What's On April & May 2015

WHAT’S ON April & May 2015 www.jw3.org.uk

WHAT’S ON Theatre, Music, Dance, Film, Comedy, Talks & Discussions, Exhibitions, Walks, Trips and Special Events

April & May 2015

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WHAT’S ON

Welcome to our guide to a multitude of entertaining events in April and May, with theatre, film, music, comedy, debate and more. After JW3’s recent merger with the London Jewish Cultural Centre, we’re proud to present our first season of joint programming, featuring the best of both venues.

Stage highlights include an album launch from the critically acclaimed Kathryn Williams, How to Disappear Completely by award-winning lighting designer and storyteller Itai Erdal, and an outstanding programme of classical and jazz concerts from Ivy House Music & Dance, moving across to JW3 from its previous home at the LJCC. We’re very excited to be hosting a Friday Night Dinner with Friday Night Dinner, including a meal, screening of episodes and discussion with cast members from the hit Channel 4 series.

The JW3 Cinema will be screening new releases, Live Arts on the Big Screen and the best of Jewish and Israeli film from UK Jewish Film and SERET. Foodies Film Club is back with a film-inspired cooking class, followed by a screening. Among our talks and discussions are Israeli Elections – One Month On, Sigmund Freud’s Sculptor and Food: Enemy or Friend? Trips and walks include visits to Hampstead and The National Archives, Kew. Ivy House will continue to house exciting exhibitions, with Barbara Jackson and Julie Held coming next.

Look out for the ‘at Ivy House’ flag, denoting the handful of wonderful events taking place at Ivy House before it closes at the end of July.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

CONTENTS Music p2 Performance p4 Shavuot p6 Comedy p7 Ivy House Music & Dance p8 Cinema p9 Friday Night Dinner p13 Yom Ha’Shoah p14 Yom Ha’Zikaron & Yom Ha’Atzma’ut p15 Talks & Discussions p17 Trips p21 Walks p22 Exhibitions p24

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See what else is going on at JW3 in our other season guides: WHAT’S ON FAMILIES & FUSION

CLASSES & COURSES

April-August 2015 www.jw3.org.uk

April - August 2015 www.jw3.org.uk

WHAT’S ON FAMILIES &

CLASSES & COURSES

Events for children & teenagers, Family Fun Sundays, Parenting, Early Years & Half Term

Adult Learning, Food & Drink, Art Studio, Health & Fitness and Languages

April-August 2015

April - August 2015

What’s On Families & Fusion

Classes & Courses

JW3 is a non-profit charitable community centre and arts venue, reliant on the generosity of donors.

For further information on how to support us, please contact our development team at info@jw3development.org.uk or call 020 7433 8962

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

MUSIC Wednesday 20 May

KATHRYN WILLIAMS ALBUM LAUNCH 8pm, £15 Kathryn has been making music to critical acclaim for 15 years. In that time she has had a Mercury nomination and worked with John Martyn, Ray LaMontagne, Bombay Bicycle Club, David Gray, Neill MacColl and The Be Good Tanyas amongst many others. Caitlin Moran said ‘she should be paid a million pounds to not stop singing’.

After being given a commission by New Writing North to write songs celebrating Sylvia Plath at the Durham Book Festival, Kathryn wrote a set of songs inspired by characters from The Bell Jar. The album Hypoxia, her 11th to date, will be released on One Little Indian Records this summer.

Its producer Ed Harcourt describes it as ’a dark masterpiece that grows and hooks into your heart’.

This will be the first performance of the album in full.

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MUSIC

Sunday 3 May

Wednesday 27 May

JAZZ@JW3: JACQUI DANKWORTH AND CHARLIE WOOD

SPANISH GUITAR MAGIC: BEN CARMONA IN CONCERT WITH SPECIAL GUEST CARLOS BONELL

8pm, £15 Jazz @ JW3 is back kicking off with vocalist Jacqui Dankworth and singer, songwriter and keyboardist Charlie Wood together in a husband and wife double bill. Performing individual sets and duets with their quartet, this outstanding duo will feature some of their favourite songs, incorporating a delicious mixture of jazz, blues, traditional r&b and popular music.

Part of Ivy House Music & Dance.

Wednesday 6 May

BESTER QUARTET: LAG B’OMER PERFORMANCE 8pm, £12 On this Lag B’Omer night, join the Bester Quartet, a group at the heart of the cultural Jewish renaissance in Poland, for a musical journey influenced by classical, jazz, avant-garde and Jewish traditional music styles. The ensemble is a new incarnation of the legendary Cracow Klezmer Band, that was formed back in 1997. The quartet has a long-standing cooperation with John Zorn’s New York based Tzadik label that has resulted in releasing eight albums so far.

For this show they will perform material from their albums, as well as music by John Zorn.

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7.30pm, £12 Two virtuosi from two generations present a programme of guitar classics including Bach, Barrios, The Beatles, Ben’s arrangements of some Jewish/Israeli songs, and some fiery music from Spain by Isaac Albeniz.

