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An autumn festival of art, knowledge and imagination bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest Introduction Introduction

As the new Festival Director, I am proud to present the Welcome to the 2013“ Bloomsbury Festival programme, created and led by the people that live, work, study and play in this small but beautiful corner of . Bloomsbury Festival shines a light on the self Festival determination of a world-changing community of pioneers existing side- by-side across a few streets. This October the Bloomsbury Festival spills out into the area’s streets, once spoke of her sense of freedom upon arriving in Bloomsbury, and I seek shops, museums, libraries and laboratories with a truly eclectic to recapture that same spirit of vitality in every visitor this year. I welcome you into our sanctuary for line-up of unexpected, enlightening and extraordinary things to see and do. Take a the imagination to encounter brilliant minds, relaxation and pleasure, the new and the controversial. musicals masterclass from Sir Tim Rice, hear Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger in Bloomsbury Festival is an uplifting journey of discovery that aims to inspire, delight, surprise and conversation, listen to Iain Sinclair on Bloomsbury and radicalism, and discover Sir move you. Andrew Motion’s personal literary refuges. As a registered charity we also run a year-round outreach festival for the lonely, taking the best of Bloomsbury right into the living rooms of local isolated people such as those living with dementia. We’ve extended the festival to six days, giving you more time to explore over 200 free Please donate to help continue this vital service and ensure our Festival is kept free for everyone to events across Bloomsbury. The all-new Bloomsbury Lunch Breaks and After Work enjoy. Sessions will make midweek in midtown a breeze, leading up to an inventive weekend of street parties and open squares. Cathy Mager” , Festival Director This is a festival you can escape and relax into, whether it’s jazz and gin in a private square, or piano recitals in the stunning new Dairy Art Centre. Our year-round outreach programme shows what neighbours, no longer strangers, can achieve together. This is a festival that couldn’t happen anywhere else. Keep the Festival free! This is Bloomsbury - we hope you’ll enjoy it with us!

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Your donation is to the National Funding Scheme (registered charity No 1149800); see www.nationalfundingscheme.org/donor-terms for full terms and conditions or call 020 3287 0971 2 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival 3 Laugh with Brainsex, New this year! fresh from the Edinburgh Bloomsbury Festival Fringe. runs through the “E!ortlessly engaging week. Join us for and a pleasure to watch” Don’t miss! Bloomsbury Lunch  Don’t miss! Breaks and After Work Sessions.

Spectacular music! Tim See great art Take a tour of the Rice, vital recitals, the World The Ministry of with works by Cindy brand new Dairy Art Music Stage at Russell Communication Sherman and Ai Square, the chance to walk Wei Wei. Hear Mark Centre It’s all A very special festival strand among musicians at an open in the building that inspired Wallinger on public orchestra rehearsal, and sound art. artist Sarah Angliss, named George Orwell’s 1984. Most Groundbreaking Act at FREE! Brighton Festival and Fringe Did T. S. Eliot’s wife make 2013. him a poet? Don’t miss Vivienne “instantly appealing… ‘Extraordinary Moments allusive and witty” Jazz in the in the Square’ Weekend  Evening Standard Square opens up for A weekend festival for the a relaxing Sunday whole of London - discover a afternoon - including playground for the mind! gin cocktails and cake!

Get moving with groundbreaking dance collaborations between Wellcome Collection and The Place including Bring the family the fantastic Ministry and engage their minds Get literary with Will of Movement in Russell with Bach to Baby for Self, Andrew Motion Square! The Store Street tots, Cartoon Museum and Iain Sinclair. Share classes for kids, digital Shindig your own writing through drama at the Warner Our annual awesome Spread the Word and Bros Preview Theatre street party! Jukebox Stories. for teens, and much more.

4 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 5 Throughout the Throughout the Festival Festival MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS TALKS MOVEMENT MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS Events running THE EVERLASTING FLAME: THINKING WITH THE BODY Events running ZOROASTRIANISM IN HISTORY AND Explore mind and movement in the work of Wayne all week IMAGINATION McGregor | Random Dance, with this exhibition all week Explore the ancient history of this fascinating religion investigating the links between dance and cognitive in an exhibition of artefacts, texts, paintings and and social science. How do mind, body and textiles, alongside spectacular installations that movement interact? Look out for more Wellcome include a walk-in !re temple and a ten-metre glass Collection events throughout the festival! etching. Wellcome Collection ART THE MINISTRY OF Brunei Gallery, SOAS Tuesday to Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday NAOMI WANJIKU COMMUNICATION 11am-6pm, Thursday open till 10pm Wednesday to Saturday 10.30am-5pm, Thursday Traditional techniques meet untraditional materials, late opening until 8pm, Sunday 11am-5pm. as tin cans, steel wire and oxidized sheet metal Senate House, HQ to the Curator’s talks: Thursday 17 October 6pm-7pm, ART TALKS are transformed into wall-hanging sculptures using , was Saturday-Sunday 12pm-1pm ISLAND methods from the !bre arts. home to the Ministry of Information during An exhibition at the stunning new Dairy Art Centre October Gallery the Second World War, and was the MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION M U S E U M S inspired by Aldous Huxley’s novel Island. Organised Tuesday to Saturday, 12pm-5.30pm inspiration behind George Orwell’s 1984. AND EXHIBITIONS as a ‘book’ of 30 artists to explore, who consider the A week of special events throughout the possibilities for new social experiments. Don’t miss THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION ART festival will subvert the building’s history the public tours during the Festival for a closer look This exhibition draws on research, books and at Bloomsbury’s newest art centre. JACQUES KATMOR & THE 3RD EYE GROUP and celebrate its current role as a centre archives from Senate House to explore our changing Dairy Art Centre for knowledge. understanding of communication. Via library A retrospective of counter-cultural Israeli artist Wednesday to Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday and Communicate with leading poets and treasures, original artwork, and research from the Jacques Katmor’s work, featuring drawings, collages, Sunday 11am-5pm. etchings and maps created between 1964 and thinkers including Sir Andrew Motion, School of Advanced Study, witness the emergence of a ‘Ministry of Communication’. Public tours of the show and the Dairy Art Centre: 1975. Monochrome lines with arcs of primary colour Will Self and Iain Sinclair. Help create suggest a universal geometry. Senate House, University of London Wednesday-Friday 2.30pm-3pm, Saturday-Sunday an Orwellian Garden, and step into an 2pm-2.30pm The Horse Hospital art installation about fracking. Visit the Tuesday to Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 11am-6pm, Tuesday to Saturday 12pm-6pm Exploratorium, and support the launch of Sunday 12pm-5pm In Protest: 150 Human Rights Poems. PHOTOGRAPHY The Ministry of MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION A PORTRAIT OF 18 RUGBY STREET Communication is a PHOTOGRAPHY Discover the creative life of this London house, from special project by 100 IMAGES OF MIGRATION the 1950s when Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter O’Toole were all residents through to today, with the School of The results of a Guardian and Migration Museum photographs by Bobby Williams. Advanced Study competition to !nd 100 images of migration in at the University Britain, to represent the last 100 years of migration. Ben Pentreath Ltd Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 6pm of London, with Senate House, University of London funding from the Tuesday to Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 11am-5pm, Arts & Humanities Sunday 12pm-5pm ART Research Council. CURIOSITY: AN ART PRACTICE AS A WAY Look out for HISTORY MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS OF LOOKING events marked WHO TRADED HERE? London-based American artist Julie Caves’ !rst Ministry of Discover the historical shopkeepers of Marchmont major solo exhibition presents work from the ART Communication, and Street through this fascinating temporary installation past two years, celebrating beauty and its many COMMUNICATING WITHOUT WORDS follow @SASNews on of commemorative plaques, which reveals who juxtapositions: work and play, nature and synthesis, Twitter. occupied the storefronts from the early 19th century life and death. An exhibition of personal work created by people onwards. The Crypt Gallery at St Pancras Church who struggle to speak, read or write following a stroke. All the artists attend the UCL Communication Marchmont Street, between Coram Street and Leigh Daily 11am-7pm Clinic. See how creativity can connect us. Street Lumen Church and Café Tuesday to Friday, 9am-5pm 6 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 7 Tuesday Wednesday

