Category Exhibition
Bloomsbury Festival in the Bloomsbury Squares
The festival is well underway with many events around the area. In particular, an open air dramatic production in St George’s Gardens on Saturday 21 October at 3 pm and, all through the festival, a photographic exhibition on the railings of Brunswick Square. Deaf photographer Stephen Iliffe’s photographic portraits range from female vicar to Muslim […]
The Garden of Privatised Delights
A small free exhibition in the Building Centre in Store St, Bloomsbury, might be worth a look if you are passing by; one section considers exclusive garden squares, suggesting that railings should be torn down and public use of many kinds encouraged. Of course, nearly all the Bloomsbury garden squares are already open to the […]
Photo exhibition, Brunswick Square
Don’t miss Once upon a time in King’s Cross, Catherine Packard’s affectionate depiction of community life in a once infamous King’s Cross neighbourhood in the 80s and 90s, displayed on the railings at Brunswick Square this week as part of the Bloomsbury Festival. If you can’t get there it’s also online
Bedford Square Festival 28 June to 1 July
The very first Bedford Square Festival is taking place later this month. The Festival is a collaboration between five of the cultural institutions that reside on Bedford Square, Bloomsbury: Paul Mellon Centre, Architectural Association, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Yale University Press and New College of Humanities. Bedford Square Festival will open the doors of the […]
Whole Earth – photographic exhibition in Gordon Square
The UCL Sustainability Team and the UCL Institute of Sustainable Resources are hosting a large environment-themed photography exhibition in Gordon Square from 21 September to 16 October. The project is called WHOLE EARTH. The exhibition is being put together by the Hard Rain Project in collaboration with the NUS and EAUC, and will also be simultaneously […]
Jane Austen’s Emma and Brunswick Square
The Emma 200 Festival celebrates the bicentenary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Emma in 1815 – the novel which praises Brunswick Square: Our part of London is so very superior to most others! The neighbourhood of Brunswick Square is so very different from almost all the rest. (Emma, Chapter 12). The Friends of Brunswick Square invite you to […]
Saving Bloomsbury: A Case for Celebration
Forty years ago, the people of Bloomsbury drew, wrote and celebrated their way out of destruction. A Case for Celebration is an exhibition from 14th to 26th July that illustrates a treasured area of Bloomsbury that was saved and marks the significant efforts made at the time to protect it from demolition. This exhibition features the original illustrations […]
Bloomsbury Squares & Gardens 