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DAY 7: Vanwy Arif – A Tomb Figure With Splash Glaze Shines A Light On Visitors To A Museum

DAY 7: Vanwy Arif – A Tomb Figure With Splash Glaze Shines A Light On Visitors To A Museum

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;

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DAY 6: Lauren McMenemy – Here Comes the Sun

DAY 6: Lauren McMenemy – Here Comes the Sun

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

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DAY 3: Irene Lofthouse – Gardens, Squares, Many Layers

DAY 3: Irene Lofthouse – Gardens, Squares, Many Layers

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

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DAY 2: Margaret Kenna – Memories of Writing in Residence and Other Things

DAY 2: Margaret Kenna – Memories of Writing in Residence and Other Things

Memories of Writing In Residence And Other Things By Margaret Kenna   It starts with the Cinnamon shop Which sounds like it should involve pastries But is actually all about memory It reminds me to ring my father Who can

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DAY 1: Abi Siri Andersen – Bloomsbury-ing!

DAY 1: Abi Siri Andersen – Bloomsbury-ing!

Opening night at the Bloomsbury Festival: A Sense of Belonging A crowd stands watching a black and white projection on the Holy Cross Church in Cromer Street. Tucked around the back, caged in a garden, a neon tiger growls at

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DAY 10: Vanwy MacDonald Arif – Sunday 25 October 2020

DAY 10: Vanwy MacDonald Arif – Sunday 25 October 2020

Fanny and Me at Bloomsbury Child me: dress-refuser and climber-upper of trees. Eyeing a book cover being flapped in front of my nose by my earnest mother. On it is a girl in a pinafore, flaxen hair flowing, kneeling in

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DAY 9: Abi Siri Andersen – Saturday 24 October 2020

My favourite part of today was exploring the fascinating Seeing and Perceiving Hub. Here I’ve written about my own experience of losing vision. Moorfields Eye Hospital – thank you, I’m eternally grateful. VISION I bang my head on an ancient

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DAY 8: Dr Joyce Datiles – Friday 23 October 2020

Reflection on ENSNARED – THE INESCAPABLE REALITY OF FATIGUE  S U R V I V O R  By Writer-in-Residence, Dr Joyce Datiles  December 2014. The day after Christmas. To those who met me afterwards and those who knew me before, 

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DAY 7: Fiona Thompson – Thursday 22 October 2020

DAY 7: Fiona Thompson – Thursday 22 October 2020

Today was a mystery tour through an area I know so well, Bloomsbury. And yet it turned out that there was so much I’d never seen. A story garden, magical spells, ghost stories and mysterious clouds in a crypt. The

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DAY 6: Suzie Inman – Wednesday 21 October 2020

DAY 6: Suzie Inman – Wednesday 21 October 2020

Found words Everyone has a secret A story they’ve never told What’s yours? Maypole dancing, Anne abseiling. Wonder! Hideout in the Hell hole. A radical and indomitable spirit – Curiosity and hope for connectivity. What we name and what we

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