Ben, a prize winner in several international competitions, has been playing the guitar since the age of 7 and has given concerts throughout Europe. Carlos Bonell has recorded 25 albums, and is currently working with Sir Paul McCartney on a concerto he is composing for guitar and orchestra. His latest album Magical Mystery Guitar Tour went to number one on the UK iTunes Classical Chart.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

performance Sunday 17 & Monday 18 May

THE CHOP THEATRE PRESENTS: HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY 7.30pm, £12 Award-winning lighting designer and storyteller Itai Erdal draws on a life lived between his birthplace, Jerusalem, and his home in Vancouver. In 2000, he was told his mother had nine months to live. Combining the power of storytelling with the nuanced potency of stage lighting, Erdal demonstrates theatrical lighting to poignant effect as he reflects on events that followed his mother asking him to take her life.

‘Gripping... theatre doesn’t get more raw than this’ - Fringe Guru ‘Remarkable... moving and powerful’ - Edinburgh Guide ‘Erdal has brilliant stage presence and genuine skill for storytelling’ – The List ‘Warm, witty and, naturally, beautifully lit.’

– Vancouver Sun

Approximate running time: 60 minutes.

This performance contains strobe lighting.

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PERFORMANCE

Thursday 23 April

Thursday 30 April

SAMBA AND TEARS

MAMA LOSCHEN, ‘HOW I BECAME MYSELF’ AND POETRY OPEN MIC

7.30pm, £10 What is current to us today may not be tomorrow. Samba and Tears brings news headlines to the stage through movement and technology.

Created by emerging Israeli choreographer Sivan Rubinstein (a graduate of Laban), Samba and Tears is a dance piece about news and the media; bringing to the fore questions of what is perceived as current to us in society.

Samba and Tears asks ‘What does it mean to be contemporary?’ and ‘What is contemporary culture?’.

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8pm, £8 Key organiser in UK performance poetry scene, Sam Berkson, presents the second edition of Mama Loschen, bringing spoken word and poetic-theatre to JW3. The night will feature a performance of Paula Varjack’s new one-woman show How I Became Myself, Sam Berkson will present poems from his new book Settled Wanderers.

There will also be a chance to share your own words in a friendly open mic space.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Tuesday 12 May

SHEMIRAH: STAGED READING 7.30pm, FREE, booking essential

Shavuot

Join us for this free staged reading of Shemirah, a play by Shivaun Woolfson directed by Trilby James.

Sunday 17 May

Shemirah takes place over the course of one night as 12-year old Roisin sits guard over the body of her grandfather Pop. As the night unfolds, Roisin slips between real time and memory, and the audience is transported to 1960s Jewish Dublin.

Based loosely on the memoir Home Fires

by Shivaun Woolfson, Shemirah is the story of a young girl straining under the weight of competing agendas, as she forges her own path, transcending her turbulent world through the gift of magic, story and redemption bequeathed by her beloved Pop. The man who was blind, she realises, was the one who saw it all.

3pm, £10 ©Hufton+Crow

BOUNDARY WALK

Thursday 14 May

EVERYBODY SWING 7.30pm, £12 Swing into action with JW3’s first ever intergenerational swing dance celebration.

Come together and shake off the cobwebs, under the guidance of the London Swing Dance Society. With live music from the Stew Curtis Band and an introduction to swing for beginners. This promises to be a great night out for the young and young at heart, featuring music from the 40s and 50s along with some unexpected tunes.

Part of the Jewish people’s preparation before receiving the Torah was to create a boundary on Mount Sinai, and we will echo this by marking our own boundaries at JW3. Join artist Simone Kenyon on a group walk in NW3; marking out the physical boundaries of JW3 and exploring the less tangible preparations we make for new ideas and experiences. This contemplative and celebratory walk starts and finishes at JW3 with a Shavuot serenade. Please wear clothes and footwear suitable for walking in whatever the day’s weather.

For other Shavuot events see our Classes & Courses and Families & FUSION season guides.

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COMEDY

comedy Thursdays 2 April & 7 May

HAVA NAGIGGLE COMEDY CLUB 8pm, £8 We present two new line ups for Hava Nagiggle Comedy Club hosted by our resident compere and MC Gareth Berliner. Gareth has picked top comedians who have performed internationally, as well as all over the UK, for JW3.

Suitable for 18+. May contain swearing.

Paul McCaffrey

Marcel Lucont

Thursday 2 April

Thursday 7 May

PAUL MCCAFFREY

MARCEL LUCONT

Paul McCaffrey has quickly established himself as one of the most exciting new acts around, recently appearing on Impractical Jokers and Russell Howard’s Good News (both BBC3) and a regular guest on The Matt Forde Show (talkSPORT).

‘He has charm, charisma and success written all over him’ - Evening Standard ‘Likeable, animated and fluid with a first-rate sense of timing’ – Chortle

Winner of the 2012 Amused Moose Award for the Best Comedy Show at the Edinburgh Fringe and the 2013 Fringe World Award for Best Comedy, Marcel has toured the world with his dry wit, bawdy chansons and exquisite sex poetry.

