Exiled Lit Cafe: Opening Lands
A chance to hear excerpts from three upcoming books with Ziba Karbassi reading from Lemon Sun, Marta Dziurosz reading from Renia’s Diary and Stephen Duncan reading from Beata Duncan’s Breaking Glass.
£3 – £5
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Poetry Cafe 22 Betterton Street, London, United Kingdom
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‘Why the English have no taste’: The Bauhaus and British Design in the 1930s
Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomAlan Powers discusses the relationship between British design culture and the Bauhaus.
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Jankel Adler and Josef Herman: Friends, Orphans, Refugees – Dr Glenn Sujo and David Herman in Conversation
12 Star Gallery Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London, United KingdomBen Uri Gallery and Museum is delighted to present three free linked talks following on from the recent exhibition curated by the Ben Uri Research Unit, marking the contribution to art in Britain by the so-called ‘Hitler emigres’ on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War.
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Living with the wire: guided walks
Manx Museum Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, United KingdomAs part of the Isle of Man’s annual Heritage Open Day weekends in October, there will be a programme of guided walks around the Island’s capital, Douglas and nearby Onchan, looking at the sites of various Second World War civilian internment camps.
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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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Migration at the RNCM
Royal Northern College of Music 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, United KingdomMigration has been in the DNA of the RNCM from its earliest roots, when in 1893 the German-born conductor Sir Charles Hallé realised his vision of founding a Northern conservatoire which became the Royal Manchester College of Music.
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Hungarian Lit Night: Moholy-Nagy in Britain
Hungarian Cultural Centre London 10 Maiden Lane, London, United KingdomGet familiar with Moholy-Nagy’s unique perspective at a night of immersive activities. A talk by the author Valeria Carullo will be accompanied by interactive performances by experimental artist Steven J Fowler that take you to a journey into Moholy-Nagy’s world.
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“Collar the lot!” Artists, Aliens and Aspects of Internment in Britain c. 1940 – Four Short Talks Chaired by Monica Bohm-Duchen
12 Star Gallery Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London, United KingdomBen Uri Gallery and Museum is delighted to present three free linked talks following on from the recent exhibition curated by the Ben Uri Research Unit, marking the contribution to art in Britain by the so-called ‘Hitler emigres’ on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War.
Talks by Charmian Brinson, Julia Winckler, Fran Lloyd and Rachel Pistol
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Pioneers of Modernism: William Morris and the Bauhaus
Willam Morris Gallery Lloyd Park, Forest Road, London, Walthamstow, United KingdomThe William Morris Gallery’s first major exhibition exploring the relationship between William Morris and the Bauhaus.
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Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman: The Good Immigrant USA
Southbank Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United KingdomJoin Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman as they discuss the experience of editing and contributing essays to both the US and UK editions of The Good Immigrant.
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East West Street: A Song of Good and Evil
Southbank Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United KingdomA partly staged reading inspired by international human rights lawyer Philippe Sands’ award-winning bestseller about the Nuremberg trials.
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Academic Refugees in the 1930s: In and Around the Warburg Circle
Warburg Institute University of London, Woburn Square, London, United KingdomHaving accepted the necessity of exile as they ventured into the unknown, refugees had massive practicalities to contend with. This talk draws on archival materials, especially relating to the activities of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL), to reconstruct procedures and indicate the nature of the help the émigrés received from organizations and individuals in Britain and the United States.
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From The Tattooist of Auschwitz to Cilka’s Journey
Southbank Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United KingdomFind out what happened to The Tattooist of Auschwitz’s Cilka Klein from author Heather Morris as she discusses her latest novel at a London-exclusive event.
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The Outsider Inside? The Interaction of three German-speaking Emigrés – Paul Bondy, Hermann Sinsheimer and Bruno Adler – with British Institutions: The Early Post-War Years
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture by Jennifer Taylor, 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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William Feaver on the Lives of Lucian Freud
The London Library 14 Saint James's Square, London, United KingdomIn partnership with The London Library and Jewish Book Week, renowned art critic, William Feaver, discusses the first volume of his landmark new work of biography of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.
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The Escape Act – A Holocaust Memoir
CircusMash 2 Vicarage Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, United KingdomA one-woman theatre show incorporating circus and puppetry, it is the true story of Irene, a Jewish acrobat who survived the Holocaust hiding and performing at a German circus. The show switches between past and present, intersecting Irene’s life with the performer’s experiences growing up a grandchild to Holocaust survivors.
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The Escape Act – A Holocaust Memoir
The Lowry Pier 8, The Quays, Salford, United KingdomA one-woman theatre show incorporating circus and puppetry, it is the true story of Irene, a Jewish acrobat who survived the Holocaust hiding and performing at a German circus. The show switches between past and present, intersecting Irene’s life with the performer’s experiences growing up a grandchild to Holocaust survivors.
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20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
Brent Civic Centre Engineers Way, London, Wembley, United Kingdom20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
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20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
Willesden Library 95 High Road, London, Willesden, United Kingdom20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
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Heartfield: One Man’s War
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, London, United KingdomAn exhibition of prints by the renowned photomontage artist John Heartfield. A pioneer of German agitprop and an early member of the Berlin Dada group, Heartfield is known as the inventor of political photomontage. 33 of Heartfield’s scathingly satirical artworks against war, fascism and the Third Reich will be on display.
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Lives Lost and Regained: Émigré Art Collections at Tate Archive
Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United KingdomThis ‘Show and Tell’ event celebrates the halfway mark of a major project – generously funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust – to catalogue and digitise three such émigré collections. They comprise the extensive papers of art historian, J. P. Hodin, the sketchbooks of artist Jankel Adler and the family papers of curator and publisher, David Mayor. A short talk will be given by Archive Curator Peter Eaves, and a range of material displayed from these and other collections.
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Refugee Art Dealers in Britain: Lectures and Round Table
Sotheby’s Institute of Art 30 Bedford Square, London, United KingdomThe aim of this event is to explore the experiences, impact and significance of those art dealers who fled Nazi Europe and set up in the UK before or during the Second World War. In line with other aspects of culture and enquiry at this time, this experience of dislocation changed the art world significantly as well as the status of particular artists and artistic movements, opening up channels for the dissemination of the new trends of the 1920s and 1930s. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the foundation of Sotheby’s Institute of Art, this event will combine short papers by experts in the field and a panel discussion which will contextualize the experiences and achievements of those who lived through these dramatic times.
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Tour & Talk: Mendelsohn’s De La Warr Pavilion
De La Warr Pavilion Marina, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, United KingdomThis will be a special extended tour with a talk by Graham Whitham on Erich Mendelsohn’s life and legacy. A refugee from Hitler’s Germany, Erich Mendelsohn had already established an international reputation when he won the commission led by the 9th Earl De La Warr to design a new Pavilion for Bexhill.
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Being Second Generation: with Gaby Glassman
JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United KingdomMore than 70 years after the Holocaust, children of survivors and refugees will explore together how it has affected their lives. This workshop will be led by Gaby Glassman, a psychologist and psychotherapist who has facilitated second generation and intergenerational groups in the UK and abroad since the 1980s.
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