BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Davar Bristol - ECPv6.9.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Davar Bristol REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T213000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20260102T061334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260108T072213Z UID:1127-1770838200-1770845400@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:The making of the Last Musician of Auschwitz DESCRIPTION:The making of the Last Musician of Auschwitz \nToby Trackman • London \nThe Last Musician of Auschwitz is a complex\, powerful film which uses the surprising existence of music in the camp to explore the role of art in preserving a sense of humanity in the face of the most terrible violations.  Director of the film\, Toby Trackman\, will be sharing his deeply personal experience of making the film\, revealing the emotional\, moral and creative challenges that staging musical performances in Auschwitz involve. He will talk through how the film came to be\, share powerfully moving moments from the making of it\, and reflect on how the film has been received in today’s tense and uncertain atmosphere. \n \nRaised in Bristol\, Toby Trackman is an award-winning documentary director\, with a career spanning over 20 years. Known for his beautifully crafted cinematic approach\, he brings creative ambition and compelling storytelling to every project\, whether that’s with A-list superstars such Elton John and Dua Lipa\, or with contributors in the most sensitive of situations\, such as in his films double Grierson award winning film Stabbed and Life and Death in Chicago\, which both explored the trauma left behind by violent crime. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-making-of-the-last-musician-of-auschwitz/ LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:history,holocaust,Talk ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240410T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240410T210000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20240115T185535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240502T143911Z UID:775-1712777400-1712782800@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation DESCRIPTION:This fifty-minute documentary film explores the Holocaust’s impact on the children of survivors\, including recorded interviews. They share their families’ true stories and explore the complexities of having Holocaust survivors as parents. It is produced by Tracey Goldring who is founder of Searching for Identity\, an organisation that works with second and third generation of Holocaust survivors in the United States. XXXX \nAfter viewing the film\, Marian Liebmann will lead a discussion\, firstly about the film\, and secondly about the varied experiences of being Second Generation. Marian lives in Bristol and is a longstanding member of DAVAR. Her parents were Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. She coordinates the Bristol and South West Second Generation Group. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/traces-voices-of-the-second-generation/ LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:holocaust,Talk ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240214T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240214T210000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20240115T190200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T072334Z UID:768-1707939000-1707944400@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Berlin to London: An Emotional History of two Refugees DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Esther Saraga explores her complex and ambivalent relationships as daughter and academic to a vast collection of family papers concerned with my parents’ forced migration from Nazi Germany.  She recognised that the letters do not ‘speak for themselves’\, but tell several different possible stories.   I have used the papers to explore ‘how it felt’ to live through these historic events. The experiences of these two refugees\, set in their historical context\, shed light on life in Nazi Germany\, the difficulties of getting out and into the UK\, and on British attitudes and policies towards refugees. Their contradictory experiences challenge simple views of Britain’s liberal tradition of welcoming refugees. She draws parallels between her parents’ experiences in the 1930s and people today – both refugees and the children of the Windrush generation – in relation to issues such as the ‘tyranny of documentation’\, statelessness and problems with the Home Office. \nEsther Saraga is the daughter of German Jewish refugees. She has forty years’ experience teaching and researching in higher education\, moving from a first degree in mathematics in Cambridge to a PhD in Psychology in London\, feeling finally at home as a feminist critical social scientist at the Open University.  She retired in 2009 to concentrate on this project. Berlin to London. An Emotional History of Two Refugees was published by Vallentine Mitchell in 2019. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/berlin-to-london-an-emotional-history-of-two-refugees/ LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:holocaust,Talk ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231115T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231115T221500 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20230829T182353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T182353Z UID:756-1700078400-1700086500@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Shadow of the Day DESCRIPTION:Italy 2022\, 128 mins\, Italian (with English subtitles); Director Giuseppe Piccione\, featuring Riccardo Scarmarcio\, Benedetta Porcaroli \nThe film is set in 1938 Italy.  