Mann at War
The role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present day
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Marianne Grant Holocaust Artworks
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
Lucie Rie: Ceramics and Buttons
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
Internment – Living with the Wire
Discover more about ‘life behind the wire’ and the different ways that interned artists recorded the world around them
Free
The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion
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.
Refuge: The Art of Belonging
This exhibition tells the story of artists who entered Britain between 1933 and 1945 as a result of Nazi occupation
Free – £7.70
Anya Lewin: More than Stories: A Film Trilogy
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.
René Halkett – from Bauhaus to Cornwall
On the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Bauhaus, this exhibition showcases the work of one of its students, René Halkett (1900-1983), who studied under the renowned artists Klee and Kandinsky.
Free
The art market under the Occupation 1940-1944
In the summer of 1941, the French government began confiscating businesses, real estate, financial assets and art works from Jews across the country. Victims of both Nazi and Vichy laws, French Jews were stripped of their property and excluded from every sphere of political, social and economic life – a prelude to their physical elimination. Meanwhile, during the Occupation of 1940-1944, France’s art market thrived.
Insiders/Outsiders: Émigré Poster Designers
London Transport commissioned many of the best émigré designers to produce some of the most distinctive posters on the network
Great British Jews: A Celebration
This playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
Free
National Portrait Gallery trail and online exhibition
National Portrait Gallery’s 20th Century galleries highlight portraits of or by artist-émigrés from Nazi Europe
Free
The Tailor of Inverness – Theatre Tour
The Tailor of Inverness is one of the most widely travelled and highly praised Scottish theatre productions of the last decade. Written and performed by Matthew Zajac
Margaret Gardiner – A Life of Giving
Margaret Gardiner was born on 22 April 1904. An early activist against fascism and war, in 1936 she became honorary secretary of For Intellectual Liberty, a rallying point throughout the Second World War for writers, artists and academics in active defence of peace, liberty and culture.
Free
Maurice Blik Plasters: The Artist at Eighty
Born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1939 and having survived Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a child, Maurice Blik arrived in the UK aged seven. The ability to come to terms with this and to confront the face of humanity that he had witnessed, stayed silent in him for some forty years until it found a voice in the passionate and exquisite sculpture he began to produce in the late 1980s.
Free
18 events,
Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Encounters in Art: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture
19 events,
Hampstead in the 1930s – A Walking Tour + Visits
As the abundance of wall plaques in the area demonstrates, visual artists have been drawn to the physical and cultural attractions of Hampstead since the late eighteenth century. This London day, however, concentrates on artistic life in Hampstead in the 1930s, the period in which it occupied a unique place in the story of British art and architecture.
£215
Yom Hashoah Commemorative Concert
Yom Hashoah Commemorative Concert
To commemorate the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, the internationally renowned Zemel Choir will be performing in concert at JW3.
£16 – £20
18 events,
Sculpting After the Holocaust
This year on Yom Hashoah we remember the Holocaust through the experience and sculpture of Naomi Blake, who through her abstract and semi figurative pieces, sought to promote understanding between faiths. We will also be introduced - through a recently produced film - to the powerful sculpture of Maurice Blik. Naomi’s protective, nurturing and hopeful style, together with Maurice’s strong, defiant, outward-reaching forms, demonstrate contrasting but equally positive expressions of their experiences as survivors of the Holocaust.
18 events,
Penny Lecture: Michael Tippett – The Biography by Oliver Soden
Writer and broadcaster Oliver Soden introduces his new biography of composer Michael Tippett with a lecture illustrated by live performances from Morley College’s students and tutors.
18 events,
Émigré designers in the V&A’s Archive of Art and Design
Émigré designers in the V&A’s Archive of Art and Design
Some of the most important contributors to British design in the mid- and late-twentieth century were Jewish émigrés, many of whom who escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s or survived the persecution of the Second World War to make their homes in Britain in the 1940s. The working archives, and some private papers, of 28 Jewish designers and practitioners are represented in the AAD.
Free
16 events,
16 events,
18 events,
Soldiering on: Czech Freedom Fighters in Great Britain 1940 -1945
Marking the 80th anniversary of the 1939 occupation of Czechoslovakia the event showcases the work by refugee filmmakers Jiri Weiss and Karel Lamač who captured the fellow countrymen in short films for the Ministry of Information.
