2024 PROGRAMME OPEN CALL Each year we programme around 100 creative events and exhibitions of which the majority are ‘Partner Events’. These showcase the cultural offer of Bloomsbury from many disciplines and from all parts of our unique inner-city community,
(Image: The Big Bang by 2023 Art Competition joint winner Tara Ryan) NEW WAVE FINE ART COMPETITION 2024 PRIZE: Exhibition plus £300 Cash Prize DEADLINE: 25 April A competition for art students to submit a new artwork which should respond
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,
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,
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
‘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
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 –
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
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
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