15 October MUSIC 16 October SAVOUR THE FLAVOUR AT FOOTE’S After Work Sessions Escape with a series of lunchtime acoustic gigs in Bloomsbury Lunch store. Bring your lunch and allow Foote’s to take it away! Today’s performer is Daniel Glover. Breaks Foote’s Music Shop 12.30pm-2pm

MUSIC MUSIC ART TALKS THE LANDSCAPE OF THE SOUL AWAKENINGS: A PIANO CONCERT SERIES A recital by Vivien Munday (soprano) and Eva Maria ARTIST-LED TOUR OF CURIOSITY: AN ART The !rst in a special festival series of recitals in the Doroszkowska (piano) exploring the passionate PRACTICE AS A WAY OF LOOKING stunning new Dairy Art Centre. Prize-winning pianist interaction between the human soul and the An artist-led tour of London-based American artist and Bloomsbury resident John-Paul Muir presents world of nature. With songs from Tchaikovsky, Julie Caves’ !rst major solo exhibition. See page 7. works by Scarlatti, Mozart, and Chopin. Supported by Rachmanino", Quilter and Britten, and piano solos The Crypt Gallery at St Pancras Church Peregrine’s Pianos. by Liszt and Grieg. 1pm-1.30pm Dairy Art Centre Pushkin House MUSEUMS PERFORMANCE TALKS 1pm-1.50pm 6pm-7pm MUSEUMS SHOWOFF WALKS AND TOURS A chaotic cabaret night where sta" and fans of TO AND THROUGH VICTORIA HOUSE WALKS AND TOURS MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION ART museums in Bloomsbury take to the stage to LITERATURE PERFORMANCE show o" their work! Learn the stories behind Victoria House opens its doors to you on a tour HISTORIC HIGHLIGHTS IN THE BUILDING which seamlessly combines modern architecture READING AS ART: TURNING THE PAGES OF the collections, and pick up behind-the-scenes OF BLOOMSBURY knowledge and gossip. with the listed original. You will be transported PSYCHOLOGY through ninety years of British craftsmanship. A guided walk exploring 19th-century progressive Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL education and the men, women and children who Evoking a wind that blows through a library, opening Meet at the Inmidtown Kiosk outside Holborn 7.30pm-10pm studied in Bloomsbury. Take in the architecture and books, prompting unexpected stories, this evening Station social history, and learn about the advances made. of readings, art and performances engages with 1pm-1.45pm Victorian psychology from the library’s collections. Meet at the fountain in Russell Square MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION MUSIC Senate House Library 1pm-1.50pm JAYSON GILLHAM: ÉTUDES DE CONCERT 6pm-7.30pm Bloomsbury’s Jayson Gillham was Commonwealth LITERATURE Musician of the Year in 2012 and a !nalist in the 2012 SCIENCE TALKS Leeds International Piano Competition. He explores THE LUNCHTIME TALK AT PERSEPHONE the evolution of the piano étude through Chopin, BOOKS COSY SCIENCE PRESENTS: VIRUSES AS Debussy and Ligeti. Supported by the Institute of OUR FRIENDS Come and browse the shelves with a complimentary Musical Research. glass of Madeira and a cucumber sandwich at the Can you use a virus to cure a disease? Find out with Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of Lamb’s Conduit Street home of 20th-century women immunology expert Professor Mary Collins from UCL. London writers. Includes a short talk at 1.30pm. A fun evening of science with a game in the break! 8pm-9pm Persephone Books The Marquis Cornwallis 1pm-2pm 7pm-9pm MUSIC AT HOME WITH THE ORCHESTRA: AN OPEN REHEARSAL Join the University of London Symphony Orchestra for an open rehearsal of Shostakovich’s rarely- performed 15th Symphony. An extraordinary chance to experience a symphony orchestra up close, moving amongst the di"erent instrumental sections. St George’s Holborn, Queen Square 8.30pm-10pm

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16 October ART FILM AND THEATRE FAMILY 16 October After Work Sessions THE UCL OLYMPIARTS STUNTED TREES AND BROKEN BRIDGES The Olympics are over – time for the Olympiarts! Award-winning Y Touring Theatre Company present After WorkSessions Take part in a humorous competition where your a digital drama exploring crime and neurojustice creativity and resourcefulness will be tested by in the year 2017, with the chance to debate with the Doodle Sprint, the Synchronised Painting neuroscientists Professor Sophie Scott and Professor competition and more. Steven Rose after the screening. Doors open at 6.30pm, !lm starts at 7.30pm. UCL Art Museum Warner Bros Preview Theatre WALKS AND TOURS 6.30pm-7.30pm MUSIC 6.30pm-9pm BLOOMSBURY AND THE RAILWAY FIGARO, FIGARO, FIGARO! REVOLUTION What inspired two of history’s greatest composers Learn how the coming of the railways a"ected to write operas about the witty, street-smart barber Bloomsbury and the surrounding area, including Figaro? Bloomsbury Opera perform highlights from the world’s !rst underground railway, the mighty Rossini’s Barber of Seville and Mozart’s The Marriage terminals just across the , and the of Figaro to !nd out. revitalisation of Kings Cross. William Goodenough House, Meet at (meet by the statue of 7pm-9.30pm Gandhi) 4pm-6pm MUSIC

TALKS THEATRE AND FILM GWALIA CHOIR OPEN REHEARSAL AND SING-ALONG CAFÉ CULTURE: ‘VAMPIRES’ The award-winning Gwalia Welsh Male Voice Choir Explode the vampire myth with an evening of invite you to join their weekly rehearsal, get involved literature, theatre and !lm. Was Snow White really in a sing-along and maybe learn some Welsh! a vampire? Does it matter if a vampire is male or female? Experts go fang-to-fang. The London Welsh Centre Swedenborg Society 7.30pm-8.30pm 5.30pm-7pm

MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION LITERATURE TALKS FILM THE MADNESS OF THE MODERN CITY: WOMEN AND BREWING: A HIDDEN LOVELY MAN WILL SELF IN CONVERSATION HISTORY An award-winning Indonesian feature !lm about Bloomsbury, one of the crucibles of modernism, is From the ancient goddess of beer to the ‘alewives’ a young Muslim woman who travels to Jakarta in often seen as a tranquil space amidst the madness of medieval Britain, brewing was until recently search of her transgender father. Followed by a Q&A of London. Join Will Self and Dr Nick Shepley to associated with women. Why was there a radical with director Teddy Soeriaatmadja. explore the links between modern urban life and turnaround, and how is the rise of craft beer shaking ‘madness’, including a reading from Umbrella. Khalili Lecture Theatre, Main Building, SOAS, things up? University of London Senate House, University of London Adnams Cellar & Kitchen Store 7pm-9pm 6.30pm-8pm 6pm-6.30pm and 7pm-7.30pm

