An autumn festival of art, knowledge and imagination Introduction Introduction BAs the new Festival Director, I am proud to present Welcome to the Bloomsbury the“ 2013 programme, created and led by the people that live, work, study and play in Bloomsbury’s small but beautiful corner of London. Bloomsbury Festival shines a light on the Festival self determination of this extraordinary and world-changing community of pioneers existing side by side across a few streets. This October the Bloomsbury Festival spills out into the area’s Virginia Woolf once spoke of her sense of freedom upon arriving in streets, shops, museums, libraries and laboratories with a truly Bloomsbury and I seek to recapture that same spirit of vitality in every visitor this year. I welcome you into our sanctuary for the imagination to encounter brilliant minds, eclectic line-up of unexpected, enlightening and extraordinary things to see and do. relaxation and pleasure, the new and the controversial. Bloomsbury Festival is an uplifting journey Take a musicals masterclass from Sir Tim Rice, hear Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger of discovery that aims to inspire, delight, surprise and move you. in conversation, listen to Iain Sinclair on Bloomsbury and radicalism, and discover Sir As a registered charity we also run a year-round outreach festival for the lonely. We take the best Andrew Motion’s personal literary refuges. of cultural Bloomsbury right into the living rooms of local isolated people such as those living with We’ve extended the festival to six days, giving you more time to explore over 200 free dementia. Please donate to help me continue this vital service and ensure our Festival is kept free events across Bloomsbury. The all-new Bloomsbury Lunch Breaks and After Work for everyone to enjoy. Sessions will make midweek in midtown a breeze, leading up to an inventive weekend of street and square parties. 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 Arts Centre. Our year-round outreach programme shows what neighbours, no longer strangers, can achieve Keep our festival free! together. This is a festival that couldn’t happen anywhere else. Help to keep the festival free for everyone to This is Bloomsbury - we hope you’ll enjoy it with us! enjoy, and support our pioneering Festival in a Box project. The Bloomsbury Festival is a Please visit the Festival website for opening times and further information not-for-prot charitable trust. To support this year’s festival we’ve partnered with Donate, Kindly supported by GMS Estates Limited which is a new way to give to the cultural BLF002 £5 things that inspire and move you. Visit the festival hub www.don8.to/BLF002 *Text donations can be £3, £5 or £10, just enter the amount you’d like to give. You’ll be oered the opportunity to gift aid your donation. Drop into the festival hub on Lamb’s Conduit Street for information, programmes and art It’s easy to donate Festival in a Box during the festival. Go to nationalfundingscheme.org/bloomsbury- Bloomsbury Festival in a Box is a pioneering project festival. If you register too, you’ll help us claim gift aid to send trained artists into the homes of people living 40 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, which adds an extra 25% to your donation. with dementia, bringing them a multi-sensory box WC1N 3LB of cultural delights. Help the Festival reach isolated people. Go to www.don8.to/BLF001 for more details. Thank you Find more information about the festival and every event online at bloomsburyfestival.org.uk 2 bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Follow us: @bloomsburyfest #bloomsburyfest DONATE Please support this year’s festival - see page 3 3 Highlights FESTIVAL WEEK Highlights New this year! Enjoy Bloomsbury Festival during the week with THE STORE STREET Bloomsbury Lunch Breaks and SHINDIG After Work Sessions. Don’t miss our annual street party! JAZZ IN THE SQUARE Bedford Square opens up for a relaxing Sunday afternoon - including gin cocktails and cake! It’s all FREE! RUSSELL SQUARE ‘EXTRAORDINARY MOMENTS IN THE SQUARe’ Weekend A weekend festival for THE MINISTRY OF the whole of London in COMMUNICATION Russell Square. Discover a A special week delving into all playground for the mind! things communication, in the building that inspired George Orwell’s 1984. 