Bloomsbury Festival 2018

Activists and Architects of Change A world-class festival from a local community

Bloomsbury As radical now as ever!

Information Box Office bloomsburyfestival.org.uk Tel: 020 3108 1000 (Mon-Fri 12 noon – 5pm) Some event booking not available by phone.

Advanced bookings until 6pm the day before the event.

Remaining tickets released on the door.

Free and Ticketed Events Over 60% of the Festival is FREE. Just turn up events do not require tickets.

FREE but pre-booking is recommended events have limited capacities.

Concessions £2 off where ticket prices are over £5 (under 16s, senior citizens, unemployed patrons, disabled people and full time students).

Access Information is available at venue websites or from admin@bloomsburyfestival.org.uk.

The Weather Sing Out Store Street at Bloomsbury Festival, photograph by Chiara Bellamoli

Our outdoor events will continue whatever the weather unless safety is compromised.

Tell Us What You Think Look out for feedback forms at the Festival or fill in our online survey afterwards - we’d love to know what you think.

Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accurary of the programme, occasionally changes may occur that are beyond our control. Programme correct at time of printing.

In the centenary year of Representation of the People Act, Bloomsbury Festival 2018 celebrates the area’s extraordinary Activists and Architects of Change. A hotbed of creative development; Bloomsbury’s rich history of activism is amply matched by its present-day pioneers.

Local, global and inspiring, the 2018 Festival includes events from Bloomsbury’s world-famous institutions, alongside those from its leading and emerging artists and its diverse residents, creating a truly unique programme.

With over 140 individual events including 3 fascinating weekend hubs, there is much to explore. ‘Not to be missed’ events are plentiful, but my top tips for fun and celebration are Roll Up Store Street (pg 23) and Goodensemble: Architects of Change in Classical Music (pg 41) – the Festival finale in the Ballroom of The Principal London – with a complimentary glass of Ridgeview Bloomsbury sparkling wine on arrival!

I hope you find this year’s Festival enlightening, engaging and most of all fun.

Kate Anderson, Festival Director

COVER IMAGE: Designed by Virgina Ma, winnner of the Activists and Architects of Change Artist Commission - see pg 11.

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Become an activist, an architect, a suffragette or a circus artist.

See pg 34 & 35 for FREE kids activities for half term

STARTIN’ POINT A brand-new festival at The Place, showcasing work that honours African heritage, and encouraging the youth to find their voice. Curated by Hakeem “Mr Impact” Onibudo.

(See pgs 24, 29 & 39 and theplace.org.uk)

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BIG BOOK OUT Fascinating literature events with a distinctly Bloomsbury angle presented with My Bloomsbury Hotel.

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KIDS GET INVOLVED

CALLING EVERYDAY ACTIVISTS! Tell us what one small thing you could do to make the world better.

Activists! a new Bloomsbury Festival project planned for 2019 pops up at the UCL hub (pg 27). Whether you’re an everyday activist or the next world leader we want to hear from you! bloomsburyfestival.org.uk

Past and present, Bloomsbury has more that its fair share of fabulous women. In particular look out for Senate Women (pg 9), Rights for Women: Pioneers in their Own Words (pg 13), Women and Children’s Firsts (pg 25), The Memoir Club (pg 29), A Necessary Woman (pg 29), Vita and Virginia (pg 31), Suffragette Scavenger Hunt (pg 33) and Rights of Woman Festival hub on Sunday at Conway Hall (pg 36-37).

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NEW WAVE: SHOWCASING NEW TALENT We support the development of bright new talent coming out of world-famous local universities, RADA and Central St Martins amongst others. Look out for NEW WAVE, a lunchtime concert series, bold new theatre and exhibitions.

Don’t miss Objects in Time our artist commission - an interactive, sensorial performance from Three Girls at UCL (pg 27).

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BEDFORD SQUARE FESTIVAL Look out for Bedford Square Festival 2018 pop-up events.

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3. Arts Catalyst 74 - 76 Cromer Street, WC1H 8DR

25. London Welsh Centre 57 - 163 Gray’s Inn Road, WC1X 8UE 26. Lumen URC 88 Tavistock Place, WC1H 9RS8

5. Atelier Tammam 5 Hastings Street, WC1H 9PZ 6. The Bartlett 22 Gordon Street, WC1H 0QB 7. The Birkbeck Cinema 23 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD 8. Bloomsbury Club Bar at The Bloomsbury hotel 16-22 Great Russell Street, WC1B 3NN 9. Bloomsbury Theatre Studio 15 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH

12. Brunswick Square WC1N 13. The Building Centre Store Street, WC1E 7BT 14. Calthorpe Community Garden 258 - 274 Gray’s Inn Road, WC1X 8LH 15. The Charles Dickens Museum 8 Doughty Street, WC1N 2LX

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Genesis - Adalaide Damoah; Wed - Sun. Pho by Female Studios

Join artists to build Daylight, a collaborative artwork in the form of a newspaper that explores the presence of women through their art and thinking. Explore the interconnections of art, activism, performance, politics, health and expression in live printing workshops, performance, discussions and continuous collective writing.

Please see wellcomecollection.org for associated events.

Wellcome Collection Thurs 6pm – 10pm; Fri - Sat 10am – 6pm; Sun 11am - 6pm FREE – Just turn up

Senate Women Bloomsbury Festival Production, supported by Leading Women.

Throughout the Festival

Daylighting

Have you ever taken a step, large or small, that changed your life or that of others? 10 inspiring women, each working at University of London’s Senate House, tell their startling stories. This installation of world-leaders and everyday activists celebrates how we can all be architects of change.

Senate House Wed - Sat, 10am – 6pm FREE – Just turn up

Genesis Presented by MTArt Agency British artist Adelaide Damoah, member of the Black British Female Artist Collective, presents a new and ambitious body of work exploring sexuality, gendered subjectivity and race.

The exhibition, which comprises paintings, prints and performative works, will be accompanied by a live streamed performance.

One Bedford Avenue Wed - Fri, 10am – 5pm; Sat & Sun 10am - 3pm FREE – Just turn up

Life-Blood Presented by Ash Kotak, supported by Bloomsbury Festival.

Activist art - group show and special events: photography, discussion, music, talks, sculpture, performance, drawing, film and poetry.

Exploring issues that range from HIV, the contaminated blood inquiry, and the inability to donate blood, to indigenous Indians and Palestinian land rights. This show explores the vital desires, the life blood, behind each of its works. Visit festival website for full schedule.

The Crypt Gallery Wed - Sun, 2pm - 9pm FREE – Just turn up

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Studies for Neurons’, 2017; Activism! Hub at UCL, Sat. Photo: Charlie Murphy/Created Out of Mind

New London Model

Grant Museum of Zoology

Tuguldur Yondonjamts Residency and Exhibition

See dodo bones, extinct thylacines, and the world’s rarest skeleton, the quagga, at one of the oldest natural history collections in the UK.

Mongolian artist Tuguldur Yondonjamts will be in residence at Arts Catalyst, undertaking research and creating an evolving exhibition of new and existing work.

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

Arts Catalyst

Explore one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world, and discover what life was like in the Nile Valley from the time of the pharaohs.

Thurs - Sat, 12 noon - 6pm

UCL Art Museum

Wed - Sat, 1pm - 5pm

Native Spririt is the UK’s premiere festival promoting indigenous cinema in London. Join us for a rare chance to see documentaries, features, animations and shorts celebrating Indigienous Activists and Architects of Change.

Including conversations with Cree filmmaker Jules Koostachin and Max Carocci on Saturday at 2pm.

