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Dorchester Festival
There's no Festival in 2011 - but with Dorchester Arts' National Portfolio status, funding is confirmed for the Festival in 2012 and 2014. We'll be posting details of the 2012 Festival as they are confirmed.
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Open2011
Sat 28 May - Sun 12 June OPEN 2011 EXHIBITION Dorchester Arts Gallery Come and enjoy some of the best visual talent Wessex has to offer in this exhibition of work from the fourth Dorchester Arts Open competition in association with Evolver magazine.
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Children's animation
A team of artists and film makers from Dorchester Arts have been working with a class at Beechcroft St Paul's Primary in Weymouth to make The Sadness of King George - a race against time to save the Olympics. We now planning three follow-up films as part of the Cultural Olympiad 2012
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Music Live
Hundreds of teenagers in schools and youth centres are taking part in our two year youth music project - Music Live which runs from 2010 - 2012
Dorchester Festival Archive
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2010 Festival
Six extraordinary days in 2010 - 27th May - 1st June with more than 100 events attended by thousands of people.
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2009 Fringe events
Lack of funding meant no Dorchester Festival in 2009 but with support from the Town Council, community arts groups, cafes and businesses we put on a weekend of community fringe events entitled Moving On...
Artist Tess Dickson worked with children in schools to create banners and headresses for Get you Skates on - a fantastic parade on wheels from the town's skatepark. -
Inside Out
Over 11 days in 2007, crowds jammed magical locations in Dorset to enjoy theatre, dance, acrobatics and pyrotechnics on a spectacular scale - Inside Out.
In 2008 Inside Out launched the cultural Olympiad on the cliffs at Weymouth. It returns in 2010 with series of more amazing events - and lead up education programme run by Dorchester Arts. -
2008 Festival
Arriba!
Cuba was the theme in 2008, with son, salsa and samba adding magic to a high quality programme.
The Festival included a great mix of popular and up-and-coming performers, many of whom played at free events in Dorchester’s Victorian pleasure park, the Borough Gardens.
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2007 Festival
The Seventh Dorchester Festival ... a stunning five days of 80 events across five venues.
The Eastern European theme brought howling wolves dancing through Balkan circles, Sufi spins and Cossack kicks.
Events were brought to a wider audience on the airwaves and via the internet with Dorchester Festival Radio -
2006 Festival
The Festivals “Big White Tent” became a state of the art auditorium for 500+ people for the biggest music and dance events the town had seen.
Performances included the hugely popular Show of Hands, Baka Beyond and members of the Baka tribe from the Cameroon and a fantastic salsa band Duende from Honduras. We formed our own Festival Samba Band which led the procession.
There's no Festival in 2011 - but with Dorchester Arts' National Portfolio status, funding is confirmed for the Festival in 2012 and 2014.
We'll be posting details of the 2012 Festival as they are confirmed.
Is this the best gig we've ever had at Dorchester Festival ? It's certainly a strong contender. A sell out audience at the Corn Exchange - everybody on their feet at the end - wonderful singing, irresistible rhythms - fantastic.
Soukous - THE Pop music of Africa - comes from the French meaning ‘to shake’ and that’s all you can do when you are under Kanda’s spell.