Like the majority of his fellow Italians\, decorated war veteran and restaurant manager Luciano is a staunch supporter of the country’s fascist regime. Shortly after the Italian racial laws are introduced\, Anna\, a young beautiful woman\, turns up at the restaurant\, desperately looking for work. When Anna’s closely kept secrets are finally revealed\, Luciano\, who has fallen in love with her\, must reconsider his ideological beliefs and decide where his loyalties lie. This captivating melodrama perfectly captures the oppression and fear created by Mussolini’s brutal rule. \nFilm contains scenes of a sexual nature \nDAVAR is delighted to be showing Shadow of the Day and Matchmaking   in conjunction with UK Jewish Film Festival 2023 \nNOTE tickets to be booked from UKJFF box office: www.ukjewishfilm.org \n  \n \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/shadow-of-the-day/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Cinema,history,holocaust ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230308T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230308T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20230112T142800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230112T143044Z UID:710-1678305600-1678312800@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Charlotte DESCRIPTION:Based on an expansive collection of a thousand autobiographical paintings found after the war – considered by some to be the first graphic novel – this stunningly beautiful\, animated film sheds light on the life and work of Berlin-born artist Charlotte Salomon. Restricted and haunted by antisemitic laws\, the immensely gifted Salomon was forced to leave her beloved home country for southern France\, where she continued to paint\, using her art as a way of coping with her traumatic past and troubled family. Aged 26 and pregnant\, she was murdered in Auschwitz\, leaving her paintings\, a remarkable record of mid-20th century life\, to be found after the war. Salomon’s life was tragically cut short\, but Charlotte – featuring the voice of Keira Knightley who leads a starry British cast – excels in capturing the sheer genius of her art and its lasting\, powerful legacy. \nCanada/Belgium/France 2021\, 92 mins\, English \nDirector Eric Warin\, Tahir Rana featuring Keira Knightly\, Jim Broadbent\, Helen McCrory \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/charlotte/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:art,Cinema,history,holocaust ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T200000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20220110T085814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220110T085814Z UID:608-1643227200-1643227200@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Everything is Illuminated DESCRIPTION:USA 2005\, 104 mins\, English\, Russian\, Ukrainian \nDirector Liev Schreiber\, featuring Elijah Wood\, Eugene Hütz \nThis American biographical comedy was adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel of the same name.  Jonathan Safran Foer\, a young American Jew\, goes on a quest to find the woman\, Augustine\, who saved his grandfather\, Safran Foer\, during the Holocaust in a small Ukrainian town called Trachimbrod that was wiped off the map when the Nazis liquidated Eastern European shtetls.  His guides are a cranky\, seemingly antisemitic grandfather\, his wound-up dog named Sammy Davis\, Jr.\, Jr.\, and his enthusiastic grandson\, Alex\, who constantly chatters with a unique command of English and a passion for American pop culture that keeps the arduous journey lighter. \n‘Liev Schreiber’s Everything is Illuminated begins in goofiness and ends in silence and memory. How it gets from one to the other is the subject of the film\, a journey undertaken by three men and a dog into the secrets of the past.’ (Robert Ebert) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/everything-is-illuminated/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Cinema,holocaust END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T210000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20210913T083605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T135020Z UID:542-1639078200-1639083600@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:The Ghetto: Travelling through history DESCRIPTION:“Ghetto” is an extraordinarily complex word which is both a noun and an adjective. It has layers of contrasting meanings accrued over five hundred years and a bewildering array of settings across the globe. It refers to medieval and early modern Jewish history; black experience in the great northern cities of America in the twentieth century; nineteenth-century imaginary ghettos; and our contemporary sense of cities and countries segregated by race and class.  What makes “the ghetto” unique is that it is a place full of historical memory. Sometimes memory makes the ghetto “real”; at other times past versions of the ghetto are forgotten. But\, from the beginning\, ghettos have had a variety of histories and connotations. This talk will show how different ghettos (urban\, racial\, colonial) travel across time and space. \n  \nBryan Cheyette is Chair in Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Reading\, and a Fellow of the English Association. He has authored or edited eleven books\, most recently The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP\, 2020). He loves to travel and has held visiting positions at Dartmouth College\, the University of Michigan\, and the University of Pennsylvania\, and he also holds fellowships at the universities of Leeds\, Southampton and Birkbeck College\, London. He is a past book’s editor of The Jewish Quarterly and writes for the Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish Renaissance. A self-confessed “revieweroholic”\, he reviews fiction for several British newspapers including the Times Literary Supplement and the Times Higher. