We are pleased to share our digital report on The Bloomsbury Festival Springboard Creatives 2024 project: (If the shorthand digital story below does not display, please click here to open in a new window).
Sunday 27 October: Francesca Baker
On Saturday I think it’s Sunday and wander to Columbia Road to channel my inner Clarissa and buy my own flowers. It’s not, but I return with rye bread, which sets me up well for a day of flaneuring as
Saturday 26 October: Sue Young
The day begins with a workshop, a graveyard, the re-enchantment of nature writing. Moss shrouds cracked stone, greens the time-worn tombs. Trees dapple a drizzled canopy to shelter the past and present, Their leaves mirrored on the ground, gold, umber,
Friday 25 October: Natalie Woodhead
INTO THE SUBLIME: THE EIDOPHUSIKON REIMAGINED For starters, a dolphin foetus. Tiger skull. Elephant heart. Penguin skeleton. A jar of moles. All but shoved in your face as you enter the Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL. For main course,
Thursday 24 October: Nicolas Laborie
The Gentle tides of human graces Humble, we dive together Under corals’ whisper, Miracles shared between you: A.I., could it be true? New lasting foundations, I, nurture, all Kindness where gentle bonds, never fall. In equity, side by side we
Heritage Project: Strange Doings in London
A new year-long musical heritage project set to explore the history of the London area of St Giles – once notorious for having the worst living conditions in the country – has launched at Bloomsbury Festival thanks to a £39,750
Wednesday 23 October: Carmen Lavin
The Silk Road runs in exhibitions in the British Library and the British Museum. Between the two I joined another route today. It took me past blue plaques commemorating lives, loves and creativities of the Bloomsbury Group in Gordon Square,
Monday 21 October: Irene Lofthouse
Sporting Lambs David Mullany’s wonderful walk around just four streets will stay with me for a long time. Meeting on Lamb’s Conduit Street – the name of which has fascinated me each time I walk it – the group continued
Sunday 20 October: Chloe Green
“Blooms-bury” From: Monster Flowers we gather around tables – schoolchildren with safety scissors, faeries set to a flower feast – and shape crepe, pulp hearts of conifers (reduced by a dimension, then returned) a simulacrum of their natural peers. a
Saturday 19 October: Molly Ovenden
From: Walking Like a Human “Pigeon’s Wing Blue” in a ukulele cuddle of bramber green festival flutter and abandoned feathers it’s blue that drew me in a clumsy flapping of startled flocks of pigeons land among copper-lime leaves of some