The Life of Herbert Bier through his Archive
This 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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Wallace Collection Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London
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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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Farewell to Vienna: A New Beginning
St John-in-Bedwardine Parish Church 1A Bromyard Road, St Johns, Worcester, United KingdomSt 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 […]
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A Stranger in a Strange Land
JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United KingdomA two day workshop led by Harriett Goldenberg
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Dissent and Displacement Public Seminar Series
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomLived 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.
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The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II – Book Launch
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to launch the publication of Michael Rosen’s new book The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II.
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From Streamform to Arts and Crafts
East Finchley Tube Station High Road, London, Greater London, United KingdomThis 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
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Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum Burgh House, New End Square, London, United KingdomIn 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.
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*Postponed* Another Eye: Women Refugee Photographers in Britain after 1933
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, London, United KingdomThis Women’s History Month, we celebrate some remarkable women who escaped Nazi persecution and helped to transform Britain’s photography scene.
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Farewell to Vienna: A New Beginning
JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United KingdomJoin 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.
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How ‘the most dangerous spy in history’ was recruited in Hampstead
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum Burgh House, New End Square, London, United KingdomFor the Kuczynskis, fighting fascism by helping the KGB was a Hampstead family business.
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Naum Gabo
Tate St.Ives Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall, United KingdomTate St Ives presents this major exhibition of one of the pioneers of constructivism, Naum Gabo.
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Jacques & Jacqueline Groag: Architect & Designer
The Isokon Gallery Lawn Road, London, United KingdomJacques 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.
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Modernist Hampstead Walk
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
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A Celebration of the Life and Work of Eva Ibbotson
Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United KingdomTo 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.
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The Fashion Revolution: From Berlin to London
Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United KingdomA 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.
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Between Two Worlds
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery Terrace Road, Buxton, United KingdomBetween 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.
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Emigration, Displacement, and Art: Testimonies from the AJR Refugee Voices
University of Leicester University Road, Leicester, United KingdomThe seminar is part of Refugee Week Breaking Barriers as well as the “Dissent and Displacement” Public Seminar Series.
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Cambridge: City of Scholars, City of Refuge, 1933-1945
Trinity College Garret Hostel Ln, Cambridge, United KingdomThe 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 […]
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Festival of Belonging
Manchester Central Library St Peter's Square, Manchester, United KingdomFrom 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.
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Only the Violins Remain: Alma and Arnold Rosé
Royal Academy of Music Marylebone Rd, London, United KingdomThe 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.
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Film: Animal Farm
Museum in the Park Stratford Park, Stroud, United KingdomHalas 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.
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Dissent and Displacement Public Seminar Series – Michel Kichka
University of Leicester University of Leicester Fielding Johnson First Floor Council Suite 1 and 2, Leicester, United KingdomMichel Kichka: Second Generation: A Graphic Novel on Fathers and Sons after the Holocaust
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