Events & Opportunities
| | | Posted on 24.12.2008 | Posted by LB
Exclusive NEW offer by SPIRO ARK
Date: Friday mornings - 19th & 26th December, 2nd January 2009.
Price: £35
For holiday makers in Eilat who want something different, we offer a fascinating historical and archaeological half day tour around Eilat.
If you are bored with roasting by the pool, shopping, and eating!
If you wish to see the inspiring desert scenery of the Arava and Uvda valleys!
If you seek some brain stimulation!
If you fancy a half day exploration (approx. 5 hours) to remarkable historical/archaeological sites that have remained hidden for thousands of years!
Then The Spiro Ark together with Levy’s Historical Tours are delighted to present you with the answer!!
Tour Leader- Lloyd Levy, MA (School of Oriental & African Studies), DipBA, BA.
Collect from your hotel in Eilat approx 8.30 am, and drive North out of town. Stop at Evrona’s ancient underground irrigation system (1400 years old), and then visit the ruins of Yotvata Roman Fort and Baths(1700 years old). Short rest at Yotvata kibbutz owned dairy restaurant for refreshments (not included in Tour price). Then head into the mountains and Uvda valley, where we view the fascinating prehistoric Leopard Temple (8000 years old). Return to Eilat passing Uvda airport, and stop at the Mamluk Bridge (500 years old) rediscovered by T.E. Lawrence. Drop back at Hotels approx 1.30 pm.
Children are welcome only over the age of 12 years, as long as they are interested in the subject of history. Not suitable for very young children or babies.
There is some walking over rocky ground, and therefore not suitable for people with walking difficulties.
Tours are in English only. No previous historical knowledge required.
Please wear sensible shoes/sandals. Bring water, a hat, and a jacket (in case it is windy).
Each Tour has a minimum number of 4 persons. The itinerary may change subject to weather and other conditions.
BOOKING- Book in advance on-line at Spiro Ark web site www.spiroark.org Alternatively post a cheque payable to “The Spiro Ark”, 25-26 Enford Street, London W1H 1DW. Telephone 020 7723 9991. Fax 020 7723 8191.
Insurance - It is a condition of participating that everyone in your party is covered by current Travel Insurance.
FORM TO HAND IN TO TOUR LEADER. (please fill in a line for each member of your party.)
2) An Evening of Contemporary Dance and Dance Theatre
Date: Saturday 10 January 2009
Time: 7.30 FOR 8.00PM
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £7
With Israeli Choreographers who are currently based
in London. Amongst the dance artists: Hagit Yakira.
3) Hungarian Poets on the Holocaust
Date: Sunday 11 January
Time: 7.30PM
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £7 / £5 conc. (full-time students and membership
card holders only)
Including Miklós Radnóti, János Pilinszky and András Mezei. Award - winning poet
György Gömöri, Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, will be talking about
and reading a selection of poems by Hungarian poets both Jewish and Non- Jewish on
the Holocaust. Having taken part in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution as a student leader,
György Gömöri had to leave Hungary. He has published numerous books in Hungarian ,
English and Polish.
4) Jewish Music Course with Dr Alexander Knapp
Date: Monday 12 January
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £10 per session, £60 for the course (£50— full time students)
Jewish Music Course with Dr Alexander Knapp Spring Term (January—March 2009)
1. Monday 12 January—The Musical Heritage of the Jews
2. Monday 26 January—The Golden and Modern Age of the Cantor
3. Monday 16 February—Yiddish Music in Shtetl and Ghetto / The Hassidic World of Music
4. Monday 2 March—The Music of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway
5. Monday 16 March—The Sephardic World of Music
6. Monday 30 March—Jewish Music in China
Summer Term (June 2009)
7. Monday 1 June—Ernest Bloch Reconsidered (in the Jubilee year of Bloch's death in 1959)
8. Monday 15 June—Classical Music in Modern Israel
Alexander Knapp is a pianist and composer, and has published and lectured on the subject of Jewish music in the UK, USA, many parts of Europe, Israel, Russia and China. He was - until taking early retirement in 2006 - the Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. He has also held positions at Wolfson College, Cambridge, Goldsmith's College, The Royal College of Music and City University.
