Spiro Ark Blog

05/03/2010

ALI MILLER'S EXHIBITION - PRESS RELEASE

A Brave Soldier and A Black Butterfly Visit Spiro Ark Up-and-coming artist Ali Miller is putting on a fine art exhibition, 'Brave Soldier and Black Butterfly', to commemorate and celebrate the life...

05/03/2010

JULIAN DAWES - BIO

Julian Dawes has worked extensively as a composer, accompanist and teacher. He has written scores for many theatre productions including credits at the Royal Court, Ther Everyman Theatre...

04/03/2010

RONALD STEIN - BIO

Started at age of three as a pavement artist, and also shop assistant in parent's Newsagent and Tobacconist in London's Soho, through Marylebone Central School, reaching Marlborough College;...

01/03/2010

Shaul Zadka - The Jews of Djerba

The rubbish is piled high amongst the blue and white dwellings of Hara Seghira, the Jewish quarter of the Tunisian island of Djerba, but the locals are not worried. The government will do a...

09/02/2010

The Medias Synagogue -- a Diary in Brick, Blue and Gold - talk by Luminita Holban given at the opening of the exhibition ('The Restoration of Romanian Synagogues') organised with the Mihai Eminescu Trust

In time, we hope the Medias Synagogue will become a best practice model for other communities around the country to rediscover abandoned or forgotten buildings and give them new life...

09/02/2010

'The Last Jew of Sighisoara' - lecture given by Jessica Douglas-Home at the openin of the exhibition on 'The Restoration of Romanian Synagogues' organised with the Mihai Eminescu Trust

For all the years I have been going to Romania, Erich Raducan was known as The Last Jew of Sighisoara. He died a year or so ago aged 96.

His life covered an extraordinary span of history...

05/02/2010

TAL KATSIR - BIO

Tal Katsir
Soprano

Tal was born in Israel in 1988 and began taking piano lessons at the age of seven at the local public conservatory. Eight years later she was admitted as a singer and...

02/02/2010

RODNEY GREENBERG

Rodney has been a friend of the Spiro cultural endeavours for the last 3 decades and with him we have presented a few of his wonderful events at major public venues: Overseas League, Harrow Arts...

02/02/2010

MARIA TUDOSA'S PROFILE

MARIA TUDOSA ~ Profile/Presentation of her life & work

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Born in Adjud -- a town in Romania's province of Moldova...

08/12/2009

RESTORATION OF SYNAGOGUES WHERE JEWS ARE NO LONGER

The question whether old and dilapidated synagogues, which are no longer in use should be restored and maintained, is in our view a rhetorical one. For us Jews whose life-line to things Jewish is...