Witnesses: émigré medallists in Britain
British Museum Gallery 69a, Great Russell Street, London
free
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Little Happenings: Photographs of Children by Dorothy Bohm
V&A Museum of Childhood Cambridge Heath Rd, London
Free
The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion
The Museum of Decorative Arts 17. listopadu Street No.2, 110 00 Prague 1
Anya Lewin: More than Stories: A Film Trilogy
John Hansard Gallery 142-144 Above Bar Street, Southampton
Lifelines – an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Milein Cosman
Clare Hall Herschel Road, Cambridge
Poetry Book Display
The National Poetry Library Level 5, Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London
Book Launch, Hans Keller 1919-1985: A musician in dialogue with his times
Guildhall School of Music and Drama Silk Street, London
Free
René Halkett – from Bauhaus to Cornwall
Falmouth Art Gallery Municipal Buildings, The Moor, Falmouth
Free
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Week of Events
Little Happenings: Photographs of Children by Dorothy Bohm
Special display of photographs of children by leading London-based photographer
Free
Mann at War
The role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present day
Free
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
Submissions for Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize
Celebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture
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
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
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.
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.
Lifelines – an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Milein Cosman
This exhibition presents some of Milein Cosman’s renowned images of musicians, writers and artists, including her husband, Hans Keller.
Albert Reuss in Mousehole
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 […]
Jewish History Month 2019
The theme of this year’s Jewish History Month is Big Screen Little Screen, Jews in British Cinema and Television.
Poetry Book Display
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
Book Launch, Hans Keller 1919-1985: A musician in dialogue with his times
Alison Garnham and Susi Woodhouse present their new centenary biography of Hans Keller, in an evening of music and readings. On Hans Keller’s birthday itself, the Belcea Quartet perform Haydn’s Op.76 No.2 and Britten’s Third Quartet (which Britten dedicated to Keller).
Free
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
Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Optimism and aging
Modernism sans frontières
Speaker: Rachel Rose Smith
£5 – £12
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition
During the mid-1930s and 1940s the Isokon flats and bar became a hub for creatives, including Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. The three produced furniture, architecture and graphic art for Jack Pritchard’s Isokon design company.
Recollections of Hans Keller
Study day and concert celebrating Hans Keller’s centenary, featuring discussion with musicians who knew Keller, a music workshop, film showing and concert by the Elias Quartet.
Haunted by History
A selection of recent essay films – poignant, thought-provoking, sometimes darkly humorous and frequently disturbing – made by UK-based members of the so-called ‘Second Generation’, namely, the children of refugees from Nazi Europe and/or Holocaust survivors, whose work explores the complex and necessarily problematic legacy of their families’ experiences.
A Celebration of Hans Keller
A celebration of Hans Keller by the Yehudi Menuhin School, where Keller taught chamber music in the 1980s.
On Hans Keller’s birthday itself, the Belcea Quartet perform Haydn’s Op.76 No.2 and Britten’s Third Quartet (which Britten dedicated to Keller).
Monday, March 4, 2019
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019
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Wednesday, March 6, 2019
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March 6, 2019Words: Insiders / Outsiders
Words: Insiders / Outsiders
Words: Jewish Book Week. Anna Nyburg, Daniel Snowman and Monica Bohm-Duchen. Insiders/Outsiders examines the extraordinarily rich contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom.
£9.50
Thursday, March 7, 2019
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Friday, March 8, 2019
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Saturday, March 9, 2019
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Sunday, March 10, 2019
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