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 MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION MUSEUMS ART AND EXHIBITIONS Events running THE ISLAND Events running THE EVERLASTING FLAME: An exhibition at the stunning new Dairy Art Centre all week ZOROASTRIANISM IN HISTORY AND inspired by Aldous Huxley’s novel Island. Organised all week IMAGINatiON as a ‘book’ of 30 artists to explore, who consider the Explore the history of Iran’s ancient Zoroastrian possibilities for new social experiments. religion, which influenced Judaism, Christianity and Dairy Art Centre Islam. Spectacular installations include a walk-in fire Wednesday to Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday and temple and a ten-metre glass etching. Sunday 11am-5pm THE MINISTRY OF Brunei Gallery, SOAS ART COMMUNicatiON JacQUES KatmOR & THE 3RD EYE GROUP Wednesday to Saturday 10.30am-5pm, Thursday PHOTOGRAPHY late opening until 8pm, Sunday 11am-5pm A retrospective of counter-cultural Israeli artist A PORTRAIT OF 18 RUGBY STREET Senate House was home to Jacques Katmor’s work, featuring drawings, collages, Discover the creative life of this London house, from etchings and maps created between 1964 and the Ministry of Information MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION MUSEUMS the 1950s when Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter 1975. Monochrome lines with arcs of primary colour AND EXHIBITIONS during the Second World War, and was the O’Toole were all residents through to today, with suggest a universal geometry. inspiration behind George Orwell’s 1984. THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNicatiON photographs by Bobby Williams. The Horse Hospital Now it’s HQ to the University of London. This exhibition uses the Senate House archives Ben Pentreath Ltd A week of special events throughout the Saturday 12 October – Saturday 9 November and original artworks to explore our ever-changing Wednesday 16 October – Sunday 20 October festival will subvert the building’s history understanding of communication, as the building Monday to Saturday 12pm-6pm and celebrate its current role as a centre becomes a ‘Ministry of Communication’ for the Daily 10am-6pm duration of the festival. for knowledge. ART Senate House ART Communicate with leading poets and COMMUNicatiNG WITHOUT WORDS thinkers including Sir Andrew Motion, Tuesday to Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 11am-6pm, CURIOSITY: AN ART PRacticE AS A WAY Sunday 12pm-5pm An exhibition of personal work created by people Will Self and Iain Sinclair. Help create OF LOOKING who struggle to speak, read or write following a an Orwellian Garden, and step into an London-based American artist Julie Caves’ first stroke. All the artists attend the UCL Communication art installation about fracking. Visit the MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION major solo exhibition presents work from the Clinic. See how creativity can connect us. Exploratorium, and support the launch of PHOTOGRAPHY past two years, celebrating beauty and its many Lumen Church and Café juxtapositions: work and play, nature and synthesis, In Protest: 150 Human Rights Poems. 100 IMAGES OF MIGRatiON Tuesday 15 October – Tuesday 29 October life and death. The Ministry of The results of a Guardian and Migration Museum Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm Communication is a competition to find 100 images of migration in The Crypt Gallery at St Pancras Church special project by Britain, to represent the last 100 years of migration. Saturday 5 October – Sunday 20 October the School of Senate House Daily 11am-7pm Advanced Study at Monday to Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 11am-5pm, the University of Sunday 12pm-5pm ART London, funded NAOMI WANJIKU by the Arts & HISTORY MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS Humanities Traditional techniques meet untraditional materials, Research Council. WHO TRADED HERE? as tin cans, steel wire and oxidized sheet metal Discover the historical shopkeepers of Marchmont are transformed into wall-hanging sculptures using Look out for Street through this fascinating temporary installation methods from the fibre arts. events marked of commemorative plaques, which reveals who October Gallery Ministry of occupied the storefronts from the early 19th century Saturday 12 October – Saturday 26 October Communication, onwards. Monday to Saturday, 12pm-5.30pm and follow @ Marchmont Street, between Coram Street and Leigh BloomsburySAS on Street Twitter. 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 Danny Glover. Breaks Foote’s 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 first 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’ first major solo exhibition. See page 7. works by Scarlatti, Mozart, and Chopin. Rachmaninoff, Quilter and Britten, and piano solos The Crypt Gallery at St Pancras Church by Liszt and Grieg.