FREE – Just turn up

See nativespiritfoundation.org for full line up.

Enjoy works from the university’s art collection of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture, as well as the new exhibition Redress by five artists from the Slade School of Fine Art.

FREE – Just turn up

Indigenous Cinema: Native Spirit Festival

Throughout the Festival

AT UCL

Room 243, Senate House Wed - Fri, 6pm - 9pm; FREE - just turn up

From Kabul to Kolkata: Of Belonging, Memories and Identity

Birkbeck Cinema Sat, 10am-5pm; FREE - just turn up

Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s short story, Moska Najib and Nazes Afroz, two journalists cum photographers, tell the story of a century of social transformations among the Afghan community in Kolkata.

NEW WAVE: Activists and Architects of Change Art Commission

Brunei Gallery, SOAS

Shortlisted entries to the competition for he 2018 Festival lead image alongside works by the winning designer, Virginia Ma.

Wed - Sun, 10.30am - 5pm (until 8pm Thurs) FREE – Just turn up

Bloomsbury Festival and The Bedford Estates Commission, supported by Boodle Hatfield LLP.

St Giles London Hotel

Charles Dickens: Man of Science

Wed - Sun, 9am - 10pm

This exhibition reveals Dickens’s interest in medicine, chemistry, geology, the energy of the Earth and the ability of science to drive change and inspire the imagination.

FREE – Just turn up

Charles Dickens Museum Wed - Sun, 10am - 5pm Museum Admission: £9.50 (£7.50)

Swedenborg and the English Romantics A selection of rare items drawn directly from the collection at Swedenborg House exploring English writers and artists, and their connection to the work of the Swedish visionary and scientist, Emanuel Swedenborg.

NEW WAVE: Inspired by Life An exhibition from the Mary Ward Centre sculpture class covering a range of sculptural styles and celebrating change and wellbeing through sculptural work, personal histories and artistic statements.

Lumen URC Wed - Sun, 8am - 4.30pm FREE – Just turn up

The Swedenborg Society Wed - Sat, 10am - 5pm (until 10pm Thurs) FREE – Just turn up

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I Object: Ian Hislop’s Search for Dissent; Wed - Sun

Factory Made Housing: A Solution for London?

A major New London Architecture exhibition exploring the design, construction and delivery of factory-made homes, investigating the innovative methods and systems that are reshaping how we deliver homes in the capital.

The Citi exhibition I Object: Ian Hislop’s Search for Dissent Ian Hislop has been rummaging in the British Museum’s stores, finding stories of dissent and satire. This exhibition shows that questioning authority and protesting are part of what makes us human.

The British Museum Wed - Sun, 10am - 5.30pm (until 8.30pm Fri)

New London Model at NLA

Tickets: £12 (£10; under 16s free)

Explore the huge 12.5 meter-long New London Model, where experienced guides will be on hand to explain London’s newest architecture and development.

Rights for Women: Pioneers in their Own Words

Digital Turn An exhibition of digital innovations in architecture and construction, Digital Turn is a platform for those who dare to dream about how we can better imagine, create and build the spaces we live in.

Focussing on some of the famous, less known and hidden stories of over 50 women pioneers, from the late 18th century to present time.

Senate House Library Wed - Fri, 9am - 5.45pm; Sat, 9.45am - 5.15pm FREE – Just turn up

Wed - Fri, 9am – 6pm; Sat, 10am - 5pm

Cathy Ward Solo Exhibtion

FREE – Just turn up

Visionary artist, Cathy Ward has had a long association with The Horse Hospital. This show features monumental site specific sculptures, an epic painting, intimate drawings and an immersive film.

Living with Buildings: Health and Architecture How does our built environment affect us? This major exhibition spanning two galleries examines the positive and negative influence buildings have on our health and wellbeing.

Wellcome Collection Wed, Fri & Sat, 10am - 6pm; Thurs, 10am - 10pm; Sun, 11am - 6pm FREE – Just turn up

Data Use, Misuse, and Innovation In the era of false news, understanding how data can be used and misused is increasingly important.

This exhibition from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will look at how visualisation can aid or mislead, how to avoid being tricked, and innovative ways to approach data.

Senate House Wed - Sat, 9am - 9pm FREE – Just turn up

Feminism in Camden in the 1970s and 80s Featuring posters produced by the early Women’s Liberation Workshops (WLW) from 1969 onwards, alongside posters for feminist theatre companies, and local government campaigns.

Presented by Unfinished Histories and Belsize Lane Womens Liberation Workshop.

Throughout the Festival

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The Horse Hospital Wed - Sat, 12 noon - 6pm FREE – Just turn up

The Flâneuse Diaries This project, by Elizabeth Dearnley and Michael Eades, invites women to become 21st-century ‘flâneuses’ - wanderers and observers of the city.

Using diaries and cameras, 20 flâneuses will be invited to record their impressions over the course of the festival. Visit the Festival website for how to join in.

The Academy Hotel Public events Wed 6.30pm & Sun 6.30pm FREE – Just turn up (limited capacity)

Taking Up Space A display that brings together works by women artists in the Government Art Collection that challenge public space. Includes works by artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Cornelia Parker, Guler Ates, Phoebe Boswell and Gillian Wearing.

Government Art Collection Wed, Thurs & Sat 12.30pm - 1.30pm; Thurs & Fri 5pm - 6pm FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Conway Hall Wed - Sat, 9am - 11pm; Sun, 11am - 8pm FREE - just turn up

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New London Model; Wed - Sat. Photo by Paul Raftery

Bloomsbury’s Progressive South: Suffrage, Science, Social Housing and More This walk, with Camden guide Paul Guest, shows how certain distinguished men and women linked with southern Bloomsbury played a significant part in historical turning points.

Start at Russell Square Tube Station 11am (and Sat & Sun, 2pm) FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Tour of the Wiener Library and Archives The Wiener Library is the world’s oldest archive and library of material relating to the Holocaust and the Nazi era. Join us for a free tour of the archives, exhibition, and library.

Wiener Library

Wednesday 17 October

Walks, Talks & Tours

1pm (and Thurs & Fri, 1pm) FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Advocate and Activist: Charles Dickens ‘Man of Science’ This talk explores Charles Dickens as a Victorian ‘man of science’. Hear about his pioneering journalism and novels, followed by a chance to handle some special items from the Charles Dickens Museum’s collections.

Charles Dickens Museum 2pm (and Sun, 2pm) Tickets: £15 (incl. museum entry)

BIG BOOK OUT: Publishers of Bloomsbury A guided walking tour visiting some of the many sites associated with Bloomsbury’s long history of involvement with the publishing industry, followed by a drinks reception with industry reps.

My Bloomsbury Hotel 5pm; Tickets: £5 (includes glass of wine)

Quakers and the Friends Ambulance Unit in World War I On the centenary of the end of World War I this talk by Betty Hagglund will give a glimpse into life on the battlefield and how the Friends Ambulance Unit came about.

The Penn Club 7pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Repton’s Bloomsbury Squares Susan Jellis, one of the authors of the new book Repton in London, will give an illustrated talk on the development of the area, celebrating the work of the great landscape gardener.

UCL School of Pharmacy 7.30pm; Tickets: £12 (£10) (includes glass of wine)

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An Accent Waiting to Happen ; Wed. Photo by Chris Walters

Music

Constance and Kelly Waiting in the Dark Theatre

NEW WAVE: Lunchtime Concert - Ljubica Stojanovic

Staged reading of new 2 hander play with original sound and music. Waiting in the Dark Theatre work with emerging artists alongside established; especially women who identify as at risk rom the criminal justice system.

