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16 August 2026

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** MUSIC, ART AND THEATRE:
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** Your JLF culture guide
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We’ve got a brilliant host of cultural events coming up over the next few months - from Mahler’s Sixth Symphony to the intimacy of Frida Kahlo’s love life and a London tour that takes in the likes of Lionel Bart and Barbara Streisand.

Read on for our upcoming events and other cultural highlights happening across London.

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** UPCOMING EVENTS
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** Dealing with the Tragic in Life: Mahler, Judaism and Beyond
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In partnership with Fidelio and the Barbican, join us for a performance of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, conducted by Raffaello Morales.

The symphony is often known as the “Tragic”. Yet it was composed during one of the happiest periods of the composer’s life. Why, then, did Mahler return so insistently to questions of suffering, fate and loss? And what can his music teach us about how we confront tragedy?

The evening will see Fidelio Orchestra’s performance of this extraordinary work, followed by Mahler experts Raffaello Morales and Edward Seckerson joining Anthony Freud OBE to discuss the power of art to illuminate life’s darkest experiences.

8 November, 5:45pm at Milton Court Concert Hall.
TELL ME MORE (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/dealing-with-the-tragic-in-life-mahler-judaism-and-beyond)

** Frida Kahlo:
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** Artist, Lover, Icon, Activist
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Have you been or plan to go to Tate Modern's Frida: The Making of an Icon? This free online conversation with writer and art historian Hettie Judah is your chance to explore a fascinating hidden story at the heart of the exhibition: the passionate ten-year relationship between Kahlo and Jewish Hungarian photographer Nickolas Muray, who inspired some of her most celebrated paintings.

Free online event: 2 September, 6pm BST
BOOK YOUR SPOT (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/frida-kahlo-artist-lover-icon-activist)

** Jewish Theatreland:
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** with Rachel Kolsky
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Discover the influence of Lionel Bart, Lord Delfont, Barbra Streisand, Henry Goodman, Alfred Marks and many more on London's theatre scene, with this walking tour taking in the Jewish actors, impresarios, writers and producers who have taken over the city's stages.

24 September - starting at the Criterion Theatre, 2:30pm
I WANT TO JOIN (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/jewish-theatreland-with-tour-guide-rachel-kolsky)

** Elsewhere in London
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** LIMMUD 2026
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Looking for an inspiring way to spend the last week of December? Discover Limmud Festival – one of the UK's most stimulating Jewish gatherings. Whether you come for a day or stay for all six, you'll find 700+ sessions of ideas, learning, culture, conversation and community.
BOOK NOW (http://www.limmud.org/festival)

** BANALITY OF EVIL
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Julia Pascal, who joins us to run the Jewish Playwrights Programme, brings her new play The Banality of Evil to London for its world premiere. Blending satire, physical theatre and cabaret, the play follows three German Jewish women interned at Camp Gurs in 1940 - Hannah Arendt, the painter Charlotte Salomon and a Communist schoolgirl - to reveal forgotten histories of women caught between exile, imprisonment and survival.

Listen to Julia discuss the play ahead of its run at the Wiener Holocaust Library (https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/playwright-talk-and-reading-the-banality-of-evil-hannah-arendt-france-1940-with-julia-pascal/) , on 3 September.
BOOK NOW (https://www.arcolatheatre.com/event/the-banality-of-evil/)

** FRESH TALKS ON THE JLF PLAYER
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Check out this week’s releases on our free JLF Video Player, your home for Jewish ideas and JBW highlights.
The Genius Myth (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/videos/the-genius-myth)
Taking Liberties: Jewish Women Poets (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/videos/taking-liberties-jewish-women-poets)
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/videos/peggy-guggenheim-the-shock-of-the-modern)
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