Charleston in Sussex, England, home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant
Charleston is not a dance. Actually, it is. But it is much more. Every day it refers to Charleston in Sussex, England, also known as “Bloomsbury in the country.” And this weekend, the Weekend of Bloomsbury in Antwerp, Charleston is the theme for the second Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury Festival, which begins today and runs through Sunday.
Hosted by the Gordon Square Society, the festival includes prestigious events based at historic sites around Antwerp. They include:
- a concert by Pierre Fontenelle & Max Charue
- Virginia Nicholson on ‘My Childhood at Charleston’
- Darren Clarke on ‘Is Craft Art?’
- Gert Voorjans on ‘Sense of Place’
- a Bloomsbury-themed banquet
- and an exhibition of all the books hand-printed by Virginia and Leonard Woolf at the Hogarth Press.
Get more details at the Gordon Square Society website.