‘Fresh, accessible and hilarious’ – The Guardian ‘Wonderful French wit… A pitch-perfect performance… Superb stuff’ – Time Out

JOSHUA ROSS

Andrea Hubert has performed alongside some of the UK’s best comedians at prestigious venues all over the UK, as well as being winner of BAFTA’s Rocliffe New Writing Award 2013.

‘Her slick, fluid set is rich with inventive, sarcastic gags hung round an intriguing personality’ - Chortle

After a brilliant performance full of surreal, self-deprecating one-liners, at the UK Jewish Comedy Festival, this year’s Jewish Comedian of the Year Joshua Ross makes his first appearance at Hava Nagiggle.

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Andrea Hubert

ANDREA HUBERT

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Ivy House Music & Dance Sunday 26 April

ESCHER STRING QUARTET This New York based quartet bring their energy and electricity to perform a distinctive combination of three colourful works.

Sunday 3 May

JACQUI DANKWORTH AND CHARLIE WOOD 8pm, £15 Tuesday 9 June

NATALIE CLEIN

John Wilson image: Chris Christodoulou

3.30pm, £18

7.30pm, £18 Sunday 14 June

LEONORE PIANO TRIO 3.30pm, £18 Wednesday 1 July

SINATRA 100 WITH TODD GORDON 8pm, £15 Sunday 5 July

ENGLISH CHAMBER CHOIR AND JAZZ TRIO: THE JEWISH AMERICAN SONGBOOK WITH 8pm, £15 Thursday 9 July

JOHN WILSON ON MUSICALS 8pm, £15

More details on all of the above events see the separate Ivy House Music & Dance leaflet.

JW3 is grateful for sponsorship for Ivy House Music & Dance from the NJL Foundation.

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CINEMA

cinema Sunday 19 April

Sunday 26 April

ABOVE AND BEYOND: THE UNTOLD TRUE STORY

JUNG AND FILM - CREATIVITY AND MADNESS: THE HORSE WHISPERER

7pm, £12

9.30am, £15 for each event (£12 CAP members) During 2015, JW3 in partnership with the Confederation of Analytical Psychology (CAP) presents a series of seminars in the JW3 Cinema. Each incorporates a short introductory lecture, film screening and post-screening discussion. Lecturers are Christopher Hauke (Jungian analyst, senior lecturer in psychoanalytic studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and author of numerous film publications), Dr Helena Bassil-Morozow (cultural philosopher, film scholar and writer of many academic publications on film) or Dr Gottfried M Heuer (Jungian training analyst and supervisor, NeoReichian body-psychotherapist).

The seminars are open to anyone with an interest in cinema, Jungian psychology and psychoanalysis, They take place between 9.45am and 12.30pm, with registration from 9.30am.

In 1948, just three years after the liberation of Nazi death camps, a group of Jewish American pilots answered a call for help.

In secret and at great personal risk, they smuggled planes out of the US and flew for Israel in its War of Independence. The first major feature-length documentary about foreign airmen in the ’48 War, Above and Beyond brings together new interviews as well as stunning aerial footage to present a fascinating, little-known tale filled with heart, heroism and high-flying chutzpah.

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April’s seminar is on Robert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer (1998).

Coming up later in the year: A Dangerous Method, Sunday 5 July Amadeus, Sunday 20 September A Beautiful Mind, Sunday 8 November The JW3 Cinema screens a weekly mix of the best of new releases from around the world, plus Jewish and Israeli films curated by our partner UK Jewish Film.

Visit www.jw3.org.uk for full details of upcoming screenings.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Sunday 10 May

Tuesday 19 May

LIVE ARTS ON THE BIG SCREEN: LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE

LIVE ARTS ON THE BIG SCREEN: THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE

2pm, £15, £12.50 concessions

7.30pm, £15, £12.50 concessions

Encore screening of the Royal Opera House’s recent performance.

Live from English National Opera.

Frederick Ashton’s final full-length ballet was a resounding success on its premiere in 1960 and has remained a firm favourite in The Royal Ballet’s repertoire. The work is laced with good humour and a whirl of dancing chickens, grouchy guardians and halfwit suitors take to the stage. Osbert Lancaster’s colourful designs reinforce the robust wit of the production.

Sentimental pirates, blundering policemen, absurd adventures and improbable paradoxes - Gilbert and Sullivan’s dazzling comic opera comes to ENO in a highly anticipated new production from renowned director Mike Leigh. A showcase of brilliant humour and razor-sharp wit, featuring a sparkling score chock-full of memorable melodies and catchy tunes.

Running time 135 minutes (approx).

Including one interval.

Tuesday 26 May

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: – THE IMPRESSIONISTS 8pm, £12 Just who were the Impressionists? Why and how did they paint? What lies behind their enduring appeal? This film has secured unique access to a major new National Gallery exhibition focusing on 19th century Parisian art collector Paul Durand-Ruel, the outspoken champion of Impressionism. His brave decision to exhibit the Impressionists in New York in 1886 introduced enlightened, wealthy Americans to modern French painting.

