Inspiration & Processes: Janet Haig
Janet Haig is a Hampstead-based ceramicist, whose unique hand-crafted vessels and stoneware torsos have been shown in many galleries and featured in boutiques and magazines.
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Events
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Hampstead School of Art Penrose Gardens, London, United Kingdom
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The Promise
JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United KingdomScreening of a new film about artist and holocaust survivor Roman Halter, followed by a Q&A with Ardyn Halter (Roman’s son), Fred Scott and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg.
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back: CineClub
Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate, London, United KingdomBased on Murray Forbes’ story of the same title, the film follows John Muller (Paul Henreid) on his escape from mobsters out of the frying pan into the fire. The protagonist’s cynical view of human blindness provides for quite an ironic and surprising ending to this true noir.
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Bye Bye Bauhaus
University of Westminster School of Architecture 35 Marylebone Road, London, United KingdomAs the Bauhaus Centenary year comes to its close, what is left to say? The Bye Bye Bauhaus day symposium, offers new perspectives and stories that have not yet been told, concerning design in Germany and Britain during the past century.
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Hollow Triumph: CineClub
Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate, London, United KingdomBased on Murray Forbes’ story of the same title, the film follows John Muller (Paul Henreid) on his escape from mobsters out of the frying pan into the fire. The protagonist’s cynical view of human blindness provides for quite an ironic and surprising ending to this true noir.
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“A Camp full of Once and future Very Important Persons”
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture: Fred Uhlman and Kurt Schwitters in Internment
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Ernst Schoen – the life of an anti-fascist radio pioneer
Bishopsgate Institute 230 Bishopsgate, London, United KingdomTaking the form of a live radio presentation, this evening will highlight the fascinating life of Ernst Schoen (1884–1960), radio practitioner, writer, composer and lifelong anti-fascist, as presented by Dr Esther Leslie and Dr Sam Dolbear.
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A Ceramic Conversation
Hampstead School of Art Penrose Gardens, London, United KingdomJanet Haig is a Hampstead-based ceramicist, whose unique hand-crafted vessels and stoneware torsos have been shown in many galleries and featured in boutiques and magazines. This talk provides an opportunity to understand the life of a maker, to ask questions and share your views.
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Talk: The Jew as an Outsider?
Who were the real outsiders? with David Herman
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Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
Royal West of England Academy Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomArtist refugees in the last hundred years and their influence on British art
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Albert Reuss Exhibition
Truro Cathedral High Cross, Truro, Cornwall, United KingdomThe works of Reuss are expected to attract art lovers and those interested in his story and will be an integral part of the Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 display and event.
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Between Departure and Arrival: Re-Assessing the Work of Ilse Aichinger and Helga Michie
Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate, London, United KingdomTwin sisters Ilse Aichinger and Helga Michie responded to the tremors of the 20th century through different creative media. This international conference will be the first occasion where their oeuvres in literature and the visual arts will be examined conjointly and considered as reflections of personal experience and in the context of their time.
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Between Departure and Arrival: Re-Assessing the Work of Ilse Aichinger and Helga Michie
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomTwin sisters Ilse Aichinger and Helga Michie responded to the tremors of the 20th century through different creative media. This international conference will be the first occasion where their oeuvres in literature and the visual arts will be examined conjointly and considered as reflections of personal experience and in the context of their time.
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Talk: Judith Kerr
The recent death of the famous children’s writer, Judith Kerr, an old family friend, received an enormous amount of attention. Many of her best-known books have been loved by generations of young children. Tributes pointed out that she was a German Jewish refugee.
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Child Survivors’ Drawings of the Genocide in Darfur
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThis exhibition features drawings by child survivors of the genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Sudanese government forces and the Janjaweed militia against non-Arab Darfuri people since 2003.
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From Heartfield to Memes: Lessons from History
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, London, United KingdomSabine Kriebel discusses the significance of John Heartfield’s mass-circulation photomontages in today’s era of the meme.
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Holocaust Memorial Day – Songs of Arrival
Manchester Central Library St Peter's Square, Manchester, United KingdomAs part of Holocaust Memorial Day, Manchester Jewish Museum’s song-writing group will present an initial performance of songs inspired by the moving stories of Jewish Refugees arriving in Cheetham in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Talk: Albert Reuss, Artist and Refugee
Truro Cathedral High Cross, Truro, Cornwall, United KingdomTo commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945, Susan Soyinka, Reuss’s biographer, will be in conversation with Revd John Halkes, who was a personal friend of the artist.
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Belonging and not Belonging
RNCM 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, United KingdomTo coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day 2020, Monica Bohm-Duchen, the initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, will reflect upon her experience of working on the project, and Norbert Meyn, a professional tenor and the initiator of Singing a Song in a Foreign Land will give a talk-cum-recital about his on-going research on émigré musicians and composers.
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Gideon Klein: Portrait of a Composer
RNCM 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, United KingdomWritten and devised by David Fligg, this theatrical presentation portrays, for the first time, the Czech-Jewish composer Gideon Klein’s pre-war life. Featuring three actors from the MMU School of Theatre, with music by Klein, Mozart, Hindemith and Janáček performed by the Theseus Quartet, it gives an account of artistic and Jewish life in Prague immediately before, and during, the German occupation, and of Gideon’s struggles to survive imprisonment.
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George Him: A Polish Designer for Mid-Century Britain
The House of Illustration 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, London, United KingdomSpanning George Him’s long and versatile career as both an independent designer and as one half of the prolific Lewitt-Him partnership (1933-1954), the exhibition will include iconic wartime propaganda posters for the Ministries of Food and Information, corporate branding for El Al airlines and adverts for clients like Schweppes, Technicolor, the Post Office and The Times.
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The Life of Herbert Bier through his Archive
Wallace Collection Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, LondonThis will be a chance to view the archive material and hear a talk on the life of the art dealer Herbert Bier (1905-1981) in the Visitors’ Library at the Wallace Collection.
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Dissent and Displacement: A Modern Story – Monica Petzal and Margarete Klopfleisch
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomAn exhibition in two parts: wall-mounted prints by Monica Petzal; and sculptures and works on paper by Margarete Klopfleisch
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Belonging and Not Belonging: An Art History Day School
Royal West of England Academy Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomJoin Peter Wakelin, the curator of ‘Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art’ for an Art History Day School packed with fascinating stories of émigré artists and the impact of displacement. Peter will unpack some of the context in which this exhibition sits, and give an overview of this wide topic.
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