: his Life and Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Robert Kennedy photographed by Tom Blau in the Attorney-General’s’ office\, Washington\, USA\, 1962. © Tom Blau / Camera Press\nOnline Talk\nOn Thursday 25 March at 6pm\, award-winning British photographic artist\, curator\, commentator on photography and author Emma Blau will be in conversation with New York based photography consultant Julie Grahame about her grandfather\, Berlin-born photographer Tom Blau and the influential photographic agency Camera Press he founded in the late 1940s\, and which remains family-owned to this day. \nThis event is held in partnership with Four Corners and the AJR. \nTo book click here. \n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/tom-blau/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Photography,What's On
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LOCATION:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/tom-blau/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210330T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210330T120000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164718
CREATED:20210104T092107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210319T085335Z
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SUMMARY:Sanctuary in the City: Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
DESCRIPTION:Online Tour\n\n\n\n\n\nThe City of London has always been home to immigrant communities. This walks winds its way through the City streets and highlights immigrants who made a mark here in a literal way as it is home to some of their sculptures and reliefs. We will discover the first official public sculpture\, the Monument which was carved by Caius Gabriel Cibber a Danish immigrant; a drinking fountain by French refugee\, Aimé-Jules Dalou; mosaics by Russian born Boris Anrep and perhaps the most significant contribution of sculptures are by a number of refugees from Nazi Europe who settled in the UK such as Naomi Blake\, Frank Meisler\, Oscar Nemon and Georg Ehrlich. The tour finishes with the most recent sculpture\, Unity\, 1992 by a Croatian refugee from former Yugoslavia\, Ivan Klapez. \n\n\n\n\n\n  \nTo book\, click here. \nThis is a live virtual tour hosted via Zoom video conferencing where your guide will give an illustrated presentation of the tour route with an accompanying talk. There will be opportunities for questions and interaction both during and after the virtual tour.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/refugees-and-immigrants/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures,Walks,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210406T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210406T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164718
CREATED:20210326T145939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210731T114710Z
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SUMMARY:Berthold Wolpe: A Man of Letters
DESCRIPTION:Radio programme\, Resonance FM\nThe German typographer and designer Berthold Wolpe worked at Faber & Faber for over three decades\, where he is estimated to have designed over 1\,500 book covers and defined the style of the Faber book jacket\, including the use of his famous ‘Albertus’ typeface. Wolpe was Jewish and had fled Nazi Germany before the Second World War\, and it was Albertus\, commissioned by Stanley Morison for the Monotype Corporation\, that saved his life. It became one of the most popular typefaces of the 20th century and is still used on all the City of London street signs. During his long career\, he left a distinctive mark on graphic design and a deep impression on those who knew him. To celebrate the life and work of Berthold Wolpe\, Patrick Bernard is joined by three of his children\, Sarah\, Paul\, and the artist Deborah Hopson-Wolpe; and Phil Cleaver\, author of ‘Berthold Wolpe: The Total Man’\, and curator of an exhibition of his work at the Lettering Arts Centre in 2018. \n  \nA recording of the programme is available on Mixcloud here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/berthold-wolpe-a-man-of-letters/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210407T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210407T140000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164718
CREATED:20210104T092107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210329T104418Z
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SUMMARY:A Walk Through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
DESCRIPTION:Online Tour\nDiscover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic virtual walk through Highgate. We will pass Lubetkin’s iconic High Point flats\, learn about Highgate’s early history\, walk through Waterlow Park and learn of it conception\, pass Highgate Cemetery where Karl Marx is buried and explore Abraham Davis’s Holly Lodge Estate and Walter Segal’s 1950s St Anne’s Close. And to top it we will walk up Parliament Hill to see the view of where we walked and the City Skyline. \nTo book\, click here. \nThis is a live virtual tour hosted via Zoom video conferencing where your guide will give an illustrated presentation of the tour route with an accompanying talk. There will be opportunities for questions and interaction both during and after the virtual tour.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/walk-through-highgate-experiments-in-urban-living/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures,Walks,What's On
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LOCATION:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/walk-through-highgate-experiments-in-urban-living/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210408T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210408T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210323T110532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210731T114703Z