A piano recital with a distinctly French influence.

Featuring music by French composers Debussy and Boulanger alongside works inspired by the culture of France by Bach and Prokofiev.

Bloomsbury Theatre Studio 7.30pm; Tickets: £8 (£6) Plus a playwriting workshop with writer/director Laura McCluskey - see Festival website for details.

Literature Armistice 100 Days 100 writers from writers’ group 26 have written extraordinary, poignant stories from the First World War, captured in a short form - the centena, exactly 100 words. Six writers will be joined by representatives from Imperial War Museums for a fascinating exploration of social, political and family history, focusing on the role of women.

William Goodenough House, Goodenough College 7pm; Tickets: £5

BIG BOOK OUT: An Evening with Unthology Enter the wonderful and frightening world of Unthology 10, the latest in Unthank Books’ acclaimed series showcasing short fiction from new and established writers.

My Bloomsbury Hotel 7.30pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

The Music Room, Great Ormond Street 1.10pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

In The Theatre of Air - Marsyas Trio album launch The Marsyas Trio performs music from their new CD. These Flute-Cello-Piano trio works showcase the diversity of compositional style, wealth of talent and accomplishments of women composers in Britain today.

Wednesday 17 October

Performance & Film

Conway Hall 7.30pm; Tickets: £8 (£6)

Radical Nature: Architects of Change in Classical Music An evening of exciting rolling performances that combine the worlds of classical music with performance art, film, photography, and spoken word. Featuring pianists Fee Blumenthaler, Thormod Rønning Kvam, Inna Montesclaros, Francesca Orlando, and Kirsty Chaplin directed by Belle Chen.

Chancellors Hall, Senate House 7pm; Tickets: £5

Gwalia Male Voice Choir - Open Rehearsal Come and see the famous Gwalia Male Choir in rehearsal for their upcoming tour of France, join in and maybe learn a couple of words of Welsh!

London Welsh Centre 7.30pm; FREE - Just turn up

An Accent Waiting to Happen Writer, musician, composer, nightclub host, curator, actor and adventurer, Richard Strange’s solo show is an evening of songs, films clips, stories, readings and downright scurrilous gossip from his 40 years in the arts and entertainment world.

The Harrison Pub 8pm; Tickets: £8 (£6)

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Alice Zawadzki; Thurs. Photo by Monika Jakubowska

Literature

Tinted - Amy Bethan Evans

BIG BOOK OUT: The Author as Architect Changing the Real World into Fiction

A partially sighted woman is leaving her first boyfriend but in order to do it, she needs to work out why. Have the giant dark glasses that she’s had to wear since childhood tinted everything?

Bloomsbury Theatre Studio 7.30pm; Tickets: £8 (£6)

Music NEW WAVE: Lunchtime Concert Bradley Wood

A panel of three novelists discuss the challenges of fictionalising real-life locations, the strategies they have used to represent place in their own work, and the evocations of settings that have inspired them in the work of other writers.

My Bloomsbury Hotel 7pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

A Poetic Revolution: The Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury

New Zealand pianist Bradley Wood - who is currently studying at the Royal College of Music presents a recital of Mozart, Debussy and Liszt.

Readings and music celebrating the famous Poetry Bookshop which opened in Bloomsbury in 1913 and helped to define a radical new poetry in the opening decades of the 20th Century.

The Music Room, Great Ormond Street

The Music Room, Great Ormond Street

1.10pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

6pm (and Sat 6pm); Tickets: £5

Alice Zawadzki’s Cello Songs

What Would Boudicca Do? Everyday Problems Solved By History’s Most Remarkable Women

Two of the UKs finest improvising cellists combine their deeply beautiful sonorities with playful abandon, making an unusual and exquisite bed for Alice Zawadzki’s “voice of velvet suppleness and gutsy emotional power” (The Arts Desk).

Lumen URC 7.30pm; Tickets: £12 (£10)

Clara Schumann: Prodigy, Muse, Virtuoso - Reiko Fujisawa (piano) and Crawford Logan (narrator) A portrait in music and words of Clara Schumann - a woman who was a leading pianist of her day, as well as a composer, teacher, wife and mother.

William Goodenough House, Goodenough College 7.30pm; Tickets: £12 (£10)

Exhibitions

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Performance & Film

Senate House Library presents... A Faber & Faber Book Launch E. Foley and B. Coates (who are also editors at Penguin Random House) discuss their inspiring new book of life lessons from history’s most remarkable women.

MacMillan Hall, Senate House 6pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

The Lady in the Cellar: Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury Join bestselling author Sinclair McKay as he delves into a true-life Bloomsbury murder case from 1879 and sheds light on a mystery that eluded the detectives of Scotland Yard.

The Alchemy Bar at The Academy Hotel 7pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

FiLiArt100 Showcase and Life Drawing Workshop On the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, FliliA has brought together work from 100 female artists on the theme of suffrage, emancipation and women’s rights.

Followed by a feminist life drawing workshop.

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Startin’ Point Festival; Thurs - Sun. Photo by Marso Riviere

Tour of the Wiener Library and Archives See page 15 for details Wiener Library; 1pm (and Wed & Fri, 1pm) FREE but pre-booking is recommended

BEDFORD SQUARE FESTIVAL EVENT: The Art of Protest, Suffrage and the Summer Exhibition On the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, this talk will explore how the Suffrage movement used images and art to promote their cause.

Paul Mellon Centre 1pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Thursday 18 October

Walks, Talks & Tours

Shattered: Pogrom, November 1938 Curator’s Talk A talk by The Wiener Library’s curators exploring the genesis and development of the Library’s latest exhibition Shattered: Pogrom, November 1938, which examines the origins, events and legacies of Kristallnacht.

Wiener Library 6.30pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Human Rights and Art in Russia today Social engagement in the post Soviet world through the eyes of artist Victoria Lomasko A talk by leading Russian artist specialising in graphic reportage, about social initiatives that she has documented in her work, including campaigners protecting parks and fighting mass demolitions in Moscow, and long distance lorry drivers protesting their rights.

Pushkin House 7pm; Tickets: £10 (£7)

Democracy in Crisis: What’s gone wrong and how we can put it right Our democracy is not working. Its shortcomings are the main obstacle to tackling the great challenges facing us in creating a good society. Bruce Nixon presents solutions and leads discussion.

The Penn Club 7pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

In Conversation with John Bulmer John Bulmer discusses his extraordinary career in photojournalism during the turbulent decades of the 60’s and 70’s, when his commissions took him to the four corners of a greatly changing world.

The Observatory, Marchmont Street 8pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

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(Left & top right) Levantes Dance Theatre. Photos by Foteini Christofilopoulou (Centre right) Sing Out Store Street at Bloomsbury Festival, photograph by Chiara Bellamoli

A Night-time Street Party with a Twist Bloomsbury Festival Production in association with National Centre for Circus Arts

Roll Up, Roll Up! The Circus is coming...

Friday 19 October

Roll Up Store Street!

For one night only, Bloomsbury Festival is bringing thrilling circus artists and inspiring young performers from National Centre for Circus Arts to join Bloomsbury musicians, performers and artists in a spectacular street party, launching an exciting weekend of Festival activities.

We celebrate #Circus250 – marking 250 years of circus in the UK with some of the best new talents that contemporary circus has to offer.

