• Farewell to Vienna: A New Beginning

    St John-in-Bedwardine Parish Church 1A Bromyard Road, St Johns, Worcester, United Kingdom

    St John-in-Bedwardine Parish Church, Worcester Join Ensemble Burletta on a journey from the Vienna of Mozart and Brahms, to the dark days of pre-war Austria and the flight of Jewish-born nationals from the Nazi regime. As part of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, they perform works for clarinet and strings celebrating the musical links between Vienna and […]

    £10 – £12
  • A Stranger in a Strange Land

    JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United Kingdom

    A two day workshop led by Harriett Goldenberg
    The second part takes place on 23 February 2020

    £195
  • Dissent and Displacement Public Seminar Series

    New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

    Lived and Imagined Histories : Some Thoughts on the Work of First and Second Generation (Jewish) Visual Artists

    Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, presents the series’ opening seminar, in honour of the new exhibition at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester.

  • From Streamform to Arts and Crafts

    East Finchley Tube Station High Road, London, Greater London, United Kingdom

    This walk travels back in time looking at inter-war architectural styles on the North side of Hampstead Garden Suburb finishing with arts and crafts cottages. It includes Belvedere Court by Ernst Freud

    £9 – £12
  • Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain

    Burgh House and Hampstead Museum Burgh House, New End Square, London, United Kingdom

    In this event, the authors of Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain, Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, tell the story of the Isokon, the Pritchards artistic network and the legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain.

    £8
  • Farewell to Vienna: A New Beginning

    JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United Kingdom

    Join Ensemble Burletta on a journey from the Vienna of Mozart and Brahms, to the dark days of pre-war Austria and the flight of Jewish-born nationals from the Nazi regime.

    £17
  • Naum Gabo

    Tate St.Ives Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom

    Tate St Ives presents this major exhibition of one of the pioneers of constructivism, Naum Gabo.

  • Jacques & Jacqueline Groag: Architect & Designer

    The Isokon Gallery Lawn Road, London, United Kingdom

    Jacques Groag, architect and furniture designer, and Jacqueline Groag, textile and pattern designer, were two celebrated residents of the Isokon building in the 1940s and early 1950s.

  • Modernist Hampstead Walk

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

    Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s

    £9 – £12
  • A Celebration of the Life and Work of Eva Ibbotson

    Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United Kingdom

    To celebrate the reissuing of three of her adult novels – among them The Morning Gift and The Secret Countess – featuring Jewish heroines, and ahead of a forthcoming biography, her friends and colleagues Nicola Beauman, Amanda Craig and Marian Lloyd discuss her writing and her legacy.

    £9.50
  • The Fashion Revolution: From Berlin to London

    Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United Kingdom

    A panel discussion focussing on two new publications, with Daniel Snowman, Michael Gee, Uwe Westphal, author of Fashion Metropolis Berlin1836-1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry and Anna Nyburg, author of The Clothes on our Backs: How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade.

    £14.50
  • Between Two Worlds

    Buxton Museum and Art Gallery Terrace Road, Buxton, United Kingdom

    Between Two Worlds explores the art created during this tumultuous period featuring work by John Minton, Fred Uhlman, Josef Herman and Ben Enwonwu. It draws exhibits from Derbyshire County Council’s collection, such as the bequest of Arto Funduklian, the son of Armenian émigrés, including work by Marc Chagall, Duncan Grant and Wyndham Lewis.

  • Cambridge: City of Scholars, City of Refuge, 1933-1945

    Trinity College Garret Hostel Ln, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    The New University Library seen from Memorial Court, Clare (1934) Cambridge University Library (Cam.bb.934.7). Image via CC BY-NC 3.0 Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge This conference is the first attempt to begin to reconstruct the ways in which Cambridge – university, colleges, and town – became a sanctuary for persecuted European academics, 1933-45. Papers […]

    £5
  • Festival of Belonging

    Manchester Central Library St Peter's Square, Manchester, United Kingdom

    From March 7-14th – featuring one-off events and nights of comedy, theatre, storytelling, films and visual arts to examine how we assimilate in new places, explore what makes us feel that we belong and question what happens when we do not.

  • Only the Violins Remain: Alma and Arnold Rosé

    Royal Academy of Music Marylebone Rd, London, United Kingdom

    The story of a father and daughter – icons of Austrian musical life – whose careers were cut short by the Nazis. Arnold fled to London but Alma was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she led the Women’s Orchestra and saved the lives of many women prisoners, before perishing in the camp.

    Free
  • Film: Animal Farm

    Museum in the Park Stratford Park, Stroud, United Kingdom

    Halas and Batchelor’s acclaimed feature on George Orwell’s famous satirical fable stands out as an animation classic and remains both fresh and relevant. An outstanding achievement for renowned animators John Halas, Joy Batchelor and Harold Whitaker, this landmark adaptation brilliantly conveys the horror and humour of George Orwell’s scathing satire.

    Free
  • Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art

    MOMA Machynlleth Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, United Kingdom

    This exhibition looks at how artist refugees in the last hundred years have been received and influenced British art

    Free
  • Hampstead’s Pioneers of Modern Art

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

    In the first half of the 20th century Hampstead was home to some of the era’s most pioneering artists. We will walk in the footsteps of the Slade School artists. In Downshire Hill we learn of the artistic Carline family and will also discuss the role that Roland Penrose, Margaret Gardiner and Fred and Diana Uhlman played in the art world in the years leading up to, and during, the Second World War. We walk to Belsize Park to learn of the Modernists including Henry Moore, Piet Mondrian and Barbara Hepworth whom Herbert Read described as living as a “nest of gentle artists” and conclude with the refugee designers who stayed at the Isokon flats.

    £9 – £12
  • 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.

    £9