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CREATE! 2025 is a free course for emerging Dorset-based creatives

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Portland and Weymouth Towns of Culture 2025

Showcasing Portland’s biodiversity: b-side Festival adds to its bumper cultural line-up as Weymouth and Portland…

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2024 festival headline sponsor announced

Portland Marina becomes Headline Sponsor for b-side Arts Festival 2024

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Common Lands

Using the Isle of Portland as a microcosm ‘Common Lands’ will explore our relationship to and with land – both here and elsewhere. Common Lands will explore the physical and environmental context: climate change, biodiversity and erosion together with the human context: migration, displacement, land ownership, and rights through community-led research, workshops, seminars and discussion events, artist bursaries, residencies and commissions.

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