November 2023 marks the end of The New Bloomsbury Set, a year-long Heritage Project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Over the past year Bloomsbury Festival has recruited 10 young trainees (aged 18 – 25) and worked with a number of venues,
26 ways of looking at hope 1. Sunlight through trees. 2. Gathering. Waiting. An opportunity to observe. An older couple sit side-by-side under the multitude of life captured in the Fitzrovia mural, filling the whole side of the building edging
Designs for Life by Suzie Inman Inspired by the theme of the Festival (growth) — and fed by titles found during a bookshop crawl through Bloomsbury with Bookshop Crawl UK — I compiled two very different reading lists for life.
“As I turned over the last page, after many nights, a wave of sorrow enveloped me. Where had they all gone, these people who had seemed so real?” – Louise Glück, ‘A Work of Fiction’, 2014 No matter how real,
In April we start the online zoom sessions for our free Bloomsbury Festival Book Club which will initially run monthly until the time of the October 2023 festival. We have an exciting line up of books (in English) written by
Just keep playing. I used to wait for inspiration. Or else, look for it in ‘special places’. Sunsets. Mountains. Lovers’ eyes. It didn’t really work. There’s a lot of pressure to ‘be inspired’. And the staring is unsettling
Events Pictured above (left to right): Death of an Orange, Daytimers Mehfil and Past Life. We are delighted to announce that an Arts Council England grant of £23,360 is supporting an exciting ‘Platform’ for new emerging artists, theatre makers,
Following the success of our 2021-2022 New Wave theatre writing opportunities which have led to three theatre productions, two radio plays and a rehearsed reading at our 2022 Festival, we are delighted to announce new call outs and opportunities
Bloomsbury Festival is offering a package of theatre writing bursaries and production opportunities that lead to full production at the 2022 Festival. The bursaries for these theatre writing opportunities are now open for submissions based on the theme ‘Breathe’ from
Fanny and Me at Bloomsbury Child me: dress-refuser and climber-upper of trees. Eyeing a book cover being flapped in front of my nose by my earnest mother. On it is a girl in a pinafore, flaxen hair flowing, kneeling in