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-ghetto-travelling-through-history/ LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:history,holocaust,Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20210913T083946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T135217Z UID:548-1635364800-1635372000@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Sarah’s Key DESCRIPTION:Adapted from Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel of the same name\, Sarah’s Key is an account of research by a journalist into a shameful incident in French history which intertwines with a story of a young Jewish girl from that time period. \n  \n‘In Paris in 1942 the French police round up 10-year-old Sarah (Mélusine Mayance) and her family. To save her little brother\, Sarah locks him in a closet and closely guards the key on her awful journey\, which starts at the stifling Vélodrome d’Hiver\, where Jews were packed in and made to wait for transport to the camps. Sixty or so years later\, Julia (Kristin Scott Thomas\, excellent as always)\, an American journalist married to a Frenchman\, researches an article about that roundup. Because of the article and an accident of real estate\, Julia starts to obsess about Sarah and her fate\, even as her own comfortable Parisian life begins to crumble’ (Rachel Saltz\, NY Times) \nFrance 2010\, 111 mins\, French\, English \nDirector Gilles Pacquet-Brenner featuring Kristin Scott Thomas \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/sarahs-key/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing,history,holocaust END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210114T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210114T210000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20201215T193309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201215T193356Z UID:485-1610652600-1610658000@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Ferramonti: Salvation behind the barbed wire DESCRIPTION:In 1982 nearing the end of a remarkable life\, consultant David Henryk Ropschitz put pen to paper to share his own story of 1940s wartime survival. His highly personal novel is about life in the Italian internment camp\, Ferramonti\, where thousands of Jews and other ‘undesirables’ were imprisoned. In his novel Dr Ropschitz looks back with tenderness and humour at these traumatic years and takes the reader on a journey from wartime Calabria to the Abruzzi\, from barbed wire to freedom\, exploring the themes of faith\, humanity and psychoanalysis along the way. \nYolanda Ropschitz-Bentham was born in Derby and grew up in West Yorkshire. After many travels and adventures she moved to Bristol in 1984 and then settled on a smallholding in rural Somerset\, raising her family and teaching Psychology for over 25 years.  She also wrote some comic pieces\, two of her stories featured on BBC Somerset\, and worked as a volunteer presenter on local radio. Following retirement in 2016 Yolanda turned to her late father’s manuscript\, “Ferramonti.”  Researching his autobiographical novel led to regular visits to the Ferrramonti di Tarsia camp museum in Calabria and meetings with former internees from the 1940s and their descendants. This connection\, culminating in the publication of “Ferramonti: Salvation behind the barbed wire\,” has produced one of the most rewarding periods of her life so far\, affording Yolanda cherished opportunities to travel to Italy\, Israel and South America. Life stories from former internees are now forming the basis of her next book: “The People of Ferramonti: Then and Now.” \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/ferramonti-salvation-behind-the-barbed-wire/ LOCATION:Virtual streamed CATEGORIES:holocaust END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201112T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201112T210000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20200901T105815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201115T113820Z UID:442-1605209400-1605214800@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Creativity against the odds: Art and Internment during World War Two DESCRIPTION:To mark the 80th anniversary of the British government’s controversial decision to ‘collar the lot’\, this illustrated lecture will examine the art produced in the British internment camps\, mostly but not only on the Isle of Man. It will do so in the broader context of art produced in other internment situations\, from the Japanese-American camps in the USA to the Nazi POW and concentration camps. Just what is it that makes human beings feel the urge to create in such adverse and inauspicious circumstances? To hear a recording of this talk please click on the following link which will take you to the Insiders/Outsiders youtube channel \n \nMonica Bohm-Duchen is a London-based art historian. Her book Art and the Second World War was published in 2013. She is the initiator and creative director of the nationwide\, year-long Insiders/Outsiders Festival (https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/)\, which celebrates the huge contribution made to British culture by refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe – many of whom were interned as ‘enemy aliens’ by the British government in 1940. