This 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.
Over 50 contemporary portraits of Holocaust survivors and their families shine a light on the full lives they have lived and our collective responsibility to cherish their stories.
Bronac Ferran addresses negation and its presence in Metzger’s work
This 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.
This 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
The exhibition ‘My name is Sara’ draws upon themes of family, post-memory and the Holocaust.
Jo Joelson, artist, writer and co-founder of artistic duo London Fieldworks shares insights into Gustav Metzger’s practice
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum’s first online study day
Susannah Wise in conversation with playwright Amy Rosenthal about the lived experience of inherited trauma and her much-praised debut novel, This Fragile Earth
An online discussion with Sara Davidmann and the curator of the ‘My Name is Sara’ exhibition, Katy Barron
By the Mayor of Harrogate with the Hungarian Consul General from Manchester in attendance
In this walking tour we’ll discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards
Historian Dr. Rachel Pistol will put the morally murky internment of ‘enemy aliens’ on the Isle of Man in a broader context.
“Foreigners Mum, are we foreign?”… “No”, she said. “You’re English, Daddy used to be foreign.”
This 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.
Screening of film about former refugee/internee Ruth Borchard and her magnificent collection of self-portraits by British-based artists.
Sonia will discuss the influence on her own writing of some of the accounts written by Jewish refugees interned by the British in 1940
An online conference focussing on the experiences of the refugees from Nazism deported to Australia as ‘enemy aliens’ by the British in 1940
An online conference focussing on the experiences of the refugees from Nazism deported to Australia as ‘enemy aliens’ by the British in 1940
This talk and discussion will focus on Bilbo as an émigré artist and on some of the many facets of his extraordinary life and career.
Jacquie 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
Exploring the contribution of Jewish refugees to British textiles, fashion and design – with Anna Nyburg
Ines Newman and Rachel Dickson will discuss the friendship formed in Huyton Camp, near Liverpool, between Ines’ grandfather, engineer Wilhelm Hollitscher and artist Hugo Dachinger
Norbert 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.