We are delighted to announce the full 2022 Bloomsbury Festival programme. The 2022 Bloomsbury Festival programme has been inspired by the theme of Breathe. The full programme includes over 100 events across 10 days, ranging from hard-hitting creative reflections on
We are delighted to announce that the winners of Bloomsbury Festival’s annual Fine Art Prize 2022 are: Emma Todds, Jan Pimblett and Glenda Frieder. The festival competition invited emerging London artists to submit an artwork responding to the 2022 festival theme
PRIZE – EXHIBITION PLUS £300 CASH PRIZE DEADLINE 5PM FRIDAY 20 MAY A competition for art students to submit a new artwork which responds to the 2022 Bloomsbury Festival theme, BREATHE, as part of the Festival’s New Wave programme. The
The Bloomsbury Festival brings together culture and community, celebrating and showcasing diverse and contemporary ideas, creativity and people in Bloomsbury to our local audience and the world. In 2022 our programme theme is Breathe. This can be interpreted in a
I dance the tarantella I am victim, alone in my joy rich clinging canopy damp growing earth, Tarran tarran ! Notes of the other hands on the chords my brain side – stepping my fingerprints scarred. O
Another layer of memory Bloomsbury is overlaid with decades of memories for me. As a child, we would take a detour through its quaint streets and green squares to read the blue plaques dedicated to the Bloomsbury Set, as my
The circus of enlightenment Roll up! Roll up! Join us for an era of excitement, enlightenment and inspiration! Something’s getting started here on the newly developed edges of London. Gents (and ladies – although most of that comes later) you’re
A Tomb Figure With Splash Glaze (Tang Dynasty 700-750), Shines A Light On Visitors To A Museum. Purloined. Frozen in time. Motionless. Yet, within me is more life than feels safe. I roar, rage in earthenware form. They stop;
HERE COMES THE SUN By Lauren McMenemy ________ Little darling. The absence of light is not darkness. It’s living numb, existing, waiting for hope that never comes. Is what we see really real? Or is it just perception? “We are
Gardens, Squares, Many Layers Strolling around, I happen upon Lockdown & Before (Ram Shergill). Images of an almost deserted Doughty Street, empty British Museum entrances/exits and ghostly Gower Street on a 2020 Bloomsbury Festival walk, slide and click in my