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BEAF 2023 is bringing unheard voices to Boscombe. The popular arts festival is hosting 10 days of exhibitions, performances, workshops and events, from 15 - 25 June 2023, with the theme of 'Unheard Voices'.
More than 80 delegates gathered at Lighthouse, Poole last month to present their work, share experiences, pitch ideas, celebrate and develop ideas at the venue’s first Dorset Artists Festival.
Having lit up the night sky over Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch for three nights last week, the Global Rainbow has been hailed a ‘shining success’ for the region.
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.
Inside Out Dorset, the biennial international arts festival, is set to return this autumn in five extraordinary locations across the county hosted by Dorchester-based outdoor arts producers Activate.
Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe (BEAF) opens its first ‘socially distanced’ exhibition at its new pop-up venue in the heart of Boscombe.
The government’s £1.57 billion rescue package for Britain’s crisis-hit arts, culture and heritage sector has been welcomed as an “amazing boost to us all” by Elspeth McBain, Chief Executive of Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts.
Whilst a number of large scale events across Dorset have been cancelled, Sculpture by the Lakes near Dorchester, the hosts and organisers of Dorset Arts Festival, are confident that a strict visitor cap and crowd control, paired with extensive social distancing set in a vast 26-acre outdoor venue, can guarantee visitor, exhibitor and staff safety.
Two of Dorset’s most popular arts festivals – Inside Out Dorset and b-side – are to be postponed until next year as a consequence of the on-going coronavirus pandemic.