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SUMMARY:Tribute to Sculptor Franta Belsky
DESCRIPTION:Franta Belsky\, The Lesson\, Bethnal Green\, 1955 (detail)\nTo mark the centenary of the birth of Czech-born sculptor Franta Belsky (1921-2000)\, who settled in the UK in 1948\, Insiders/Outsiders\, in partnership with the Czech Embassy\, Stephenson art and the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum\, will host an event to pay tribute both to Belsky and to his sculptor wife Irena Sedlecká\, who died in August 2020. Art historian and museum consultant Peter Cannon-Brookes\, author of the book Czech Sculpture\, 1800-1938\, who knew both sculptors personally\, will be joined by Nicola Baird\, Research Officer at the Ben Uri Research Unit (BURU). and curator of its 2019 exhibition Czech Routes to Britain. \n  \nTo book\, click here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/tribute-to-sculptor-franta-belsky-irena-sedlecka/
CATEGORIES:Educational events,Fine Art,Lectures
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LOCATION:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/tribute-to-sculptor-franta-belsky-irena-sedlecka/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210420T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210420T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210104T092107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210329T110112Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour - Modernist Hampstead
DESCRIPTION:Online Tour\nIn this virtual tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s such as The Sun House by Maxwell Fry\, and 66 Frognal by Connell Ward and Lucas. Much of the architecture echoed design trends in Europe and the walk includes passing housing by the émigré architects Ernst Freud and Erno Goldfinger. Elements of eighteenth-century architectural design were also an influence for some architects. \nPassing some more recent examples and\, of course\, striking non-modernist Hampstead buildings\, this walk will finish at the iconic and idealistic Isokon flats in Belsize Park. \n  \nTo book\, click here. \nThis is a live virtual tour hosted via Zoom video conferencing where your guide will give an illustrated presentation of the tour route with an accompanying talk. There will be opportunities for questions and interaction both during and after the virtual tour.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/tour-modernist-hampstead/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures,Walks,What's On
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LOCATION:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/tour-modernist-hampstead/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210425T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210425T200000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210326T145939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T113014Z
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SUMMARY:Early Second World War internment camps in the UK\, 1939-40
DESCRIPTION:Online Talk\nDr.Rachel Pistol will be giving a talk which focuses on the often overlooked temporary camps on the British mainland which most of the so-called ‘enemy aliens’ passed through before being sent to the Isle of Man in 1940. Internees were held in prisons\, holiday camps\, racecourses\, derelict mills and many other makeshift locations from anything from a few days to several months\, and conditions were often terrible. This talk is being hosted by a US-based Isle of Man Internment Group\, but is open to all. \n  \nBefore so-called ‘enemy aliens’ arrived on the Isle of Man in 1940 they passed through a variety of temporary camps on the British mainland. On the outbreak of World War II\, around 200 German and Austrian men were arrested in the belief they were a threat to national security. When tribunals began in September 1939\, they classified Germans and Austrians into three categories: A (immediately interned)\, B (subjected to restrictions but at liberty) or C (genuine refugee from Nazi oppression); a further 600 men were interned immediately as category A. These men were\, after some initial movements after arrest\, housed in holiday camps in Clacton\, Seaton and Paignton. When the order for mass internment was given in May 1940\, men in categories B and C as well as women in category B were also arrested. Internees were held in prisons\, holiday camps\, racecourses\, derelict mills and many other makeshift locations from anything from a few days to several months. \nThis talk will discuss some of the often overlooked transit camps involved in World War II internment. \nDr Rachel Pistol is a historian of immigration and Second World War internment in the UK and USA. Currently she is a Researcher at King’s College London and is the King’s team lead on the third phase of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Rachel has published widely on Second World War internment in the UK and the USA including Internment during the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA (Bloomsbury\, 2017). She has discussed Second World War internment on BBC TV and radio\, Sky News and has written articles comparing internment with modern day issues that have appeared internationally including in Newsweek\, The Independent and Huffington Post..” \n  \nTo register\, click here. \nIf you have questions that you want to submit in advance of the talk\, please contact Tony Hausner \n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/early-second-world-war-internment-camps/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210426T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210426T160000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210104T092107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210731T114655Z
