Bedford Square Festival
- 28 June to 1 July 2017
The Paul Mellon Centre is part of in the inaugural Bedford Square Festival taking place in and around the Square between 28th June and 1st July 2017.
Bedford Square Festival is a collaboration between five of the cultural institutions that reside on Bedford Square, Bloomsbury. In September of 2016, representatives from these institutions - Paul Mellon Centre, Architectural Association, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Yale University Press and New College of Humantities met to the discuss the idea of putting on a free collaborative event in the Square.
The aim was to work together to create a series of free events to promote the culture based around the Square whilst collaborating with each other to create a sense of community. We wanted to open the doors of the grand facades of the buildings in the Square and celebrate the themes that the Institutions are known for - Art, Publishing, Architecture, Culture, Education, Writing and more.
We hope you will join us for one or some of the events as we open up our doors for the first ever Bedford Square Festival!
About the speaker
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Todd Longstaffe-Gowan is a landscape architect and historian. He is gardens adviser to Historic Royal Palaces, President of the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust, lecturer at New York University (London) and editor of the London Gardener. He is the author of several books including The London Square (PMC / Yale, 2012) and English Garden Eccentrics (PMC, 2022).
In this series
Research & Writing Workshop for Students
28 Jun 2017 – Paul Mellon Centre
Walking Tour - The Magnitude of Bedford Square
28 Jun 2017 – Paul Mellon Centre
Bloomsbury Group Breakfast: Bedsits in Bloomsbury
29 Jun 2017
Live Streamed Introductory tour of the Yale Center for British Art
29 Jun 2017 – Paul Mellon Centre
Exploring the Paul Mellon Centre Library : Bedford Square, Bloomsbury and beyond
30 Jun 2017 – Paul Mellon Centre
The Brian Sewell Archive: an Introduction 10.30-10.50
01 Jul 2017 – Paul Mellon Centre
The Brian Sewell Archive: an Introduction: 11.10-11.30
01 Jul 2017 – Paul Mellon Centre
Debussy in Bloomsbury | Talk & Concert
04 Jul 2019 – Paul Mellon Centre
Film Screening: 28b Camden Street
04 Jul 2019 – Paul Mellon Centre
The Three Phases of the Privy Garden at Hampton Court
04 Jul 2019 – Paul Mellon Centre
Eileen Hogan: Squares, Gardens and Portraiture
05 Jul 2019 – Paul Mellon Centre
Humphrey Waterfield, “Painter, Gardener, Scholar”
05 Jul 2019 – Paul Mellon Centre
London Watercolour Adult Art Class
05 Jul 2019 – Paul Mellon Centre