This energetic and revealing film will tell his remarkable story along with that of the Impressionists themselves.

Claude Monet, Green Park, London, 1870 or 1871 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the W. P. Wilstach Fund, 1921

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CINEMA

Wednesday 27 May

Monday 18 May

FOODIES FILM CLUB IN THE KITCHEN – WAITRESS

LOCO PRESENTS THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS

7pm in the kitchen, 8.30pm in the cinema, £22 for the film and demo, £10 for the film only

In the charming 2007 film Waitress, Jenna is trapped in an oppressive small-town marriage and dreams of a way out. With no obvious escape from her situation, she pours her heart and soul into baking, using her daily woes and occasional joys to create decadent and delicious pies. In this relaxed roll-your-sleevesup demo with Kosher Roast, we’ll explore ideas on getting creative with pie fillings and get stuck into some old-time baking. Then you can sit back and see the film in the comfy JW3 Cinema.

8pm, £10

Actress Gemma Whelan (Mapp and Lucia, Siblings, Harry and Paul, Badults and Game of Thrones) presents The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.

Named Video Game Player of the Century in 1999, Billy Mitchell sets a record score in Donkey Kong that many felt would never be broken. In 2003, Steve Wiebe sets out to beat it and does. So both men embark on a cross-country battle for inclusion in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records as the supreme king of the electronic game.

Thursday 28 May

FILM NIGHT OUT 8pm, £7.50 Vote for the title that we’ll screen at our May Film Night Out! Vote by Facebook or Twitter using the hashtag #FilmNightOut. Will you go for dark fairy tale Lost River, feel good documentary Dark Horse or thrilling action-adventure Insurgent?

JW3’s monthly Film Night Out is especially for those in their 20s and 30s. For just £7.50 you can enjoy a new release in JW3’s boutique cinema and a complimentary drink.

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Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

UK Jewish Film UK Jewish Film is delighted to continue screening the best of Jewish and Israeli film six times a week at JW3 Cinema – the only cinema in the UK to screen Jewish and Israeli films throughout the year.

SUITE FRANÇAISE - Wednesday 1 & Thursday 2 April THE ART DEALER - Sunday 19 - Thursday 30 April ABOVE AND BEYOND - Sunday 19 April ROCK THE CASBAH - Tuesday 21 April & Wednesday 22 April IT IS NO DREAM: THE LIFE OF THEODOR HERZL - Thursday 23 April WILD TALES - Sunday 3 - Sunday 10 May PHOENIX - Monday 18 - Thursday 28 May

Suite Française

Wild Tales

SERET SERET - The annual Israeli Film & TV Festival showcasing the best Israel has to offer on the big and small screen!

Wednesday 22 April

Wednesday 20 May

OPERATION SUNFLOWER

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

8pm, £12

8pm, £12

The 1960s. The Iranians are bringing missiles out of their bunkers, just a ‘push of the button’ away from targeting Israel. Racing against time, the head of Mossad and a key scientist have been recruited to develop Israel’s nuclear option.

One Friday afternoon in 2000, while everyone is asleep, an Israeli mother decides to protect her family by barricading their home from the outside world. ‘For how long?’ ask the surprised family members. ‘Until there is peace’ comes the motherly response.

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FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER

friday night Dinner Friday 29 May

FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER WITH FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER 7pm, £30 7.30pm screening, 8.30pm candle lighting and dinner Hit Channel 4 comedy Friday Night Dinner comes to JW3: the meal, the TV show, members of the cast, the whole shebang. We begin with a screening of two episodes in our cinema, selected by the show’s creator, Robert Popper, before moving into the restaurant. The threecourse meal is followed by a chat with Robert Popper and stars of the show, including Tom Rosenthal, Simon Bird, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Mark Heap.

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Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Yom Ha’shoah HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY Wednesday 15 April

Thursday 16 April

BENTE KAHAN: SONGS OF THE GHETTO

UNSUNG HEROINES

7.30pm, £8

The stories of two remarkable women, Eleanor Rathbone and Greta Burkill, who made an important contribution to the lives of many refugees and Kindertransportees have been largely overlooked. Dr Susan Cohen (Parkes Institute, University of Southampton) and Mike Levy, (Keystage Arts and Heritage), will discuss their acts of humanity and selfless philanthropy. A performance of We Must Save the Children, a dramatisation of these women’s legacy performed by a group of young actors from Cambridge, will follow to highlight the human story behind the rescue.

Tea will be served.

Accompanying herself on the guitar, Norwegian Jewish artist Bente Kahan interprets songs and poetry written in Nazi Germany and the ghettos of Vilnius, Krakow, Warsaw and Terezín (Theresienstadt).

