Art and Literary Walks
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Sculpture in the City
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City of London - Literary Greats
Explore the streets, alleyways and churches of the City and their links to literature. Meet poets and writers who lived and worked in the City and their creations. From the author of some of the most erotic love poetry in the English language, who became Dean of St Paul’s, to a Nobel prize winner who worked in one of the City’s banks. Shakespeare and his fellow actors await you in a churchyard and the Man with the Twisted lip lurks close to Charles Dickens.
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Art Everywhere
The streets around Old Street are packed with artworks by artists from Banksy to local residents and children. From Whitecross Street to Hoxton discover commissioned, community and secretly created works reflecting contemporary culture and the area's rich history. Discover performing dogs, the father of street art and a Mayan Temple as well as a street sign that has been sneakily changed and the cemetery where children donated their pocket money to fund a monument to the creator of Robinson Crusoe.
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City On Canvas
A guided walk and a an art gallery tour in one! Visit four key locations in the City of London ( London Bridge, Leadenhall Market, Bank Junction and Cheapside) and then see how they have been interpreted on canvas by artists through the centuries in the works of art on display at the The Guildhall Art Gallery.
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Not the Bloomsbury Group
Bloomsbury is well known as the home of the writers and artists such as Virginia Woolf who made up the Bloomsbury group. On this walk meet some of the other literary and artistic geniuses who have lived and worked in the area.
Find out who could hear his neighbours’ love life through the wall, why a detective writer decided she had to move out and how the director of Bedlam encouraged a local artist. Meet an inspirational feminist, see some trail blazing bookshops and encounter a naked poet. |