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17 October WALKS AND TOURS MUSIC 17 October THE STORY OF MARCHMONT STREET LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Bloomsbury Lunch Marchmont Street is Bloomsbury’s original high Hear works from Widor, Cesar Franck and Alain After Work Sessions street. Join this walk led by Ricci de Freitas, author performed by John Bradbury (organ) and Malgorzata Breaks of a book about the street, to discover its fascinating Czapor (piano) in this historic church. people and history. St Pancras Church Meet on the corner of Marchmont Street and 1.15pm-2pm Bernard Street ART TALKS 1pm-2pm MUSIC THEATRE MUSIC SANCTUARY SAVOUR THE FLAVOUR AT FOOTE’S VIVIENNE Talk from artist Terry Du"y, whose work considers art, WALKS AND TOURS Escape with a series of lunchtime acoustic gigs in Vivienne’s marriage to TS Eliot was disastrous but existence, religion, politics and the human condition. store. Bring your lunch and allow Foote’s to take it DICKENS, DISRAELI AND FRIENDS she made him as a poet. This new music theatre The studio will be open as a place of refuge, away! Today’s music is provided by Los Dawsons. Explore intriguing historical questions on this work tells her story in song, with lyrics brilliantly sanctuary and re#ection. evoking Eliot’s poetry. Performed by Clare McCaldin Foote’s Music Shop insightful walk. Find out who asked ladies to come The Studio at 5 Great James Street to their concerts without hoops on their skirts, and (Vivienne) and Libby Burgess (piano). 12.30pm-2pm 6pm-7pm gentlemen to come without swords!  Evening Standard Meet at Goodenough Club October Gallery MOVEMENT TALKS MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS 1pm-2pm 6pm-6.40pm TAI CHI SAND DANCING: EGYPT IN BRITISH COMEDY Take part in a short, revitalising Tai Chi taster session LITERATURE – it’s easy to learn and can be practised at home The sand dance performed by Wilson, Keppel and afterwards. LIVING HISTORY: IN CONVERSATION WITH Betty is almost as famous in Britain as the pyramids themselves. Robert Ross will invite us to laugh at this Mary Ward Centre NICK BARLAY AND EVE HARRIS comedy classic and its legacy in British comedy. 12.30pm-1pm Authors Nick Barlay (Scattered Ghosts) and Eve Harris (The Marrying of Chani Kaufman), who both The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology explore Jewish family and community in their work, 6pm-8pm WALKS AND TOURS discuss representation and living history in literature. HOLDEN & DOLLS The Wiener Library MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION LITERATURE Learn more about two of Bloomsbury’s most iconic 1pm-2.30pm buildings, designed by two very di"erent architects: NEIL SPRING PRESENTS: THE GHOST Fitzroy Dolls and Charles Holden. Plus a quick peek HUNTERS at other architectural gems. Meeting at the fountain The launch of The Ghost Hunters, a novel by in Russell Square. Neil Spring. Harry Price left his Library of Magical Meet at the fountain in Russell Square Literature to the University of London. How is his death connected to the most haunted house in 12.45pm-2pm England? TALKS Senate House Library, University of London MUSIC TIM RICE MASTERCLASS ON MUSICALS 6.30-8pm AWAKENINGS: A PIANO CONCERT SERIES One of the world’s greatest lyricists Tim Rice gives The second in a special festival series of recitals in a special talk as part of Bloomsbury Festival in an ART FOOD MUSIC SCIENCE the stunning new Dairy Art Centre. Award-winning event not to be missed. Tim’s talk will look back young pianist Jessica Zhu presents a programme on over his long career in music, theatre and !lms, HOMETOWN our relationship with nature, with Schubert, Debussy and will explore his work with the likes of Andrew An evening about place and memory, with songs and Ravel. Supported by Peregrine’s Pianos. Lloyd Webber, Alan Menken, Elton John, Benny from busking ‘hot spots’, traditional foods from Dairy Art Centre Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus. Tim will also discuss around the world, memory-triggering scents, the his !rst totally new show for 13 years, From Here To chance to write a postcard home with the Postal 1pm-1.50pm Eternity, which opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre on Museum, and Dr Volker Sommer from UCL discusses 23 October. how memory creates the self. George V Hall, The Bloomsbury Hotel October Gallery 6pm - 7pm 6pm-9.30pm 12 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 13 Thursday Friday

17 October ART TALKS ART 18 October THE ARTIST AND PUBLIC SENSIBILITY: SEE THROUGH: GIZEM, AN EXHIBITION OF After Work Sessions 1740 - 2013 PAINTINGS Bloomsbury Lunch In the context of Mark Wallinger’s Art on the Visit this beautiful exhibition by local artist, Ughetta Breaks Underground commission Labyrinth and the history Dallimonti to discover stories hidden in paintings; of the Foundling Hospital, this discussion considers break into a scene and look into other worlds through the motivations behind public art, the shifts in its the tear in the paper. public reception and its potential for e"ecting social The Chapel, St George’s Gardens FAMILY MUSIC change. Speakers include artist Mark Wallinger. MUSIC 12pm-5pm CAMDEN YOUNG SOLOISTS The Foundling Museum AWAKENINGS: A PIANO CONCERT SERIES A delightful early evening concert featuring talented 6.30pm-8.30pm The third in a special festival series of recitals in the MUSIC young vocalists and instrumentalists from The stunning new Dairy Art Centre. Award-winning pianist Camden Music Service. SAVOUR THE FLAVOUR AT FOOTE’S Kristiina Rokaševitš contrasts a contemporary sonata Lumen Church and Café Escape with a series of lunchtime acoustic gigs in from her native Estonia with a classical sonata by Beethoven. Supported by Peregrine’s Pianos. 6.30pm-8pm store. Bring your lunch and allow Foote’s to take it away! Today Penny Elkins and Lisa Marini perform Dairy Art Centre music with a Latin twist. 1pm-1.50pm ARCHITECTURE ART TALKS Foote’s Music Shop SPINS: CHOREOGRAPHING 12.30pm-2pm WALKS AND TOURS ARCHITECTURAL GESTURES IN URBAN SPACES HISTORIC HIGHLIGHTS IN THE BUILDING MOVEMENT MUSIC OF BLOOMSBURY Meet the designers behind the ‘sPins’ installation (see page 20), and consider the question: how can TEA DANCE A guided walk exploring 19th-century progressive connecting people through public space promote An excuse to get dressed up, catch up with friends education and the men, women and children who social connection and well-being? and make new ones. Join Mr Wonderful Dancing for studied in Bloomsbury. Take in the architecture and social history, and learn about the advances made. School of Graduate Studies at an afternoon of tea, cake and dancing. Free entry University College London with a Festival programme. Meet at the fountain in Russell Square 6.30pm-8pm The Camden Centre 1pm-1.50pm 12.30pm-4pm

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ART WALKS AND TOURS WOMEN OF BLOOMSBURY PETER CARTWRIGHT THE RULING RUSSELLS Find out about some of the many in#uential, controversial and wonderful women who have been The exhibition opening for a series of drawings Who were the Russell family? Stan Harris tells their associated with Bloomsbury. made by artist in residence Peter Cartwright during a story and explains how they left their mark on year-long residency at Swedenborg House. His work Bloomsbury by creating the !rst proper London Meet at Goodenough Club responds to the building and its unique holdings. suburb and introducing a grid system of streets. 1pm-2pm Swedenborg House Meet at the fountain in Russell Square 6.30pm-9pm 12.45pm-2pm

WALKS AND TOURS COMEDY THEATRE BRAINSEX TO AND THROUGH VICTORIA HOUSE Do women read emotions while men read maps? Victoria House opens its doors to you on a tour Is the secret of human behaviour inside our skulls? which seamlessly combines modern architecture with Find out in Timandra Harkness’s highly-praised solo the listed original. You will be transported through show from this summer’s Edinburgh Fringe. ninety years of British craftsmanship. One KX Meet at the Inmidtown Kiosk outside Holborn Station 7pm-8pm 1pm-1.45pm 14 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 15 Friday Friday

18 October LITERATURE PERFORMANCE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION LITERATURE 18 October After Work Sessions SLIPKNOTS: READINGS WITH JANE LEE POETS IN THE LIBRARY: SIR ANDREW Jane Lee is a London writer and former programme MOTION IN CONVERSATION WITH MARK After Work Sessions director at Central St Martin’s. She’ll read from recent FORD imaginary pieces in forms which owe something to World-leading poets Sir Andrew Motion and performance in theatre, radio, and contemporary art. Professor Mark Ford discuss libraries as places of Swedenborg House inspiration and enchantment, with a reading and 6.30pm-7.30pm book signing of Sir Andrew Motion’s The Customs House. THE EMBASSY OF FILM CHILDREN’S RIGHTS: Senate House Library, University of London TALKS CASABLANCA GRAND OPENING 7pm-8.30pm WHAT’S TECHNOLOGY EVER DONE FOR Sit back, relax and enjoy this classic !lm with delicious home cooked food from Community Cooks NATURE? Join 150 local school and a drink from the bar. Doors open at 7.30pm, Apart from naming operating systems after big cats, screening begins at 8pm. children to celebrate the what has technology done for the natural world? Bedford House Community Centre o%cial opening of The Embassy The Technology for Nature Team discuss and for Children’s Rights. At their demonstrate the latest technological innovations in 7.30pm-10pm pop-up embassy in wildlife conservation.

