PAUL MARTIN:BIOGRAPHICAL AND CAREER NOTEEXPERTISE: Middle East, especially Arab-Israeli conflict; Gaza; Iraq; southern Africa; sports politics; nuclear non-proliferation.Paul Martin has covered conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe since he began his career in 1977. He was correspondent for the BBC in Cairo from late 1978 during the […]
LEGEND IN THE DUNES – A BRITISH FOOTAGE ABOUT 40 FIRST YEARS OF TEL AVIV – NEVER SEEN BEFORE
The film opens with n high resolution footage from a film which was photographed by the famous Lumier brothers in Jaffa in 1897. This astonishing peep into the end of the 19th century is vivid and absorbing and hints at the very many surprises that Yaakov Gross produces for the […]
GERARD EDERY, INTERNATIONAL GUITARIST, SINGER, COMPOSER AND INTERPRETER OF SEPHARDI MUSIC AFTER HIS EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL CONCERT AT THE SPIRO ARK
Dear Nitza,It was my pleasure to sing for your lovely audience at SpiroArk. Thank you for your lovely e-mail and I certainly hope to repeat the experience next time I’m in London.Warmest Regards,Gerard
SPIRO THEATRE PROGRAMME GOES NATIONAL
Dear Spiro ArkIn 2005 you had a reading of my play Two Sisters at the Gate pub theatre in Highgate. It was a wonderful experience and we had a great turnout with a very long and successful question and answer session.I wanted to let you know that it is now […]
APPRECIATION LETTER
My very dear Nitza and Robin, What a beautiful concert it was last night – and your speech Nitza so well read by Robin almost had me in tears. I am so privileged to know you both and to have the honour of contributing in a small way to some […]
APPRECIATION LETTER
Dear Nitza,we too enjoyed the wonderfull atmosphere in london, with rivka, with charles, at spiro ark, with sylwia etc.and we hope you will continue with your work at enford street.Petr Vasicek and Marta Vavrova
A MUSICAL SALUTE TO ROBIN AND NITZA SPIRO
A MUSICAL Salute to Robin and Nitza Spiro3 Decades of pioneering dedication to the Jewish communityFor the last forty years, since we first started to take a post-graduate degree in Jewish studies at Oxford, Robin and I have devoted our lives to our large family and to the Jewish community, […]
OUR SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION WITH THE ZEMEL CHOIR GOES BACK MANY YEARS
Our successful collaboration with the Zemel Choir goes back many years.It has enriched the Spiro Ark cultural life and pleased many of our followers. Together we presented several concerts both at our centre and our auspices in other Arts Centres in and around London. One of these concerts was the […]
HAPPY PESSACH!
One of Spiro Ark’s best friends, Artist Tiko Alalouff together with our educational and cultural team send our warmest wishes for a very Happy Pessach to you and yours.
‘THE COURAGEOUS HEART OF IRENA SENDLER’ BY J.K. HARRISON
Wednesday 24 MarchKinoteka–8th Polish Film Festival:’The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler’ by J.K. HarrisonThe film tells us the true story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker in the early 1940’s, who smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto and as a result saved approximately 2500 of them. […]