5) Special visit to "The Exhibition of the Year"
Date: Tuesday 13 January 2009
Time: 11.00am
Venue: At Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1
Price: £30
Visit to the exhibition 12:00pm – Mark Rothko 1903 – 1970 is best known as an abstract expressionist born in Russia to a pharmacist intellectual father who was fluent in Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew and is taken to the USA as a bay of ten after experiencing fear due to attacks on Jews by the Cossacks. In 1925 he studied with the American cubist Max Webber and was also strongly influenced by European surrealists who arrived in America during WWII.
His work had been exhibited around the world in very many museums and galleries. The Rothko Chapel in Huston Texas is decorated by 14 Rothko works.
6) Listen to Her Voice - Course by Manuela Rathaus
Date: Tuesday 13 January 2009
Time: 7.45PMTO 10.00PM
Venue: LJS – 28 ST JOHN'SWOOD ROAD, NW8
Price: £70 PER COURSE OR £15 PER LECTURE
Biblical women such as Eve, Rachel, Delilah, Ruth often have their names live on today
among Jewish mothers, daughters and sisters. These are women who were warriors,
prophetesses, priestesses, a queen and even a prostitute. What are their stories and
their impact on our modern Jewish life?
This series of lectures will retell the stories of the lives of 18 remarkable women as they
are told in the Torah and at the same time will explore the depiction of these powerful women and the dramatic events surrounding their lives through classical works of art from such masters as Blake, Bouguereau and Chagall.
List of Lectures:
Tuesday 13 January 2009
Life-Giver – Eve/Chava
Tuesday 27 January 2009
The First Matriarchs – a. “The Chieftainess” Sarah; b. “Woman of Tether”
Rebecca/Rivka; c. “The Ewe” Rachel; d. “Weary” Leah/Lea
Tuesday 10 February 2009
Good and Bad: “Woman of Justice” Dina; “Woman of the Palms” Tamar;
“Be(e) a Judge” Deborah / Dvorah
Tuesday 24 February 2009
Loyalty & Betrayal - “Woman of the Sea” Miriam; “Woman of Betrayal”
Delilah; “Daughter of The Oath” Batsheva
Tuesday 3March 2009
Spirit of God: “Woman of Spirit” Hannah; “Woman of Joy”
Abigail/Avigail;
Tuesday 24March 2009
Hidden & Exposed Queen of Sheba/Esther
Tuesday 31March 2009
7) Art and Architecture telling a Jewish story. Course by Manuela Rathaus
Time: 8.00PM
Venue: ALYTH GARDENS SYNAGOGUE, FINCHLEY ROAD, LONDON, NW11
Price: £40 PER COURSE OR £15 PER LECTURE
The distinctive Jewish Spirit and identity has survived for thousands of
years, through poverty, wars and pogroms and the constant contact
with other religions in the Diaspora. The Jewish history and customs
learned and shared by Jews all over the world gave them a sense of
belonging, of origin and common destiny and it was also done out of a survival instinct.
Through works of Art, architectural structures and Jewish artefacts (Judaica) this
lectures’ series will showcase issues of faith, character and perseverance of Jewish
people but mostly to the Jewish Spirit.
List of lectures:
Wednesday 14 January 2009
The four gates of in Jewish life – Birth, coming of age (Mitzvah),
Marriage and Death
Wednesday 28 January 2009
From the Holy Temple of Jerusalem to The Synagogue
Wednesday 11 February 2009
Remarkable Synagogues of Europe
Wednesday 25 February 2009
A book to have with food – the Haggada
8) The Image of the Jew on Film - Course by Dr. Nathan Abrams
Date: Wednesday 21 January
Time: 7.30PM
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £60 FOR THE COURSE OR £12 PER SESSION
Six sessions exploring Jewish film with a particular emphasis on recent cinema in the
last two decades convening once a month. Each session will be thematic and will cover
film making in Europe, the United States and Israel with emphasis on recent filmmaking.
The sessions will revolve around the following subjects:
1) Food, 2) Judaism 3) Sex 4)Masculinity, 5) Femininity 6) Shoah.
The course should be particularly attractive to film “buffs” and for people who wish
to understand major issues in the Jewish psyche through a less conventional method.
Apart from his own contribution and participants’ discussions Dr Abrams intends to
introduce guest-film makers to enrich the programme.
Dr Nathan Abrams BA, MA, PhD FHEA, a historian, is the Director of Graduate
Studies, at the School of Creative Studies and Media and Director of Film Studies at
Bangor University, Wales.
