November 2023 marks the end of The New Bloomsbury Set, a year-long Heritage Project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Over the past year Bloomsbury Festival has recruited 10 young trainees (aged 18 – 25) and worked with a number of venues,
Guest Blog: Professor Sarah Singer
The award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams performed his one-man show – An Evening with an Immigrant – presented by Fuel on Thursday 19 October as part of the Bloomsbury Festival. Born in Nigeria, he is a cross disciplinary artist,
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
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
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 –
Winners Announcement – Bloomsbury Festival Art Prize 2023
Joint winners of the 2023 Bloomsbury Festival Art Competition have been announced as Ella Jackson and Tara Ryan. Ella has just completed her BA Fine Art at UAL Central Saint Martins, and Tara is a second year studying for a
Guest Blog: JM Barrie and Great Ormond Street Hospital
Bloomsbury Festival 2023 will host a wide range of walks, inviting audiences to explore the streets, history and stories of Bloomsbury. This year the Peter Pan Family Adventure Walk led by Ellika McAuley (Camden Tour Guide Association) will take audiences on an
Information for Schools – 2023 Discovery Hub
2023 Discovery Hub: GROW at Holborn Library, 32-38 Theobalds Road, WC1X 8PA School visits for KS2 and KS3 Thursday 19 and Friday 20 October Family Day Saturday 21 October SCHOOLS Book now to bring your class groups to a free exciting
New Wave Theatre Writing and Production Opportunities 2024
In partnership with Tramshed, Bloomsbury Radio & Macready Theatre > Download all information on this page as a pdf file here BLOOMSBURY FESTIVAL 2024 OPPORTUNITIES Bloomsbury Festival is seeking submissions from emerging theatre writers and companies (aged 18+) to produce
The New Bloomsbury Set: Writers of Colour Digital Book Club
In April we start the online zoom sessions for our free Bloomsbury Festival Book Club which will initially run monthly until the time of the October 2023 festival. We have an exciting line up of books (in English) written by