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Cambridge: City of Scholars, City of Refuge, 1933-1945

Trinity College Garret Hostel Ln, Cambridge, United Kingdom

The New University Library seen from Memorial Court, Clare (1934) Cambridge University Library (Cam.bb.934.7). Image via CC BY-NC 3.0 Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge This conference is the first attempt to begin to reconstruct the ways in which Cambridge – university, colleges, and town – became a sanctuary for persecuted European academics, 1933-45. Papers will range widely across the…

£5

Festival of Belonging

Manchester Central Library St Peter's Square, Manchester, United Kingdom

From March 7-14th – featuring one-off events and nights of comedy, theatre, storytelling, films and visual arts to examine how we assimilate in new places, explore what makes us feel that we belong and question what happens when we do not.

Only the Violins Remain: Alma and Arnold Rosé

Royal Academy of Music Marylebone Rd, London, United Kingdom

The story of a father and daughter – icons of Austrian musical life – whose careers were cut short by the Nazis. Arnold fled to London but Alma was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she led the Women’s Orchestra and saved the lives of many women prisoners, before perishing in the camp.

Free

Film: Animal Farm

Museum in the Park Stratford Park, Stroud, United Kingdom

Halas and Batchelor’s acclaimed feature on George Orwell’s famous satirical fable stands out as an animation classic and remains both fresh and relevant. An outstanding achievement for renowned animators John Halas, Joy Batchelor and Harold Whitaker, this landmark adaptation brilliantly conveys the horror and humour of George Orwell’s scathing satire.

Free

Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art

MOMA Machynlleth Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, United Kingdom

This exhibition looks at how artist refugees in the last hundred years have been received and influenced British art

Free

Hampstead’s Pioneers of Modern Art

Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

In the first half of the 20th century Hampstead was home to some of the era's most pioneering artists. We will walk in the footsteps of the Slade School artists. In Downshire Hill we learn of the artistic Carline family and will also discuss the role that Roland Penrose, Margaret Gardiner and Fred and Diana Uhlman played in the art world in the years leading up to, and during, the Second World War. We walk to Belsize Park to learn of the Modernists including Henry Moore, Piet Mondrian and Barbara Hepworth whom Herbert Read described as living as a “nest of gentle artists” and conclude with the refugee designers who stayed at the Isokon flats.

£9 – £12

Being Second Generation with Gaby Glassman

JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United Kingdom

More than 70 years after the Holocaust, children of survivors and refugees will explore together how it has affected their lives.

£9

Ernst Schoen: Lunchtime Concert

Bishopsgate Institute 230 Bishopsgate, London, United Kingdom

This lunchtime concert features the recently rediscovered music of the anti-fascist and experimental radio producer and composer Ernst Schoen. Schoen, a former director of Radio Frankfurt and friend of Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht and others, escaped to London after being arrested for crimes against the Third Reich in 1934, and continued his writing and activism in exile.

Free

*Postponed* Jew Süss and Jud Süss

Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom

*The Pears Institute has decided to postpone the Jew/Jud Süss screening, in the light of the coronovirus/COVID-19 outbreak.*