Creative Sanctuary: Refugees at Dartington in the 1930s and Beyond

Nationwide arts festival celebrating refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British cultureMarch 2020 marked the official end of the festival, but also the beginning of a longer-term commitment to celebrating the impact of this remarkable generation of émigrés under the Insiders/Outsiders umbrella

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2 day online symposium exploring little-known fact that Dartington Hall was an important place of sanctuary for refugees from Fascist Europe

An online symposium on 20-21 October exploring the little-known fact that Dartington Hall in Devon was an important place of sanctuary for refugees from Fascist Europe. Dartington Hall, established by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst in the late 1920s as a utopian agricultural and educational experiment, became a much-needed place of refuge for a significant number of eminent creative individuals, who because of their Jewish background and/or anti-fascist stance, were forced to leave Germany (and later, Austria) after 1933. Spanish Republicans fleeing the Spanish Civil War were also welcomed.Comprising a lively mixture of illustrated talks straddling multiple art forms (fine and applied arts, architecture, dance and music), discussions, Q&A sessions and film screenings, the programme will be aimed at both a general and a specialist audience, local, national and international. The symposium, which draws on the very latest archival researches by established and early career scholars alike, will fill a significant gap in twentieth century British cultural and social history. For full details of the programme, see below.*NB Free access to the symposium will be granted to all those living in the TQ postcodes*Concessions: students + unwagedThe symposium is kindly supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Shoresh Charitable Trust, the Elmgrant Trust and Counterpoints Arts.Main image: Hans Keller teaching at Summer School of Music, Dartington Hall

<h2>Programme Day 1: Friday 20 October</h2><h3>Setting the Scene</h3>9.15am: Welcome and introductory words by Monica Bohm-Duchen, Founding Director of Insiders/Outsiders project9.30-10.15am: Dr. Anna Neima, author of Practical Utopia: The Many Lives of Dartington Hall: An Experiment in Living: The Story Behind Dartington Hall10.15-11.00am: Charlie Knight (Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton): The Refugees of Dartington Hall: Reflections on the Archive 11.00am: Q &A + COFFEE BREAK11.30-11.50am: Professor Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles (University of Exeter): Girls in Science: Margarita Comas, from Menorca to Dartington11.50-12.20pm: Discussion + Q&A12.20-1.00pm: LUNCH BREAK<h3>Architecture, Fine and Applied Arts</h3>1.00pm: Introduction by architecture and design historian Alan Powers1.15pm: Valeria Carullo (Curator, The Robert Elwall Photographs Collection RIBA British Architectural Library): Modern Architecture at Dartington1.35pm: Marcus Williamson (independent curator and journalist): Artists and sculptors at work: René Halkett and Willi Soukop at Dartington 1.55pm: Sigrid Ruby (University of Giessen, Germany): A Man of Many Talents: Hein Heckroth at Dartington Hall School2.15pm: Q&A + ‘comfort break'2.35pm: Rüdiger Matthias Joppien (Honorary Professor, University of Hamburg): Naum Slutzky: Bauhaus Artist as a Refugee from Nazi Germany at Dartington, 1935 - 1940  2.55pm: Dr. Anna Nyburg (Imperial College London): Hellmuth Weissenborn: A Leipzig-born refugee from Nazism and Dartington Hall (1958)3.15pm: Elizabeth Lamle (University of Birmingham): From Nazi Germany to Dartington Hall: Community and Migration in the Freud Family Letters3.35-4.15pm: Discussion + Q&Ac.4.15pm: END<h2>Programme Day 2: Saturday 21 October</h2><h3>Dancing in Utopia</h3>9.15am: Introduction by dance historian Dr.Clare Lidbury9.25am: Dr.Marion Kant (University of Cambridge): Concepts of Utopia: Dartington and Dance.9.45am: Laure Guilbert (Max Planck Institute, Berlin): The Ballets Jooss during WWII: the odyssey of an exiled company in the Americas10.05am: Tim Rubidge (dancer/choreographer): Sigurd Leeder's Echo – a parallel reflection from Tim Rubidge10.25am: Q&A10.50- 12 noon: COFFEE BREAK + opportunity to watch recent film version of live performance of The Green Table. To view, click on this link [film lasts c.37 minutes]12 noon: Larraine Nicholas, author of Dancing in Utopia: Dartington Hall and Its Dancers: Lisa Ullmann and Jenny Gertz: promoting dance, community and education in and around the crisis of 1939/4012.20pm: Professor Rebecca Loukes (University of Exeter): ‘I am, I am, I am’ Gertrud Falke-Heller’s Body Awareness Training at Dartington Hall 1937-194012.40pm: Julia Seiber Boyd: Lilla Bauer 1912-2011: sources – true and false1pm: Discussion + Q&A1.20- 2.00pm: LUNCH<h3>Music-making in Utopia</h3>2.00pm: Dr. Clare Lidbury: Fritz Cohen, before and after The Green Table2.20-2.30pm: Q&A2.30-3.30pm: Dr. Harriet Cunningham, Dr. Alison Garnham and Nobert Meyn, founding director of Music, Mobility and Migration project: Post-war music at Dartington: the importance of the Summer School of Music3.30pm: Q&A + TEA BREAK4.15pm: panel discussion + Q&A with Leina Schiffrin, Gabriele Foti and Etain Todds, former pupils at Dartington Hall Schoolc.5.15pm: END

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