Enjoy fresh, new performances including the London premiere (outdoor version) of circus company Levantes quirky, humorous show THE BAND. Marvel at feats ‘not to try at home’ and have a go at synchronised hula-hooping, juggling and more…

Store Street’s intimate independent shops, cafes and businesses open their doors to reveal an array of creative delights, including dancers, poets, musicians and actors. Make a night of it, enjoy pop-up bars courtesy of The Alchemy Bar at The Academy, world street food, and dance the night away with live music from the Store Street bandstand.

Only a short stroll from Tottenham Court Road and Goodge Street.

Supported by The Bedford Estates, Schroders Real Estate, Store Street, and Hurford Salvi Carr.

6pm - 9.30pm FREE - Just Turn Up

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Performance & Film

STARTIN’ POINT AT THE PLACE: Untold Dance Company

Moment of Grace - Bren Gosling

Untold Dance Company present ‘Konfo’ - a performance which uses dance and live music drawn from African and Caribbean cultures, to explore spirituality as a driving force behind the various phases of mental and spiritual development.

A ground-breaking and intensely moving new play by Bren Gosling, inspired by Princess Diana’s opening of Britain’s first AIDS Unit with Thomas Page Dances. 7pm performance followed by Q&A. Bloomsbury Theatre Studio 2.30pm & 7pm; Tickets: £12 (£10)

Devoted to Mikhail Ugarov and Elena Gremina - Teatr.doc Reading of a new play about Mikhail Ugarov and Elena Gremina, the founders of Teatr.doc, who died tragically earlier this year.

Pushkin House 7pm; Tickets: £12 (£10)

See pages 29 & 39 for other Startin’ Point events.

The Place 7.30pm; Tickets: £17 (£13)

The Lost and The Found - Pulling Threads Will they love me? Will they want me? Will they accept me? Object and Person find themselves far from home. A surreal, humorous and poetic look at who and what we value in our cultural institutions.

The Art Workers’ Guild

Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) – Joe Orton’s Prank Letters; Fri

7.30pm (and Sun 3pm); Tickets: £8 (£6)

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Commemorative Plaque Unveiling A commemorative blue plaque to Emmeline, Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst will be unveiled

by Dr Helen Pankhurst, Emmeline’s greatgreat granddaughter, at the site of their former Bloomsbury home.

Walks, Talks & Tours Model Talk at New London Architecture Free lunchtime talk giving visitors the opportunity to learn firsthand about London’s newest architecture and development.

The Building Centre

Corner of Russell Square and Bernard Street (The Principal Hotel)

12.30pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

2pm; FREE - Just turn up

Meet a Scientist

Campfire Activism

Two of our scientists are leaving the lab and popping into the Manby Gallery to share insights into what they do and demonstrate historical and modern day scientific equipment.

Enjoy an evening of campfire stories, music and food including talks from the sustainable start ups supported by Bloomsbury Beginnings, a tour of the Living Lab closed loop system and music from Phaxsi Coca.

The Francis Crick Institute 12.30pm; FREE - just turn up

Calthorpe Community Garden

Tour of the Wiener Library and Archives

6.30pm; Tickets: £15

See page 15 for details.

Music NEW WAVE: Lunchtime Concert Katherine Clarke Showcasing works by female composers, with a varied programme including two pieces for singing violist which she premiered earlier this year to great acclaim, and a duo by Libby Larsen.

The Music Room, Great Ormond Street 1.10 pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Concertos in Miniature - Phacelia Ensemble Experience the works of ground breaking female composers played ‘in miniature’ by The Phacelia Ensemble comprising five strings and piano.

Chancellors Hall, Senate House 6.30pm; Tickets: £12 (£10)

Literature Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) – Joe Orton’s Prank Letters A special evening celebrating the hilarious letters of complaint sent by Mrs. Edna Welthorpe – a pseudonym of controversial 60s playwright Joe Orton. Orton expert Dr. Emma Parker and filmmaker Chris Shepherd will be joined by Leonie Orton (Joe’s youngest sister).

Friday 19 October

Special Events

1pm (and Wed & Thurs, 1pm) FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Women and Children’s Firsts Stella Geddes explores some of the hospitals and research Institutes of Bloomsbury, and some of the women who have made and are still making great contributions in Science and Medicine.

Start at Russell Square Tube Station 2pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Somers Town: a Social Laboratory Join architectural historian Joe Kerr for a walking tour through the radical histories of this unique urban environment.

Wellcome Collection 3pm (and Sat, 3pm) FREE but pre-booking is recommended

An Evening with Zachary Macaulay Take a garden walk with Zachary Macaulay, abolitionist, hear about his campaign to abolish slavery, and visit Goodenough College to hear Ryna Sherazi speak on modern slavery.

Start at St Georges Gardens 5.45pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

The Postal Museum 6.30pm; Tickets: £12 (£10)

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UCL. Photo by Christian Fisher

Find your inner radical!

Saturday Festival Hub at UCL 11am - 5pm; FREE - Just Turn Up Change the world with UCL. Explore the city around you, start an activist campaign and shape the future.

Discover hidden stories of gender and equality in the free exhibition Disrupters and Innovators directly under UCL’s iconic dome in the Octagon Gallery. From there, step into the cloisters and find out how ground-breaking research has transformed our lives – and how it can change the future.

Use cutting-edge technology to learn how to use the dark web, find out what robots know about humans, and track the electrical activity in your brain. Or come outside and join researchers to build a huge pavilion in front of UCL. Play your part with our artists and activists, and try your hand at graffiti, make a banner or take part in an open choir and perform yourself. Live music, theatre performances and film screenings will pop-up throughout the day.

Don’t forget to record your stories of everyday activism and your plans to change the world for the Activists! project too.

PLUS: Join us for a walk around Bloomsbury to see London and UCL in a new light, and visit the incredible Grant Museum of Zoology, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and UCL Art Museum as well as the Bloomsbury Theatre nearby.

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Become a Guerrilla Urbanist and change the city!

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Watch Framewalks Dance step into a sea of sound

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Record your brains activity with a MUSE headband

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Join in Objects in Time immersive installation

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Get infected with a false disease and track its changes

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Hear Cities Stories at UCL speakers corner

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See how AI is learning to read your expressions

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Be inspired by The Choir with No Name

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Investigate; do others see what you do?

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Millicent Fawcett’s legacy was the vote for women. What will yours be? Discuss…

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Build a flat pack pavilion with world leading researchers

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Plan to change the world in Activists!

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Sing Ethel Smythe’s March of the Women

Saturday 20 October

Activism!

Drop in any time - there is something for everyone. Recommended for ages 12+

MUSEUMS Grant Museum of Zoology Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology UCL Art Museum (see page 11 for more details):

Open from 1pm - 5pm FREE - Just turn up

Complete your day at The Bartlett and STEaPP Late Free life drawing, storytelling, radical discussions, urban tours, music and drinks at the bar.

For more information, see listing on page 33.

The Bartlett, 6pm - 10pm; FREE - Pre-booking is recommended for most events

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Tiger Under the Skin; Sat

NEW WAVE: Hop - PPS Ensemble A devised piece which explores and questions our daily routine, pushing the boundaries of what is possible, and opening people’s hearts to the unexpected.

Bloomsbury Theatre Studio 11am; Tickets: £5

NEW WAVE: Tiger Under the Skin Tom Kelsey Bouncing between an absurd, surreal, stream of consciousness and the story of a night out gone wrong. Tom Kelsey, in a highly physical performance deals with mental health issues, exploring what it means to confront the tiger under his skin.