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SUMMARY:Sanctuary in the City: Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
DESCRIPTION:Online Tour\n\n\n\n\n\nThe City of London has always been home to immigrant communities. This walks winds its way through the City streets and highlights immigrants who made a mark here in a literal way as it is home to some of their sculptures and reliefs. We will discover the first official public sculpture\, the Monument which was carved by Caius Gabriel Cibber a Danish immigrant; a drinking fountain by French refugee\, Aimé-Jules Dalou; mosaics by Russian born Boris Anrep and perhaps the most significant contribution of sculptures are by a number of refugees from Nazi Europe who settled in the UK such as Naomi Blake\, Frank Meisler\, Oscar Nemon and Georg Ehrlich. The tour finishes with the most recent sculpture\, Unity\, 1992 by a Croatian refugee from former Yugoslavia\, Ivan Klapez. \n\n\n\n\n\n  \nTo book\, click here. \nThis is a live virtual tour hosted via Zoom video conferencing where your guide will give an illustrated presentation of the tour route with an accompanying talk. There will be opportunities for questions and interaction both during and after the virtual tour.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/sanctuary-in-the-city/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures,Walks,What's On
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LOCATION:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/sanctuary-in-the-city/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210426T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210426T190000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210326T145939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210406T140555Z
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SUMMARY:Julius Frank: textile and wallpaper designer
DESCRIPTION:Online Talk\nCelia Frank will talk about the life and work of her father\, Julius Frank (1897-1985)\, a Jewish German textile and wallpaper designer and artist who\, despite having served in the German army during the First World War\, was forced to flee from Berlin to Britain in 1936\, where he established a successful design studio\, Frank Designs Ltd. He eventually employed about twenty-five designers and sold designs to textile and wallpaper manufacturers in Britain\, Europe and North America.  Among his employees and associates were other emigrés\, including the painter Walter Nessler and the renowned textile designer Tibor Reich. The event will be chaired by design historian Dr. Anna Nyburg. \nTo book click here. \n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/julius-frank/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210502T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210502T170000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210402T163947Z
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SUMMARY:Zweig in London
DESCRIPTION:Online Talk\nThe London Library\, in partnership with Insiders/Outsiders\, will be hosting Zweig in London\, with Daria Santini (author of The Exiles\, which explores the lives of the artists\, actors and writers who fled the Nazis for London in 1934)\, Philippe Sands and George Prochnik. When novelist\, playwright\, journalist and biographer Stefan Zweig arrived in London in 1934\, exiled from his native Vienna by the rising tide of Nazism\, he was at the height of his literary career. London wasn’t quite home but he came to love its ‘murky light’\, its ‘particular atmosphere’ and\, most significantly\, he loved its libraries. Woven through with readings of some of the letters Zweig wrote from London\, they will discuss his life and work\, his years of displacement in the city and the particular condition of what it means to be a writer in exile. \n  \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/zweig-in-london/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210502T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210502T190000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210326T145939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210402T164235Z
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SUMMARY:Edmund de Waal and Tom Stoppard
DESCRIPTION:Online Talk\nPart of the London Library’s Lit Fest\, is After Vienna: Edmund de Waal and Tom Stoppard\, in which the two writers will discuss the themes and concerns they share in Leopoldstadt and The Hare with Amber Eyes: European Jewish identity and diaspora\, the particularity of pre-war Vienna\, the legacy of the Holocaust and art and culture as a means of assimilation and escape. They will also consider libraries as safe spaces which challenge oppression and censorship. \nTo book\, click here. \n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/edmund-de-waal-and-tom-stoppard/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210505T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210505T190000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210326T145939Z
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SUMMARY:The Refugees who made the Festival of Britain
