January

DAVAR FILM

Wednesday 27 January 8.00 pm
Fugitive Pieces
Dir: Jeremy Podeswa Canada/Greece 2007 104 mins. Cert15
Seven-year-old Jakob is smuggled out of 1940’s Poland to Greece by archaeologist Athos. In post-war Toronto Jakob is encouraged by Athos to write down his memories, and as a Holocaust historian his marriage takes the strain. He and Athos start to write a book together on ‘the political misuses of history’. Jakob’s turbulent life changes once more on a return to Greece. Based on Anne Michaels’ tale of haunting memories.

February

MUSICAL EVENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH DAVAR

Thursday 11 February 8.00pm
Moishe’s Bagel
Exotic fantastically-fast musical melding of Balkan
Gypsy folk, Klezmer with a dash of jazz and pinch of Breton.
8pm, St. George’s, Great George Street, Off Park Street, BS1 5RR
£17/£15; £13/£11;£11/£9. (Davar members 10% Discount)
Promoted by St. George’s in association with Davar
0845 40 24 001 www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk

Sunday 14 February 8.00pm
Yasmin Levy: ‘Sentir’ Tour
Israeli-born singer-songwriter and band revisit St.George’s following their sell-out debut two years ago, with their Sephardic/Ladino, Flamenco mix and new original works.
8pm, St. George’s, Great George Street, Off Park Street, BS1 5RR
£21/£19 • £17/£15 • £11/£9. (Davar members 10% Discount)
Promoted by St.George’s in association with Davar

DAVAR FILM

Wednesday 24 February 8.00pm
Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead
Dir: Stuart Urban UK 2006 84 mins. Cert 15 Award-winning
director Stuart Urban embarks on a very personal journey across Russia, Tashkent and Ukraine with his father Garri Urban, trying to piece together missing parts to the story of Garri’s 1940’s escape from the Gulag and remarkable survival. Includes video diaries, investigation into KGB records and home movies from the 1950’s onwards.

 

March

DAVAR TALK

Thursday 11 March 7.30pm
Lawrence Joffe: The British Footprint in the Middle East.
An illustrated talk showing how romance, trade, religion and realpolitik have shaped Britain’s extraordinary influence in the Middle East from Richard the Lionheart to Tony Blair – with particular focus on Anglo-Jewry’s role in the Palestine Mandate.
Redland Meeting Ho, 126 Hampton Rd (Nr Clyde Rd), BS6 6JE • £5/£3

DAVAR FILM

Wednesday 24 March 8.00pm
A Serious Man
Dirs: Joel and Ethan Coen US/UK/FR 2009 106 mins. Cert 15
The Coen brothers revisit the Midwest of their youth in this darkly
comic story of a Jewish physics professor whose life is increasingly
chaotic. Their most personal, almost autobiographical film.
“By turns hilarious, philosophical and moving.” (BFI).

April

DAVAR FILM

Wednesday 28 April 8.00pm
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Dir: Louis Malle France/West Germany 1988 104 mins. Cert12
(Subtitled) Louis Malle’s poignant, semi-autobiographical, awardwinning film of the friendship between two young boys, one Catholic, one Jewish, at a Catholic school in Occupied France, 1944. Now rightly regarded as a cinematic treasure almost without equal in its evocation of childhood.

May

DAVAR TALK

Thursday 6 May 7.30pm
Monica Bohm-Duchen: The Art and Life of Josef Herman (1911-2000)
Monica Bohm-Duchen, author of the first Monograph (2009) on
Joseph Herman, a major figure in contemporary British art, in this
illustrated lecture will reveal Herman’s moral and artistic connection
with workers, whether in Poland,Wales, Suffolk, Mexico or Israel,
through his diverse and complex oeuvre.
Redland Meeting Ho, 126 Hampton Rd (Nr Clyde Rd), BS6 6JE • £5/£3

MUSICAL EVENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH DAVAR

Friday 28 May 7.30pm
Rafael Wallfisch. (Cello), John York (Piano) Beethoven Cello
Sonata in C • Shostakovich Cello Sonata Op 40 • Barber Cello
Sonata • Shostakovich Viola Sonata (a cello performance of the
composer’s last musical testament). “Wallfisch and York are perfectly attuned…even Dmitri might smile”
St. George’s, Great George Street, Off Park Street, BS1
£21/£19 • £19/£17 • £17/£15 • £13/£11. (Davar members 10% Discount)
Promoted by St.George’s in association with Davar
0845 40 24 001 www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk