Talking Humanities
  • Analysis & Comment
  • Training and Research
  • Events
  • Publications
  • Projects
Select Page
Why all artists should do community engagement work

Why all artists should do community engagement work

by Talking Humanities | Sep 12, 2017 | Bloomsbury Festival, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Features, Music, Public Engagement

Vivien Conacher is a professional opera singer (mezzo-soprano), who trained at the Royal College of Music. In 2016  she founded Songhaven, a dementia-friendly concert series based in Bloomsbury. In this blog she reflects on how her involvement in the School of...
‘Festival in a Box: archives’ exhibition

‘Festival in a Box: archives’ exhibition

by Talking Humanities | Oct 8, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement

Earlier this year, Dr Michael Eades, was invited to show selected materials from his AHRC-funded research project, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: engaging socially isolated people with dementia, at Leeds College of Art. The ‘Festival in a Box: archives’ exhibition,...
Festival in a Box: sharing knowledge on dementia and the arts

Festival in a Box: sharing knowledge on dementia and the arts

by aseifert | Apr 4, 2014 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Events, Public Engagement

 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?

The Bloomsbury Festival, or the Bloomsbury Fair?

by aseifert | Mar 27, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement

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’ a couple of weeks ago.  This participant is now in her late nineties and has lived in...
Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: Looking Back on ‘National Storytelling Week’

Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: Looking Back on ‘National Storytelling Week’

by aseifert | Feb 16, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Events, Public Engagement

It was ‘National Storytelling Week’ last week (1st-8th Feb). If nothing else, this meant that there was a welcome focus in the national press on the therapeutic and social importance on the act of storytelling, and on what it means to form narratives and communicate...
Festival in a Box: Dementia, the Counterculture, and Surrealism

Festival in a Box: Dementia, the Counterculture, and Surrealism

by aseifert | Jan 21, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement, Training and Research

One of my favourite Christmas gifts this year was a copy of Barry Miles’s book London Calling: a countercultural history of London since 1945. It’s a very good book to read on the tube—whilst squashed up in communal but often uncomfortable proximity to one’s fellow...
« Older Entries

© School of Advanced Study 2021