Keep up to date with the latest events from Mosaic. As well as the events listed below you can also see what's on in our calendar, and see the pages for our regular weekly and monthly events including:
Mosaic Friendship Club (70+) meets between 11:00 am and 2:30 pm kicking off with seated mobility exercises followed by a two or three course lunch and afternoon entertainment.
We look forward to welcoming old friends and new to our temporary premises in Kenton. For details, please contact Bertha Levy via the Mosaic office.
Thursday 12th May – Harry’s choice – a selection of taped favourites, something for everyone.
Join us at 5.30 pm when Simone will be considering the influence of Kandinsky, Picasso and Miro before focussing on the work of Pollock, De Kooning, Frankenthaler, Krasner, Kline and Rothko.
This is an extract from a mural Jackson Pollock made in 1943 for Peggy Guggenheim’s apartment at East 61st Street, New York: painted in a frenzied all-night session under the influence of alcohol – and jazz!
Abstract Expressionism is a visual language which can be both destructive and creative, personal and universal and in the United States it gave expression to the optimism and uncertainty of the post-war world. In Pollock’s words, “Today painters … can work from within. The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating… Painting is self-discovery.” Continue reading →
Mosaic Friendship Club (70+) meets between 11:00 am and 2:30 pm kicking off with seated mobility exercises followed by a two or three course lunch and afternoon entertainment.
We look forward to welcoming old friends and new to our temporary premises in Kenton. For details, please contact Bertha Levy via the Mosaic office.
Thursday 5th May – Classical singer, Gayathrie Patrick, with opera/operetta favourites/songs from the musicals & more!
The Bereaved Families Forum was started by Yitzhak Frankenthal in 1995, a year after his 19-year-old son Arik was killed by Hamas. He declared that as a religious Jew he could not justify seeking revenge for his son’s murder. Despite his pain, he said, the only ethical response to the loss of his son was to try to prevent further deaths and suffering. So he set about contacting other bereaved families, both Israeli and Palestinian, and persuading them that reconciliation was a better objective than revenge. The Forum has now grown to 650 members, who have found a common purpose in sharing their stories and working to break down the barriers between their two communities.
In 2004, Forum member Aaron Barnea, whose son Noam had been killed in the Lebanon war in 1999, spoke at a meeting in London and some of his audience were inspired to set up a support group, the Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum (FBFF). Led by their first chairman, Judith Elkan (right), members of FBFF organised speaking tours in the UK for Israeli and Palestinian members of the Forum and arranged fund-raising events. They also managed to generate publicity in the media, to demonstrate to the British public that there was a voice for peace and reconciliation amid the gloom and pessimism over successive Middle East wars.
Have you suffered the loss of a partner, relative or friend? Do you feel sad, lonely and isolated? Would you welcome the opportunity to meet others in a similar position to yourself?
Mosaic has a group to meet the needs of people like you who meet once a month.
Our next meeting for CAMEO is a lunch restaurant outing in Hatch End. If you’d like to attend, please contact Bobbi Riesel via the Mosaic office.
.We hope to offer support and enjoyment to people with common interests.
Mosaic Friendship Club (70+) meets between 11:00 am and 2:30 pm kicking off with seated mobility exercises followed by a two or three course lunch and afternoon entertainment.
We look forward to welcoming old friends and new to our temporary premises in Kenton. For details, please contact Bertha Levy via the Mosaic office.
Thursday 28th APRIL – WELCOME BACK – TIME TO CELEBRATE with singer/guitarist Ronnie G.
Join us at 4.30 pm (note revised start time) to hear a family story compiled by 3rd Generation Tony Bruce relating his ancestral history.
His video narrates their lives and fates from 1920’s Germany, based on many years of research by German Social worker, Michael Vieten, who became interested in the family and the Holocaust.
Tony is Joan Noble’s nephew and Joan and her sister Marion will both participate in the Questions and Answers.
“I hold on tight to you and you don’t let me loose!”
Neil Goodman will present another entertaining on-line quiz for the Mosaic Jewish Community & friends. No winners, no prizes, just a lot of fun. Refreshments: whatever is left over from lunch!