Wednesdays: 21 January, 25 February, 25March, 29 April, 20May and 17 June
9) Osias Hofstatter - Paintings of Poetry, Mockery and Lament
Date: OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday 14 January Time: 7.30PM
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: ENTRANCE FREE
From the private collection of Drs Irena and Yaakov Wodzislawski, Israel. Curator Tetty Kadury.
A survivor of WW II, Hofstatter created more than 5,000 works. In Israel, Hofstatter
worked as a night watchman on building sites in Tel Aviv and often found his
necessities; clothes, food and even painting materials on piles of rubble. His work has
been exhibited in museums and galleries. He was the representative of Israeli art at the
11th Bienale of San Paulo. A documentary was made of Hofstater’s life and work.
Yaakov and Irena Wodzislawski obtained hundreds of his paintings. Now in their 80s
they are looking for a cultural home to house “the lot” for permanent exhibition.
10) A Yiddish Winterreise
A cycle of songs in Yiddish
Date: Sunday 18 January 2009
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £12 / £10 conc. for full time students and Spiro Ark
membership card holders only
A Yiddish Winterreise is a cycle of songs in Yiddish performed by Mark Glanville (Bass-Baritone) and Alexander Knapp (Piano) that evokes the emotional journey of Schubert's original in a Holocaust context. The CD will be released by Naxos in January 2010.
The 24-song cycle of Yiddish folk songs, popular songs and art songs – half of them arranged by the superb pianist Alexander Knapp, an expert on Jewish music... lasts 80 minutes and Glanville was masterly in sustaining its technical and emotional demands.' Opera Now
'Genuine creative originality in performance is rare indeed, but was certainly manifest in this revelatory recital at Kent House. For once, the cliché is appropriate: this was a performance to remember for a lifetime. A CD is planned for later this year, and cannot be too strongly recommended.' Westminster Quarterly
'Overall it was a musically mesmerizing and beguiling experience. Glanville's powerful resonant baritone, redolent of years of experience in leading opera companies such as Opera North, Scottish Opera, and New Israeli Opera, gained in focus and intensity during the course of the cycle, while Knapp's accomplished pianism displayed masterly command of colour and line.' MVDaily.com
11) Leica Train - A lecture by Rabbi Frank Dabba Smith
Date: Tuesday 27 January 2009
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £7 / £5 CONC. (full-time students and membership card holders only)
Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar (Makers of the Leica Camera) and Altruism During the Shoah
Photography was one of the major tools for Nazi propaganda, both enhancing anti-
Semitism and at the same time showing the Aryan type. Since 1869 the family firm was
a major maker of microscopes and scientific instruments. In 1925 it launched the
renowned Leica camera. While supplying cameras for the military during the Nazi period,
the top management of Leitz was systematically saving Jews. A fascinating lecture.
12) Music out of Oppression - Holocaust Requiem and composers from Terezin
Date: Thursday 29 January
Time: TBC
Venue: THE SLOVAK EMBASSY
Price: BY INVITATION ONLY. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE ENQUIRE
Dr. Ronald Senator, renowned composer and author, will play and
discuss excerpts of his Holocaust Requiem. Miriam Brickman, pianist
will perform works by Schulhof, Ullmann and Haas from Terezin. A
singer (TBA) will sing cabaret songs composed in the camp.
13) Jazz from the East
Date: Thursday 22 January 2009
Time: 7.30PM
Venue: The Spiro Ark's Tzavta Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £10 / £5 (full-time students and Spiro Ark membership card holders only)
The innovative Ramajaz group performs an absorbing combination of Indian-fusion in
modern Jazz style together with Internationally acclaimed Jewish poet,
Adeena Karasick. Come and enjoy this cultural extravaganza! The musicians in Ramajaz
are: Yosi Marshall – piano, Sirishkumar – Tablas, Ben Sarfas – violin, David Wright –
saxophone and Katie de Freitas – vocalist.
14) Ladino Songs
Sephardic Love Songs
Date: Sunday 25 January
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £12 / £10 conc. (full-time students and membership card holders only)
Spiro Ark will be home to an exciting series of four Sephardic concerts.
In this third concert of the series, Monica Acosta (voice) and Steve Homes (guitar) will
present a variety of charming love songs. Some of them describe the joy and excitement
of falling in love, others the disappointment and sadness of a broken heart.
