Click READ MORE to find out about b-side’s recent public consultation focused on Portland’s Lovability which will help inform b-side’s future development on the Isle – led by Martin Robertson from Edinburgh Napier University and Nicole Ferdinand from Bournemouth University. This research is funded as part of b-side’s Arts Council Catalyst Funding helping small organisations…
b-side has been awarded funding from The Heritage Lottery Sharing Heritage fund to work with artist Laura Hopes on a film and publication celebrating the history of the Portland Stadium. The majestic site of the Stadium, closed to the public, is monumental and surprising in its scale. Hidden from view in a former quarry, and…
We are really pleased to welcome Megan Dunford and Trevor Smith as guest bloggers and writers to b-side festival this year. Megan Dunford completed a BA Hons Fine Art degree in 2011 based in Dorset; she works for several organisations around the South West leading their participation & visual arts programmes. Her practice combines photography,…
WalkTalkArt Weymouth – we have questions to ask, please help us answer them. b-side have been appointed to deliver a series of consultations to gain local opinion and ideas to inform an artist brief, for a new public art work in the town. Join us on our second consultation, which will inform all the other…
b-side festival’s Portland based project space OUTPOST is hosting a really fascinating exhibition of research uncovered by members of the Portland Pathways Research Group. The Portland Pathways Research Group have uncovered some fascinating histories of Portland’s footpaths and rights of way as part of the Portland Pathways project. From stories of Hiram Otter, who is…
Motivated through a new appreciation for tools and stages that come with Project Management the [intransit] producers met at Weymouth College to work on the production of a first draft for the long awaited WHY? Festival line up. Having now identified how we were going to produce the upcoming festival and events, we reviewed what…
With a looming deadline and a member of the team resourcefully balanced in a kitchen roll holder, the [intransit] producers met again for their fifth session on 21st April, joined by Kemi Bamidele from Creative Training Hub. Throughout the session we focused on our title of ‘project management’, taken through the life cycle of our ‘WHY?…
Written by Andrew Lee I started my day sat on the train making the three-hour journey to Weymouth from Chichester. I was reading through the UNCRC in preparation for the day’s session with a copy of the metro on the seat beside me. The government had decided, along with America and France to drop bombs…
Come and be photographed in place that is important to you on Portland. B-side are looking for individuals or families who have a special connection to a place on Portland – a connection, a memory, a story to tell that links them to a particular place on the island. Acclaimed photographer, Farhad Berahman is working…
Produced and written by Georgina Bolt.