Russell Square, discover Old Refectory, Wilkins Building, UCL MUSIC THEATRE hundreds of colourful 6.30pm-8.30pm tokens and playful SONGS FROM THE LEDGE sculptures and leave Songs and scenes from a new musical about the your own message troubled life of a !ctional jazz and blues star, and the supporting the right mysterious box of letters which appears on her great granddaughter’s doorstep. for children to play. With illuminations, Lumen Church and Café live music and 7.30pm-10.30pm the Festival bar. Kindly supported by COMEDY SPOKEN WORD Mishcon de Reya. JUKEBOX STORY Russell Square MUSIC A night of storytelling and comedy inspired by 6.30pm-7.30pm pop songs. Writers: send a story under 800 words GIULIO CESARE inspired by a song about Medicine and Revitalisation A chamber concert performance of some of the to [email protected], and you might see your most sublime music ever composed: highlights story performed on the night! TALKS from Handel’s operatic masterpiece Giulio Cesare. The Harrison Directed by Richard Hetherington of the Royal Opera LIVING LIBRARY House. 7.30pm-10.30pm Read our living books, and explore public health St Pancras Church around the world without leaving Bloomsbury! 7.30pm-9.30pm MOVEMENT An evening of experiences and stories taken from MOVEMENT PERFORMANCE research and life at the London School of Hygiene & SADHANA DANCE THE CRAFT OF SURGERY HOSTED BY Tropical Medicine. Intricate detail, perfect timing and precisely South Courtyard, London School of Hygiene & ROGER KNEEBONE controlled exchanges: they’re important in Tropical Medicine Surgery is a profession, but it’s also a craft and a both dance and surgery. Under My Skin uses 5.45pm-9pm performance. Roger Kneebone, Professor of Surgical contemporary choreography to open up the world of Education at , explores the operating theatre. parallels between surgery and millinery, tailoring and The Place writing. 8pm-9pm The Place 7pm-7.30pm 16 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 17 Russell Square Extraordinary Moments in the Square Russell Square Saturday 10am-7.30pm, Saturday 10am-7.30pm, Sunday 11am-5.30pm Sunday 11am-5.30pm

A whole weekend of curious activities KIDS for children and adults at the heart of Do experiments with Cosy SHOP IN THE THE SOAS Bloomsbury Science and the Francis Crick SQUARE WORLD MUSIC Institute, build playdoh DNA and Find something new to read STAGE Experience Bloomsbury on two wheels with do pretend drugs trials with Great in our wonderful Pop-up Think beyond borders the Cycle Experience Pod, have your portrait Ormond Street Hospital, and help Bookshop, and discover with an extraordinary painted by The People’s Portrait Project, and create a Bottle Playhouse with local designers in the Craft world music line be amazed by our Science Buskers. Can they the Calthorpe Project. The Pedal Market. up from SOAS University of London, be outdone by the Maths Buskers? Powered Poetrie Postie from the providing the soundtrack to your Festival Past is a vintage parcel tricycle full Be inspired by the UCL Ideas Salon, and their weekend. of children’s activities. fantastical mirrored room The Thing Is where you can handle museum objects. Plus !nd out SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER everything you ever wanted to know about 12pm AMARATERRA London’s only poo but were too afraid to ask with UCLOO pizzica ensemble! U pizzicu is a tarantula from Dr Lena Ciric, and learn about Microbes WELLCOME COLLECTION’S MINISTRY OF MOVEMENT bite. To heal, you must dance relentlessly and Me. to the hypnotic beat... Try everything from gumboot Are you Happy And You Know It? See if we dancing to improvised prancing, 1.15pm NICOLÁS “COLACHO” BRIZUELA can display emotions through computer Blending Argentinian and catch new performances as - NINON VALDER animation and creative expression. Drop folk with jazz, and tango with classical into The Parlour, a converted ice-cream van Wellcome Collection teams up serving up incredible glitter face painting for with The Place, Wayne McGregor | 2.30pm DELICATESSEN Sumptuous adults. Random Dance and Westminster GRANDE FINALE! vocal harmonies and driving rhythms Kingsway College. Plus hop onto Fancy performing yourself? Anyone can Play Join voices with the 3.45pm NAMVULA Zambian afro-folk the Routemaster bus for the The Festival Piano from Peregrine’s Pianos, or with honest lyrics Curiosity Road Show! amazing Choir with No help the Poetry Explorers from the Ministry of Name for a participatory 5pm ÇIĞDEM ASLAN Covering multiple

Communication. sing-along! Sunday, 5pm languages and styles! 6.15pm FOFOULAH Explosive afro-fusion with dub basslines, sci-! synths and raw Learn how to Make Your Garden into a Refuge guitars EAT AND DRINK for Wildlife, or pick up a new skill with the Mary Ward Centre. Re#ect on freedom with Enjoy local treats from Bea’s SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER of Bloomsbury, the Espresso Fernando Caceres’ Butter"y Window art 12pm GOSHAWK Siberian sounds meet Room and more, plus hot installation, and help the October Gallery !ll English folk. cider and mulled wine at the Russell Square’s covered walkway with origami Festival Bar. #owers. Visit the Time to Change cinema and 1.15pm LOS DESTERRADOS A vibrant help end mental health discrimination. London take on Sephardic Jewish music One KX displays their photography exhibition; 2.30pm SARABANDA Cuban salsa Food Glorious Food. rhythms from the 40s, 50s and now We’ll also be launching our Festival in a Box 3.45pm HAMSA Rhythms and grooves outreach project! from the shtetl and the souk

18 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 19 All Weekend Saturday Happening both MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION WORKSHOPS 19 October Saturday and Sunday SPINS WIKIPEDIA sPins is an audio-visual installation inspired by EDIT-A-THON Bloomsbury Festival the natural instinct of brushing long grass. The Calling all aspiring Wikipedians! Especially for the installation translates the gesture of touch into an Bloomsbury Festival, Wikimedia UK and Senate Weekend interactive architectural performance. House Library invite you to join an ‘edit-a-thon’ Euston Square Gardens on Bloomsbury’s most famous writers, artists and intellectuals. Training included! Advance booking 10am-8pm essential. MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION A R T Senate House Library, University of London WALKS AND TOURS WORKSHOPS ART 10am-4pm IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH: MEDICINE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION SANCTUARY ORWELLIAN GARDEN FOR THE POOR IN BLOOMSBURY’S Artist Terry Du"y’s studio is open as a place of refuge, ART COMMUNITY FAMILY GOLDEN AGE Calling all gardeners and literature lovers! Join forces sanctuary and re#ection. His work considers art, with artist Alex Beeching to lay out an ‘Orwellian’ existence, religion, politics and the human condition. INDONESIA KONTEMPORER 2013 From Enlightenment health spas to the Modernist utopia of the Finsbury Health Centre, this walk by o%ce reclaimed by leaf and #ower. Senate House, Indonesian arts, culture and traditions are celebrated The Studio at 5 Great James Street Wellcome Trust Fellow Richard Barnett reveals University of London will never look the same again. at Indonesia Kontemporer 2013. A creative day of 12pm-5pm the people and stories of Bloomsbury over three Senate House, University of London exhibitions, performances, workshops, crafts, !lm centuries of revolution. Saturday 11am-6pm, Sunday 12pm-4pm screenings, food and stalls. Meet in Russell Square SOAS, University of London 10.30am-12.30am Don’t miss 10am-5pm MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION W A L K S A N D TOURS Throughout the WALKS AND TOURS SENATE HOUSE TOURS Festival events! ART SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY WOMEN OF BLOOMSBURY See inside Charles Holden’s Art Deco masterpiece, ONE KX SCI ARTS HUB home to the Ministry of Information during the See pages 6-7 Find out about some of the many in#uential, A day of talks, debates, demonstrations and Second World War, and now administrative HQ of the controversial and wonderful women who have been performances exploring the future of food through University of London. associated with Bloomsbury. science, arts and technology. For full listings go to Meet at Senate House, University of London onekx.org.uk. Meet in Russell Square Saturday 12.30pm-1.30pm / 2.30pm-3.30pm, One KX 10.45am-12.15pm Sunday 12pm-1pm / 2pm-3pm / 4pm-5pm / ART 10am-10pm 4.30pm-5.30pm THE AGE OF GLAMOUR: R.S. SHERRIFFS’ MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION TALKS STARS OF STAGE & SCREEN SENATE HOUSE AT WAR MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION ART The golden years of Hollywood and the West Between 1935 and 1946 Senate House served as the SMALL GLOBAL: EXTREME ENERGY End stage, as captured in stunning caricatures by R.S.Sherri"s. See Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Bette wartime Ministry of Information. Join Dr Karen Attar Step into a world of light and sound created by Davis and many others through this special artist’s and Dr Richard Simpson to learn the story of its fate art collective D-Fuse with the School of Advanced eyes. as an ‘occupied’ building during World War Two. Study, to explore the issues around oil extraction Senate House, University of London and shale gas fracking. Supported by Arts Council Cartoon Museum England. Saturday 10.30am-5.30pm, Sunday 12pm-5.30pm 11am-12.15pm Senate House, University of London basements Saturday 11am-6pm, Sunday 12pm-6pm WALKS AND TOURS ART BLOOMSBURY AND THE POETS SEE THROUGH: GIZEM, AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS Explore the rich poetical history of Bloomsbury, from Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes’s chilly wedding night to Visit this beautiful exhibition by local artist, Ughetta Wilfred Owen drilling in Cartwright Gardens. Led by Dallimonti to discover stories hidden in paintings; Nicholas Murray, the author of Real Bloomsbury. break into a scene and look into other worlds through the a tear in the paper. Meet in Russell Square The Chapel, St George’s Gardens 11am-12.15pm 12pm-5pm 20 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 21 Saturday Saturday