15) Two lectures by Dr Ephraim Kahana
Wednesday 28 January 2009
Covert Action by Israeli Intelligence.
Lecture by Dr Ephraim Kahana
(see Sunday 07 September 2008)
TIME: 7.30PM | VENUE: SPIRO ARK CENTRE
COST: £8 / £6 CONC.
THE SPIRO ARK’S TZAVTA DEPARTMENT
Sunday 1 February
The 1973 Yom Kippur War Surprise:
What Went Wrong?
Lecture by Dr Ephraim Kahana
(see Sunday 07 September 2008).
TIME: 7.30PM | VENUE: SPIRO ARK CENTRE
COST: £8 / £6 CONC.
THE SPIRO ARK’S TZAVTA DEPARTMENT
16) Yiddish Choir conducted by Polina Shepherd
Date: 7th December, 1st February 2009, 1st March 2009
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: Spiro Ark Centre
25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £15 per session
Having had a very successful first meeting, now come and join a choir for the singing of Jewish and Yiddish folk songs. Music lovers of all singing levels are invited, no previous experience necessary. Songs in Yiddish, Niggunim (the age old Jewish “songs without words”), also songs in Hebrew, Ladino, Russian and Ukrainian, with special attention paid to folk elements in singing; plus some piano accompaniment. Teaching - mainly by ear. The Choir will be a secular community, but we will talk about the historic context of our material. Polina Shepherd teaches Yiddish songs all over Europe as part of various seminars and education programmes.
17) Music Competitions
2nd COMPETITION OF ISRAELI MUSIC
1st Prize: £1,000
Concert with The London International Orchestra
Open to any candidate up to 35 years of age
Soloists and chamber ensembles (quintets—maximum)
£25 entrance fee per person
If you need any more details please phone our office - 020 7723 9991.
1st COMPETITION OF ERNEST BLOCH MUSIC
1st Prize: £500
Concert appearance as part of Bloch Festival
Open to candidate of all ages
Soloists and chamber ensembles (quintets—maximum)
£25 entrance fee per person
Candidates are encouraged to enter both competitions
In association with the Jewish Music Institute
Application deadline Friday, 1 May 2009
Second Round— July at Enford St, W1
Final—July at the Royal College of Music
Price: £35
For holiday makers in Eilat who want something different, we offer a fascinating historical and archaeological half day tour around Eilat.
If you are bored with roasting by the pool, shopping, and eating!
If you wish to see the inspiring desert scenery of the Arava and Uvda valleys!
If you seek some brain stimulation!
If you fancy a half day exploration (approx. 5 hours) to remarkable historical/archaeological sites that have remained hidden for thousands of years!
Then The Spiro Ark together with Levy’s Historical Tours are delighted to present you with the answer!!
Tour Leader- Lloyd Levy, MA (School of Oriental & African Studies), DipBA, BA.
Collect from your hotel in Eilat approx 8.30 am, and drive North out of town. Stop at Evrona’s ancient underground irrigation system (1400 years old), and then visit the ruins of Yotvata Roman Fort and Baths(1700 years old). Short rest at Yotvata kibbutz owned dairy restaurant for refreshments (not included in Tour price). Then head into the mountains and Uvda valley, where we view the fascinating prehistoric Leopard Temple (8000 years old). Return to Eilat passing Uvda airport, and stop at the Mamluk Bridge (500 years old) rediscovered by T.E. Lawrence. Drop back at Hotels approx 1.30 pm.
Children are welcome only over the age of 12 years, as long as they are interested in the subject of history. Not suitable for very young children or babies.
There is some walking over rocky ground, and therefore not suitable for people with walking difficulties.
Tours are in English only. No previous historical knowledge required.
Please wear sensible shoes/sandals. Bring water, a hat, and a jacket (in case it is windy).
Each Tour has a minimum number of 4 persons. The itinerary may change subject to weather and other conditions.
BOOKING- Book in advance on-line at Spiro Ark web site www.spiroark.org Alternatively post a cheque payable to “The Spiro Ark”, 25-26 Enford Street, London W1H 1DW. Telephone 020 7723 9991. Fax 020 7723 8191.
Insurance - It is a condition of participating that everyone in your party is covered by current Travel Insurance.
FORM TO HAND IN TO TOUR LEADER. (please fill in a line for each member of your party.)
