Events & Opportunities
| Posted on 06.11.2008 | Posted by JF
Spiro Ark Talks & Events
Spiro Ark invites you to
A Day in Hampstead with two Diverse Personalities
A visit to The Sigmund Freud Museum and 2 Willow Road
Sigmund Freud fled to England in 1938. He brought with him all his furniture, his famous couch and his incredible collection of Roman and oriental antiques. We will have a talk on Freud by the curator of the Museum and later a short debate on Freud and his work. The Freud Museum is at 20 Maresfield Gardens, NW3. You can choose to have lunch at the Freemasons Arms, in nearby Willow Rd where we have booked a private function room and hopefully hear about the pub’s history from the host.
We will then regroup to visit 2 Willow Road at 2pm, the home of the renowned Jewish architect Arno Goldfinger, the father of high rise buildings and hear a talk about his life and work.
Thursday 13 November 2008, 11am
Meeting at 20 Maresfield Gdns, NW3
(nearest station Swiss Cottage)
£15 (lunch not included)
Adi Ashkenazi’s Photographic Exhibition
Adi’s style of photography is personal, exploring different techniques and mediums for his distinctive creations. His collection of images portrays the expressions of people who are stopped in mid-motion. His subjects represent beauty, harmony, peace and things we all seek but rarely capture.
Recently, Adi mixes photography with digital art. He frequently exhibits around the world; in NYC law school gallery, Cornel Medical Gallery, Empire State Building Gallery, and in many galleries in Israel and Mexico City. This exhibition at Spiro Ark is his first in Europe. In 1995 he opened a Laser Show Production company in Israel creating a unique art presentation and animation with 3D at real time.
Opening reception: Sunday 16 November, 7.30pm
The exhibition will be open until 11 January 2009
Mondays to Fridays 10:00am—5:00pm
Venue: At the Spiro Ark Centre
Entrance Free
The Stone Flower (2007)
(Gole Sangam)
Hebrew and Farsi with English subtitles UK film premiere
Gole sangam means ‘stone flower’ in Farsi. This documentary follows two elderly Jewish women, who immigrated from Iran to Israel 50 years ago and currently live in a deprived area. Married in their teens, they moved from the domineering homes of their parents to those of their husbands. Now, aged 70, they reflect on the choices they have made, and those they were forced to make. Anxious to learn about their experiences, Sarit, the director, a 30-year- old unmarried Israeli-born Iranian, is trying to map out a future for herself. The film raises questions about love, family, femininity and dreams. The Stone flower has been shown at Festivals in the USA and Greece as well as Israel.
After the screening we recommend the public to share their personal experiences, their own or their family’s.
Tuesday 18 November 2008, 7.30 pm
Entry: £10
Venue: The Sephardi Centre— 2, Ashworth Road, London W9
Marc Chagall – The Man and His Art
A Lecture by Mitch Wax
Born Moishe Shygall, in 1897 in Pestecovatic about 4 miles from Vitebsk he changed his name to Marc Chagall in 1908/9. He died in St Paul de Vence, France, in 1994, aged 97.
There were a number of great artists who were Jewish, such as Pissarro, Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Jules Pascin etc. but only a very few who could be called Jewish artists. Head and shoulders above the others was Marc Chagall. In all the different periods and influences of his life, he was always aware of his roots and background.
Mitch Wax is the President of Edgware Reform Synagogue and served on the Zionist Federation and the Board of Deputies for British Jews, in which he was a member of the Israel Committee for 25 years. He currently lectures extensively on the Life and Works of Marc Chagall, and Camille Pissarro with another lecture on ‘An Impression of The Impressionists’.
Sunday 23 November 2008, 7.30pm
At Spiro Ark Centre
£7
Saul Steinberg’s Work
Visit to Dulwich Picture Gallery
Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) was an American Jewish cartoonist whose magic lit up the pages and covers of The New Yorker for six decades. He is the subject of Dulwich Picture Gallery’s latest illustrators’ exhibition retrospective. It features more than a hundred drawings, collages and sculptural assemblages by the artist whom many regard as not only a comic genius but among the greatest draftsmen of the modern era. This exhibition is the first full scale review of his career. The exhibition covers the whole range of his work from high art to low comedy, from murals to magazines, from caricature to cartography, and is a close-up of the contradictions of the 20th century. It will make the visitor smile a lot!