19 October MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION TALKS EXHIBITION TOUR 19 October WORKSHOPS NLA GREAT ESTATES: HOW LONDON’S Bloomsbury Festival EXPLORATORIUM: EXPLORING YOUR LANDOWNERS SHAPE THE CITY Bloomsbury Festival Weekend SENSES A unique insight into the history of London’s early Weekend Science meets philosophy with these hands-on estates on an exhibition tour from curator Peter experiments exploring sensory perception. Drop in Murray. What lessons do estates such as Grosvenor to encounter visual, auditory and touch illusions, and and Howard de Walden hold for us? uncover the workings of taste and smell, guided by Meet at the NLA, The Building Centre experts from the Centre for the Study of the Senses. 12pm-1pm MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION TALKS STORE STREET Senate House, University of London THE MUSEUM OF WRITING PRESENTS: A SHINDIG 11am-1pm and 3pm-5pm HISTORY OF WRITING MUSIC The world’s most Discover the history of writing through the Museum unexpected street party! MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION L I T E R A T U R E WAGNER’S BICENTENARY: A MUSICAL of Writing’s unique collection of writing equipment Enjoy the best street party WORKSHOPS CELEBRATION going back to 3000 BC. Museum creator Alan Cole in town. The whole of Store SPREAD THE WORD DROP-IN DESK In celebration of Wagner’s musical legacy on the and Professor Simon Eliot lead this tour through the bicentenary of his birth, Roberto Garcia Lopez history of the written word. Street will be closed to tra%c Professional development and advice for writers. (tenor) and Katrina Sheppeard (soprano) perform a Senate House, University of London for the day, allowing you to If you are an aspiring writer, simply sign up for a selection of the composer’s most glorious operatic 12.30pm-1.30pm stroll around and discover 10-minute slot. Come and say hello! moments. surprises at every step. Senate House, University of London Foundling Museum Picture Gallery Get competitive with the 11am-4pm MUSIC slowest bike race, beer 12pm-1pm keg rolling and the Ping AWAKENINGS: A PIANO CONCERT SERIES WALKS AND TOURS The last in a special festival series of recitals in the Pong Thunderdome, be MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION LITERATURE amazed by architectural DICKENS, DISRAELI AND FRIENDS stunning new Dairy Art Centre. Jason Bae, who has POETRY EXPLORERS: FINDING POETRY IN performed at Carnegie Hall and is a Young Steinway interventions along the Explore intriguing historical questions on this BLOOMSBURY Artist, performs Beethoven and Chopin.Supported street, and soak up the insightful walk. Find out who asked ladies to come by Peregrine’s Pianos. atmosphere with live to their concerts without hoops on their skirts, and Write a poem with Keats House poetry explorers Dairy Art Centre music and delicious food gentlemen to come without swords! Simon Mole and Sonority Turner. They’ll be roaming Bloomsbury, and need your help to complete a from local eateries. There Meet in Russell Square 12.30pm-1.30pm festival poem for the Ministry of Communication at are lots of family activities, too. 11.45am-1.15pm Senate House, University of London. Kids will love the pop up art house, Russell Square and Senate House, University of FAMILY storytelling and Greek games. Supported London CREATE A CARTOON CHARACTER by the tenants of Store Street with principal FAMILY 12pm-5pm sponsor Hurford Salvi Carr. DOODLE YOUR WAY IN Grab a pencil and have a go at creating your own cartoon characters. No previous cartooning Store Street Cartooning for all the family with Viyki, who will show experience needed! you how to turn your doodles into cartoons. A fun MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION TALKS 12pm-5pm drop-in event for all ages. Cartoon Museum IMAGINING BLOOMSBURY’S STREETS 1pm-1.55pm Cartoon Museum WALKS AND TOURS Re-discover the streets of Bloomsbury as you’ve 12pm-12.45pm and 2pm-2.45pm never seen them before, including a re-imagining of PRIVATE LIVES AND PUBLIC SCANDALS: Bloomsbury’s literary history through its trees, and LITERATURE EVERYDAY STORIES OF BLOOMSBURY the digital mapping of Alan Moore’s From Hell. WALKS AND TOURS INDIGESTION: BITE-SIZED READINGS OF FOLK Senate House, University of London A DEBUT BLOOMSBURY NOVEL TOUR OF THE TOMBS Uncover the stories, secrets and scandals of 12.30pm-1.30pm Emerging novelist Stephanie Gerra reads from Dr Roger Bowdler of English Heritage reveals the rich some far-from-ordinary ‘ordinary’ lives amongst Indigestion, a story of ill-fated romance which and famous, rebels and servants all buried here, and Bloomsbury’s 19th century streets, squares and unfolds in the bed and breakfast world of 1960s the Victorian reforms which turned the gardens into rookeries, with UCL historian Carole Reeves. Bloomsbury. Join her in this new independent co"ee an ‘open air sitting room’ for local slum dwellers. Meet at Russell Square shop. Meet at St George’s Gardens 11am-12.30pm Bloomsbury Co#ee House 12pm-12.50pm 1pm-2pm 22 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 23 Saturday Saturday

