Category Festivals
Join us for a free Summer Party in St George’s Gardens, Sat 7 June, 2-5pm
You are invited to Friends of St George’s Gardens free Summer Party on Saturday, 2 till 5pm. We’re looking forward to welcoming you with music, a children’s entertainer, Punch and Judy, face painting, a Bollywood dance workshop, a community choir, second hand books, and – of course – tea and cakes. Do come, and bring […]
Bloomsbury Festival, 18-27 October 2024
This year’s Bloomsbury Festival has things to look out for in our gardens. ECHO by Joe Duggan, Russell SquareA new public sculpture by artist Joe Duggan, commissioned by the Commissioners of Russell Square, this monumental artwork stands 4 metres tall in Russell Square Gardens, resembling hastily erected metal scaffolding with a concrete boulder precariously balanced […]
St George’s Gardens summer party, 3 June
The Friends of St George’s Gardens’ summer party is on Saturday 3 June, 2 till 5 pm – the first party since 2019 and less than two weeks away. Come for a relaxing afternoon of music and fun. “For music we have the Marama Café Band – our regulars – but supplemented by the full […]
Chelsea Fringe: Sketching in the Bloomsbury Squares
The Chelsea Fringe festival is 11 years old, now worldwide, and will have events in Bloomsbury this year! Community gardeners, artists, activists and anyone with an interest in gardens, plants and outdoor space have a chance to get involved and do something fun and positive. Nick Andrew, an artist of the outdoors, will be sketching in […]
No Open Garden Squares, instead a Victorian flower show
This weekend would have been the annual Open Garden Squares Weekend, when normally closed gardens open and the open gardens in Bloomsbury take on a festival air too. Not this year, thanks to coronavirus Covid-19, not yet anyway. However, here is a previous floral celebration in Bloomsbury to enjoy as some small compensation. In 1863, […]
Party – St George’s Gardens 27 April
This year’s St George’s Gardens party will be on the Saturday after Easter. Please be there, bring your families, invite your neighbours. We’ll have children’s entertainer Jebb the Juggler, music from the Café Marama Band, face-painting and second hand books – all as usual. But, in addition, there will be music from Gwang’s Djembe […]
Is closing Russell Square to the public in June really a good idea?
The proposed Evening Standard Festival of Culture over 10 days in June 2019 is causing a great deal of concern locally, not only in the local garden Friends groups. The organisers, currently applying for an alcohol licence, are planning for 5,000 people at any one time mainly in the evening. Over ten days that could […]
Peter Pan and Brunswick Square
Perhaps it’s no surprise that Peter Pan is associated with Brunswick Square, as J. M. Barrie once lived there. The literary connection was celebrated during Open Garden Square Weekend in June, as a children’s art activity took Peter Pan as its theme and Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital charity (who benefit from Barrie’s royalties) had […]
Party – St George’s Gardens 21 April
This year’s St George’s Gardens Party is on Saturday 21 April, 2-5pm, arranged by Friends of St George’s Gardens. Please join us. Everyone’s welcome – entrance free. There will be children’s entertainments (Punch and Judy, Jebb the Juggler and face painting), Marama Cafe Band, tea and cakes, a second hand bookstall, and – above all – […]
Open Garden Squares Weekend in the Bloomsbury Squares 17 & 18 June 2017
Over 200 gardens in London are taking part this year. In Bloomsbury many of the squares and hidden gardens will be open or have special activities. See the Open Garden Squares website to find details of which gardens are open on which days over the weekend and what’s on in each. There is a free […]
Bloomsbury Squares & Gardens 