Markings is a unique collaboration between Knowledge Quarter’s partner Central Saint Martins, University of Arts and the House of Illustration; an exciting new festival that investigates the relationship between illustration and performance. The festival invites to think beyond the flat surface and consider how performance can be used to invigorate the form; and asks performers how illustration might offer added dimensions.
Business Disability Forum (BDF) is reaching out to Camden-based organisations that might wish to join a unique employer network dedicated to improving disability confidence across business. CamdenAbility project aims to significantly increase the number of disabled Camden residents who are in full-time employment.
Created with over 100 local partners including many Knowledge Quarter members, the annual Bloomsbury Festival returns this October. For five days from 19-23 October, Bloomsbury’s streets, parks, museums, galleries, laboratories, public and (normally) private buildings will be full to the brim with artistic, scientific and literary events for all ages and tastes.
Artist Diana Foster presents this year’s Somers Town festival with an interview to Steve Denholm, musician, maverick, chair of Somers Town Art (START) who has run the festival for over 19 years. This year the festival runs on Saturday 9th July with two music stages, a Somers Town photography competition prize, Pearly Queens, live bands on two stages, with a Bengali stage and a strong participation of many Knowledge Quarter partners.
Caro Howell, director of the Foundling Museum, presents FOUND. An exhibition freighted with anecdote and emotion, in which artists, writers and musicians were asked to respond to the theme of ‘found’ with a new or existing work, or a found object of significance to them, looking for something that in order to be found, it must first be lost.
To celebrate National Women in Engineering Day, Knowledge Quarter’s partner IoM3 offers a free download of the Materials World app June issue, a must-have app for engineers and those working or studying in the sciences.
Chris Green, director of the Knowledge Quarter’s partner SQW, presents an insightful blog on Innovation Districts. Chris develops an analysis of two European examples, drawing important lessons both specifically in relation to the creation of innovation districts and more generally to the long term regeneration of our cities.
Knowledge Quarter’s partner, London Metropolitan Archives, is delighted to announce that on 21 June 2016 the Great Parchment Book of the Honourable the Irish Society was inscribed to the UK register of the UNESCO Memory of the World.
Senate House Library will be hosting an intimate and unique evening of study and performance as Professor Sir Brian Vickers leads an exploration of Shakespeare’s sonnets, joined by famous actors Edward Fox, Joanna David and Dominic West, who will be reading from a selection of sonnets throughout the evening.
Former BBC News reporter Sian Williams joins The School of Life to explore the science of resilience. Sian has learnt from those who have rebuilt their shattered worlds, both emotionally and physically, and have emerged feeling changed but stronger with a re-newed sense of perspective on life.