21–23 October, various Bloomsbury places and spaces

The Bloomsbury Festival offers an amazing opportunity for you to explore and enjoy this fascinating area of London, with over 150 extraordinary events over one weekend - and it's all free!

Wellcome Collection at Bloomsbury Festival

Before Bloomsbury Festival
Saturday 24 September, 12.00-16.00

Why not get involved in advance of the festival, with drop-in charm-making workshops at Wellcome Collection?

Take your ex-voto photo in our special photobooth and decorate an ornamental frame.  Make personalised charms from body bits, tin cans, beaded necklaces, mirror balls, nail varnish, chess pieces and more...

Not to be missed!

At Bloomsbury Festival
Saturday 22 October, 10.00-18.00
Sunday 23 October, 11.00-17.00

Take part in a fascinating interactive installation on local ‘miracles’ and ‘charms’ at the Wellcome ‘Charm Tree’ in Russell Square. Join artist- and youth-led workshops for young people and adults in the build-up to the festival. Work will be showcased at Wellcome Collection and Russell Square over the weekend.

• Make your own votive, as an offering to the Wellcome ‘Charm Tree’.
• Help make the UK’s largest charm bracelet.
• Be transfixed by digital mandalas, tokens and 3D body parts.
• Watch young people perform and celebrate folklore and contemporary culture.

This project has been curated by artist Elaine Duigenen

Guided Walk: In Sickness and in Health
Sunday 23 October, 11.00-13.00

Bloomsbury was once desperately poor and crammed with slums; it has also been a crucible of medical reform, and the setting for triumphs and tragedies in the lives of London’s ordinary folk.

Walk prepared and led by Richard Barnett, author of 'Medical London'. Places can be reserved through the Bloomsbury Festival website from 1 October.

All events are free.

See www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk for more details.