Illuminating Barts North Wing
Discover a quiet square at the heart of St Bartholomew’s Hospital in Smithfield, illuminated with light with a newly commissioned photographic projection and spoken performance.
This event reanimates the historic architecture of the North Wing with the ghosts of the Hospital’s past. Spectacular photographic projections onto the building’s facade are accompanied by extracts from archive texts.
See glimpses of the figures, illustrious and ordinary, that haunt the hospital’s eighteenth-century Great Hall; the artisans who built it and the donors who paid for it; the patients whose lives were changed; and the doctors, nurses, and students who came here to work from across the globe. Spectacular projections onto the building’s facade are accompanied by words from the Barts Health NHS Trust Archives.
Everyone is welcome to stand, wander, or sit in The Square outside of the North Wing to experience this installation.
FREE, no booking required
About Being Human Festival
This event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 6 – 15 November 2025. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy.
For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org
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