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/creativity-against-the-odds-art-and-internment-during-world-war-two/ LOCATION:Virtual streamed CATEGORIES:art,history,holocaust,Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200930T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200930T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20200915T074914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200915T075231Z UID:459-1601496000-1601503200@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:JoJo Rabbit DESCRIPTION:Dir. Taika Waititi\,\nStarring Taika Waititi\, Roman Griffin Davis\, Scarlett Johansson\, Rebel Wilson ; 2019\, 123 mins\, English \nSince the days of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator\, film-makers have adopted naive or comedic perspectives to pierce and deflate the hideous bubble of Nazi ideology. Now\, in this Golden Globe-nominated adaptation of Christine Leunens’s book Caging Skies\, New Zealand writer-director-performer Taika Waititi plays a camp\, slapstick version of Hitler\, who exists in the mind of a German boy\, Jojo. Roman Griffin Davis plays the 10-year-old growing up under the Third Reich\, whose jolly dreams of becoming an Aryan war hero are thwarted by his innate sensitivity and squeamishness. Beneath the fanaticism\, Jojo is a frightened boy whose sister has died and whose father has disappeared in battle. But his mother\, Rosie (Scarlett Johansson)\, has a secret: she’s a covert anti-fascist who is hiding a Jewish girl\, Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie)\, in the attic. When Jojo stumbles upon Elsa\, he is initially horrified\, believing her to be a monster. But gradually the pair strike up a love-hate relationship that infuriates imaginary Adolf and causes Jojo to start to rethink his allegiances. Through Elsa\, Waititi articulates some fundamental and insidious tenets of antisemitism that are being touted even now. She is the real conduit for empathy in the audience\, regardless of whether you’re Jewish or not \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/jojo-rabbit/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Comedy,Film Showing,holocaust END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200129T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200129T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20200113T215210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200123T184136Z UID:394-1580328000-1580335200@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Remember DESCRIPTION:Canada/Germany 2015\, 94 mins\, English \nDirector Atom Egoyan featuring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau \n‘Christopher Plummer puts on a master class in acting\, and his director\, Atom Egoyan\, delivers one in audience manipulation in Remember a psychological thriller featuring that most blood-boiling of plot devices: a Nazi who escaped justice.’ \nMr. Plummer is Zev and Martin Landau plays Max\, fellow residents in an assisted-living complex. Max realizes they were both at Auschwitz. He is the brains and Zev is the brawn\, so to speak\, of a plan Max has hatched to seek vengeance on a concentration camp official who escaped to the United States under a false identity. Max is in a wheelchair\, but he arms Zev and sends him on a cross-country journey to interview four people who could be the missing Nazi\, the hope being that he’ll kill the man once he finds him. But Zev is floating in and out of dementia\, complicating the task and giving Mr. Plummer a chance to turn in a very fine performance.’ (Neil Glezinger\, NY Times review) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/remember/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing,holocaust END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191127T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191127T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20190811T143416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190811T143416Z UID:358-1574884800-1574892000@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Back to Berlin DESCRIPTION:Following eleven modern-day Jewish bikers on an epic journey from Tel-Aviv to Berlin\, crossing nine European countries and 4\,500 km in twenty-four days. Their mission\, to deliver the Maccabi torch to Hitler’s infamous 1936 Olympic stadium\, for the opening ceremony of the 2015 European Maccabiah Games. These riders follow in the tracks of the early 1930s’ bikers who set out from Tel Aviv to all corners of Europe.  En route\, each country holds a chilling resonance for our motor-cycling Holocaust survivors\, descendants of survivors and the grandson of a 1930s Maccabiah Rider. Stories of defiance and survival are revealed\, as well as those of horrifying tragedy.  As resurgent populism and anti-Semitism once again rear their ugly heads\, this film brings an important message through the voice of those who have been personally affected by one of the darkest pages in human history. This isn’t simply a “Jewish” story. It is the story of people overcoming the worst from fellow man to restate our common humanity. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/back-to-berlin/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing,holocaust ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://davarbristol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/F3_BackToBerlin.