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Posts and updates on the project
Popping up: new developments in Bloomsbury Festival in a Box
There have been some important developments on the Bloomsbury Festival in a Box project over the past few months. Two and a half years on from the original AHRC award, and in the same year that the AHRC have published the Cultural Value Project's Final Report the...
Festival in a Box: archives – Exhibition at Leeds College of Art
Festival in a Box: Archives My exhibition ‘Festival in a Box: Archives’ is on display from 21 September to 30 November at the Leeds College of Art. The exhibition draws together selected texts, objects and artefacts from from the archives assembled during the...
An ‘Unconference’ in a Box: Age Camp Leeds – June 2015
Age Friendly Cities On Monday 1st of June I got up very early and took the train from King’s Cross up to Leeds for my first ever ‘unconference’. This was Age Camp Leeds, held at the Carriage Works Theatre and dedicated to the topic of creating an ‘age friendly city’....
Boxes of Delight: surrealism at 90
In October 2014 I was invited to speak and deliver a workshop at the University of Edinburgh, organised by Dr Catriona Mcara as part of the Luminate Festival of Creative Ageing. This event followed on from my Bloomsbury Festival in a Box project, linking that research...
Sharing Knowledge on Dementia and the Arts
Project Dissemination: As the Bloomsbury Festival in a Box Project moves towards its dissemination stages, we are opening up the ‘archives of engagement’ that have developed over the course of the project via a number of outlets. The first of these is a...
The Bloomsbury Festival, or the Bloomsbury Fair?
Poster C/O Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre & the Bloomsbury Association It’s the Bloomsbury fair, not the Bloomsbury Festival!’ Such was the reaction of one of my research participants upon our arriving at her flat with the Bloomsbury ‘Festival in a Box’...
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