£7
Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Encounters in Art: John Heartfield: Art and Politics in 1930s Britain
18 events,
The Ben Uri Art Society: Emigré Artists 1933-1945
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
Schwitters Spoken Loud and Softly: Florian Kaplick live performance
Schwitters Spoken Loud and Softly: Florian Kaplick live performance
In a special event to mark the closing of Heather Ross’ installation The Loud and the Soft Speakers, musician and performer Florian Kaplick (the main protagonist in Ross's installation) will give a live performance of Kurt Schwitter’s two most iconic works. This will include a performance of Schwitters' seminal sound poem The Ursonate (approx 40 mins) and a new interpretation of his famous poem An Anna Blume.
Free
18 events,
Dorothy Bohm: Colour Photographs
The Avivson Gallery is pleased to announce its next exhibition, a selection of small and exquisite colour prints, many of them images never seen in public before, by doyenne of British photography Dorothy Bohm
In conversation: Artist Heather Ross and Performer/Musician Florian Kaplick
In conversation: Artist Heather Ross and Performer/Musician Florian Kaplick
As part of a closing event to mark the end of Heather Ross's solo show The Loud and the Soft Speakers the artist will be in conversation with the performer Florian Kaplick. They will discuss how they collaborated on the performance within The Loud and the Soft Speakers, the process undertaken in the development and formation of this work and share their thoughts on how this can be contextualised with respect to the work of Kurt Schwitters.
Free
18 events,
What Does Woman Want?
The relation of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and femininity is complex and laden with controversy. From its inception, psychoanalytic thought about female development was largely defined by men. Sabina Spielrein, Anna Freud, Lou Andreas-Salome, and Marie Bonaparte were among the intimate circle of Freud’s Women who challenged the main pillars of the 19th/early 20th century patriarchal social order.
£8 – £12
17 events,
14 events,
15 events,
Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk
Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk
This playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
Free
15 events,
14 events,
15 events,
The Experience of the Kindertransport – Film Screening & Panel Discussion
80 years ago 10,000 children came to Britain as unaccompanied refugees on the Kindertransport from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, escaping Nazi Europe. Following a screening of some extracts of interviews, the panel discussion with two former Kinder, chaired by Dr Bea Lewkowicz, Director of the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive, will explore how the Kinder adapted in Britain and how they dealt with being separated from their families and their homes
Free – £12
14 events,
15 events,
16 events,
Modernist Hampstead Walk
Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
£9 – £12
15 events,
17 events,
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Belonging and Not Belonging: Émigré Artists in Britain after 1933: Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen
Belonging and Not Belonging: Émigré Artists in Britain after 1933: Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen
An illustrated talk by Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, will focus on the experiences of the émigré artists who found refuge in this country in the wake of Hitler’s accession to power in 1933
Free
16 events,
The experience of the Kindertransport in oral history testimonies
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
16 events,
Insiders/Outsiders
Insiders/Outsiders
Monica Bohm-Duchen will discuss the importance of cultural cross-fertilisation with eminent art historian and curator, Norman Rosenthal and novelist Esther Freud
£16
15 events,
16 events,
Towards an Open Land Project: On the Frontline: Jewish and Muslim Poets Speak Out
Towards an Open Land Project: On the Frontline: Jewish and Muslim Poets Speak Out
With poets Amir Darwish, Dr Jennifer Langer, Mohamed Mohamed and Jill Abram. Come and hear their poems and join them in discussion.
16 events,
Fifth Biennial Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition
Celebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture, the Ruth Borchard prize offers a unique opportunity for new and established artists to compete for £10,000 and an opportunity for their work to be purchased for the Ruth Borchard Next Generation Collection.
17 events,
Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolfgang Suschitzky
Following the rise of Fascism in Vienna in the 1930s, brother and sister Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–73) and Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016) found sanctuary in Britain, where both became leading documentary photographers. This display offers a rare opportunity to see a substantial group of photographs by brother and sister together.
Free
18 events,
Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Encounters in Art: Women Émigré Artists: Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Milein Cosman, Else Meidne
17 events,
18 events,
Berlin/London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon
The Wiener Library’s summer 2019 exhibition showcases the remarkable work of German Jewish photographer Gerty (Gertrud) Simon
Free