19 October MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION WORKSHOPS TALKS 19 October MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION: MAKE WHY IS ’S CORPSE ON Bloomsbury Festival YOUR OWN PAMPHLET DISPLAY IN UCL? Bloomsbury Festival Weekend Drop into the Ministry of Communication to Why is Jeremy Bentham’s corpse in a box? And does Weekend stitch together your own ‘propaganda’ pamphlet he really attend council meetings? Unravel fact from and festival notebook to take home, guided by !ction with Professor Philip Scho!eld, who explains bookbinders and conservators Angela Craft and the links with Bentham’s radical thinking. Alexandra Bruce. Adult supervision required for Jeremy Bentham’s Box at the UCL South Cloisters under 12s. MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS 2pm-3pm WALKS AND TOURS Senate House, University of London GREAT ESTATES: WALKING TOUR STRICTLY SAND DANCE 2pm-2.30pm / 2.30pm-3pm / Can you sand dance like Wilson, Kepple and Betty? 3.30pm-4pm / 4pm-4.30pm MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION LITERATURE The concept of estates is part of London’s There is no better way to feel better than by exercise DNA. Peter Murray leads a walk of local examples RESURRECTING LOST LONDON FICTIONS from the NLA’s Great Estates exhibition, including the with a comic twist. Come and learn the moves with SCIENCE Barry Grantham, expert in eccentric dance. Rediscover the great forgotten authors and lost Tottenham Court Road Estate, the , SURGICAL SIMULATIONS novels of this literary London quarter with Andrew Chancery Lane and more. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Whitehead, Ken Worpole, and Cathi Unsworth, Lift the veil on what goes on under the knife. This Meet at the NLA, The Building Centre 2pm-5pm brought together by london!ctions.com and Five mobile operating theatre with experts on hand Leaves/New London Editions. 2pm-3.30pm simulates a live operation. Suitable for children aged FAMILY 11+. Senate House, University of London 2pm-3pm WALKS AND TOURS LIFE UNDER THE WAVES The Place ART DECO IN BLOOMSBURY Intrepid young oceanologists can peer into the 2pm-2.30pm / 3pm-3.30pm / 4pm-4.30pm mouth of a bull shark, tickle a turtle and arm wrestle WALKS AND TOURS Explore Bloomsbury’s rich Art Deco heritage, including Charles Holden’s iconic Senate House, a lobster. Discover the amazing animal life that lives THE STORY OF MARCHMONT STREET in the sea. the former Daimler garage and a reconverted petrol Marchmont Street is Bloomsbury’s original high station. From sophisticated glamour to severe Grant Museum of Zoology street. Join this walk led by Ricci de Freitas, author functionality, let’s make this architectural style roar 1pm-4.30pm of a book about the street, to discover its fascinating again! people and history. Meet in Russell Square Meet on the corner of Marchmont Street and WORKSHOP 2pm-4pm Bernard Street THE THIRD COLOUR 2pm-3pm Be prepared to get colour on your face as part of this ART COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS participatory workshop for the exhibition Curiosity: I SPY An Art Practice as a Way of Looking. Art workshops for all ages led by Parasite Ceramics. The Crypt Gallery at St Pancras Church Explore the area and local plants, and help to 1pm-5pm enhance the identity and interpret the story of the Marchmont Community Garden. Marchmont Community Garden MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE 2pm-4pm SARAH ANGLISS: SOUND ARTIST MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION TALKS Roboticist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound historian Sarah Angliss performs uncanny OUR OF A SMALL GLOBE: INTRODUCING sonic experiments. Don’t miss Hugo, the head of a ‘EXTREME ENERGY 1930s ventriloquist’s dummy. Worried about fracking? Environmental photographer Senate House, University of London Garth Lenz joins Dr Damien Short and artists D-Fuse to discuss resistance to ‘extreme energy’ practices— 1.30pm-2pm / 5.30pm-6pm in relation to their collaboration on ‘Small Global: Extreme Energy’. Senate House, University of London 2pm-3.30pm 24 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 25 Saturday Saturday

19 October WALKS AND TOURS THEATRE 19 October Bloomsbury Festival REVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION HUNGRY Bloomsbury Festival Learn how a once fashionable area of London An exclusive reading and discussion of Sarah Daniels’ went to seed, and how it became the home of brand new Y Touring play exploring our relationship Weekend famous literary !gures and revolutionary educational with food. Weekend establishments. From upheaval to calm and back One KX again! 3.30pm-5pm Meet at Russell Square TALKS 2.30pm-4.30pm LITERATURE REVOLUTIONARY THINKERS THE WORK OF DYLAN THOMAS Seven mini-talks from philosophers from the London FAMILY A panel of !ve acclaimed Welsh poets discuss the School of Philosophy, focusing on Bloomsbury work and legacy of Wales’s greatest poet, Dylan thinkers who have revolutionised our thinking on FUN FLIPBOOKS AND ZANY ZOETROPES Thomas, ahead of the centenary of his birth in 2014. matters such as personal well-being and political Create your own mini-story in just one hour! Come reform. and make your own fun #ip book and zoetrope strip, London Welsh Centre The Drawing Room at the Marquis Cornwallis and watch your stories come to life. 5pm-6pm 2pm-4pm Cartoon Museum 3pm-3.55pm MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION M U S I C PERFORMANCE LITERATURE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION WORKSHOPS 30,000 GODS AND MYTHS FROM THE DYLAN THOMAS CENTENARY PREVIEW WARBURG INSTITUTE QUILL MAKING AND WAX TABLETS 2014 will be the centenary of the birth of the great A unique audio-visual and musical tour through the Welsh writer Dylan Thomas. Get a sneak preview of Try your hand at writing on a wax tablet with a Warburg Institute library’s collection of images from how Wales will commemorate the moment. genuine Roman stylus, or using a traditional quill. classical mythology. With François Quiviger from the London Welsh Centre With the creator of the Museum of Writing. Advance Institute and pianist John-Paul Muir. booking essential, suitable for ages 18+. 2pm-5pm Senate House, University of London Senate House, University of London 6pm-7pm 3pm-4pm SCIENCE MOVEMENT MUSIC HAPTICS LITERATURE WALKS AND TOURS STORY OF A NIGHT PIANIST Discover new technology in the !eld of touch in RACK POETS PRESENT ART & SOCIETY IN BLOOMSBURY An atmospheric performance combining dance and surgery. Experience the latest in virtual reality with RACK press presents readings from !ve acclaimed Discover the people, characters and places which live music to tell the story of !ve ghostly characters computer-generated simulations developed by a writers including John Powell Ward, former editor of have contributed to Bloomsbury’s fascinating past, from the past, all seeking to !nd refuge in the music team of researchers. Poetry Wales, and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, including Charles Dickens and Peter Pan. of a pianist. The Place twice nominated for Wales Book of the Year. Meet in Russell Square Dairy Art Centre 2pm-5pm London Welsh Centre 3.15pm-4.45pm 4.30pm-5.30pm 6pm-7pm WALKS AND TOURS MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION LITERATURE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION LITERATURE HOW THE SQUARES WERE SHAPED MUSIC BLOOMSBURY IN CONTEMPORARY BLOOMSBURY, BAD JOURNEYS: IAIN Discover some of the lesser known areas of HUSH Bloomsbury, including hidden stories and some FICTION SINCLAIR AND PHIL COHEN The line-up is always kept a secret until the last outstanding plants on this eye-opening walk around Iain Sinclair, one of the foremost writers on Famous for its literary history, how does Bloomsbury minute, but it’s the atmosphere that the Hush Bloomsbury’s colourful garden squares. contemporary London, is joined by Bloomsbury- continue to shape contemporary !ction? D. J. Taylor regulars keep coming back for. Acoustic music in an born author, urban activist, and academic Phil Cohen Meet in Russell Square and Helen Smith discuss, with readings from Taylor’s intimate, pin-drop-quiet setting. The Windsor Faction and Smith’s Invitation to Die. to re#ect on Bloomsbury as an intersection for 2.15pm-3.45pm creative ‘bad journeys’. The Perseverance Senate House, University of London Senate House, University of London 7pm-11.30pm 3.30pm-4.30pm 5pm-6pm

26 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 27 Saturday Sunday JAZZ IN THE SQUARE 19 October Enjoy swinging vocal-led 20 October jazz with gin cocktails from Bloomsbury Festival the Gin Garden, lawn games, Bloomsbury Festival co"ee and cake and other Weekend afternoon refreshments, as Weekend Bedford Square opens its gates for a relaxing Sunday afternoon. MOVEMENT There are live jazz sets from the Maria Chen THE CRAFT OF SURGERY HOSTED BY Ensemble and the Alison Beck Quartet, FAMILY MUSIC ROGER KNEEBONE as you enjoy this beautiful space: a refuge BACH TO BABY PRESENTS: FLIGHTS OF from the busy heart of London, and a peek Surgery is a profession, but it’s also a craft and a FANTASY into a private square normally only open to performance. Roger Kneebone, Professor of Surgical A critically acclaimed concert series designed for residents. You can even get a snapshot of Education at Imperial College London, explores babies, tots, and parents to enjoy together. Listen to parallels between surgery and millinery, tailoring and your day with a photo strip from The Mighty exhilarating piano performances with your children, writing. Booth. Kindly supported by the Trustees of introducing them to composers of the classical The Place the Bloomsbury Festival. world. 7pm-7.30pm THEATRE Bedford Square, WC1B Pushkin House UNDER MILK WOOD 12pm-4pm 11am-12pm

MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION TALK A full-length production of the greatest work of legendary Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Staged by MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION LITERATURE THE POWER OF PROPAGANDA: PUBLIC the community drama group of the London Welsh INFORMATION CINEMA Centre and directed by David Evans. COMMUNITY SPREAD THE WORD DROP-IN DESK A curated selection of public information !lms London Welsh Centre BLOOMING BUDDHISTS Professional development and advice for writers. from the last 70 years, courtesy of the British 7.30pm-9.15pm Find delight at this centre for Buddhism with an If you are an aspiring writer, simply sign up for a Library and the BFI, drawing on the British Library’s exciting programme of talks, live pop, rock and jazz 10-minute slot. Come and say hello! groundbreaking exhibition Propaganda: Power and music, art and dialogue, with refreshments available. Senate House, University of London Persuasion. MOVEMENT London Ikeda Peace Centre 11am-2pm Senate House, University of London SADHANA DANCE 10am-3.30pm 7pm-8.30pm Intricate detail, perfect timing and precisely WALKS AND TOURS controlled exchanges: they’re important in both dance and surgery. Under My Skin uses SCIENCE TALKS MUSIC HOW THE SQUARES WERE SHAPED contemporary choreography to open up the world of ONE KX SCI ARTS HUB Discover some of the lesser known areas of FIGARO, FIGARO, FIGARO! the operating theatre. A day of talks, debates, demonstrations and Bloomsbury, including hidden stories and some What inspired two of history’s greatest composers The Place performances exploring the future of food through outstanding plants on this eye-opening walk around to write operas about the witty, street-smart barber 8pm-9pm science, arts and technology. For full listings go to Bloomsbury’s colourful garden squares. Figaro? Bloomsbury Opera perform highlights from onekx.org.uk. Meet in Russell Square Rossini’s Barber of Seville and Mozart’s The Marriage One KX 11.45am-1.15pm of Figaro to !nd out. MUSIC William Goodenough House, Goodenough College 10am-8pm LOWRI EVANS 7pm-9.30pm MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION Welsh singer-songwriter Lowri Evans performs in concert to celebrate the launch of her new album WALKS AND TOURS T A L K S London Welsh Centre ART & SOCIETY IN BLOOMSBURY ENDANGERED ARCHIVES 9.30pm-10.30pm Discover the people, characters and places which Discover the work of the Endangered Archives have contributed to Bloomsbury’s fascinating past, Programme, which preserves and digitises some of including Charles Dickens and Peter Pan. the most fragile documents from around the world. Meet in Russell Square Discover how the British Library is making these sources available online. 10.45am-12.15pm Senate House, University of London 12pm-1pm 28 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 29 Sunday Sunday

20 October WORKSHOPS FAMILY SCIENCE 20 October Bloomsbury Festival LIFE COACHING WORKSHOP LIFE UNDER THE WAVES Bloomsbury Festival Step back to re#ect on your life with a coaching Intrepid young oceanologists can peer into the Weekend workshop from a Bloomsbury-based work & life mouth of a bull shark, tickle a turtle and arm wrestle Weekend personal coach. Refocus on what matters to you, a lobster. Discover the amazing animal life that lives with simple and e"ective ways to reform your life. in the sea. The Perseverance Grant Museum of Zoology MUSIC 1pm-1.45pm 1pm-4.30pm AN AFTERNOON OF ART SONG WALKS AND TOURS

Two art song duos, Armida’s Garden and MUSIC ART COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS ART DECO IN BLOOMSBURY MezzoPiano, will explore the Festival themes of Explore Bloomsbury’s rich Art Deco heritage, refuge, revitalisation and reform through pieces by TRIO ANIMA I SPY including Charles Holden’s iconic Senate House, Samuel Barber and Schubert, plus some cheeky The award-winning, dynamic instrumental ensemble Art workshops for all ages led by Parasite Ceramics. the former Daimler garage and a reconverted petrol duets. premiere Four Thames Crossings, a new piece, Explore the area and local plants, and help to station. From sophisticated glamour to severe The Foundling Museum composed especially for the Bloomsbury Festival by enhance the identity and interpret the story of the functionality, let’s make this architectural style roar Joseph Landers plus works by Debussy and Bax. Marchmont Community Garden. 12pm-1pm again! The Prince’s Room, BMA House Marchmont Community Garden Meet in Russell Square 1pm-2pm 1.30pm-3.30pm 2pm-4pm MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION MOVEMENT MUSIC FAMILY PARKOUR WORKSHOPS ART COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE DOODLE YOUR WAY IN Parkour is an athletic discipline based around free SUNDAY SOIREE: THE VIOLIN’S VOICE SANDWICH STREET CAFÉ: A TASTY and e%cient movement through urban space. Learn Award-winning Australian violinist Brigid Coleridge Cartooning for all the family with Viyki, who will show PERFORMANCE the basic moves, and see athletes from Parkour you how to turn your doodles into cartoons. A fun explores the Russian school’s in#uence in the Come and join us to transform the UCL South Generations in training. drop-in event for all ages. development of the violin’s voice, with works by Cloisters into a communal space with food talks, The car park at Senate House, Bach, Frolov, and Shostakovich. Learn about the Cartoon Museum cooking, eating and media sharing. Your participation University of London Music Room’s colourful history. 1.30pm-2.15pm and 3.30pm-4.15pm will help to shape a real community café that we all 12pm-4pm The Music Room at 49 Great Ormond Street dream of! 1pm-2pm South Cloisters, Wilkins Building at University MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION College London FAMILY TALKS MUSIC 2pm-5pm FUN FLIPBOOKS AND ZANY ZOETROPES BLOOMSBURY, A HISTORY OF REFUGE SUNDAY SOIREE: A CELEBRATION OF Create your own mini-story in just one hour! Come Discover Bloomsbury’s long history as a place of MUSIC and make your own fun #ip book and zoetrope strip, SONG refuge, from the refugee academics involved in and watch your stories come to life. Bass baritone Frazer Scott and pianist Amber Rainey founding the University of London, to the ‘Free ALL DAY FOLK MUSIC AT THE HARRISON Cartoon Museum present a varied programme including operatic arias, Russian Press’ run from a house on Judd Street. The basement will be over#owing with a dozen hot songs by Schubert and Hahn, and comic gems from 12.30pm-2.45pm Senate House, University of London folk and bluegrass acts, while on the ground #oor, Flanders & Swann. Learn about the Music Room’s join in with open Jam Sessions - play or listen. colourful history. 2pm-3pm The Harrison MOVEMENT The Music Room at 49 Great Ormond Street 2pm-12am WALKS AND TOURS WESTMINSTER KINGSWAY COLLEGE 3pm-4pm GROUP PERFORMANCES AT WELLCOME LOOKING FOR THE LINE MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS FAMILY COLLECTION Use historical maps to look for evidence of the ‘Line of Communication’, the forti!cation around London Witness a new dance piece choreographed by the WIENER LIBRARY OPEN DAY CREATE A CARTOON CHARACTER built by Puritans in 1642. The line passed through Learning Team from Wayne McGregor | Random The Wiener Library is the world’s oldest Holocaust Grab a pencil and have a go at creating your Bloomsbury – will we discover it? Dance, and performed by Westminster Kingsway library and archive. Attend this open day for tours of own cartoon characters. No previous cartooning College students. the library, including the Wolfson Reading Room and Meet in Russell Square experience needed! Wellcome Collection archive stores. 2pm-4pm Cartoon Museum 12.30pm-1pm and 2.30pm-3pm The Wiener Library 2.30pm-3.25pm 1pm-4pm 30 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 31 Sunday MUSIC BOOKING Festival THE PEACOCK PLAYERS All events are free, and operate on a !rst come 20 October The Peacock Players perform two great chamber !rst served basis. However, we do release a limited works: Brahms’ Violin Sonata in G op.78 and number of tickets in advance for certain events, Information Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E #at op.44. bookable online. Please visit the website for more Bloomsbury Festival information. St George’s Bloomsbury Please also leave good time to arrive at events to Weekend 4pm-5pm avoid disappointment. THANK YOU MOVEMENT MUSIC GETTING HERE MUSIC STORY OF A NIGHT PIANIST Bloomsbury has excellent public transport To the hundreds of our individuals, partners, NINA LEO IN CONCERT connections and is well served by the underground, trustees, volunteers and team who all work together An atmospheric performance combining dance and buses and national rail. Visit t#.gov.uk to plan your to make Bloomsbury Festival possible. Thai-Swiss pianist Nina Leo performs a programme live music to tell the story of !ve ghostly characters of Romantic piano pieces. journey. from the past, all seeking to !nd refuge in the music Festival team: The Foundling Museum of a pianist. Director: Cathy Mager, FRSA 3pm-4pm Dairy Art Centre ACCESS Producer: Maddy Jones 4.30pm-5.30pm More information about access is available on our website, you can also contact individual event Programmer: Viv Conacher MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION MUSIC TALK venues for assistance. Sign language interpretation is Cultural Research Fellow with School of Advanced POLITICAL CABARET IN EXILE - MUSIC available for some events. MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION LITERATURE Study: Dr. Michael Eades FROM THE MILLER ARCHIVE HUMAN RIGHTS POETRY SLAM Project Manager: Laura Halliwell An event that recreates the atmosphere of London’s SHOP, EAT & DRINK Marketing Coordinator: Sonja Todd The annual human rights poetry slam returns! High Austrian exile theatre, the Laterndl, during the Make the most of your visit to Bloomsbury with the octane and !ercely competitive, six award-winning Marketing Assistant: Hannah Smithies Second World War. Expect cabaret songs, Hitler area’s many cafes, restaurants, and independent poets perform pieces about protest. Judged by poets parodies, and expert talks on refugees’ life in exile. shops. Volunteers Manager: Laura Alos Musa Okwonga and Deanna Rodger, the audience, Senate House, University of London Finance Manager: Syd Rae and human rights experts, and hosted by the Keats 3pm-4pm House Poets. THE WEATHER Design: James Merry (illustration), Rachel Russell (programme), William Mager (website) Senate House, University of London Our outdoor events will continue whatever the PR: Borkowski PR FILM 4pm-5.30pm weather - bring your brolly and join in! GOING SOMEWHERE Board of Trustees: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK A creative documentary about Wayne McGregor, the LITERATURE Paul Wyman (Chair) award-winning British choreographer. Look out for feedback forms at the festival, or !ll in IN PROTEST: NEW HUMAN RIGHTS our online survey afterwards. We’d love to know what Deba Mithal (Treasurer) Wellcome Collection POETRY you think. Paul Cutts 3pm-4.30pm The launch of In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Diane Silverthorne Rights, a new anthology rooted in activism and CONTACT Simon Christmas WALKS AND TOURS calling for change. Join Ruth Padel and Sigrid Bloomsbury Festival, Bedford House Community Jessica Courtney Bennett Rausing, with readings from James Byrne, Chrissie FICTIONAL BLOOMSBURY Centre, 35 Emerald Street, London, WC1N 3QW Gittins, David Lee Morgan and more. A !tting !nale to Robin Norton-Hale Learn about Bloomsbury as it appears in !ction, the Festival. Check the website for opening times of the Noel Murphy including works by H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Bloomsbury Festival Hub, 40 Lamb’s Conduit Street Stevenson, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. Senate House, University of London Sally Macdonald Find us online. Search Facebook for Bloomsbury 6pm-7pm John Ainley Meet in Russell Square Festival, and follow @bloomsburyfest on Twitter. Sally Muckley 3.15pm-4.45pm Sign up for our newsletter at bloomsburyfestival.org. FILM uk to stay updated. Emma Kennard FILM ATAMBUA 39 CELSIUS WHERE TO STAY Patrons A BLOOMSBURY TALE An Indonesian drama by director Riri Riza about The Duchess of Bedford refugees in West Timor displaced from their families Bloomsbury is full of beautiful places to recharge A grass roots !lm by artist Elaine Duigenan your batteries over the Festival weekend. Visit our Prof. Chris Husbands, Director, Institute of Education showcasing the diverse cultural and historical following the East Timor referendum. Followed by website for details of special o"ers. Prof. Roger Kain, Dean and Chief Executive, School experiences the Bloomsbury community has to o"er. a Q&A. of Advanced Study Art Workers’ Guild Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre SOAS, University of All listings correct at time of going to press. London Prof. Paul Webley, Director and Principal, SOAS 4pm-5pm Bloomsbury Festival is a Charity Registered in England and 7pm-9pm Wales number: 1149001 Prof. Michael Worton, Vice Provost, UCL 32 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 33 Map Map