DESCRIPTION:Siegfried Charoux\, The Islanders\, Festival of Britain\, 1951\nOnline Talk\nOn Wednesday 5 May at 6pm\, to mark the seventieth anniversary of the Festival of Britain\, design historian Harriet Atkinson\, author of The Festival of Britain: A Land and Its People (2012) and contributor to Insiders/Outsiders; Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture (2019)\, will give a talk about the disproportionately and perhaps surprisingly large contribution made by former refugees from Nazi Europe to that landmark cultural event of 1951. \nTo book click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-festival-of-britain-a-land-and-its-people/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210506T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210506T203000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210326T145939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210402T164839Z
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SUMMARY:Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm
DESCRIPTION:Online Talk\nOnline screening of the 2018 documentary film Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm\, followed by a Q&A with Monica Bohm-Duchen\, the photographer’s daughter\, hosted by JW3 in association with YIVO. \nFor further details and to book click here. \n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/seeing-daylight-the-photography-of-dorothy-bohm/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Film,Lectures,Photography,What's On
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210508
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210104T092107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210403T085842Z
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SUMMARY:Migration\, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second Generation (Jewish) Artists
DESCRIPTION:Image copyright: © Monica Petzal\nOnline symposium\nFriday 7 May\, 9.15-17.35 \nWhilst notions of post-memory (Hirsch) and prosthetic memory (Landsberg) have become a critical focus of attention in Holocaust literature\, comparatively little attention has been paid to these concepts in the field of visual arts\, where artwork by the so-called ‘second generation’ (i.e. children of Jewish refugees or Holocaust survivors) has not been systematically explored. This free one-day online symposium\, organised by the University of Leicester\, therefore aims to set out a new interdisciplinary research agenda\, looking at how second-generation (Jewish) artists have engaged with the Holocaust\, with the first-generation experience\, and with related issues of migration\, memory and identity. \n  \nTo book\, click here. \n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/migration-memory-and-the-visual-arts/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210509T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210509T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210104T092107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210731T114647Z
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SUMMARY:A Walk Through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
DESCRIPTION:Online Tour\n\n\n\nIn this virtual\, scenic walk through Highgate\, we discover its history and important architectural experiments in urban living\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic virtual walk. We will pass Lubetkin’s iconic High Point flats\, learn about Highgate’s early history\, walk through Waterlow Park and learn of it conception\, pass Highgate Cemetery where Karl Marx is buried and explore Abraham Davis’s Holly Lodge Estate and Walter Segal’s 1950s St Anne’s Close. And to top it we will walk up Parliament Hill to see the view of where we walked and the City Skyline. \n\n\n\n\nTo book\, click here. \nThis is a live virtual tour hosted via Zoom video conferencing where your guide will give an illustrated presentation of the tour route with an accompanying talk. There will be opportunities for questions and interaction both during and after the virtual tour.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/walk-through-urban-highgate/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures,Walks,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210517T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210517T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210428T165021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210428T165021Z
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SUMMARY:Hiddensee: Annie Freud in Conversation with Jacqueline Saphra
DESCRIPTION:Online Event\nHiddensee represents T.S.Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Annie Freud’s most ambitious work to date\, not least because it is a book about ambition and its necessity\, the need to go beyond oneself\, and to do what one cannot: Freud dives into other ways of thinking\, other art forms\, the taboos of illness and desire\, and – spectacularly – other languages. \nThis ambition has also emboldened Freud to pursue and confront the complex truth of herself: her German Jewish inheritance\, her teachers\, the remarkable minds of the exiled individuals who raised her – and the exiles she herself then pursued. Hiddensee is named for the Baltic island where Annie Freud’s grandmother spent her summers before the war (and its famous artistic community\, whose members included George Grosz and Käthe Kollwitz). \nIn its unselfconscious internationalism and breathtaking cultural range\, Hiddensee offers a radically European and multilingual perspective to counter the cultural narrowness and closing borders of the current age\, and again confirms Freud as one of our most essential poets. \nAnnie Freud will read from her new book\, and be in conversation about her work with fellow poet Jacqueline Saphra. \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/hiddensee-annie-freud-in-conversation-with-jacqueline-saphra/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210518T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210518T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
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SUMMARY:studio potter Hans Coper
