My Train Journey Home Me: That burger smells amazing. Man on train: Oh it is – I’ve earnt it though. I ran a marathon today – in this rain! 26 miles man. Quite the day. Me: Wow. That’s
Day 8 (Fri 20 Oct): Molly Ovenden
The following was written in response to interactions with exhibits, people, and observations at Holborn Library, observing the pieces named, “Reclaiming” with Carolyn Murphy; “Entwine: The Avocado Sculptures” with Ghost and John; “New Bloomsbury Set Silks” with Bloomsbury Festival &
Day 7 (Thurs 19 Oct): Margaret Kenna
Grow? Do I have to? I’m excited about Bloomsbury Festival this year. I have just completed “The Artists Way” by Julia Cameron. It feels like the perfect preparation for this years’ Festival theme: “Grow.” If you don’t know Cameron’s book,
Day 6 (Wed 18 Oct): Suzie Inman
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.
Guest Blog: Lucy Andrina, writer and performer of How to Run Away
My Story Everything is cyclical. I’ve come to realise that what goes around comes around. The shapes we form in belly dance are always based on soft, circles. The infinity symbol. Never ending shapes. As a teenager I used to
Day 3 (Sun 15 Oct): Nicolas Laborie
What will become of us after such an embrace? An echo verse. Breaking through shadows, and so it began CAN The first light of day, to the lapping waves, lost at sea WE between variations and preludes, they roar, also
Guest Blog: Wan Yi Sandra Lam, Curator of The New Bloomsbury Set
‘A fine spring day. I walked along Oxford St. The buses are strung on a chain. People fight & struggle. Knocking each other off the pavement. Old bareheaded men; a motor car accident, &c. To walk alone in London is
Day 2 (Sat 14 Oct): Suchandrika Chakrabarti
“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,
Guest Blog: Rowenna Mortimer, The Morphea
Back Story, Forward Story A guest blog by Rowenna Mortimer, writer of The Morphea, running at RADA Studios on Sat 14 & Sun 15 October (5pm) The back story to the ‘where we are now with it’ of creating –
Day 1 (Fri 13 Oct): Lauren McMenemy
You who are searching for sustenance, sit down and eat She stares out from the photo, reaches from the past, eyes piercing your soul. Stereoscopic views of times long gone, haunting the page, giving devotion through poetry and song: the