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

by michaeleades | Apr 4, 2014 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box

 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?

by michaeleades | Mar 27, 2014 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box

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’

by michaeleades | Feb 16, 2014 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box

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

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...

Festival in a Box: Reflecting on the G8 Summit on Dementia

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...

Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: A Visit to the Camden Archives

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...
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