We are pleased to share our digital report on The Bloomsbury Festival Springboard Creatives 2024 project: (If the shorthand digital story below does not display, please click here to open in a new window).
Saturday 26 October: Sue Young
The day begins with a workshop, a graveyard, the re-enchantment of nature writing. Moss shrouds cracked stone, greens the time-worn tombs. Trees dapple a drizzled canopy to shelter the past and present, Their leaves mirrored on the ground, gold, umber,
Arts Council England Grant Supports ‘Platform’ for New Emerging Artists
Events Pictured above (left to right): Death of an Orange, Daytimers Mehfil and Past Life. We are delighted to announce that an Arts Council England grant of £23,360 is supporting an exciting ‘Platform’ for new emerging artists, theatre makers,
New Wave Theatre Writing Opportunities – Call for Submissions
Following the success of our 2021-2022 New Wave theatre writing opportunities which have led to three theatre productions, two radio plays and a rehearsed reading at our 2022 Festival, we are delighted to announce new call outs and opportunities
Call-out for participants for Bangladeshi Tales from Kings Cross project
Bloomsbury Festival, in partnership with Mohammed Ali – Soul City Arts, are seeking elder members of the Bangladeshi community to be part of the Bangladeshi Tales from Kings Cross project. We aim to capture, cinematically, the life and journeys of those
Announcing Bloomsbury Festival Encore
We’re delighted to announce Bloomsbury Festival Encore! A second chance to experience some of the digital highlights from last year’s festival, our Encore programme will run for three weeks from 25 January, featuring limited reruns of Bloomsbury Festival 2020 performances,
EYE SPY: Sinead Keegan – Tavistock Refrain
Fame! They think they’ll be friends forever this historian actor and unknowing writer a broken harmony worked out in the perfect acoustics of the alley archway leading to their below-ground 8-to-a-room with a lock that was busted when they arrived
Day 10: Rishi Dastidar – Sunday 20 October 2019
Neptune’s projects: A Pamphlet In Defence Of The Necessary Impossibility Of Optimism The incredible has made the world possible, and is making the world impossible. Your drinks are so acidic your metals cannot hold them. Hedonism is energy is destruction
Day 8: Francesca Tenenbaum – Friday 18 October 2019
Francesca Tenenbaum has been exploring what makes Bloomsbury such a special part of London and the world. The earliest description of the area we know today as Bloomsbury was discovered in the Domesday Book, written in 1086. At that time,
Andy Hayes – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Andy Hayes Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Composer The sound of the suburbs It’s the sounds I remember best. The raggedy flower girls shouting, ‘Bunch o’ Posies, luv?’ Hawkers barking, street dogs growling, furnaces’ sizzling, scalding breath – whoosh, the heat a warning