Events
Calendar of Events
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7 events,
Special display of photographs of children by leading London-based photographer
Free
The role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present day
Free
Marianne Grant was a Jewish artist and Holocaust survivor from Prague who settled in Glasgow after the end of World War II. She uniquely recorded in drawings her experiences of imprisonment in the concentration camp-ghetto Theresienstadt, the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, German slave labour camps and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
Free
The ceramics and buttons produced by one of the most respected potters of the 20th Century are on show in a major new exhibition at the Centre of Ceramic Art
£7.50
Celebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture
Discover more about ‘life behind the wire’ and the different ways that interned artists recorded the world around them
Free
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KURT SCHWITTERS has hijacked the body of British actor PAUL BRIGHTWELL in order to re-present MERZ
£10 – £13
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9 events,
Modernism sans frontières Speaker: Wolfgang Voigt, former Deputy Director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM), Frankfurt
£5 – £12
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8 events,
Modernism sans frontières Speaker: Ita Heinze-Greenburg, Professor at ETH, Zurich
£5 – £12
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9 events,
This exhibition tells the story of artists who entered Britain between 1933 and 1945 as a result of Nazi occupation
Free – £7.70
The story of Zika and Lída Ascher who left Czechoslovakia before the outbreak of WW2 and built a textile empire in the United Kingdom which supplied fabrics to the international fashion industry from the 40‘s. |
10 events,
More than Stories is an exhibition comprising a trilogy of films inspired by Anya Lewin’s family photographs and stories, and their interconnections with history and public archives. Each film has at its heart the haunted memories of Jewish life embedded in a particular story passed down to Lewin by her father. |
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This evening of art, music and history celebrates the donation to the Royal College of Music of Milein Cosman’s collection of drawings of musicians.
£5
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11 events,
Modernism sans frontières Speaker: Kathleen James-Chakraborty
£5 – £12
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10 events, |
11 events,
This exhibition presents some of Milein Cosman’s renowned images of musicians, writers and artists, including her husband, Hans Keller. |
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14 events,
Interior II (Stones and Wood), oil on canvas, 1971, by Albert Reuss Penlee House Museum and Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall The Artist as Refugee This exhibition commemorates Albert Reuss (1889-1975) who was a Jewish émigré artist. Born in Vienna, he fled to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution, losing family, possessions and his reputation as […]
KURT SCHWITTERS has hijacked the body of British actor PAUL BRIGHTWELL in order to re-present MERZ, his one-man art movement, live on stage
£7 – £12
The theme of this year’s Jewish History Month is Big Screen Little Screen, Jews in British Cinema and Television. |
15 events,
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
Series of lectures, organised by the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies, at the University of London’s Institute for Modern Languages Research
Free
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14 events,
Modernism sans frontières Speaker: Alan Powers
£5 – £12
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14 events, |
18 events,
Aurelia Young, daughter of the sculptor, will be in conversation with art historian Patrick Bade.
£9.50
Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
£9 – £12
A display of books by eleven poets from the National Poetry Library collection of refugee poets, or descendents of refugees, who came to Britain from Nazi Europe
More than 70 years after the Holocaust, children of survivors and refugees will explore together how it has affected their lives.
£9
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