The programme includes songs by the Yiddish songwriter Mordechai Gebirtig, poems by Max Hermann-Neisse (Germany 1936), Ilse Weber (Theresienstadt) and the contemporary Polish poet Tadeusz Różewicz set to music by Bente herself, as well as monologues from her play Voices from Theresienstadt and concert HOME. Bente has performed in prestigious music venues from Moscow to New York, and Berlin to Warsaw.

3pm, £5

In partnership with AJR.

Hosted by Ned Temko, former editor of The Jewish Chronicle.

In partnership with JMI.

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YOM HA’ZIKARON & YOM HA’ATZMA’UT

yom ha’zikaron & yom Ha’Atzma’ut ISRAELI MEMORIAL DAY & ISRAELI INDEPENDENCE DAY

Tuesday 21 April

Tuesday 21 April

YOM HA’ZIKARON REMEMBERED ON SCREEN

YOM HA’ZIKARON TEKKES (CEREMONY)

7.30pm, FREE

8.45pm, FREE

Join us for this unique opportunity to commemorate those that have fallen in Israel’s conflicts through an inclusive service incorporating specially commissioned animated films from Jerusalem’s Beit Avi Chai cultural centre. Top Israeli animators take true, personal and deeply moving stories and turn them into communicative commemorations.

(All with English subtitles).

JW3, in partnership with the Jewish Agency shlichim (emissaries) and other community organisations, invite you to join us for our Yom Ha’Zikaron remembrance event which will include readings, poems, personal anecdotes and the thoughts of a guest who has been personally affected by this day.

In partnership with Makom, a unit of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

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In partnership with the Jewish Agency.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Wednesday 22 & Thursday 23 April

Tuesday 26 April

YOM HA’ATZMA’UT ON FILM

ISRAEL’S FUTURE IN THE EYES OF A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER

22 April: 6pm 23 April: 6.30pm FREE Spend this Yom Ha’Atzma’ut in the dark, and see different sides to Israel. These are stories that will surprise, and reveal unexpected parts of Israeli culture and society. We have also invited guest curators, Canon Giles Fraser and feminist activist Dina Brawer, to present the films that grabbed their attention and made them see the region in a new light. The films will be screened on 22 & 23 April.

For full programme details and other Yom Ha’Atzma’ut films, see the April JW3 Cinema guide.

Sunday 28 June

Talk 7.30pm, £12, Reception 9pm, £35 for talk and reception Professor Aaron Ciechanover is a Nobel Prize winning biochemist, winner of the Israel Prize and a leading Israeli public figure in promoting health, education for disadvantaged communities and academic freedom.

Ciechanover in many ways is an embodiment of modern Israel – outward looking, successful and deeply committed to the project of Israel as envisioned by its founders. He will be in conversation with a senior Israeli diplomat in which, as a proud Israeli, he will share his vision for Israeli society.

Continue the evening in a more intimate setting with music, drinks and canapés at a reception which Aaron Ciechanover will attend straight after the talk.

www.gefiltefest.org

GEFILTEFEST JEWISH FOOD FESTIVAL 10.30am-5pm, £18 per adult, £12.50 per child, £55 family ticket Are you smoked salmon or salt beef, shakshuka or schmaltz?

Whatever your taste, the Gefiltefest Jewish Food Festival is a must for foodies everywhere - and is coming to JW3.

Immerse yourself in Jewish food culture and explore over 50 demonstrations, sessions and stalls exploring our rich tradition. Come and be inspired to think differently about food.

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TALKS & DISCUSSIONS

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Tuesday 28 April

SHOPS AND SHOPPING IN REGENCY LONDON

FINCHLEY AND GOLDERS GREEN HUSTINGS

2pm, £16 in advance, £20 on the day

8pm, FREE, booking essential

DAVID BARNETT

With Jonathan Davies (Liberal Democrats), Mike Freer MP (Conservative), Richard King (UKIP), Sarah Sackman (Labour) and Adele Ward (Green); chaired by Kelvin MacKenzie.

In the middle of the 18th century the ‘consumer society’ was first born in Britain.

London was at the forefront and by the Regency period had become Europe’s primary shopping centre. It was a magnet for the entire world and spawned all the notions of shops and shopping that we take for granted in the 21st century.

In partnership with the London Jewish Forum and Jewish News.

Wednesday 22 April

Thursday 30 April

HAMPSTEAD AND KILBURN HUSTINGS

ISRAELI ELECTIONS - ONE MONTH ON

8pm, FREE, booking essential

8pm, £16 in advance, £20 on the day

With Dr Rebecca Johnson (Green), Simon Marcus (Conservative), Maajid Mawaz (Liberal Democrats), Magnus Nielson (UKIP) and Tulip Siddiq (Labour). The evening will be chaired

by Geoff Martin, Ham & High Editor-in-Chief.

HAGAI SEGAL

In partnership with Ham & High.

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Monday 20 April

One month after the Israeli elections, hear how the results have had an impact on local, national and international issues.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

The Alan Howard Foundation / JW3 Speaker Series features conversations, talks and entertainment delivered by leaders and experts in their respective fields who can provide a unique insight into their chosen topics.

