NEW WAVE: OUR PLATFORM FOR EMERGING ARTISTS Our New Wave programme seeks to nurture emerging artists and creatives at the start of their professional careers, by offering performance opportunities, cash prizes, and grant support. We are delighted to announce opportunities
Mae Russell is a Ballads and Song Research Volunteer, taking part in the Strange Doings in London project run by Bloomsbury Festival and supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. An Afternoon at the Charles Dickens Museum By Mae Russell The
Vivien Ellis is the music director, researcher and community musician on our Heritage project Strange Doings in London – the songs and ballads of St Giles, a year-long musical heritage project exploring the history of the London area of St
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).
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
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,
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,
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
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
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,