DESCRIPTION:© Jane Coper and Estate of the Artist\nOnline Talk \n\nTimothy Wilcox will be giving an online talk about influential German-born studio potter Hans Coper\, to coincide with the centenary display of his work at the Ashmolean Museum\, Oxford\, which has just been extended until 26 September. \nTo book\, click here. \n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/studio-potter-hans-coper/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Film,Lectures,Photography,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210523T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210523T190000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210423T173831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210602T133612Z
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SUMMARY:Understanding WW2 Internment Through Postal History
DESCRIPTION:‘Who\, When\, Where\, and Why?’ \n\nAn illustrated Presentation by Alan Morgenroth \nCollecting military postal history has always been a popular genre of philately and within this there are niches for post sent to and from Prisoner of War and Internment Camps. The contribution made to the understanding of Second World War refugees\, migration and the movement of enemy internees and prisoners of war by collectors of postal history should not be underestimated. \nSince collectors are driven by their often-insatiable desire to make their collections more inclusive and complete\, they strive to fully understand their subject. Consequently\, postal historians have often researched and published on the subject before anybody else\, even if they are sometimes preoccupied with the different postal stationery\, stamps\, postmarks\, cachets or censor labels. \nThis illustrated talk gives an introduction to the interpretation of WW2 internment postal history to help explain and understand the stories of the people behind the letters to help answer the questions of: ‘Who\, When\, Where\, and Why?’ \nProspective audience might like to send images of any correspondence (FRONT & BACK of envelopes) prior to the event for possible selection\, to illustrate the talk. Please send images here. Please add any background information. \n\nRegister in advance for this event \n\nAlan Morgenroth is an independent researcher into the experiences of the German and Austrian refugees interned by the British during 1940. Initially inspired by research into his father’s experiences as an internee\, and ‘Dunera Boy’ he has spent many years delving deep into all aspects of the internment saga. Alan\, a Chartered Accountant and entrepreneur\, has a special interest in the postal and banking systems of the camps and has investigated the banknotes and scrip created by the internees in the camps. His current research involves the postal history of internment on which he has plans to publish in conjunction with his wife\, the eminent internment scholar Dr Rachel Pistol. \nFor those who are interested in becoming members of the Isle of Man Internment Email group\, please email Tony Hausner. The group has 58 members and covers not only the Isle of Man but internment throughout the former British Commonwealth. Members come from all over the world\, but the majority are from England.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/understanding-ww2-internment-through-postal-history/
CATEGORIES:Educational events,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210524T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210524T190000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210326T145939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210602T133559Z
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SUMMARY:Janina Bauman: Beyond These Walls
DESCRIPTION:Online Event \n\nAs part of our ongoing series of intimate\, family-focussed events\, London-based visual artist Lydia Bauman will talk about her mother Janina Bauman\, author of two autobiographical volumes\, both published by Virago – Winter in the Morning: A Young Girl’s Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond (1986)\, based on diaries she kept during the war\, and A Dream Of Belonging: My Years in Postwar Poland (1988) – which in 2009 were republished in one volume as Beyond These Walls. \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/janina-bauman-beyond-these-walls/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210527T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210527T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210428T165402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210602T133551Z
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SUMMARY:A New Life for Inherited Objects: The Art of Evy Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Evy Cohen\, Livre du Souvenir\, 2018\nOnline Event \n\nThe eminent Greek-Jewish Haimaki Cohen family has been much in the news lately\, following the death of Prince Philip\, Duke of Edinburgh. As many people will now be aware\, his mother Princess Alice\, at considerable risk to herself\, chose to give refuge to several members of that family in her Athens residence during World War Two\, and in 1994 was designated ‘Righteous among the Nations’ by Yad Vashem\, at a ceremony attended by her son\, the first member of the British Royal Family to pay a visit to the State of Israel. \nArtist Evy Cohen\, now based in France\, will tell the remarkable story of her family’s survival in Nazi-occupied Greece but also for the first time talk about the artworks\, comprised of photography and glass (many of them works-in-progress)\, she has recently created in response to her family history\, as well as to broader issues of memory\, uprooting and loss. \nThis event is held in partnership with the AJR. \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/a-new-life-for-inherited-objects-the-art-of-evy-cohen/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210605T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210605T143000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210104T092107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210602T133542Z