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191030T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191030T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123203 CREATED:20190811T142528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191008T072447Z UID:352-1572465600-1572472800@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:A bag of marbles (un sac de billes) DESCRIPTION:Last year this film was sold out\, so we are reshowing it. Canadian director Christian Duguay explores the horrors of World War Two from the perspective of two young Jewish boys living in Nazi-occupied France in Un Sac de Billes (A Bag of Marbles). Based on the acclaimed memoirs of the same name by Joseph Joffo\, A Bag of Marbles is a lavishly shot production that is brilliantly acted and is a gut-wrenching reminder of one of history’s darkest chapters. Following the fall of Paris to Nazi Germany during World War II\, brothers Maurice (Batyste Fleurial) and Joseph (Dorian Le Clech) are forced to leave their close-knit Jewish family behind for the free-zone along the French Riviera. \n Despite the grim war scenes and the dark subject matter\, Duguay has created a lavishly shot film that boasts stunning cinematography\, lush locations and beautiful period costumes. The film beautifully balances the high stake tension with some sweet and endearing moments between the two brothers and celebrates their innocence. While the film is a dark reminder of a terrible page in our history\, its heart-warming story reminds us that there are still good people in our darkest moments (modified from Daniele Foti-Cuzzola) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/a-bag-of-marbles-un-sac-de-billes-2/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing,history,holocaust ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://davarbristol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/A-sac-of-marbles.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190212T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190212T210000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123204 CREATED:20190105T185928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T185928Z UID:316-1549999800-1550005200@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Finding Relly DESCRIPTION:Rosemary grew up as the daughter of a Czech immigrant in post-war UK and Canada. She was unaware of her father’s Jewish identity and of what really happened to his absent relatives. After her father’s death\, she felt compelled to discover the truth about his family. Tracing her aunt Relly\, who had emigrated to Australia after surviving Auschwitz\, was a significant turning point in her life and her new book Finding Relly is about her journey\, both personal and logistical.Rosemary will also talk about using her book to educate schoolchildren about the Holocaust. \n  \nRosemary Schonfeld toured the world throughout the 1980s with her band Ova.  She is a professional musician and composer based in Devon. She has recorded and produced/co-produced six albums\, co-run a recording studio\, devised a teaching package for percussionists\, and is currently working on a rock opera. She has published an illustrated book of Nonsense Poetry\, Standing on Your Head\, and short stories. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/finding-relly/ LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE CATEGORIES:family,holocaust,Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190130T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190130T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123204 CREATED:20190105T185428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T185428Z UID:311-1548878400-1548885600@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:1945 DESCRIPTION:The arrival of two orthodox Jews upsets the wedding day of a rural town clerk’s son in Hungary in 1945. This drama filmed in elegant black and white is from Hungarian director Ferenc Török. It captures the collective guilt of the community who have moved into the homes and taken possession of the property of their former Jewish neighbours forcing them to face culpability and dishonour when challenged by the two men of faith. \n  \nHungary 2017\, 91 mins\, Hungarian with sub-titles (Black and White) \nDirector Ferenc Török with Péter Rudolf and Tamás Szabó Kimme \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/1945/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing,holocaust END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180213T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180213T210000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123204 CREATED:20180114T083704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180211T170945Z UID:241-1518550200-1518555600@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:No poetry after Auschwitz DESCRIPTION:  \nStarting with Theodor Adorno’s much-quoted proposition that ‘After Auschwitz it is barbaric to write poetry’\, this talk will explore the tension between confronting the reality of the Holocaust and responding artistically through the medium of poetry to human experience. By focusing on individual poems by survivors such as Paul Celan and Primo Levi and English-language poets such as Anthony Hecht\, Michael Longley and Carol Ann Duffy\, the talk will tentatively consider how necessary poetry remains in the modern world. Examples of poems will be provided and can be found in the anthology\, “Holocaust Poetry”\, edited by Hilda Schiff. \nPhilip Lyons is a teacher and poet who lives in Bristol. He has taught creative writing and literary studies in a variety of settings\, including universities\, prisons and psychiatric hospitals. Since completing a PhD on Literary and Theological Responses to the Holocaust at the University of Bristol in 1988\, he has also worked in the fields of advice and guidance\, mental health\, and adult education. He is the author of one full-length collection\, “Like It Is” (Poetry Space\, 2011)\, and he has given readings throughout the South West\, including the Wells Festival of Literature and the Thornbury Arts Festival. