Art and Literary Walks
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Sculpture in the City
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The modern City of London is not just about business. The insurance district with its many iconic contemporary buildings is also an urban sculpture park with works by world class artists. Visit each of the works that have been selected for Sculpture in the City 2019/20.
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City of London - Literary Greats
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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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The Magic Roundabout
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The streets around Old Street roundabout are packed with street art and public art by artists, local residents and children. From the borders of Hoxton and Shoreditch to Whitecross St and the Barbican discover a constantly changing range of street art and works that reflect the areas rich history. Watch out for street signs that have been sneakily changed and visit 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
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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
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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. |