1. Adnams Cellar & Kitchen Store 27. Lumen United Reformed Church and Café 30/31 Store Street, WC1E 7QE 88 Tavistock Place, WC1H 9RS 2. Art Workers’ Guild 6 Queen Square, WC1N 28. Marchmont Community Garden 3AT Marchmont Street, WC1N 1AB

3. The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies 11 29. Marchmont Street WC1N Central House, 14 Upper 30. Marquis Cornwallis (Drawing Room) 31 Marchmont WC1H 0NN Street, London WC1N 1AP 4. Bedford House Community Centre 31. Mary Ward Centre 35 Emerald Street, WC1N 3QW 42 Queen Square, WC1N 3AQ 5. Bedford Square WC1B 13 35 39 20 32. The Music Room 45 6. Ben Pentreath Ltd 17 Rugby Street, WC1N 15 49 Great Ormond Street, WC1N 3HZ 3QT 33. NLA & The Building Centre 3 7. Bloomsbury Co#ee House 20 Tavistock 26 Store Street, WC1E 7BT Place, WC1H 9RE 27 47 24 34. October Gallery 8. The Bloomsbury Hotel 16-22 Great Russell 24 Old Gloucester Street, WC1N 3AL 54 14 St London WC1B 3NN 9 35. One KX 120 Cromer Street, 9. BMA House Tavistock Square, London London, WC1H 8BS 7 56 WC1H 9JP 51 17 36. Persephone Books 10. SOAS (Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre) 26 59 Lambs Conduit Street, WC1N 3NB University of London, Thornhaugh Street, 29 52 18 37. The Perseverance WC1H 0XG 30 28 63 Lambs Conduit Street, WC1N 3NB 11. Camden Centre 38. Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL Malet Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, WC1H 9JE Place, WC1E 6BT 19 12. Cartoon Museum 39. The Place, 17 Dukes Road, WC1H 9PY 25 Little Russell Street, WC1A 2HH 40. Pushkin House 38 13. The Crypt Gallery St Pancras Church, 5a , WC1A 2TA Euston Road (Entrance in Duke’s Rd) NW1 2BA 21 41. Russell Square WC1B 14. Dairy Art Centre 7a Wake!eld St, WC1N 1PG 23 42. Senate House, University of London Malet Street, 15. Euston Square Gardens 43 41 37 WC1E 7HU Euston Road, NW1 2EF 36 6 32 4 43. SOAS 16. Foote’s Music Shop 41 Store Street, WC1E 10 55 2 University of London, Thornhaugh St, WC1H 0XG 7DB 49 44. St George’s Holborn 17. Foundling Museum 44 34 31 44 Queen Square, WC1N 3AH 40 , WC1N 1AZ 25 42 45. St Pancras Church, Euston Road, NW1 2BA 18. Goodenough Club Keppell St 23 , WC1N 2AD 46. St. George’s Bloomsbury 48 16 53 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2HR 19. Grant Museum of Zoology UCL Rockefeller Building, 21 University St, London, WC1E 6DE 1 47. St. George’s Gardens (The Chapel) Handel Street, 33 WC1N 1PH 20. The Harrison 5 28 Harrison Street, Kings Cross, WC1H 8JF 48. Store Street WC1E 21. Horse Hospital Colonnade, WC1N 1JD 49. The Studio 5 Great James St, WC1N 3DB 50. Swedenborg Society 22. Inmidtown Kiosk Holborn Station, 88 - 94 40 Kingsway, WC2B 6AA 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH 50 23. SOAS (Khalili Lecture Theatre, Main 46 51. Tavistock Square WC1H 9LT Building) University of London, Thornhaugh 12 52. UCL (South Cloisters / Old Refectory / Art Museum) Street, WC1H 0XG Wilkins Building, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT 8 24. London Ikeda Peace Centre 53. Warner Bros Preview Theatres, Wake!eld Street, WC1N 1PG 98 Theobalds Road, WC1X 8WB 25. London School of Hygiene & Tropical 54. Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE Medicine (South Courtyard) Keppel Street, 22 55. Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, WC1B 5DP London WC1E 7HT 56. William Goodenough House 26. London Welsh Centre Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, WC1N 2AN 157-163 Grays Inn Road,WC1X 8UE

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