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/no-poetry-after-auschwitz/ LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE CATEGORIES:holocaust,poetry,Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180131T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180131T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123204 CREATED:20180114T083423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180114T083748Z UID:236-1517428800-1517436000@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:The Zookeepers Wife DESCRIPTION:Adapted from Diane Ackerman’s 2007 non-fiction book\, the film follows Warsaw zookeepers Jan (Heldenbergh) and Antonina (Chastain) as they risk their lives to save Jewish townspeople from the Nazis by concealing them in their zoo home-turned-pig farm. From the opening scene of almost fairy-tale idyll\, life is transformed by the arrival of the Nazis.  The film contrasts life in the zoo with the neighbouring Warsaw ghetto and the struggles of its inhabitants as well as the partisans. \nThe story of the zookeepers who risked their lives repeatedly throughout the war is an incredibly moving and important story\, in and of itself. Years later\, when asked why they did what they did\, Jan Zabinski answered\, “I only did my duty—if you can save somebody’s life\, it’s your duty to try.” (Sheila O’Malley) \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-zookeepers-wife/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Showing,holocaust END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171129T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171129T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123204 CREATED:20170825T065352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T065422Z UID:206-1511985600-1511992800@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Denial DESCRIPTION:In 1996\, the historian Deborah Lipstadt was pursued in the UK courts by the notorious Holocaust denier David Irving\, for calling him a falsifier of history in her book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. This movie version of those events\, stars Rachel Weisz as Lipstadt and Timothy Spall as Irving. Weisz plays the professional historian who is astonished to find that people expect her to debate on equal terms with sinister deniers.  Lipstadt retains the solicitor Anthony Julius\, (Andrew Scott)\, who plans a shrewd legal tactic that involves the case being heard in front of a judge\, with no jury\, to minimise Irving’s theatricals. This film\, which reasserts the primacy of truth telling its story with punchy commitment and force\, is a breath of fresh air. (modified Peter Bradshaw\, Guardian) \nUK & US 2016\, 110 mins\, English \nDirector Mike Jackson featuring Rachel Weisz\, Tom Wilkinson\, Timothy Spall \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/denial/ LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\, BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:drama,Film Showing,holocaust END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170214T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170214T211500 DTSTAMP:20260413T123204 CREATED:20170107T170719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170107T170719Z UID:154-1487100600-1487106900@davarbristol.co.uk SUMMARY:Jewish Music out of the Shadows: Hidden Archives\, Lost Worlds DESCRIPTION:  \nThe catastrophes of the twentieth century\, most significantly the Shoah\, led to the near destruction of the rich musical heritage of Eastern European and Russian Jews. Composers\, performers and their art were either lost forever\, or else became dispersed and fragmented\, leaving only shadowy echoes of a lost world. Stephen Muir will talk about a large international research project\, “Performing the Jewish Archive”\, which aims to bring some of that music back out of the shadows. Recovered from dusty cellars in Helsinki\, abandoned suitcases in Cape Town\, and the archive of human testimony held in the memories of survivors and their families\, music allows us to glimpse the riches of that lost world\, at the same time reminding us that unless they are cherished and recorded with painstaking care and urgency\, our archives risk being lost forever along with the world that produced them. \nStephen Muir studied at the University of Birmingham\, and is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Leeds. He has published on subjects as diverse as Rimsky-Korsakov’s operas\, Dvořák’s piano-vocal arrangements\, and South African Jewish music. In 2014 he and other scholars were awarded one of the largest ever grants (£1.8 million) by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for “Performing the Jewish Archive” (ptja.leeds.ac.uk). \n  \nThis event as part of a programme of events for Bristol Holocaust Memorial Day (2017) See their website for more details \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/jewish-music-out-of-the-shadows-hidden-archives-lost-worlds/ LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE CATEGORIES:archive,holocaust,music,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://davarbristol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/T1_Muir_image.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR