The UK's largest visual effects, computer games & animation festival is back for 2021.

Timed to coincide with COP26, Dorset foundation Cape Farewell and Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, are collaborating to host a very special climate/arts festival featuring thought-provoking and engaging new artworks, film, spoken word, music, poetry and debate programmed to Illuminate the current science and thinking around the climate emergency.

BAFTA 2019 nominee, Royal Television Society 2019 winner and National Television Awards 2020 double nominee Mo Gilligan is coming to Bournemouth this November.

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By the end of September some 80 individual artists will have benefited from SANCTUARY, the innovative new artist development residency at Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts.

Following the sell-out success of last year’s inaugural event Sculpture by the Lakes is launching Dorset Arts Festival 2021, which will extend over five days from 30 June to 4 July 2021, with up to 60 incredible artists exhibiting and demonstrating their work.