On visiting Wittgenstein’s grave with Gustav Metzger
Bronac Ferran addresses negation and its presence in Metzger’s work
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Ben Uri Gallery & Museum 108a Boundary Road, off Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom
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Virtual Tour: A Walk Through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
Virtual EventThis 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.
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Passion (1940-45): Representing the Holocaust
Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd Presteigne, LD8 2LL Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd PresteigneThis lecture will set the powerful Colour of the Sky – Auschwitz Paintings by Sidney Nolan on view at The Rodd from 13 August in a broader context
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Sara Davidmann: My Name is Sara
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, London, United KingdomThe exhibition ‘My name is Sara’ draws upon themes of family, post-memory and the Holocaust.
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Insights into Metzger’s practice and life
Virtual EventJo Joelson, artist, writer and co-founder of artistic duo London Fieldworks shares insights into Gustav Metzger’s practice
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Modern Mercia Online Study Day
Leamington Art Gallery & Museum Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, United KingdomVirtual EventLeamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum’s first online study day
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Susannah Wise: This Fragile Earth
Virtual EventSusannah Wise in conversation with playwright Amy Rosenthal about the lived experience of inherited trauma and her much-praised debut novel, This Fragile Earth
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Katy Barron in Discussion with Sara Davidmann
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, London, United KingdomAn online discussion with Sara Davidmann and the curator of the ‘My Name is Sara’ exhibition, Katy Barron
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Unveiling of commemorative plaque to artist Jean-Georges Simon
4 Park Road, Harrogate 4 Park Road, Harrogate, United KingdomBy the Mayor of Harrogate with the Hungarian Consul General from Manchester in attendance
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Walking Tour: Modernist Hampstead
In this walking tour we’ll discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards
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Second World War Internment in the UK – September 1939 to July 1940
Virtual EventHistorian Dr. Rachel Pistol will put the morally murky internment of ‘enemy aliens’ on the Isle of Man in a broader context.
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Carry Gorney: ‘Send me a Parcel with a Hundred Lovely Things’
Virtual Event“Foreigners Mum, are we foreign?”… “No”, she said. “You’re English, Daddy used to be foreign.”
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An Insistence on Freedom: A Celebration of Siegfried Charoux’s Life & Work
Temple Fortune Hill London, United KingdomThis unique event will be held in émigré sculptor Siegfried Charoux’s former studio in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, NW11, which has only rarely been opened to the public since his death in 1967.
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From Internee to Art Collector: Tribute to Ruth Borchard
Virtual EventScreening of film about former refugee/internee Ruth Borchard and her magnificent collection of self-portraits by British-based artists.
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Tales of Internment – Sonia Lambert
Virtual EventSonia will discuss the influence on her own writing of some of the accounts written by Jewish refugees interned by the British in 1940
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Insiders/Outsiders: Antipodean Connections: Day One
Virtual EventAn online conference focussing on the experiences of the refugees from Nazism deported to Australia as ‘enemy aliens’ by the British in 1940
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Insiders/Outsiders: Antipodean Connections: Day Two
Virtual EventAn online conference focussing on the experiences of the refugees from Nazism deported to Australia as ‘enemy aliens’ by the British in 1940
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Jack Bilbo – Artist and Cultural Impresario
Virtual EventThis talk and discussion will focus on Bilbo as an émigré artist and on some of the many facets of his extraordinary life and career.
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Tribute to Klaus Hinrichsen
Virtual EventJacquie Richardson will then be in conversation Simon Parkin, about the key role Hinrichsen played in the rich intellectual and artistic life of Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man
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The Clothes on our Backs: How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade
Virtual EventExploring the contribution of Jewish refugees to British textiles, fashion and design – with Anna Nyburg
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Life and Art Behind The Wire: Wilhelm Hollitscher and Hugo Dachinger
Virtual EventInes Newman and Rachel Dickson will discuss the friendship formed in Huyton Camp, near Liverpool, between Ines’ grandfather, engineer Wilhelm Hollitscher and artist Hugo Dachinger
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Music behind Barbed Wire
Virtual EventNorbert Meyn and Michael Holden introduce the remarkably rich musical life of the British internment camps, and perform some of the works created there. Joined by Eva Fox-Gál, daughter of composer Hans Gál, whose internment diary was published under the title Music behind Barbed Wire.
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Jennifer Langer: The Search
Virtual EventDr Jennifer Langer in conversation with fellow poet Dr Aviva Dautch about her debut poetry collection The Search & about Exiled Writers Ink
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This Is Not Propaganda
Virtual EventStarting in late October, Jewish Renaissance and Lyons Learning Project in association with Insiders/Outsiders are hosting a series of online events exploring the hugely significant and often surprising ways in which Jews – many of them former refugees from Nazism interned by the British in 1940 – contributed to the Allied war effort.