On Friday 7 March join us for tours of London cultural highlights with leading experts.
11am
Art Tour: Ori Gersht studio visit + Studio Voltaire
Led by Sabine Casparie
Location: Walking Tour: meet at Clapham Common Station
Join us on this art tour led by art historian Sabine Casparie and explore how two artists use landscape and autobiography to very different effect. We will get an exclusive peek into the studio of celebrated Israeli artist Ori Gersht who works in photography and film. A short walk will take us to Studio Voltaire, a great public gallery hosting emerging artists, where we will see the landscape paintings of Jake Grewal.
This event will last approximately 2 hours.
11am
The inspiring tour of a historic literary haven. Join a special Jewish Book Week tour of this historic literary haven in St James’s, exploring its Jewish history and vast collection of one million volumes across 17 miles of shelving. With London Library Head of Membership Amanda Stebbings.
1:00pm
Jewish Treasures of the British Library
An exclusive close-up opportunity to see a range of manuscript and printed treasures from the rich collections of the British Library, in a special lunchtime show-and-tell led by Head of Middle East and Central Asian Collections, Michael Erdman. Items in Hebrew as well as Judeo-Hindi, Judeo-Persian and Judeo-Arabic; the latest conservation of Jewish works and others that highlight British Jewish heritage.
This event will last approximately 90 minutes.
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