2) An Evening of Contemporary Dance and Dance Theatre
Date: Saturday 10 January 2009
Time: 7.30 FOR 8.00PM
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £7
With Israeli Choreographers who are currently based
in London. Amongst the dance artists: Hagit Yakira.
3) Hungarian Poets on the Holocaust
Date: Sunday 11 January
Time: 7.30PM
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £7 / £5 conc. (full-time students and membership
card holders only)
Including Miklós Radnóti, János Pilinszky and András Mezei. Award - winning poet
György Gömöri, Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, will be talking about
and reading a selection of poems by Hungarian poets both Jewish and Non- Jewish on
the Holocaust. Having taken part in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution as a student leader,
György Gömöri had to leave Hungary. He has published numerous books in Hungarian ,
English and Polish.
4) Jewish Music Course with Dr Alexander Knapp
Date: Monday 12 January
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £10 per session, £60 for the course (£50— full time students)
Jewish Music Course with Dr Alexander Knapp Spring Term (January—March 2009)
1. Monday 12 January—The Musical Heritage of the Jews
2. Monday 26 January—The Golden and Modern Age of the Cantor
3. Monday 16 February—Yiddish Music in Shtetl and Ghetto / The Hassidic World of Music
4. Monday 2 March—The Music of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway
5. Monday 16 March—The Sephardic World of Music
6. Monday 30 March—Jewish Music in China
Summer Term (June 2009)
7. Monday 1 June—Ernest Bloch Reconsidered (in the Jubilee year of Bloch's death in 1959)
8. Monday 15 June—Classical Music in Modern Israel
Alexander Knapp is a pianist and composer, and has published and lectured on the subject of Jewish music in the UK, USA, many parts of Europe, Israel, Russia and China. He was - until taking early retirement in 2006 - the Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. He has also held positions at Wolfson College, Cambridge, Goldsmith's College, The Royal College of Music and City University.
5) Special visit to "The Exhibition of the Year"
Date: Tuesday 13 January 2009
Time: 11.00am
Venue: At Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1
Price: £30
Visit to the exhibition 12:00pm – Mark Rothko 1903 – 1970 is best known as an abstract expressionist born in Russia to a pharmacist intellectual father who was fluent in Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew and is taken to the USA as a bay of ten after experiencing fear due to attacks on Jews by the Cossacks. In 1925 he studied with the American cubist Max Webber and was also strongly influenced by European surrealists who arrived in America during WWII.
His work had been exhibited around the world in very many museums and galleries. The Rothko Chapel in Huston Texas is decorated by 14 Rothko works.
6) Listen to Her Voice - Course by Manuela Rathaus
Date: Tuesday 13 January 2009
Time: 7.45PMTO 10.00PM
Venue: LJS – 28 ST JOHN'SWOOD ROAD, NW8
Price: £70 PER COURSE OR £15 PER LECTURE
Biblical women such as Eve, Rachel, Delilah, Ruth often have their names live on today
among Jewish mothers, daughters and sisters. These are women who were warriors,
prophetesses, priestesses, a queen and even a prostitute. What are their stories and
their impact on our modern Jewish life?
This series of lectures will retell the stories of the lives of 18 remarkable women as they
are told in the Torah and at the same time will explore the depiction of these powerful women and the dramatic events surrounding their lives through classical works of art from such masters as Blake, Bouguereau and Chagall.
List of Lectures:
Tuesday 13 January 2009
Life-Giver – Eve/Chava
Tuesday 27 January 2009
The First Matriarchs – a. “The Chieftainess” Sarah; b. “Woman of Tether”
Rebecca/Rivka; c. “The Ewe” Rachel; d. “Weary” Leah/Lea
Tuesday 10 February 2009
Good and Bad: “Woman of Justice” Dina; “Woman of the Palms” Tamar;
“Be(e) a Judge” Deborah / Dvorah
Tuesday 24 February 2009
Loyalty & Betrayal - “Woman of the Sea” Miriam; “Woman of Betrayal”
Delilah; “Daughter of The Oath” Batsheva
Tuesday 3March 2009
Spirit of God: “Woman of Spirit” Hannah; “Woman of Joy”
Abigail/Avigail;
Tuesday 24March 2009
Hidden & Exposed Queen of Sheba/Esther
Tuesday 31March 2009
7) Art and Architecture telling a Jewish story. Course by Manuela Rathaus
Time: 8.00PM
Venue: ALYTH GARDENS SYNAGOGUE, FINCHLEY ROAD, LONDON, NW11
Price: £40 PER COURSE OR £15 PER LECTURE
The distinctive Jewish Spirit and identity has survived for thousands of
years, through poverty, wars and pogroms and the constant contact
with other religions in the Diaspora. The Jewish history and customs
learned and shared by Jews all over the world gave them a sense of
belonging, of origin and common destiny and it was also done out of a survival instinct.
