Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk
This playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
Free
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Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United Kingdom
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Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus Penton Rise, London, Kings Cross, United KingdomEncounters in Art: Kurt Schwitters in Britain
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The Experience of the Kindertransport – Film Screening & Panel Discussion
The Laboratory, Dulwich College Dulwich Common, London, United Kingdom80 years ago 10,000 children came to Britain as unaccompanied refugees on the Kindertransport from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, escaping Nazi Europe. Following a screening of some extracts of interviews, the panel discussion with two former Kinder, chaired by Dr Bea Lewkowicz, Director of the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive, will explore how the Kinder adapted in Britain and how they dealt with being separated from their families and their homes
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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
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Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus Penton Rise, London, Kings Cross, United KingdomEncounters in Art: Ludwig Meidner and Oskar Kokoschka
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Belonging and Not Belonging: Émigré Artists in Britain after 1933: Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomAn illustrated talk by Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, will focus on the experiences of the émigré artists who found refuge in this country in the wake of Hitler’s accession to power in 1933
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The experience of the Kindertransport in oral history testimonies
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
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Insiders/Outsiders
Charleston Firle, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomMonica Bohm-Duchen will discuss the importance of cultural cross-fertilisation with eminent art historian and curator, Norman Rosenthal and novelist Esther Freud
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Towards an Open Land Project: On the Frontline: Jewish and Muslim Poets Speak Out
Nottingham Writers’ Studio 25 Hockley, Nottingham, United KingdomWith poets Amir Darwish, Dr Jennifer Langer, Mohamed Mohamed and Jill Abram. Come and hear their poems and join them in discussion.
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Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus Penton Rise, London, Kings Cross, United KingdomEncounters in Art: Women Émigré Artists: Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Milein Cosman, Else Meidne
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Refugees, Newcomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post, 1938-56
Peltz Gallery 43, Gordon Square, London, United KingdomThis exhibition brings together for the first time over sixty original prints by renowned émigré photographers Gerti Deutsch and Kurt Hutton, together with Bert Hardy and Haywood Magee, revealing Picture Post magazine’s stories of refugees and immigrants to Britain from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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‘Jankel Adler: A “Degenerate” Artist in Britain, 1940-49’
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum 108a Boundary Road, off Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom“Adler died last summer in exile without a passport; driftwood cast upon a foreign shore by the European hurricane”.
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Elman Poole Concert: Egon Wellesz and other Emigrés in 1930s Britain
Lincoln College, Oxford Turl St, Oxford, United KingdomThis 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.
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Book Talk: A Small Dark Quiet
Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomMiranda Gold will be discussing her haunting novel, A Small Dark Quiet, with writer, critic and former deputy director of English PEN, Catherine Taylor.
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A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
Opposite the Woodman Pub Archway Road, London, Highgate, United KingdomDiscover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate.
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Insiders/Outsiders Talk: Monica Bohm-Duchen
Five Leaves Bookshop 14a Long Row, Nottingham, United KingdomRefugees 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
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Edith Tudor-Hart, the Bauhaus and Isokon
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United KingdomLeyla 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.
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Celebrating Jewish Architecture – Routemaster Bus Tour
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomJump 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
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The Social Eye of Picture Post
Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United KingdomPicture 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.
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German-speaking Emigrés in British Theatre and Film
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture given by members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
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Talk: Women Exile Photographers in Britain
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomWhen 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.
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20:20 vision
Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road, London, South Kensigton, United Kingdom20:20 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.
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‘You, me and those who came before’: Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United KingdomAs part of Refugee Week Festival 2019, Counterpoints commissioned the celebrated photographer, Jillian Edelstein to respond to this year’s theme of the festival – ‘You, me and those who came before’. The result is a stunning series of portraits featuring first and second generation ‘refugees’, many of whom are public figures who we would not commonly associate with displacement.
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‘You, me and those who came before’: V&A
V&A Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London, United KingdomAs part of Refugee Week Festival 2019, Counterpoints commissioned the celebrated photographer, Jillian Edelstein to respond to this year’s theme of the festival – ‘You, me and those who came before’. The result is a stunning series of portraits featuring first and second generation ‘refugees’, many of whom are public figures who we would not commonly associate with displacement.
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