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  • In conversation: Artist Heather Ross and Performer/Musician Florian Kaplick

    Cample Line Cample Mill, Cample, Dumfriesshire Scotland, United Kingdom

    As part of a closing event to mark the end of Heather Ross’s solo show The Loud and the Soft Speakers the artist will be in conversation with the performer Florian Kaplick. They will discuss how they collaborated on the performance within The Loud and the Soft Speakers, the process undertaken in the development and formation of this work and share their thoughts on how this can be contextualised with respect to the work of Kurt Schwitters.

    Free

  • What Does Woman Want?

    Freud Museum London 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, United Kingdom

    The relation of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and femininity is complex and laden with controversy. From its inception, psychoanalytic thought about female development was largely defined by men. Sabina Spielrein, Anna Freud, Lou Andreas-Salome, and Marie Bonaparte were among the intimate circle of Freud’s Women who challenged the main pillars of the 19th/early 20th century patriarchal social order.

    £8 – £12

  • 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

  • The Experience of the Kindertransport – Film Screening & Panel Discussion

    The Laboratory, Dulwich College Dulwich Common, London, United Kingdom

    80 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

    Free – £12

  • Between Worlds

    Glyndebourne Archive Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    An exhibition exploring the founding and early years of the Glyndebourne Festival

  • Modernist Hampstead Walk

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

    Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s

    £9 – £12

  • 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

  • Fifth Biennial Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition

    Piano Nobile Kings Place 90 York Way, London, Kings Cross, United Kingdom

    Celebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture, the Ruth Borchard prize offers a unique opportunity for new and established artists to compete for £10,000 and an opportunity for their work to be purchased for the Ruth Borchard Next Generation Collection.

  • Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolfgang Suschitzky

    Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United Kingdom

    Following the rise of Fascism in Vienna in the 1930s, brother and sister Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–73) and Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016) found sanctuary in Britain, where both became leading documentary photographers. This display offers a rare opportunity to see a substantial group of photographs by brother and sister together.

    Free

  • 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

  • Berlin/London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon

    The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom

    The Wiener Library’s summer 2019 exhibition showcases the remarkable work of German Jewish photographer Gerty (Gertrud) Simon

    Free

  • Refugees, Newcomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post, 1938-56

    Peltz Gallery 43, Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom

    This 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. 

  • 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

  • Ellen Ettlinger: A Folklorist Flees the Nazis

    Pitt Rivers Museum South Parks Road, Oxford, United Kingdom

    This display marks the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War by highlighting the work of Ellen Ettlinger, a Jewish folklorist who was forced to flee Germany in 1938 due to persecution by the Nazi regime.

    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

  • Walter Nessler: Post-war Optimist

    Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    A significant display of the work of German-born artist Walter Nessler

  • 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