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Guest Blog: Lucy Andrina, writer and performer of How to Run Away

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

BloomsburyFestival October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 News Read more

Guest Blog: Wan Yi Sandra Lam, Curator of The New Bloomsbury Set

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

BloomsburyFestival October 15, 2023October 15, 2023 News Read more

Guest Blog: Rowenna Mortimer, The Morphea

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 –

BloomsburyFestival October 14, 2023October 14, 2023 News Read more

Winners Announcement – Bloomsbury Festival Art Prize 2023

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

BloomsburyFestival September 15, 2023September 15, 2023 News Read more

Guest Blog: JM Barrie and Great Ormond Street Hospital

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

BloomsburyFestival September 9, 2023 News Read more

Information for Schools – 2023 Discovery Hub

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

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New Wave Theatre Writing and Production Opportunities 2024

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

BloomsburyFestival June 30, 2023June 30, 2023 News Read more

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

BloomsburyFestival March 22, 2023September 11, 2023 News Read more

The New Bloomsbury Set: Silks

We are inviting residents of Bloomsbury, Holborn and King’s Cross to take part in free workshops to create beautiful silk flags for the 2023 Bloomsbury Festival, illustrating your heritage and local area. The flags will represent stories you’d like to

BloomsburyFestival March 22, 2023March 22, 2023 News Read more

Art Competition 2023

Art Competition 2023

(Image by 2022 Art Competition winner Glenda Frieder) PRIZE – EXHIBITION PLUS £300 CASH PRIZE DEADLINE: 30 April A competition for art students to submit a new artwork which responds to either: 1) The 2023 Bloomsbury Festival theme, Grow. The

BloomsburyFestival March 1, 2023 News Read more
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