The Spiro Ark is delighted to welcome Susan Kikoler, the Honorary Director of the British Italian Society who is responsible for creating fascinating monthly programmes for the members of this society which due to her imaginative and dynamic guidance has grown by 50%.She is an expert in bringing the diversity […]
A DRAWING BY OUR FRIEND ARTIST RONALD STEIN
A drawing of Amir Taheri created during the event that took place at the Spiro Ark’s centre in collaboration with Stand With Us on 11th May 2011
THE CHUTZPAH CLINIC
Provocative Advice BureauA totally new concept in Citizens AdviceIs there anything you want to change in your life?Do you ever find well-meant advice patronising and condescending?Are you curious about the transformative power of humour and reverse psychology?If so, then a visit to the Chutzpah Clinic in a new series at […]
THE UNHEARD VOICES OF THE MIDDLE EAST
The Spiro Ark together with STAND WITH US presents: “Voices from the Middle East: Muslims, Arabs and Others”The Spiro Ark together with STAND WITH US are hosting a series of informative and compelling sessions with speakers whose lives and professions are closely tied to the Middle East. These by-weekly lectures […]
LINDA DANGOOR’S AND PROF. SAMI ZUBAIDA’S FABULOUS EVENING
Ronald Stein – an artist and a friend of the Spiro Ark expressing his enjoyment from Linda Dangoor’s and Prof. Sami Zubaida’s fabulous evening which pleased the ear, the eye and the taste.
BEING THERE: IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON’S JEWISH EAST END
BEING THERE: Impressions of London’s Jewish East End Press ReleaseSpiro Ark, 25-26, Enford Street, W1H 1DWApril 6th 7.30Impressions of London’s Jewish East End conveyed through anecdote and song by Yiddish singer Hilda Bronstein and through the evocative images and artwork of artist/printmaker Maureen Lopatkin, both of whom share their childhood […]
DI SHEYNE MILNERIN
‘Di Sheyne Milnerin’ is a specially devised cycle of songs from the Yiddish repertoire, only the second time a collection of Yiddish song has been forged into a cycle with a coherent dramatic trajectory. A stark contrast to our first, Holocaust-focused programme, ‘A Yiddish Winterreise’, it allows us to explore […]
DI SHEYNE MILNERIN – A YIDDISH ‘DIE SCHöNE MüLLERIN’
Following the success of A Yiddish Winterreise, Mark Glanville and Alexander Knapp have teamed up again to give us their interpretation of Schubert’s other great song cycle with its theme of unrequited love. Once again Glanville has forged a narrative cycle out of songs from the traditional Yiddish repertoire, to […]
I WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR ME
A lecture on Rescuers and the Jews Rescued in PolandThe results of a fascinating new research by Joanna Beata Michlic (Director of HB1 Project on Families Children and the Holocaust at Brandeis University and until 2008 the Associate Professor of History and Chair of Holocaust and Ethical Values at Lehigh […]
JAZZ SONGS AND JEWS
A book launch of Jazz Jews by Mike Gerber with a performance by Claire Shaw.Jews are particularly associated with two art forms; literature and music. Within the field of music it is classical music which dominates the scene particularly as instrumentalists.Mike Gerber, author of the book is now the host […]