Bloomsbury Theatre Studio

STARTIN’ POINT AT THE PLACE: Commission Platform The night will feature works from three artists chosen from a submission call out along with an excerpt of Uchenna Dance’s critically acclaimed The Head Wrap Diaries.

See pages 24 & 39 for other Startin’ Point events The Place 7.30pm; Tickets: £17 (£13)

A Necessary Woman - Clair/Obscur Sunday 2 April 1911. Census Night. Suffragette Emily Davison is hiding in a cleaning cupboard in the crypt beneath the Palace of Westminster, planning a daring act in Parliament for Monday morning. But will she achieve her ambition before she’s caught and returned to prison?

Saturday 20 October

Performance & Film

Bloomsbury Theatre Studio 7.30pm; Tickets: £12 (£10)

2pm; Tickets: £5

I, Dido - DOT Productions I, Dido recounts a dramatic episode in the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, an illegitimate mixed race woman rescued from slavery, adopted

by Lord Mansfield and baptised at St George’s Bloomsbury.

St George’s Bloomsbury 2.30pm & 7.30pm; Tickets: £18 (£12)

The Memoir Club - The Goodenough Theatre Company The Bloomsbury Set’s secret Memoir Club opens its doors to new guests for the first time. Step into the 1920s for a decadent soirée of reminiscences with only one rule: unflinching honesty.

Music NEW WAVE: Lunchtime Concert Women Composers Katie Wong, Rachel Maxey and Hamish McLaren present a selection of notable works by female composers, from Rebecca Clarke’s viola sonata to songs by Lili Boulanger and Clara Schumann.

The Music Room, Great Ormond Street 1.10 pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Blue Note, Women’s Vote!

3pm (and Sun 3pm)

Beth & Flo, a young classical piano duo from The Netherlands, perform a unique concert about the power of recovery and endurance, with music

by Rachmaninov, Gershwin, and contemporary composers such as Brett Dean and Dutch composer Ruben Naeff.

Tickets: £20 (includes cocktail on arrival)

Chancellors Hall, Senate House

The Bloomsbury Club Bar

2pm; Tickets: £8 (£6)

Masc 4 Marginalisation - B-Hybrid Dance A dynamic dance show that tackles prejudices and manufactured marginalisations within modern gay culture.

Bloomsbury Theatre Studio 5pm; Tickets: £8 (£6)

Songhaven: Dementia-Friendly Concert A fun, relaxed and inclusive concert, followed by afternoon tea. Enjoy top quality performances from professional classical artists, filled with wellloved tunes from a range of genres and ending with an uplifting singalong finale.

Lumen URC 3.30pm; Tickets: £8

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The Bartlett Summer Show 2018. Photo by Richard Stonehouse

The Bartlett and STEaPP Late Following on from Activism! our Saturday hub at UCL, carry on the activism into the evening with a variety of workshops, urban tours, performances and discussion about how cities shape us. Plus drinks at the bar, music and film screenings.

Visit Festival website for programme details.

The Bartlett 6pm - 10pm; FREE - but pre-booking is recommended for many events

Literature

Saturday 20 October

Special Event

Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism - Tessa Boase A decade before the suffragette movement began dominating headlines, a very different women’s campaign captured the public imagination. Its aim was simple – to stamp out the cruel fashion for hats decorated with birds and plumage.

London House, Goodenough College 4pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

BIG BOOK OUT: Vita and Virginia - the love that made one of the great works of English literature Bestselling biographer Sarah Gristwood talks about the work, friendship and love affair of two prolific novelists - Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf - who came to redefine conventions of femininity, sexuality, art and politics for the modern world.

My Bloomsbury Hotel 5pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

A Poetic Revolution: The Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury See page 19 for details.

The Music Room 6pm (and Thurs 6pm); Tickets: £5

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Family Art Day at October Gallery; Sat

Suffragette Scavenger Hunt Bloomsbury Festival Production The hunt is on... Search the streets of Bloomsbury to discover hidden stories about the radical women of the area’s past, and follow the trail of clues to discover a secret suffragette tea party! This scavenger hunt will lead you up sidestreets, down passageways, and through leafy squares as you retrace the footsteps of Emily Davison, Christabel Pankhurst and many others.

By turns entertaining, educational and surprising, the Suffragette Scavenger Hunt challenges festivalgoers of all ages to learn more about the women of Bloomsbury. Suffragette Scavenger Hunt is created by Elizabeth Dearnley.

Start at Senate House; every 15 minutes between 11am - 3.30pm (also Sun, 11am - 2.30pm) FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Walks, Talks & Tours BEDFORD SQUARE FESTIVAL EVENTS London’s Street Trees - A Field Guide to the Urban Forest Paul Wood, author of London’s Street Trees: A Field Guide to the Urban Forest, will provide a brief history of urban trees and their use in planning from the 19th century onwards.

Rebels of Bloomsbury A walk with Anthony Davis featuring east Bloomsbury’s rebellious residents. Discover how revolutionaries in art, welfare and politics were associated with some of London’s prettiest, leastappreciated Georgian streets.

Start at Holborn Tube Station (Holborn exit) 10am & 2pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Senate House Goes to War

Start at Architectural Association

A tour of those parts of Senate House most closely associated with the Ministry of Information, which occupied the building 1939-45.

10.30am; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Start at Crush Hall, Senate House

Digital Prototyping Lab Open House Angel Fernando Lara Moreira – architect, researcher and head of the AA’s Digital Prototyping Lab – hosts an open morning at the school’s centre for 3D fabrication, demonstrating the latest technologies available.

11am & 2pm; FREE - just turn up

Behind the Facade - Tours of The Principal London

Architectural Association

Exclusive tours of Bloomsbury’s famous landmark hotel. Built in 1898, designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll, The Principal London reopened this year following a dazzling £85 million refurbishment.

11am - 1pm (Tours every 30 mins)

The Principal London

FREE but pre-booking is recommended

2pm, 3pm & 4pm (and 2pm, 3pm & 4pm Sun)

A Celebration of the Architecture of Bedford Square Benedict O’Looney tells the remarkable architectural history of one of the best-preserved Georgian Squares and an exemplar of modern domestic architecture in the late 18th century.

Start at Architectural Association 2pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Saturday 20 October

Special Event

FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Bloomsbury’s Progressive South: Suffrage, Science, Social Housing and More See page 15 for details.

Start at Russell Square Tube Station 2pm (and Wed 11am & Sun 2pm) FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Somers Town: a Social Laboratory See page 15 for details Wellcome Collection; 3pm (and Fri, 3pm) FREE but pre-booking is recommended

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Saturday: Family Events Family Art Day at October Gallery

Family Architecture Workshop at NLA

Explore Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams’ exciting new exhibition through art activities and storytelling. For children up to age 7 accompanied by adults.

Let your child become the architect! Work together with our professional educators to design your ideal home and learn the basics of architectural design.

October Gallery

The Building Centre

10am - 11.30am; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

1pm - 4pm; FREE - just turn up

Votes for Women at the Postal Museum Join gutsy suffragettes Miss Solomon and Miss McLellan for a ‘Votes for Women’ rally, and discover what happened when they posted themselves to 10 Downing Street!

The Postal Museum 10am - 4pm; Tickets: £17.05 (concessions available) includes museum admission

BEDFORD SQUARE FESTIVAL EVENT: AA Little Architect Family Workshop Yes SHE Can! This Little Architect Family Workshop is aimed at budding architects and designers aged 7-15.

Hear from and get creative with female architects working in the profession.

