Tell us a bit about your role at Bloomsbury Festival If it moves, I programme it! I look after Dance, Theatre and Performance. There are so many talents in the area – established and emerging – and I work with
Team Profile: Avni Patel
Team Profile: Rosemary Richards
Tell us a bit about your role at Bloomsbury Festival I have been invited to take up the position of Director for the 2020 Bloomsbury Festival and the role is all about making the Festival happen, in terms of shaping
2020 Art Competition
THE COMPETITION A competition, for students and recent graduates in Fine Art, to create an artwork based on this year’s Bloomsbury Festival theme, Vision, as part of the Festival’s New Wave programme. The winning artwork will be selected by a panel
Annual Children’s Art Competition
What do you hope the world will look like in 2120 – one hundred years from now? Bloomsbury Festival Children’s Art Competition Is there a young budding artist or photographer in your home? Why not enter the Bloomsbury Festival Children’s
Truth to Power Café – Open Call
London Artists Projects, Bloomsbury Festival and Conway Hall have teamed up to bring Truth to Power Café to Conway Hall over the next two years. In response to COVID-19, this internationally acclaimed performance event is launching a digital story telling platform,
Kate Anderson to step down as Bloomsbury Festival Director
After five years at the helm, Kate Anderson is to step down as Director of Bloomsbury Festival in May having been offered the role as Head of Cultural Programme and Partnerships for the Royal Docks, London’s only Enterprise Zone.
Call-out for programme submissions
Are you interested in being part of Bloomsbury Festival 2020? Our mission is to amplify creative development in Bloomsbury through producing and presenting projects with a focus on providing platforms for early and mid-career practitioners; supporting cross-genre collaborations; and creating
Day 10: Rishi Dastidar – Sunday 20 October 2019
Neptune’s projects: A Pamphlet In Defence Of The Necessary Impossibility Of Optimism The incredible has made the world possible, and is making the world impossible. Your drinks are so acidic your metals cannot hold them. Hedonism is energy is destruction
Day 9: Irene Lofthouse – Saturday 19 October 2019
Irene Lofthouse The tourist stepped along the street her space suit merely another costume on the day that thousands in colourful garb protested at the nature of their future. Her exploration and collection of found objects underlining that what was
Day 8: Francesca Tenenbaum – Friday 18 October 2019
Francesca Tenenbaum has been exploring what makes Bloomsbury such a special part of London and the world. The earliest description of the area we know today as Bloomsbury was discovered in the Domesday Book, written in 1086. At that time,