B-Side Arts Festival
internationally recognised and locally loved arts organisation
b-side has a wide range of projects that run across days, weeks and even years.
b-side is not just a festival, we commission a whole range of art, research, events and activities throughout the year – take a look below.
b-side is currently running Common Lands, the over-arching theme for our programme of work over the coming years. In 2022-2023 Common Lands focuses on This Land – a project exploring and celebrating the unique natural and built heritage of the Isle of Portland.
Explore our current projects
b-side Festival 2014
5th September 2014
- 5th September 2014
A programme of original work sometimes poignant or challenging, sometimes celebratory and frequently witty.
Text Outside a Book
2nd June 2014
- 2nd June 2014
Tophill Library and The Sugar Loaf Cafe welcomed b-side artists Ania Bas and Paul Soulellis.…
b-roads Youth Employment Programme
1st January 2013
- 1st January 2013
"An exceptional pilot project that has far exceeded expectations and outcomes.
b-side Festival 2012
1st September 2012
- 1st September 2012
b-side festival 2012 took place in Weymouth & Portland across two sites as part of…
The 48
27th July 2012
- 27th July 2012
The 48 began on 27 July 2012 and was designed, printed and distributed across Weymouth…
Impossible Architexture
1st June 2011
- 1st June 2011
Portland Rocks are a group of local young musicians, working with artists Ivon Oates and…
Portrait Dance
2nd May 2011
- 2nd May 2011
Portrait are the youth contemporary dance group for Dorset managed by Activate. Working with their…
Cut and Paste
1st April 2011
- 1st April 2011
Young people from Littlemoor in Weymouth, worked with artist Peter Snelling looking at ways of…
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