by michaeleades | Jan 21, 2014 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box
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...
by michaeleades | Dec 13, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box
Dementia has been in the news in a big way over the past week. Tuesday saw the first ever G8 Dementia Summit opening in London with a headline grabbing promise from David Cameron to double funding for dementia research by 2025. This follows similar promises of...
by michaeleades | Dec 6, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box
Earlier this week I spent a day researching in the Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre at Holborn Library. Now that our weekly Festival in a Box visits with people living with dementia in Camden are well underway, my aim was to find stimulus materials...
by michaeleades | Nov 29, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box
Boxes have a history within dementia research and memory activities. Some very important work in the field of arts and health has come about through the production of ‘memory boxes’, for example. Via the work of the European Reminiscence Network or the ‘House of...
by michaeleades | Nov 20, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box
Meetings: At 9am on Monday morning a fairly disparate group of people gathered for a meeting and training session for the Festival in a Box project. Alongside myself and other researchers, in attendance were one local Bloomsbury artist (last seen leading a walk at...
