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  • The Social Eye of Picture Post

    Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom

    Picture 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.

    Free

  • Friedrich Nagler: A Personal Mythology

    Hove Museum and Art Gallery 19 New Church Road, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Exhibition celebrating the extraordinary work of self-taught Jewish artist Friedrich Nagler, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.

    Free

  • Talk: Women Exile Photographers in Britain

    The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom

    When 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.

    Free

  • 20:20 vision

    Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road, London, South Kensigton, United Kingdom

    20:20 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.

  • ‘You, me and those who came before’: V&A

    V&A Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London, United Kingdom

    As 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.

    Free

  • ‘You, me and those who came before’: Queen Elizabeth Hall

    Southbank Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United Kingdom

    As 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.

    Free

  • The Bauhaus in Britain

    Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United Kingdom

    This free display considers connections between Germany’s Bauhaus School (1919–33) and the visual arts in Britain

    Free

  • Émigré designers in the V&A’s Archive of Art and Design

    V&A Blythe House 23 Blythe Road, London, United Kingdom

    Some of the most important contributors to British design in the mid- and late-twentieth century were Jewish émigrés, many of whom who escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s or survived the persecution of the Second World War to make their homes in Britain in the 1940s. The working archives, and some private papers, of 28 Jewish designers and practitioners are represented in the AAD.

  • 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

  • Drumstick

    Trinity Laban Bonnie Bird Theatre Laban Building, Creekside, London, United Kingdom

    Dance performance of re-imagined “lost” Laban work, Drumstick

    £6

  • The Life and Work of Friedrich Nagler: A Conversation

    Hove Museum and Art Gallery 19 New Church Road, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Join Friedrich Nagler’s sons, Mervyn and Martin, in a conversation about this extraordinary artist to discuss their father’s life, experience and work.

    Free

  • In the Footsteps of Fred Uhlman: Art and Refugees in Hampstead

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

    We visit sites Uhlman was known to frequent and discuss the role of his artistic friends and neighbours and consider other refugees who settled in Hampstead during this time

    £9 – £12

  • Grete Marks

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

    An exhibition of intimate portrait paintings and drawings by Grete Marks

    Free

  • 1000 Londoners: Windrush Generation

    Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom

    Birkbeck is delighted to host a screening of 1000 Londoners: Windrush Generations, part of an award winning series of documentary portraits of Londoners from Chocolate Films. This screening accompanies the Peltz gallery’s current exhibition Refugees, Newcomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post, 1938-1956 (the Peltz Gallery, 3 June-4 July)

    Free

  • Insiders/Outsiders – An Evening with Monica Bohm-Duchen and Sir Norman Rosenthal

    Waterstones 68-69 Hampstead High Street, London, United Kingdom

    Insiders/Outsiders, published by Lund Humphries to accompany the nationwide arts festival, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe. Independent art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the festival, will be in conversation with Sir Norman Rosenthal, Exhibitions Secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts, London between 1977 and 2008, to discuss their shared interest – both personal and professional – in the rich cultural terrain covered by the book.

    £7.00

  • Naomi Blake 1924-2018 – Artist Open House

    Artists’ Open House 41 Woodside Avenue, London, United Kingdom

    For 50 years Naomi Blake gave life and shape to sculpture dedicated to victims of the Holocaust, while expressing positive hopes for the future and the promotion of understanding between faiths. As part of the East Finchley Artists Open House Festival you are now invited to view Naomi’s home, studio and beautiful sculpture and hear her inspirational story.

    Free

  • Naomi Blake 1924-2018 – Artist Open House

    Artists’ Open House 41 Woodside Avenue, London, United Kingdom

    For 50 years Naomi Blake gave life and shape to sculpture dedicated to victims of the Holocaust, while expressing positive hopes for the future and the promotion of understanding between faiths. As part of the East Finchley Artists Open House Festival you are now invited to view Naomi’s home, studio and beautiful sculpture and hear her inspirational story.

    Free

  • 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. 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.

    £9

  • My partner is Second Generation, I am not: with Gaby Glassman

    JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United Kingdom

    A workshop exclusively for those living with Second Generation of the Holocaust. The session will enable partners of second generation to explore their own “unique” circumstances with others.

    £9

  • Stories of Migration from Picture Post Magazine 1938–56

    Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate, London, United Kingdom

    To coincide with the exhibition Refugees, Newcomers & Citizens the ACF will host a special talk with Amanda Hopkinson, daughter of Austrian photographer Gerti Deutsch and Picture Post editor, Tom Hopkinson. She will discuss the photographers and stories featured in the exhibition alongside the contribution made to British life by very different groups of immigrants, from those arriving on the Kindertransport to the  SS Empire Windrush generation.

    Free

  • Refuge Britain: Stories of Emigré Designers (film)

    University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United Kingdom

    Lecture given by member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London

    Free

  • Refuge Britain – Stories of Emigré Designers

    University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United Kingdom

    Senate House, University of London Aspects of Exile Refuge Britain – Stories of Emigré Designers Speakers: Anna Nyburg and Robert Sternberg Refuge Britain is a 45 minute documentary film made by Anna Nyburg and Robert Sternberg, which will be screened alongside a Q&A. Framed by the life of a recent refugee from Pakistan, the film uses archive footage and conversations […]