Bloomsbury Festival celebrates area’s cultural vibrancy

Major Bloomsbury based organisations including The British Museum and The Wellcome Collection are coming together to create a festival celebrating the cultural vibrancy of the local area.

Bringing together The Foundling Museum, The October Gallery, The Slade, The Place and over 60 other partner organisations from Bloomsbury, The Bloomsbury Festival will take in the public parks and squares of the area with a programme of live music, theatre, comedy, dance, walks, talks and food.

Festival goers will have a unique opportunity to explore extraordinary spaces not normally open to the public as part of the ‘Secret Sessions’ programme. Events will include silent film screenings by candlelight, intimate acoustic music sets and eerie site specific performances.

Bloomsbury’s remarkably diverse local community will be celebrated throughout the festival. Sunday will see Lamb’s Conduit Street transformed for the ‘Eat Your Street’ Party, a dining experience organised by local restaurants, cafes and residents. The School of Advanced Study’s Human Rights Consortium will collaborate with locally based teenagers on the making of a new film, and both the British Museum and The Wellcome Collection will be working on new projects with local people.

Bloomsbury is one of the most culturally rich corners of London, with thirteen of the world’s leading museums and galleries situated along ‘Museum Mile’ which runs through the heart of the area, including The Brunei Gallery, The Charles Dickens Museum and the Foundling Museum. The area is also London’s academic hub, with many universities and schools situated here, including leading creative education establishments such as Central St Martins, The Place and RADA.

The full programme is yet to be announced, but will include up and coming music artists from around the world, a large scale public performance in Russell Square, and more than one hundred other events. A large part of the programme will be free to attend.

Full details of the programme will be announced at the beginning of August.

For more information, visit: bloomsburyfestival.org.uk