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour: A Walk through Highgate Experiments in Urban Living
DESCRIPTION:Walking Tour \n\n\n\n\nDiscover the experimental 20th century architectural homes in a stroll through Highgate Village\, Waterlow Park and the Holly Lodge Estate\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate. We will pass Lubetkin’s iconic High Point flats\, learn about Highgate’s early history\, walk through Waterlow Park and learn of it conception\, pass Highgate Cemetery where Karl Marx is buried and explore Abraham Davis’s Holly Lodge Estate and Walter Segal’s 1950s St Anne’s Close. \nStarts opposite the Woodman Pub\, Archway Road\, finishes at Parliament Hill Fields at the bottom of Swain’s Lane. From here one has the choice to discover Highgate\, see the views from Parliament Hill or further explore Highgate East or West Cemetery \nIn line with current social distancing requirements we have adopted certain mitigation practices regarding our walking tours. Before booking on a walking tour it is important that you read the full details of our COVID-19 mitigation practices on the link below\, so you know what to expect and what we expect of you: \nhttp://footprintsoflondon.com/2020/08/important-customer-guidance-for-attending-walking-tours/ \n\n\n\n\nTo book\, click here. \n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/highgate-experiments-in-urban-living/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures,Walks,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210606T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210606T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210510T142715Z
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SUMMARY:The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
DESCRIPTION:Online Talk \n\nTo mark the publication by the Pushkin Press of the English translation of The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz\, writer and journalist David Herman will lead a discussion with writer Eva Hoffman\, translator Philip Boehm and publisher Adam Freudenheim about this powerful and prescient novel\, its unusual publication history and the tragic story of its author. \nGermany\, November 1938: Otto Silbermann receives a knock on his door and realises he must flee. A respected German-Jewish businessman\, he has managed to evade the escalating brutality of the Nazi regime. But now\, as he and his wife plan to leave\, all avenues are shut down and he is forced to abandon his home amid the untrammelled violence of Kristallnacht. \nWith all the money he can gather stuffed into a suitcase\, Otto takes train after train across Germany\, desperately seeking to cross the border\, every moment terrified a fellow passenger will discover his Jewish identity. An unbearably tense rediscovered classic\, The Passenger is an unparalleled depiction of the terrifying atmosphere of Nazi Germany. \nTo book\, click here. \nThis event is held in partnership with the Association of Jewish Refugees.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-passenger/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Literature,Symposia,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210607T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210607T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
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SUMMARY:Alice Schwab: One Woman’s Emigration from Heilbronn to England
DESCRIPTION:Online Event \n\nBaroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger DBE will be in conversation with Joachim Schloer\, author of a new book about her redoubtable mother Alice (Liesel) Schwab. They will be joined by art historian Julia Weiner\, who as curator of the Ben Uri Gallery\, London Jewish Museum of Art in the 1990s\, came to know Liesel well. \nCarefully piecing together the personal letters of Alice ‘Liesel’ Schwab\, Escaping Nazi Germany tells the important story of one woman’s emigration from Heilbronn to England. From the decision to leave her family and emigrate alone\, to gaining her independence as a shop worker and surviving the Blitz\, to the reunion with her brother and parents in England and shared grief as they learn about the fate of family members who died in the Holocaust\, her story provides powerful insight into both the everyday realities of German-Jewish refugees in Britain and the ability of letters and life-writing to create transnational networks during times of trauma and separation. \nThroughout her life Liesel collected art\, befriended and supported artists\, and was closely involved with both the AJR and the Ben Uri. As her obituary in the July 2001 issue of AJR Information put it\, “A lifetime’s devotion to collecting and appreciating art led her to accepting the important position of AJR Information’s art correspondent\, from where she informed and guided her regular readers for a quarter century.” \nTo book\, click here. \n  \nThis event is held in partnership with the Association of Jewish Refugees.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/alice-schwab-one-womans-emigration-from-heilbronn-to-england/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210608T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210608T200000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210510T143537Z
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SUMMARY:Bertha Bracey and the Quaker Rescuers