Architecural Association 11am - 1pm FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Art-science workshops: Microscopic Marbling Inspired by their current exhibition Deconstructing Patterns: Art + science in conversation, this workshop for families explores the amazing mix of patterns found in biology through marbling, mark-making and drawing.

The Francis Crick Institute 2pm - 3.15pm FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Drawing Workshop for Children: Discover Hidden Treasures at Swedenborg House A drawing working for children aged 6-10 led by author and illustrator Sally Kindberg. No specialist skills required. All materials will be provided.

The Swedenborg Society 2pm - 4pm FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Saturday Studio: Printing Press Workshop

Did you know that in Peter Pan, the window of the Darling family’s house looks out on to Brunswick Square Gardens?

Or that you can find Tracey Emin’s installation Baby Things (Mitten) on the railings in front of the Foundling Museum?

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Are you aged 14-19? Learn how to use a traditional printing press to create your own work in sessions led by DIY print champions One of My Kind (OOMK).

Wellcome Collection 2pm - 3.30pm & 4pm - 5.30pm FREE - just turn up

Family Festival Hub at Brunswick Square 11am - 4pm; FREE - just turn up Bloomsbury Festival pops up in Brunswick Square for a day of play, performance, crafts, games and fun for families.

Positioned in the heart of Bloomsbury’s family area, Brunswick Square has a long history connected to children. There are many things to explore and activities to participate in during our Sunday Funday and associated venues, including: •

Print your own T-shirt, learn photography, or have a go at fluid arts with artists from the Sir Hubert Von Herkomer Arts Foundation

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Join the SOAS origami society and learn how to make animals from paper

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Meet some of the players from Middlesex County Women’s Squad, have a taster cricket session or join a kick about with Bloomsbury Football Association

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Celebrate Votes for Women by making your own rosette, or joining in the Suffragette tea party

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Try out a Bollywood dance routine in a workshop with Akademi dance

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Learn about 4 places in Bloomsbury through interactive audio trails created by local children at 1A Arts

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Join in a Street Theatre workshop and learn how to create slap-stick comedy with Rugby Schools drama department

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Discover how screens are changing our lives and sew your own emoji with researchers from the Birkbeck Baby Lab

Family Weekend Events

Sunday Funday

PLUS: face painting, performance, workshops.

Full schedule of events will be available in advance at bloomsburyfestival.org.uk Recommended for ages 5 - 12 years

Also... Family events on Sunday at William Goodenough House Warriors - Indrani Datta Dance Inspired by three Nobel winners from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, Warriors will feature Kathak dance and live poetry.

12pm; £3 (under 10s free)

AMATA VALE - Summer Film Project screening A screening of AMATA VALE, a short film inspired

by Sir John Soane’s Museum and produced by Reflekta Films - a group of young filmmakers from Holborn Community Associaton’s Summer Film Project 2018.

4pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

The Festival family weekend is supported by:

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Rights of Woman Sunday Festival Hub Conway Hall 11am - 8pm

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS All talks FREE but pre-booking is recommended (except Sunday Assembly - just turn up).

Sunday Assembly - The Rights of Women Sunday Assembly celebrates life by coming together to sing songs, hear inspiring talks and build real connections. We’ll be celebrating the rights of Women, and asking: where next?

11am

A Women’s Revolution in Northern Syria A women’s revolution in Northern Syria, where the Kurds have been building a new society that has lessons for us all. Sarah Glynn visited the area as part of a women’s delegation in May. 11.30am

Heroine Addicts: So You Think You Can Chant Popular feminist podcast Heroine Addicts’ live recording. Industry guests join them to explore how to be a modern day feminist activist.

Rights of Woman; Sun. Image created by Emily Tracy

12.45pm

Voice, Visibility and Velocity: Muslim women, past and present

From Votes for Women to #MeToo, the Story of Women’s Rights, Past, Present and Future Helen Pankhurst leads a participatory discussion on women’s lives, reflecting on the changes in the UK since the right to a parliamentary vote was first granted to some women in 1918.

2pm

Women’s Work Its 99 years since the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, so how come we are still talking about the gender equality, pay, and the glass ceiling? A panel of professional women discuss their experiences in science, art, architecture and publishing chaired by Jeanne Le Roux.

2.30pm

Sex and the Politics of Pleasure How can women discover their true sexual selves, away from the hype? Ky Hoyle of Sh! Women’s Erotic Emporium and guests steer the conversation away from pillow talk, towards REAL talk, to find out.

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Arif Zaman and Baroness Uddin, discuss major projects on Muslim women as Activists and Architects of Change.

4pm

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WORKSHOPS Speak Up, Speak Out A workshop for women on public speaking, Speak Up, Speak Out is about how to be heard, how to be counted, how to get your message across.

12 noon & 2pm FREE but pre-booking is recommended

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Mrs Shaw Herself A one-woman show exploring the life of Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a wealthy Irish heiress as well as a suffrage supporter, philanthropist, Fabian and wife of George Bernard Shaw.

11am & 3.45pm FREE but pre-booking is recommended

The Ladies Bridge Today Thames riverboat pilots tell the story of Waterloo Bridge being built by women during the Second World War. In 2005 Film-maker Karen Livesey and historian Dr Christine Wall set out to find these women.

Sunday 21 October

PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS

11am - 5.30pm FREE - just turn up

Mary, Mary - Further Than The Edge A short theatre performance inspired by the pioneering activist Mary Wollstonecraft and her book ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ written in Bloomsbury in 1791.

2.30pm FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Barbican Piano Trio The Barbican Trio present a new suite from The Prince Unexpected by British composer Joseph Phibbs and trios by Schumann and Schubert.

6.30pm Tickets: £12 (£10), Ages 8 - 25 FREE

EXHIBITIONS 11am - 5.30pm FREE - Just turn up

Feminism in Camden in the 1970s and 80s See page 13 for more information.

Celebrating the Centenary of Women Lawyers An exhibition celebrating the opening of the legal profession to women in 1919 and the achievements of the first women lawyers.

‘As though a rock had been lifted and there were green shoots beneath’ A collage image of the Kurdish revolution in Northern Syria, created by Sarah Glynn.

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Fitz’s Bar at The Principal Hotel

Escaping the Storm (Dr Marie Stopes on Portland) - AsOne Theatre Company

NEW WAVE: Nocturne - The Vertical

First play written about the 20th Century’s most controversial woman, who transformed how we think about sex with her book Married Love in 1918. Marie Stopes still provokes today. But who was the real Marie Stopes?

Sitting between live art, theatre and classical music, six fragmented lives inhabit a drawing room whilst desperately seeking connection with one another and the world around them.

Bloomsbury Theatre Studio 11am; Tickets: £5

NEW WAVE: Unlovable - Carly Jurman One woman’s journey to discovering why she is virtually unlovable. Told through verbatim text, interviews with ex-lovers, rendezvous with her most awkward experiences, and insights into her fantasies.

Bloomsbury Theatre Studio 2pm; Tickets: £5

The Memoir Club - The Goodenough Theatre Company See page 29 for details.

The Bloomsbury Club Bar; 3pm (and Sat 3pm) Tickets: £20 (includes cocktail on arrival)

NEW WAVE: Glad to be Gay - Oliver Gaynor Three men reflect upon the gay identity and community on the island of Jersey. A touching examination of contemporary gay culture.

Bloomsbury Theatre Studio

Bloomsbury Theatre Studio 7.30pm; Tickets: £12 (£10)

Music In Search of Stravinsky’s Piano Teacher: Leokadiya Kashperova

Sunday 21 October

Performance & Film

This innovative lecture-recital invites the audience to consider Igor Stravinsky as the activist and his neglected piano teacher Leokadiya Kashperova as the architect behind his compositions. With Dr Graham Griffiths (City University London) and renowned Russian pianist Oxana Shevchenko.

