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Festival 2016

Dorset
9th September 2016 - 9th September 2016


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Project Slideshow: Festival 2016 - 2019

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Festival 2016 Artists

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Claudia Dharamshi

Debbie Adele Cooper

Elspeth Vincent

Emma Critchley

Katarina Rose

Lee Berwick

OSR projects

Paul Wenham-Clarke

Ray Lee

Reine beau Anderson Dudley

Sadie Hennessy

Tim Spooner

Tom Marshman

Festival 2016's Events

Events

Strangers - Marrying the Land & Whispering Tree

10th - 19th September 2016
Head North along the South West Coast Path for Marrying the Land: An unusually placed...

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Reap Lane Excavation Site

12th - 13th September 2016
Visit a live dig and meet the archaeologists as they excavate a site at Reap...

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Culverwell Mesolithic Site Open Day

18th September 2016
Guided tours of a Middle Stone Age site known as Culverwell (from the nearby natural...

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#secretbside

10th - 19th September 2016
#secretbside under the radar festival events and happenings. Follow #secretbside on Twitter to see what's happening...

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The Rock: Above and Below (Exhibition)

10th - 19th September 2016
Awe-inspiring images of the secret cathedral-like spaces created by quarrying, the individuals working there and portraits...

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Boombox

10th - 19th September 2016
Boombox, is based on Sadie's teenage diary written in 1982, whilst she was a student at...

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Strangers - Red Ghost

9th - 18th September 2016
Keep your eyes open for 'ART' signs that will lead you to other artworks nearby....

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Ruin Gazer (Portland Hospital)

11th - 18th September 2016
Bridgette Ashton’s ‘Ruin Gazer’ platform acts as a pavilion, monument, and meeting place, inviting audiences...

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Artist Talk Double Bill: Katarina Rose & Debbie Adele Cooper

11th August 2016
Come along to a FREE artist talk at Outpost for our second Artist Talk Double...

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Then Listens for Returning Echoes

10th - 19th September 2016
Emma Critchley has worked underwater for over a decade using photography, film, sound and installation...

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The Captain's Cabinet

10th - 19th September 2016
The Captain’s Cabinet is inspired by an account of a Dorset shipwreck in which parts...

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Strangers - Time Out of Mind

9th - 18th September 2016
Katarina has researched the story of sixty Lascars  - shipwreck victims from the ship Alexander reportedly...

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Changes

10th - 19th September 2016
Elspeth’s work explores the colour pallete of Portland’s seascapes through photography and paint. "My concept...

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Washed Up

10th - 19th September 2016
'Washed Up' is a collection of beach drift found on Portland beaches, cast in agar jelly...

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The Shipwreck Tour

11th September 2016
The combination of treacherous currents and rocky coastline make the waters that surround Portland notoriously...

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The Shipwreck Walk

13th September 2016
The combination of treacherous currents and rocky coastline make the waters that surround Portland notoriously...

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The Fortress Tour

15th September 2016
Portland’s geological structure makes it a natural fortress - a quality exploited over the years...

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The Fortress Tour (II)

17th September 2016
Portland’s geological structure makes it a natural fortress - a quality exploited over the years...

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Viewpoints (walk)

17th - 18th September 2016
Join local Artist Sammy Polley on a walk from Chiswell to Castletown to Bridgette Ashton's...

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Artist Talk: Sadie Hennessy

13th - 14th September 2016
Artist and 'shenanigator' Sadie Hennessy talks about her work for b-side and other projects. She...

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Artist Talk: Bridgette Ashton

15th - 16th September 2016
Bridgette’s recent work looks at redundant or overlooked sites, objects and archives. She makes scale-models,...

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Artist Talk: Emma Critchley

13th - 14th September 2016
A talk describing Emma’s underwater film-making and working in collaboration above and below water. Focusing...

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Convicts and Convictions: a gamified conversation

13th September 2016
Join Artist Debbie Adele Cooper for a lively discussion about Convicts and Conscientious Objectors. Debbie...

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Events

Sea Dogs

10th - 19th September 2016
Reine is a b-side student bursary artist. Reine will be outside Quiddles between 11am - 1pm...

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The Sonic Anomaly Sideshow

10th - 19th September 2016
Lee Berwick works mainly with sound, exploring the way it behaves in different resonant spaces,...

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Strangers - Notterâr's Travelling Charm Shop

9th - 18th September 2016
Katarina has created a series of artworks based upon a collection of Portland diaries from...

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Strangers - The Ballet of Lost Nicknames

10th - 19th September 2016
Katarina has created a series of artworks based upon a collection of Portland diaries from...

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Weather Station

10th - 19th September 2016
A giant inflatable ball becomes the Weather Station, a mobile pavilion for the collection of...

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The Rock: Above and Below (Bus Stops)

9th - 18th September 2016
Beautiful large scale photographs of Portland exhibited at bus stops and billboards as one large...

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Frolic

10th September 2016
DJ’s Crumpet Clare and Jonny Slut invite you to an unforgettable night of Frolic Disco...

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Shame Chorus I

9th November - 9th December 2016
An uplifting new choral performance created by international artist Jordan McKenzie. Shame Chorus brings together composers...

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The Shambles

10th - 19th September 2016
Utterly unique, idiosyncratic and mesmerising THE SHAMBLES, a semi-animatronic theatre show made for Portland's own jewel...

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The Matthew Robins Show

11th - 12th September 2016
"Matthew Robins's charming, sometimes heartbreaking little stories are delivered as adult shadow-puppet operas, comprising homemade...

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Family Workshop with Tim Spooner

18th September 2016
An opportunity to take part in a making workshop with Tim Spooner creator of The...

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Wild Portland (Walk)

18th - 19th September 2016
Walk with Herbalist Andrew Cowling and the Portland Office for Imaginary History's Alistair Gentry and discover...

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Metropolis

15th - 16th September 2016
Continuing b-side's pop up cinema experiences wth a twist - this year we have teamed...

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The Crucible - a gathering for artists, curators & producers

16th - 17th September 2016
The Crucible, is an opportunity for creative practitioners to come together for a day of...

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Chorus

16th - 17th September 2016
Chorus is an uplifting and mesmerising installation made up of giant kinetic sculptures that emit hypnotic...

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A Place in the Sun

17th September 2016
Pull up a sun-lounger and enjoy an all-inclusive holiday experience with the complete package of...

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The Reliant Robin Parade

18th September 2016
Join us for an unusual closing-event parade, as a convoy of Reliant Robins, and other...

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The Portland Office for Imaginary History

10th - 18th September 2016
Located at Outpost, b-side’s new project space, The Portland Office for Imaginary History is Alistair’s response...

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Ruin Gazer (Cove Holiday Park)

10th - 19th September 2016
Bridgette Ashton’s ‘Ruin Gazer’ platform acts as a pavilion, monument, and meeting place, inviting audiences...

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Events

Unseen and Unheard Things I

28th April 2017
An exhibition by artist Debbie Adele Cooper at Dartmoor National Park “During the project I...

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