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Local, global, inspiring - Bloomsbury Festival is a unique event created with over 100 partners in this vibrant cultural quarter.  For ten days in October, the streets, parks, museums, galleries, laboratories and public and private buildings of Bloomsbury will host up to 150 original events which attract audiences from across London and beyond.A hotbed of creativity and pioneering development, Bloomsbury also has one of the youngest and most diverse residential populations in the country. Bloomsbury Festival acts as a catalyst bringing together the area's artists, scientists and residents to explore arts and ideas through the prism of an annual theme.Outside the Festival event, the organisation delivers community engagement and arts development projects across the year. These include it’s pioneering project, Festival in a Box, which takes artists into the homes of people living with dementia to provide life enhancing and joyful cultural experiences.Above all, Bloomsbury Festival aims to be enlivening, engaging, entertaining, and fun!Bloomsbury Festival is a charity. Find out how you can support us.

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A family theatre show telling an incredible time travelling story of Bonfire Night, Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot.

Dr Williams's Library

A family theatre show telling an incredible time travelling story of Bonfire Night, Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. A mystery Healthcare Science detective drama for young audiences. Fancy dress welcome!Join us for the amazing story of how three healthcare scientists foil the Gunpowder Plot, with the help of 9 year old Princess Elizabeth, a malfunctioning MALDI-TOF machine and the weird and wonderful mysteries of Microbiology, Haematology, Biochemistry, Immunology, hand-washing, and time travel!In London, 2022, scientists Lily, Rosa, and Frank are shocked to see a secret message – ‘HELPE’ – on a machine in their hospital laboratory and a strange map of Bloomsbury…The message is from 1605. Princess Elizabeth has discovered plot to blow up her father the King, and Parliament. Guy Fawkes is in the Tower, and the race is on to find the Gunpowder Gang. Elizabeth, Lily, Rosa, Frank, Sir Jasper and the Tower Guard have one night to solve the dangerous riddle.And they need your help.Free activity packs. Please wear fancy dress - royalty, scientists, plotters – if you like. By playwright Nicola Baldwin and Dr Elaine Cloutman-Green, Lead Healthcare Scientist at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Supported by HSEWG, GOSH School, The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) and the Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM). For audiences aged 5-11 years old. Event image credit: Rabbit Hole photography LtdPlease note: By booking a ticket you agree to share your data for evaluation and audience purposes with the creative company presenting the event. This permission does not include the right for the creative company to share your data with any other parties.If there are any restrictions on the presentation of live events at the time of the festival all tickets we will offer a web-stream or online alternative where possible. In this instance all tickets will automatically be transferred to the digital events. If some events cannot go ahead and have to be cancelled refunds will be offered subject to Eventbrite and our box office partners’ terms.

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