Wednesday 29 April

IN CONVERSATION: PETER THIEL WITH NIALL FERGUSON 7.30pm

Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He started PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and took it public in 2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director. He has also launched Palantir Technologies, and provided early funding for LinkedIn, Yelp, and dozens of successful technology startups. He will be interviewed by Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., who is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University.

Tickets on sale: Monday 30 March, 9am

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TALKS & DISCUSSIONS

Sunday 10 May

Monday 11 May

NOSTRA AETATE: MORE SENTIMENT THAN SUBSTANCE?

COUNCIL FOR CHRISTIANS AND JEWS – SEMINAR

7.30pm, £10

9.30am Session 1 11am Session 2 £10 per session

The 1965 Vatican document Nostra Aetate was revolutionary, opposing anti-Judaism and promoting interfaith relations. An expert panel discusses what effect, if any, it has had on Jewish/Christian relations, and the outlook for the future.

With Rabbi David Rosen, international authority on Vatican/Israel relations and recipient of both a CBE and a Papal Knighthood; Archbishop Kevin McDonald, Chair of the Bishops’ Conference Committee for Other Faiths and the UK voice on Catholic-Jewish Relations; Dr Edward Kessler MBE (Chair), Founder and Executive Director of the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, with an MBE for services to interfaith relations.

CCJ

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9.30-10.30am Discuss the theory and theology of ChristianJewish dialogue, so heavily influenced by Nostra Aetate, with respected experts and representatives.

11am-12noon Discuss the reality of the dialogue on the ground, with gifted practitioners, on how the thinking has and has not been embedded.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Wednesday 13 May

Tuesday 19 May

SIGMUND FREUD’S SCULPTOR

DOES JERUSALEM MATTER?

8pm, £12 in advance, £15 on the day

2pm, £16 in advance, £20 on the day

LADY AURELIA YOUNG

CLIVE LAWTON

Whatever solutions anyone can envisage to the Israel/Palestine conflict, everyone knows that Jerusalem will be a sticking point. In this session, we’ll look at Jerusalem’s history, why the city looms so large on the world stage, why it matters to so many people and whether we can find any ideas to loosen and grease the sticking points.

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PLANT ECO-BENCH LAUNCH 3pm, FREE, booking essential

Oscar Nemon sculpted many of the leading figures of the 20th century including Sigmund Freud, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and The Queen.

Nemon’s daughter, Aurelia, will tell the moving story of how her teenage father left his home in the Balkans to travel across Europe to England, escaping the Holocaust which claimed the lives of his family.

Join us for the launch of a specially commissioned eco-bench, as part of the Chelsea Fringe alternative garden festival.

Hear from David Baker, Director at Design Education CIC and teacher of Design & Technology at Latymer Upper School, who constructed the bench for the Friends of Jerusalem Botanic Gardens, and from garden designer Renée Laub, who has filled the bench with plants grown from seeds supplied by the gardens in Jerusalem. Learn how to adapt it to your own gardening needs and enjoy a question-and-answer session, alongside afternoon tea.

The bench will remain on display in the Ivy House garden until 31 July.

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TRIPS

trips Wednesday 15 April

Monday 11 May

HAMPTON COURT PALACE

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, KEW

9.30am-4pm, £48 Discover the rich history of two royal residences: a Tudor palace magnificently developed by Cardinal Wolsey and later Henry VIII, alongside a baroque palace built

by William & Mary. Join us for a special visit to Hampton Court Palace with an exclusive private tour by Sebastian Edward, the Deputy Chief Curator and Head of Collections.

Coaches will leave from JW3.

Wednesday 29 April

CHENIES MANOR 1.15-5.45pm, £34 Join us for a guided visit to a historic Tudor manor house with an award-winning garden in the heart of Buckinghamshire. Originally the home of the Russell family and later the Earls of Bedford, the house features a fortified tower, stepped gables, a Tudor sunken garden, herbaceous borders and a physic garden with medicinal and culinary herbs.

Coaches will leave from JW3.

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10am, £17.50 Government records which have been selected for permanent preservation are sent to The National Archives in Kew. As the official public archives of the UK government, records are held covering more than 1,000 years of history. Led by a member of the Archives’ specialist team we will participate in a workshop with emphasis on original documents from World War Two. Following lunch (not included), there will an exclusive behind the scenes tour of the Archives themselves. This tour is not generally offered to members of the public.

Participants will meet at The National Archives, Kew.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Walks Wednesday 22 April

Wednesday 29 April

WALKING TOUR THROUGH HAMPSTEAD’S ARTISTIC HISTORY

A GUIDED WALK THROUGH BLOOMSBURY

2.30pm, £10

ISABELLE SEDDON

ISABELLE SEDDON Join us for a leisurely stroll through Hampstead among the homes and streets where famous artists lived and loved. In the company of Blue Badge guide Isabelle Seddon, we’ll hear about the colourful life stories of artists and writers, learn about their paramours, their heartaches, successes and failures. The cast of characters referred to include John Constable, Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier, H.G. Wells, Mary Poppins and Elizabeth Taylor. We’ll end up at JW3 for a cup of tea and biscuits.