Sunday 30 November 2008, 11.45am
Dulwich Picture Gallery—Gallery Road, SE21 7AD
£25 including tea / coffee, expert lecture and entry to the exhibition
The Spiro Ark—25-26 Enford Street, London, W1H 1DW
Tel. 020 7723 9991 Fax 020 7723 8191
Email education@spiroark.org, Web www.spiroark.org
A Day in Hampstead with two Diverse Personalities
A visit to The Sigmund Freud Museum and 2 Willow Road
Sigmund Freud fled to England in 1938. He brought with him all his furniture, his famous couch and his incredible collection of Roman and oriental antiques. We will have a talk on Freud by the curator of the Museum and later a short debate on Freud and his work. The Freud Museum is at 20 Maresfield Gardens, NW3. You can choose to have lunch at the Freemasons Arms, in nearby Willow Rd where we have booked a private function room and hopefully hear about the pub’s history from the host.
We will then regroup to visit 2 Willow Road at 2pm, the home of the renowned Jewish architect Arno Goldfinger, the father of high rise buildings and hear a talk about his life and work.
Thursday 13 November 2008, 11am
Meeting at 20 Maresfield Gdns, NW3
(nearest station Swiss Cottage)
£15 (lunch not included)
Adi Ashkenazi’s Photographic Exhibition
Adi’s style of photography is personal, exploring different techniques and mediums for his distinctive creations. His collection of images portrays the expressions of people who are stopped in mid-motion. His subjects represent beauty, harmony, peace and things we all seek but rarely capture.
Recently, Adi mixes photography with digital art. He frequently exhibits around the world; in NYC law school gallery, Cornel Medical Gallery, Empire State Building Gallery, and in many galleries in Israel and Mexico City. This exhibition at Spiro Ark is his first in Europe. In 1995 he opened a Laser Show Production company in Israel creating a unique art presentation and animation with 3D at real time.
Opening reception: Sunday 16 November, 7.30pm
The exhibition will be open until 11 January 2009
Mondays to Fridays 10:00am—5:00pm
Venue: At the Spiro Ark Centre
Entrance Free
The Stone Flower (2007)
(Gole Sangam)
Hebrew and Farsi with English subtitles UK film premiere
Gole sangam means ‘stone flower’ in Farsi. This documentary follows two elderly Jewish women, who immigrated from Iran to Israel 50 years ago and currently live in a deprived area. Married in their teens, they moved from the domineering homes of their parents to those of their husbands. Now, aged 70, they reflect on the choices they have made, and those they were forced to make. Anxious to learn about their experiences, Sarit, the director, a 30-year- old unmarried Israeli-born Iranian, is trying to map out a future for herself. The film raises questions about love, family, femininity and dreams. The Stone flower has been shown at Festivals in the USA and Greece as well as Israel.
After the screening we recommend the public to share their personal experiences, their own or their family’s.
Tuesday 18 November 2008, 7.30 pm
Entry: £10
Venue: The Sephardi Centre— 2, Ashworth Road, London W9
Marc Chagall – The Man and His Art
A Lecture by Mitch Wax
Born Moishe Shygall, in 1897 in Pestecovatic about 4 miles from Vitebsk he changed his name to Marc Chagall in 1908/9. He died in St Paul de Vence, France, in 1994, aged 97.
There were a number of great artists who were Jewish, such as Pissarro, Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Jules Pascin etc. but only a very few who could be called Jewish artists. Head and shoulders above the others was Marc Chagall. In all the different periods and influences of his life, he was always aware of his roots and background.
Mitch Wax is the President of Edgware Reform Synagogue and served on the Zionist Federation and the Board of Deputies for British Jews, in which he was a member of the Israel Committee for 25 years. He currently lectures extensively on the Life and Works of Marc Chagall, and Camille Pissarro with another lecture on ‘An Impression of The Impressionists’.
Sunday 23 November 2008, 7.30pm
At Spiro Ark Centre
£7
Saul Steinberg’s Work
Visit to Dulwich Picture Gallery
Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) was an American Jewish cartoonist whose magic lit up the pages and covers of The New Yorker for six decades. He is the subject of Dulwich Picture Gallery’s latest illustrators’ exhibition retrospective. It features more than a hundred drawings, collages and sculptural assemblages by the artist whom many regard as not only a comic genius but among the greatest draftsmen of the modern era. This exhibition is the first full scale review of his career. The exhibition covers the whole range of his work from high art to low comedy, from murals to magazines, from caricature to cartography, and is a close-up of the contradictions of the 20th century. It will make the visitor smile a lot!
Sunday 30 November 2008, 11.45am
Dulwich Picture Gallery—Gallery Road, SE21 7AD
£25 including tea / coffee, expert lecture and entry to the exhibition
The Spiro Ark—25-26 Enford Street, London, W1H 1DW
Tel. 020 7723 9991 Fax 020 7723 8191
Email education@spiroark.org, Web www.spiroark.org
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