Pushkin House 3pm; Tickets: £20 (£16)

Literature The Good Messenger John Simmons will read from and talk about his new novel The Good Messenger, set around the first world war. John will be joined by screenwriter Rob Williams (BBC drama The Victim).

London House, Goodenough College 3pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

5pm; Tickets: £5

STARTIN’ POINT AT THE PLACE: Future4Youth Exciting youth dance companies perform works inspired by dance of the African Diaspora and it’s relationship with hip hop.

See pages 24 & 29 for other Startin’ Point events.

The Place 5pm; Tickets: £14 (£9)

Sufferage. Subversion & Sex Enjoy a relaxed interactive evening with LGBT Poet Laureate, Trudy Howson as she explores the fascinating lives of The Pankhurst’s, Marie Stopes, and The Bloomsbury Set. Lets discuss how their lives and actions impacted on, or influenced, our experience today.

Fitz’s Bar, The Principal Hotel 6pm; Tickets: £12 (£10) includes glass of bubbly on arrival

The Harrison All Day Folk Festival The legendary Harrison All Day Folk Festival returns for its fourteenth instalment in conjunction with the Bloomsbury Festival. Ten hours of magical music all for FREE! An eclectic range of incredible talent will be beguiling the Harrison; from ethereal psych-folk to trad, from rhythm & blues to delta blues, from ragtime jazz to rocking country music, you can be sure the line-up will blow your mind and have you dancing all night!

Sunday Roasts served all day.

The Harrison Pub; 12.30pm - 11.30pm; FREE - Just Turn Up

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Goodensemble at Bloomsbury Festival - Photo by Stuart Keegan

Gala performance to mark the finale of Bloomsbury Festival 2018 Produced by Goodenough College, in association with Bloomsbury Festival, supported

by The Principal London.

Rossini - Overture to La Cenerentola Sylvia Lim - Reframe (World premiere performance) Beethoven - Symphony No. 1 Bloomsbury Festival is proud to present London’s hottest young symphony orchestra in the magnificent ballroom of The Principal London following the £85 million restoration of this truly grand dame hotel. Never previously seen outside Goodenough College, Goodensemble Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kasper Querfurth open the concert with Rossini’s Cinderella Overture followed by a new work by Sylvia Lim (postgraduate student at Guildhall School of Music and Drama). The concert is completed by Beethoven’s first foray into symphonic writing, his witty First Symphony.

Sunday 21 October Information

Goodensemble: Architects of Change in Classical Music

Goodensemble brings together seasoned professionals with top young musicians from across the world who have made Goodenough College their home whilst studying in London’s finest music conservatoires.

The evening commences at 7pm with a glass of Ridgeview Bloomsbury sparkling wine, courtesy of Ridgeview Wine Estate to toast the Bloomsbury community who have united to create the 2018 Festival.

The Principal London 7.30pm (please arrive by 7pm) Tickets: £15 (£13) Includes a glass of Ridgeview Bloomsbury sparkling wine.

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Suffragette Scavenger Hunt A Bloomsbury Festival Production created by Elizabeth Dearnley

Advocate and Activist: Charles Dickens ‘Man of Science’ See page 15 for details.

See page 33 for details.

Charles Dickens Museum

Start at Senate House

2pm (and Wed, 2pm)

Every 15 minutes between 11am - 2.30pm (also Sat from 11am - 3.30pm)

Tickets: £15 (includes museum entry)

FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Maker not Muse: Kitty Clive or The Fair Songster

Pioneers of Child Welfare - The Story of the Foundling and Great Ormond Street Hospitals Both the Foundling Hospital and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children were pioneering projects which changed attitudes and practical solutions for the welfare of children in London. Alec Forshaw tells their story.

London House, Goodenough College 1.30pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Join historian Berta Joncus and explore the fascinating life of Kitty Clive, one of London’s top 18th-century stage stars. The talk will include performances of arias from some of Clive’s leading roles, as well as her own compositions.

Foundling Museum 3pm; Tickets: £15 (£10.50) - includes museum admission

Artist Talk: A History of Resistance with Grace Ndiritu

See page 33 for details.

Artist Grace Ndiritu gives a talk about her project The Ark: Center For Interdisciplinary Experimentation, an artistic model for creating an off-grid community within an urban setting.

The Principal London

Arts Catalyst

2pm, 3pm & 4pm (and 2pm, 3pm & 4pm Sat)

4pm; Tickets: £5 (£3)

Behind the Facade - Tours of The Principal London

Sunday 21 October

Walks, Talks & Tours

FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Bloomsbury’s Progressive South: Suffrage, Science, Social Housing and More See page 15 for details.

Start at Russell Square Tube Station 2pm (and Wed 11am & Sat 2pm) FREE but pre-booking is recommended

Marx in Bloomsbury Led by academic and author of Bloomsbury: Beyond the Establishment (2017), Dr Matthew Ingleby (Queen Mary University of London), this walk explores Bloomsbury’s links with Karl Marx, in this, his 200th anniversary year.

Start at Russell Square Fountain 2pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended

The Woman Question Camden guides, Amanda McKerracher and Jo Wilkinson will introduce you to a few of the pioneering women and men who played their parts in advancing causes and who lent their voices to great debates.

Start at Goodge Street Tube Station 2pm; FREE but pre-booking is recommended 43

BLOOMSBURY FESTIVAL FESTIVAL PATRONS

FESTIVAL TEAM

Her Grace The Duchess of Bedford

Festival Director

Professor Michael Arthur, President and Provost of UCL

Artistic Associates Senior Programme Manager

John-Paul Muir

The Rt Hon Keir Starmer QC MP

Programme Manager

Jodie Adams

FESTIVAL TRUSTEES John Ainley Michael Buffham-Wade Simon Cane Michael Dixon

Kate Anderson Orit Azaz & Bill Gee

Marketing Manager

Claire Bowdler

Design Manager

Gillian Allmark

Operations Manager

Sharon Brooks

Fundraising & Admin Officer

Alex Wiseman

Bookkeeper

Penelope Eaton

Jason Geen

BLOOMSBURY FESTIVAL PRODUCTIONS

Jane Lingham

Creative and production teams include:

Alicia Wilson

Emma Bernard, Patrick Sandford, Elizabeth Dearnley, Lia Prentaki, Jess Hudsley, Laura Halliwell, Elena Grice

Paul Wyman (Chair)

BUSINESS SUPPORTERS Mishcon de Reya Havas RSA Gerald Eve

Tuffin Ferraby Taylor Ridgeview Wine Estate The Academy Nourish London

Working with our partners to make a real difference in the community.

