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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