DESCRIPTION:Online Event \n\nFrom the rise of Hitler in 1933 to post-Holocaust Europe\, the Quakers played a huge role in saving Jewish lives. Leading the way was Bertha Bracey\, the head of the British Quakers. She was instrumental in setting up a school for Jewish refugee children in Surrey but her most important work was in the two years leading up to war. She and her Quaker team were among those who initiated the Kindertransport programme – the rescue of 10\,000 mainly Jewish children from Nazi Europe. \nDuring the war her Quakers provided homes\, hostels\, schools and parental support for the children who had come to Britain without their parents. After the war\, Bracey led a team to bring to safety children who had survived the Nazi death camps. Hers was a life of immense care devoted to the welfare of refugees. \nHolocaust educator\, researcher and writer Mike Levy tells her forgotten story and pays tribute to the role of the Quakers in saving so many lives. He will be joined by Cambridge-based Quaker David Dobson\, who will talk about this important topic and its wider context from a Quaker perspective. \nTo book\, click here. \nThis event is held in partnership with the Association of Jewish Refugees.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/bertha-bracey-and-the-quaker-rescuers/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210609T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210609T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
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SUMMARY:The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hitlist
DESCRIPTION:Online Event \n\nHistorian Sybil Oldfield will be in conversation with writer and journalist Caroline Moorehead about The Black Book\, her spinechilling but fascinating new publication. \nIn 1939\, the Gestapo created a list of names: the Britons whose removal would be the Nazis’ first priority in the event of a successful invasion. Who were they? What had they done to provoke Germany? For the first time\, this book uncovers their stories and reveals why the Nazis feared their influence. \nThose on the hitlist – more than half of them naturalised refugees – were many of Britain’s most gifted and humane inhabitants. Among their numbers we find the writers E.M.Forster and Virginia Woolf\, humanitarians and religious leaders\, scientists and artists\, the social reformers Margery Fry and Eleanor Rathbone MP\, the artists Jacob Epstein and Oscar Kokoschka. \nBy examining these targets of Nazi hatred\, Oldfield not only sheds light on the Gestapo worldview; she also movingly reveals a network of truly exemplary Britons: mavericks\, moral visionaries and unsung heroes. \n  \nTo book\, click here. \nThis event is held in partnership with the Association of Jewish Refugees. \n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-black-book-the-britons-on-the-nazi-hitlist/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210610T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210610T193000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210510T150311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210602T133432Z
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SUMMARY:Torn Threads: Aspects of the Life and Work of Textile Designer Otti Berger
DESCRIPTION:Image: Portrait of Otti Berger / Photo: Lucia Moholy\, Dessau 1927–1928\nOnline Event \n\nJudith Raum\, a Berlin-based visual artist\, has been researching the legacy of textile designer Otti Berger (1898-1944) for several years. As a Yugoslav Jew\, Berger\, who had trained at the Bauhaus\, was forced to leave the German Reich\, where she had run her own textile studio in Berlin\, and unsuccessfully tried to make a new life in Great Britain. She returned to her home village of Zmajevac\, where although cut off from her professional networks\, she continued to work before being deported by the Nazis and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.  \nConsequently\, her estate lies scattered in archives over the world. She was an outstanding designer\, both of experimental handweaves and of industrially produced fabrics. In Raum’s own words\, “There is an extraordinary strength in Berger’s designs for functional textiles such as upholstery or wall spanning materials: it lies in the combination of sensual riches and conceptual clarity. In addition\, Berger’s practice is characterized by resolutely balancing experimentation on a hand-loom with the necessities of industrial production processes.” \nIn her lecture- cum-performance\, originally drafted for the Harvard Art Museums\, Judith Raum contemplates the significance of a special kind of fabric in Berger’s oeuvre – net-like textiles – which allows her to draw a richly rhizomatic net of connections – among them\, to the work of Berger’s colleagues and industrial design history of the 1930s\, as well as to questions of authorship and recognition. \nJudith Raum will be joined by eminent UK-based design historian Tanya Harrod\, who will chair the event and say more about Otti Berger’s time in England.  \n  \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/torn-threads-aspects-of-the-life-and-work-of-textile-designer-otti-berger/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210613T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210613T193000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
CREATED:20210510T150311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210602T133423Z
