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New - look Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury |
Festival promises aerial thrills
THE cultural, intellectual, artistic and social life of Bloomsbury is due to be celebrated at the area’s first arts festival next week.
The festival runs from October 20-22 in the squares and streets between Euston Road, Gray’s Inn Road, Theobald’s Road and Southampton Row with a programme of free events celebrating its heritage.
Among the Bloomsbury institutions taking part are Central St Martin’s fashion college, Renoir art-house and independent cinema, contemporary dance studio The Place, The Foundling and Dickens museums, and the Artworkers’ Guild.
Allied London, the property company which owns the Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury, has provided £200,000 sponsorship.
Attractions include a gravity-defying show hosted by aerial theatre company Scarabeus, which will be taking over the newly-restored façade of architect Patrick Hodgkinson’s iconic Brunswick Centre.
Composer Craig Vear has recorded children singing in Coram’s Fields and Great Ormond Street Hospital to create a musical experience which will echo around the entrance to the Brunswick Centre.
Mr Hodgkinson will talk about his work at a lecture at the centre as part of an architectural forum, which will discuss the nature of Bloomsbury’s squares, both leafy and concrete, and their social and cultural heritage.
There is storytelling for children and film and photography projects for teenagers, with the inaugural Bloomsbury Cup football competition being staged at Coram’s Fields.
For a programme of events, visit the Bloomsbury Festival website at www.bloomsburyfestival.org.
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