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.
Introductions to the WHY? written by Finn McEvoy We met for the second time, on a Thursday evening in Dorchester’s Dorford Centre. At this meeting, first we began to discuss possible partners for our WHY? Festival. There are so many fantastic organisations in Dorset and the surrounding areas that we can get involved with our festival.…
b-side are excited to announce the apppointment of Bea Moyes as the project Research Coordinator on their Heritage Lottery Funded project 'Portland Pathways'. Bea is an independent researcher and filmmaker, with a background working with archive collections. She will be coordinating a team of community researchers to explore the historic origins of the rights of way…
The [intransit] Producers are 5 under 25s working together for a specific aim – they are producing and programming their very own WHY? Festival. The WHY? Festival stands for What’s Happening for the Young? And is a festival that was launched in 2014 by the Southbank Centre. The festival itself is always produced by young people’s…
Portland Pathways b-side has been awarded Heritage Lottery funding for a project exploring the historic origins of footpaths on the Isle of Portland, Dorset and their relationship to the landscapes and sites they connect. For this project we would like to commission an artist to respond to information gathered by the community research team to…
Jennie Dutton, The Dementia Darnings, 2011 www.jennidutton.com "Making my mother the subject and focus of my work, while I was looking after her helped me to deal with her decline into dementia." Jenni Dutton was another artist on the panel and her personal life also played a big part in her practice. Jenni lives and works…