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SUMMARY:Music and the Émigré Photographers: Companions in Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Jacqueline du Pré by Laelia Goehr (detail)\nOnline Event \n\nIt is a striking fact that a significant number of the photographers who found refuge in Britain in the 1930s started their professional lives as musicians and/or made a speciality of taking pictures of musicians and composers\, many of whom were personal friends. This event will not only reveal a rich array of musical images\, many of them less well-known than they ought to be\, but also evoke the deeply cultured milieu in which so many refugees from Nazism lived\, both in their countries of origin and in the UK. \nPhotographic historian Amanda Hopkinson will talk about her mother\, photographer Gerti Deutsch as well as fellow Austrian-born photographer and friend of Gerti\, Lotte Meitner-Graf. Cellist and photographer Julia Crockatt\, daughter of composer Alexander Goehr\, and granddaughter of conductor and composer Walter Goehr\, will talk about her photographer grandmother Laelia Goehr\, and picture editor and researcher\, (formerly at Getty Images)\, Leon Meyer will consider the work of Czech-born photographer Erich Auerbach. \nThe event will be chaired by singer and teacher at the Royal College of Music\, Nobert Meyn\, founder of Ensemble Émigré and the Music\, Migration and Mobility project. \n  \nThis event is held in partnership with Music\, Migration and Mobility \n  \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/music-and-the-emigre-photographers-companions-in-creativity/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Music,Photography,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210614T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210614T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
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SUMMARY:Leonhard Adam: ‘Dunera Boy’\, Lawyer\, Anthropologist and Artist
DESCRIPTION:Leonhard Adam\, Tatura Camp\, Australia\, 1942\nOnline Talk \n\nBorn in Berlin in 1891\, Leonhard Adam was rising to prominence as a judge and an expert on international tribal law and culture when the Nazis’ enforcement of a law in 1933 aryanizing all the professions stripped him of his position. Receiving a warning that his name had appeared on a list of academics to be “liquidated”\, he left Berlin for London. This was in 1938. \nAdam had been visiting Britain and lecturing at colleges\, universities and at the Royal Anthropological Institute since 1934\, which meant that he had established an invaluable network of connections. This enabled him to find a job in the UK and to continue to give lectures. During this time he was also working on his best-selling Penguin book\, Primitive Art\, published in 1942. \nHe was\, in fact\, in the process of re-establishing himself in Britain when he was arrested\, interned and sent into exile on the “Dunera” in 1940 – the ship which sailed from Liverpool to Australia\, overloaded with 2\,500 refugee internees\, Nazi prisoners and crew in catastrophic conditions. \nArriving in Australia\, Adam was interned at Tatura\, in northern Victoria. There he and other academic internees founded a university called “Collegium Taturensis”. He was released after a year and a half to teach at The University of Melbourne\, as well as to document the Sir Baldwin Spencer Collection of Aboriginal Objects at the National Museum of Victoria. Fluent in several languages including Punjabi and Mandarin Chinese\, he would also become the first teacher of Mandarin at The University of Melbourne. \nMuch of his life experiences have also been documented in his paintings\, including pictures of Tatura internment camp\, the dramatic scenery of Central Australia and\, much earlier\, delightful sketches and paintings of London. \nIn her talk\, Mary-Clare Adam\, Leonard’s daughter\, will highlight the dramatic events in his life on two continents before and after the two World Wars. \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/leonhard-adam-dunera-boy-lawyer-anthropologist-and-artist/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210614T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210614T200000
DTSTAMP:20260515T164719
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210602T133405Z
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SUMMARY:Hope after catastrophe: The Art of Dante Elsner
DESCRIPTION:Online Event \n\nArtist potter and painter\, Dante Elsner (1920-1997)\, escaped the rounding up of Jews in Poland during the war years\, and survived by hiding in the forest after his family were murdered in two different death camps. After the war\, on the point of suicide in Paris\, he came across Rembrandt’s portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels in the Louvre. He later said that this painting saved his life: he saw the love with which Rembrandt had painted this woman\, and it convinced him that there was a reason to fight to live. \nHe devoted the rest of his life to painting and to studio pottery\, in Paris (1948-58) and in London (1958-1997). Inspired by the teachings of George Gurdjieff\, aspects of Sufism\, Jewish mysticism and Zen Buddhism\, Dante developed an art practice involving a series of daily meditations and spiritual exercises\, and a life philosophy that offered an alternative to despair. Always mistrustful of authorities and institutions – as he learned in the forest that to trust anyone was to end up dead – he did not exhibit his work. It has remained\, despite recent efforts by the Elsner family\, largely unknown\, kept in two sheds near their family home in Oxford. \nThe talk will be given by Dante’s granddaughter\, Maia Elsner\, whose debut poetry collection\, overrun by wild boars (forthcoming with flipped eye in July 2021) explores the nature of intergenerational memory in the context of trauma\, and gestures towards healing through the possibilities of hope. \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/hope-after-catastrophe-the-art-of-dante-elsner/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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