Chestertons is delighted to be supporting the Bloomsbury Festival Contact our Covent Garden & West End office 196 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JF 020 3040 8300

London School of Business & Management New London Architecture Imagination

Schroder Real Estate is proud to support the Bloomsbury Festival

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PRINCIPAL SPONSORS

FUNDERS

FESTIVAL SPONSORS

MAJOR PARTNERS AND PROJECT FUNDERS

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Diary

MUSIC (page 17)

THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL (Pages 8-15)

In The Theatre of Air - Marsyas Trio Album Launch 7.30pm

Daylighting

Radical Nature: Architects of Change in Classical Music 7pm

Lunchtime Concert - Ljubica Stojanovic

Thurs - Sun

Senate Women

Wed - Sat

Gwalia Male Voice Choir - Open Rehearsal

Genesis

Wed - Sun

An Accent Waiting to Happen

Life-Blood

Wed - Sun

Grant Museum of Zoology

Wed - Sat

THURSDAY 18 OCTOBER

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

Wed - Sat

PERFORMANCE & FILM (page 19)

UCL Art Museum

Wed - Sat

Tinted - Amy Bethan Evans

From Kabul to Kolkata

Wed - Sun

MUSIC (page 19)

Charles Dickens: Man of Science

Wed - Sun

Lunchtime Concert - Bradley Wood

1.10pm

7.30pm 8pm

7.30pm

1.10pm

Alice Zawadzki’s Cello Songs

7.30pm

Tuguldur Yondonjamts Residency & Exhibition Thurs - Sun

Clara Schumann: Prodigy, Muse, Virtuoso

7.30pm

Indigenous Cinema: Native Spirit Festival

EXHIBITIONS (page 19)

Swedenborg and the English Romantics

Wed - Sat

Wed - Sat

Activists & Architects of Change Art Commission Wed - Sun

FiLi Art 100 Showcase

Inspired by Life

LITERATURE (page 19)

Wed - Sun

10am - 6pm

Factory Made Housing: A Solution for London? Wed - Sat

BIG BOOK OUT: The Author as Architect...

7pm

New London Model at NLA

Wed - Sat

A Poetic Revolution

6pm

Wed - Sat

What Would Boudicca Do?

6pm

Wed - Sun

The Lady in the Cellar

7pm

Data Use, Misuse and Innovation

Wed - Sat

WALKS, TALKS & TOURS (page 21)

Feminism in Camden in the 1970s and 80s

Wed - Sun

Tour of the Wiener Library & Archives

Digital Turn Living with Buildings: Health & Architecture

I Object: Ian Hislop’s Search for Dissent

Wed - Sun

Rights for Women: Pioneers in their own words Wed - Sat Cathy Ward Solo Exhibition

Wed - Sat

The Flâneuse Diaries

Wed - Sun

Taking up Space

Wed - Sat

WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER

Shattered: Progrom, November 1938 - Curators Talk 6.30pm Human Rights and Art in Russia Today

7pm

Democracy in Crisis: What’s gone wrong....

7pm

In Conversation with John Bulmer

8pm

FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER

WALKS, TALKS & TOURS (page 15)

SPECIAL EVENTS (page 23 & 25)

Bloomsbury’s Progresssive South

11am

Roll Up Store Street!

Tour of the Wiener Library & Archives

1pm

Commemorative Plaque Unveiling

Advocate and Activist: Charles Dickens

2pm

Campfire Activism

BIG BOOK OUT: Publishers of Bloomsbury

5pm

PERFORMANCE & FILM (page 24)

Quakers & The Friends Ambulance Unit in WW1

7pm

Moment of Grace - Bren Gosling

Repton’s Bloomsbury Squares

7.30pm

PERFORMANCE & FILM (page 17) Constance & Kelly - Waiting in the Dark Theatre

7.30pm

LITERATURE (page 17) Armistice 100 Days An Evening with Unthology

1pm

The Art of Protest, Suffrage & the Summer Exhibition 1pm

6pm 2pm 6.30pm

2.30pm & 7pm

Theatre.doc performance

7pm

Startin’ Point - Untold Dance Company

7.30pm

The Lost and the Found - Pulling Threads

7.30pm

MUSIC (page 25) 7pm 7.30pm

Lunchtime Concert - Katherine Clarke Concertos in Miniature - Phacelia Ensemble

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1.10pm 6.30pm

LITERATURE (page 25)

FAMILY (page 34)

Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)...

6.30pm

WALKS, TALKS & TOURS (page 25)

Family Art Day at October Gallery

10am - 11.30am

Votes for Women at the Postal Museum

10am - 4pm

Model Talk at New London Architecture

12.30pm

AA Little Architect Family Workshop

11am - 1pm

Meet a Scientist

12.30pm

Family Architecture Workshop at NLA

1pm - 4pm

Tour of the Wiener Library & Archives

1pm

Art-Science Workshops: Microscopic Marbling 2pm - 3.15pm

Women and Children’s Firsts

2pm

Drawing Workshop for Children

2pm - 4pm

Somers Town: A Social Laboratory

3pm

Saturday Studio: Printing Press Workshop

2pm & 4pm

An Evening with Zachary Macaulay

5.45pm

SUNDAY 21 OCTOBER SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER

FESTIVAL HUBS

FESTIVAL HUB (page 27)

Sunday Funday (page 35)

Activism! - Festival Hub at UCL

1 1am - 5pm

PERFORMANCE & FILM (page 29)

10am - 4pm

Rights of Woman (page 36-37)

11am - 8pm

FAMILY (page 35)

Hop - PPS Ensemble

11am

Warriors - Indrani Datta Dance

12pm

Tiger Under the Skin - Tom Kelsey

2pm

AMATA VALE - Summer Film Project Screening

4pm

I, Dido - DOT Productions

2.30pm & 7.30pm

PERFORMANCE & FILM (page 39)

The Memoir Club - Goodenough Theatre Company

3pm

Nocturne - The Vertical

11am

Masc 4 Marginalisation - B-Hybrid Dance

5pm

Unlovable - Carly Jurman

2pm 3pm

Startin’ Point - Commission Platform

7.30pm

The Memoir Club - Goodenough Theatre Company

A Necessary Woman - Clair/Obscur

7.30pm

The Lost and the Found - Pulling Threads

3pm

Glad to be Gay - Oliver Gaynor

5pm

MUSIC (page 29) Lunchtime Concert - Women Composers

1.10pm

Blue Note, Women’s Vote!

Songhaven: Dementia-Friendly Concert

2pm 3.30pm

SPECIAL EVENT (page 31)

Startin’ Point - Future4Youth

5pm

Escaping the Storm - AsOne Theatre Company MUSIC (page 39) In Search of Stravinsky’s Piano Teacher

The Bartlett and STEaPP Late

6pm

LITERATURE (page 29)

7.30pm

The Harrison All Day Folk Festival

3pm 12.30pm - 11.30pm

LITERATURE (page 39)

Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather

4pm

The Good Messenger

3pm

BIG BOOK OUT: Vita and Virginia

5pm

Sufferage, Subversion and Sex

6pm

A Poetic Revolution

6pm

SPECIAL EVENT (page 41)

WALKS, TALKS & TOURS (page 33) Suffragette Scavenger Hunt Rebels of Bloomsbury London’s Street Trees Digital Prototyping Lab Open House Senate House Goes to War

Goodensemble - Gala Finale Event 11am - 3.30pm 10am & 2pm 10.30am 11am - 1pm 11am & 2pm

A Celebration of the Architecture of Bedford Square Tours of The Principal London

2pm

2pm, 3pm & 4pm

7.30pm

WALKS, TALKS & TOURS (page 43) Suffragette Scavenger Hunt

11am - 2.30pm

Pioneers of Child Welfare Tours of The Principal London

1.30pm 2pm, 3pm & 4pm

Bloomsbury’s Progresssive South

2pm

Marx in Bloomsbury

2pm

The Woman Question

2pm

Bloomsbury’s Progresssive South

2pm

Advocate and Activist: Charles Dickens

2pm

Somers Town: A Social Laboratory

3pm

Maker Not Muse: Kitty Clive Or The Fair Songster

3pm

Artist Talk: A History of Resistance with Grace Ndiritu 4pm

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