Through works of Art, architectural structures and Jewish artefacts (Judaica) this
lectures’ series will showcase issues of faith, character and perseverance of Jewish
people but mostly to the Jewish Spirit.
List of lectures:
Wednesday 14 January 2009
The four gates of in Jewish life – Birth, coming of age (Mitzvah),
Marriage and Death
Wednesday 28 January 2009
From the Holy Temple of Jerusalem to The Synagogue
Wednesday 11 February 2009
Remarkable Synagogues of Europe
Wednesday 25 February 2009
A book to have with food – the Haggada
8) The Image of the Jew on Film - Course by Dr. Nathan Abrams
Date: Wednesday 21 January
Time: 7.30PM
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £60 FOR THE COURSE OR £12 PER SESSION
Six sessions exploring Jewish film with a particular emphasis on recent cinema in the
last two decades convening once a month. Each session will be thematic and will cover
film making in Europe, the United States and Israel with emphasis on recent filmmaking.
The sessions will revolve around the following subjects:
1) Food, 2) Judaism 3) Sex 4)Masculinity, 5) Femininity 6) Shoah.
The course should be particularly attractive to film “buffs” and for people who wish
to understand major issues in the Jewish psyche through a less conventional method.
Apart from his own contribution and participants’ discussions Dr Abrams intends to
introduce guest-film makers to enrich the programme.
Dr Nathan Abrams BA, MA, PhD FHEA, a historian, is the Director of Graduate
Studies, at the School of Creative Studies and Media and Director of Film Studies at
Bangor University, Wales.
Wednesdays: 21 January, 25 February, 25March, 29 April, 20May and 17 June
9) Osias Hofstatter - Paintings of Poetry, Mockery and Lament
Date: OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday 14 January Time: 7.30PM
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: ENTRANCE FREE
From the private collection of Drs Irena and Yaakov Wodzislawski, Israel. Curator Tetty Kadury.
A survivor of WW II, Hofstatter created more than 5,000 works. In Israel, Hofstatter
worked as a night watchman on building sites in Tel Aviv and often found his
necessities; clothes, food and even painting materials on piles of rubble. His work has
been exhibited in museums and galleries. He was the representative of Israeli art at the
11th Bienale of San Paulo. A documentary was made of Hofstater’s life and work.
Yaakov and Irena Wodzislawski obtained hundreds of his paintings. Now in their 80s
they are looking for a cultural home to house “the lot” for permanent exhibition.
10) A Yiddish Winterreise
A cycle of songs in Yiddish
Date: Sunday 18 January 2009
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £12 / £10 conc. for full time students and Spiro Ark
membership card holders only
A Yiddish Winterreise is a cycle of songs in Yiddish performed by Mark Glanville (Bass-Baritone) and Alexander Knapp (Piano) that evokes the emotional journey of Schubert's original in a Holocaust context. The CD will be released by Naxos in January 2010.
The 24-song cycle of Yiddish folk songs, popular songs and art songs – half of them arranged by the superb pianist Alexander Knapp, an expert on Jewish music... lasts 80 minutes and Glanville was masterly in sustaining its technical and emotional demands.' Opera Now
'Genuine creative originality in performance is rare indeed, but was certainly manifest in this revelatory recital at Kent House. For once, the cliché is appropriate: this was a performance to remember for a lifetime. A CD is planned for later this year, and cannot be too strongly recommended.' Westminster Quarterly
'Overall it was a musically mesmerizing and beguiling experience. Glanville's powerful resonant baritone, redolent of years of experience in leading opera companies such as Opera North, Scottish Opera, and New Israeli Opera, gained in focus and intensity during the course of the cycle, while Knapp's accomplished pianism displayed masterly command of colour and line.' MVDaily.com
11) Leica Train - A lecture by Rabbi Frank Dabba Smith
Date: Tuesday 27 January 2009
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £7 / £5 CONC. (full-time students and membership card holders only)
Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar (Makers of the Leica Camera) and Altruism During the Shoah
Photography was one of the major tools for Nazi propaganda, both enhancing anti-
Semitism and at the same time showing the Aryan type. Since 1869 the family firm was
a major maker of microscopes and scientific instruments. In 1925 it launched the
renowned Leica camera. While supplying cameras for the military during the Nazi period,
the top management of Leitz was systematically saving Jews. A fascinating lecture.
