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An Autumn Festival of Art, Knowledge and Imagination Bloomsburyfestival.Org.Uk | Follow Us: @Bloomsburyfest #Bloomsburyfest Introduction Introduction FREE! 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 Bloomsbury 2013“ Bloomsbury Festival programme, created and led by the people that live, work, study and play in this small but beautiful corner of London. 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, Virginia Woolf 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! Find more information about the festival and every event online at Help to keep the Festival free for everyone to enjoy, and support our pioneering year-round bloomsburyfestival.org.uk outreach programme. Bloomsbury Festival is a registered charity. It’s easy to donate! Go to nationalfundingscheme.org/bloomsbury-festival. If you register too, you’ll help us claim gift aid which adds an extra 25% to your donation. Visit the Festival Hub Support us via your mobile Drop into the festival hub on Lamb’s Conduit Street for information, programmes and art BLF002 £5 during the festival. Kindly supported by GMS Estates Limited. *Text donations can be £3, £5 or £10, 40 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, just enter the amount you’d like to give. You’ll be o!ered the WC1N 3LB opportunity to gift aid your donation. www.don8.to/BLF002 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 Russell Square “instantly appealing… ‘Extraordinary Moments allusive and witty” Jazz in the in the Square’ Weekend Evening Standard Square Bedford 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 University of London, 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.
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