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Calling all young creatives in Camden aged 16-25!

Calling all young creatives in Camden aged 16-25!

Are you interested in visual art, music, podcasting, or festivals? Are you coming to the end of school, college, or university and thinking about what to do next? If so and you live or study in Camden, we might just

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2024 Programme Open Call

2024 Programme Open Call

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,

BloomsburyFestival February 28, 2024May 22, 2024 News Read more

NEW WAVE: Fine Art & Music 2024 / Theatre 2025

NEW WAVE: Fine Art & Music 2024 / Theatre 2025

(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

BloomsburyFestival February 23, 2024August 12, 2024 News Read more

The New Bloomsbury Set Review

The New Bloomsbury Set Review

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,

BloomsburyFestival December 5, 2023December 5, 2023 News Read more

Guest Blog: Professor Sarah Singer

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,

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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
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