2.30pm, £15 A walk through the beautiful Georgian squares of Bloomsbury where many notable authors have lived and set their works. Learn about the lives of authors including T S Eliot, W B Yeats, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group – who lived in squares but loved in triangles.

Thursday 23 April

WILLESDEN JEWISH CEMETERY 10.30am, £16

STEPHEN BURSTIN Visit the last resting places of both the famous and the unknown, whose varied lives produce stories that are enthralling, inspiring, tragic and even humorous.

As we walk through this 140 year old Jewish cemetery, we come across one engrossing tale after another.

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WALKS

Thursday 14 May

MARYLEBONE: ANTIQUES, BEATLES AND CRICKET 11am, £15

RACHEL KOLSKY With a luxury hotel as protection from a busy main road, the quiet streets behind London’s last mainline station host a veritable ABC including Alfies Antique Market, a famous Beatles film location and Lord’s, home of cricket. Together with Mr Blue Plaque, the author of 101 Dalmations, the bravery of the Special Operations Executive and the social housing of Octavia Hill, this is a most surprising area to explore.

Thursday 21 May

JEWISH WEST END 10.30am, £15

STEPHEN BURSTIN A magical walk of discovery through two districts in the heart of London’s West End – Soho and Fitzrovia – which are steeped in the hidden history of a vast Jewish community that once lived there.

Thursday 28 May

SPITALFIELDS AND ALDGATE EVENING WALK 6pm, £15

STEPHEN BURSTIN An enthralling evening stroll through the narrow alleyways and backstreet of these famous districts of London’s East End. From the quiet of Wentworth Street, devoid of its hectic daytime market stalls, to the bustle of neon-lighted and noisy Brick Lane, you will enjoy wondrous sights and incredible stories of people and places.

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Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

exhibitions Opening times vary. Please visit www.jw3.org.uk or call 020 7433 8988 for details.

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Monday 20 April Thursday 14 May

BARBARA JACKSON – DANCE OF LIFE: THE STORY OF A GERMAN JEWISH FAMILY

JULIE HELD - LIVING MEMORIES: A LIFE LIVING IN PORTRAITS

To commemorate Yom Ha’Shoah, artist Barbara Jackson will once again be exhibiting at Ivy House. Her new exhibition will focus on a collection of paintings, etchings and mixed media works that tell the story of her family’s flight from Europe in the 1930s.

This exhibition will focus on portraits of artist Julie Held and her family painted throughout her career. Subjects include her father Peter, who remains one of her favourite models, and her late mother Gisela, painted from memory as she died when the artist was just 18.

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WHAT’S ON

Event listing by Date THURSDAY 2 APRIL Hava Nagiggle

THURSDAY 30 APRIL 8pm

p7

WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL Hampton Court Palace Bente Kahan

9.30am p21 7.30pm p14

THURSDAY 16 APRIL Unsung Heroines

3pm

p14

7pm

p9

Shops and Shopping in Regency London

p17

Yom Ha’Zikaron - Remembered on Screen 7.30pm p15 Yom Ha’Zikaron Tekkes (Ceremony) 8.45pm p15

WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2.30pm 6pm 8pm 8pm

p22 p16 p12 p17

10.30am p22 6.30pm p16 7.30pm p5

SUNDAY 26 APRIL Jung and Film Ivy House Music & Dance - Escher String Quartet Israel’s Future

p3

8pm

p3

8pm

p7

2pm

p10

THURSDAY 7 MAY

La Fille Mal Gardée Nostra Aetate: More Sentiment Than Substance?

Council for Christians and Jewish Seminar The National Archives, Kew Council for Christians and Jewish Seminar

Sigmund Freud’s Sculptor

Chenies Manor 1.15pm p21 A Guided Walk Through Bloomsbury 2.30pm p22 AHF/JW3 Speaker Series 7.30pm p18

p19

7.30pm p6

8pm

p20

THURSDAY 14 MAY

SUNDAY 17 MAY

WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL

11am

WEDNESDAY 13 MAY

3.30pm p8 7.30pm p16

p17

9.30am p19 10am p21

TUESDAY 12 MAY

Marylebone: Antiques, Beatles and Cricket Everybody Swing

Finchley and Golders Green Hustings 8pm

7.30pm p19

MONDAY 11 MAY

9.30am p9

TUESDAY 28 APRIL

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8pm

WEDNESDAY 6 MAY

Shemirah: Staged Reading

THURSDAY 23 APRIL Willesden Jewish Cemetery Yom Ha’Atzma’ut in Film Samba and Tears

p5 p17

SUNDAY 10 MAY 2pm

TUESDAY 21 APRIL

Hampstead’s Artistic History Yom Ha’Atzma’ut in Film SERET: Operation Sunflower Hampstead and Kilburn Hustings

Ivy House Music & Dance - Dankworth and Wood

Hava Nagiggle

MONDAY 20 APRIL

8pm 8pm

SUNDAY 3 MAY

Bester Quartet

SUNDAY 19 APRIL Above & Beyond

Mama Loschen Israeli Elections - One Month On

Boundary Walk How to Disappear Completely

11am p23 7.30pm p6

3pm p6 7.30pm p4

MONDAY 18 MAY How to Disappear Completely The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

7.30pm p4 8pm

p11

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk TUESDAY 19 MAY Does Jerusalem Matter?