12) Music out of Oppression - Holocaust Requiem and composers from Terezin
Date: Thursday 29 January
Time: TBC
Venue: THE SLOVAK EMBASSY
Price: BY INVITATION ONLY. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE ENQUIRE
Dr. Ronald Senator, renowned composer and author, will play and
discuss excerpts of his Holocaust Requiem. Miriam Brickman, pianist
will perform works by Schulhof, Ullmann and Haas from Terezin. A
singer (TBA) will sing cabaret songs composed in the camp.
13) Jazz from the East
Date: Thursday 22 January 2009
Time: 7.30PM
Venue: The Spiro Ark's Tzavta Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £10 / £5 (full-time students and Spiro Ark membership card holders only)
The innovative Ramajaz group performs an absorbing combination of Indian-fusion in
modern Jazz style together with Internationally acclaimed Jewish poet,
Adeena Karasick. Come and enjoy this cultural extravaganza! The musicians in Ramajaz
are: Yosi Marshall – piano, Sirishkumar – Tablas, Ben Sarfas – violin, David Wright –
saxophone and Katie de Freitas – vocalist.
14) Ladino Songs
Sephardic Love Songs
Date: Sunday 25 January
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £12 / £10 conc. (full-time students and membership card holders only)
Spiro Ark will be home to an exciting series of four Sephardic concerts.
In this third concert of the series, Monica Acosta (voice) and Steve Homes (guitar) will
present a variety of charming love songs. Some of them describe the joy and excitement
of falling in love, others the disappointment and sadness of a broken heart.
15) Two lectures by Dr Ephraim Kahana
Wednesday 28 January 2009
Covert Action by Israeli Intelligence.
Lecture by Dr Ephraim Kahana
(see Sunday 07 September 2008)
TIME: 7.30PM | VENUE: SPIRO ARK CENTRE
COST: £8 / £6 CONC.
THE SPIRO ARK’S TZAVTA DEPARTMENT
Sunday 1 February
The 1973 Yom Kippur War Surprise:
What Went Wrong?
Lecture by Dr Ephraim Kahana
(see Sunday 07 September 2008).
TIME: 7.30PM | VENUE: SPIRO ARK CENTRE
COST: £8 / £6 CONC.
THE SPIRO ARK’S TZAVTA DEPARTMENT
16) Yiddish Choir conducted by Polina Shepherd
Date: 7th December, 1st February 2009, 1st March 2009
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: Spiro Ark Centre
25-26 Enford St, W1
Price: £15 per session
Having had a very successful first meeting, now come and join a choir for the singing of Jewish and Yiddish folk songs. Music lovers of all singing levels are invited, no previous experience necessary. Songs in Yiddish, Niggunim (the age old Jewish “songs without words”), also songs in Hebrew, Ladino, Russian and Ukrainian, with special attention paid to folk elements in singing; plus some piano accompaniment. Teaching - mainly by ear. The Choir will be a secular community, but we will talk about the historic context of our material. Polina Shepherd teaches Yiddish songs all over Europe as part of various seminars and education programmes.
17) Music Competitions
2nd COMPETITION OF ISRAELI MUSIC
1st Prize: £1,000
Concert with The London International Orchestra
Open to any candidate up to 35 years of age
Soloists and chamber ensembles (quintets—maximum)
£25 entrance fee per person
If you need any more details please phone our office - 020 7723 9991.
1st COMPETITION OF ERNEST BLOCH MUSIC
1st Prize: £500
Concert appearance as part of Bloch Festival
Open to candidate of all ages
Soloists and chamber ensembles (quintets—maximum)
£25 entrance fee per person
Candidates are encouraged to enter both competitions
In association with the Jewish Music Institute
Application deadline Friday, 1 May 2009
Second Round— July at Enford St, W1
Final—July at the Royal College of Music
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