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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...
Festivals In and Out of the Box: Thoughts on ‘Being Human’

Festivals In and Out of the Box: Thoughts on ‘Being Human’

by aseifert | Feb 25, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Public Engagement

A lot of my life over the last year or so has been taken up with festivals. That’s not to say that this year has been a hedonistic one (far from it), but rather that both my working life and my academic research has increasingly revolved around the planning,...

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