The Pirates of Penzance

FRIDAY 29 MAY 2pm p20 7.30pm p10

WEDNESDAY 20 MAY Kathryn Williams Album Launch SERET: Present Continuous

p2 p12

3pm 8pm

p20 p10

WEDNESDAY 27 MAY Foodies Film Club - Waitress Ben Carmona with Carlos Bonell

Ivy House Music & Dance - Natalie Clein

7.30pm p8

Ivy House Music & Dance - Leonore Piano Trio

3.30pm p8

SUNDAY 28 JUNE Gefiltefest: The Jewish Food Festival 10.30am p16

WEDNESDAY 1 JULY 7pm p11 7.30pm p3

THURSDAY 28 MAY Spitalfields and Aldgate - Evening Walk Film Night Out

p13

SUNDAY 14 JUNE 10.30am p23

TUESDAY 26 MAY Plant Eco-Bench Launch The Impressionists

7pm

TUESDAY 9 JUNE 8pm 8pm

THURSDAY 21 MAY Jewish West End

Friday Night Dinner with Friday Night Dinner

Ivy House Music & Dance - Sinatra 100 with Todd Gordon

8pm

p8

8pm

p8

8pm

p8

SUNDAY 5 JULY 6pm 8pm

p23 p11

Ivy House Music & Dance - English Chamber Choir and Jazz Trio

THURSDAY 9 JULY Ivy House Music & Dance - John Wilson on Musicals

Book online www.zestatjw3.co.uk or call 020 7433 8955

The Six Point Foundation survivor enrichment programme grant can, at JW3’s discretion, provide free entrance to a wide range of events at JW3 for those Holocaust survivors and refugees who would like to attend but are unable to pay.

The Six Point Foundation grant can also assist with transport costs, carers and other relevant accessibility costs for those unable to meet these costs themselves.

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VISIT US HOW TO BOOK TICKETS Tickets may be booked via our secure website 24 hours a day, by phone, or in person at JW3 during opening hours. We do not charge a booking fee. All listings are correct at time of going to press and may be subject to change. Check our website for more information. If an event is cancelled or abandoned, tickets will be refunded or exchanged. Please see the website for our full terms and conditions, including details of latecomers, photography, video and recording policies.

CONCESSIONS & DISCOUNTS We offer concessions on many of our ticket prices for several groups, including recipients of Universal Credit, Pension Credit, Disability Living Allowance, full-time students in possession of NUS/ISIC cards, and companions/carers of people with disabilities.

Please call the Box Office to book concession-rate tickets. Concessions and discounts cannot be combined.

Become a JW3 Member to receive 10% discount on most events. Visit www.jw3.org.uk/become-member Group booking discount: Buy nine tickets for the same event at the same time and get the tenth one free. Please call the Box Office to book.

Terms and conditions may apply to concessions and discounts.

ACCESS JW3 and Ivy House are accessible buildings for people with physical impairments. Wheelchair accessible. The JW3 Cinema and Howard Hall both have a hearing loop. For further details regarding access requirements and bookings, please visit www.jw3.org.uk or call the Box Office.

PARKING JW3: Paid parking is available at the O2 Centre, 400m away. Free parking on Finchley Road and adjacent side roads after 7pm (6.30pm side roads) Mondays to Saturdays and all day Sunday.

Ivy House: Pay and display bays outside; nearest car park: Heath Brow, Jack Straw’s Castle; free parking on Wildwood Road and Ingram Avenue, and in residents’ bays and on single yellow line on neighbouring streets after 12noon (restrictions are 11am-12noon).

OPENING HOURS JW3 Sunday 8.30am-11pm Monday-Thursday 7.30am-11pm Friday 7.30am-Various* Saturday Various* *Check our website for details Ivy House Sunday Monday-Thursday Friday & Saturday

10.30am-1pm 9am-9.30pm Closed

JW3: 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 6ET Ivy House: 94-96 North End Road, London NW11 7SX Box Office +44 (0)20 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk info@jw3.org.uk JW3 is a Jewish community centre with a kosher restaurant, café and bar – only food bought at JW3 can be eaten on the premises. When we are open over Shabbat or Jewish holidays, we will run a reduced “JW3 Unplugged” programme and the Cinema and Zest will be closed. Further details available on request.

JW3 Trust Ltd is a registered charity, No. 1117644.

JW3 Trading Ltd, registered company No. 7686352 (England and Wales), is a wholly owned subsidiary of JW3 Trust Ltd.