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Ania Bas

Ania Bas is an artist who works across text, performance, publishing and social engagement to create situations that support dialogue and exchange. Through her work she explores ways of working, making and thinking together that can challenge modes of participation, bring together people from diverse communities and make art relevant in everyday life. 

Ania is a co-founder of The Walking Reading Group, a project that facilitates knowledge exchange in an intimate and dynamic way through discussing texts whilst walking together (launched in 2013).  

Ania Bas's b-side Portfolio

Portland Library
Project

Text Outside a Book

Tophill Library and The Sugar Loaf Cafe welcomed b-side artists Ania Bas and Paul Soulellis.

Ania Bas based herself at The Sugar Loaf...

crowd on beach
Project

b-side Festival 2014

A programme of original work sometimes poignant or challenging, sometimes celebratory and frequently witty. The work was displayed on footpaths,...

Performers at sea front
Project

b-side Festival 2018

The festival showcased the very best in contemporary art, made in response to this beautiful, intriguing and extraordinary island. Over 15,000...

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Event Archive

The Walking Reading Group on Care. Photo by Rosie Lonsdale.
Event

Birds, Pexies and Mills - The Medieval Windmills Walk

St George's Church
Portland

A walk through the Lawnsheds, sheep tracks and medieval windmills tracing women’s rights and folk tales.

Performative, guided walks

The Walking Reading Group on Care. Photo by Rosie Lonsdale.
Event

Birds, Pexies and Mills - The Medieval Windmills Walk

St George's Church
Portland

A walk through the Lawnsheds, sheep tracks and medieval windmills tracing women’s rights and folk tales.

Performative, guided walks

The Walking Reading Group on Care. Photos by Rosie Lonsdale.
Event

Storms, Rocks and Thrills - The West Weares Walk

Quiddles Cafe
Portland

A walk through shipwrecks and misleading rocks leading up the hill to quarries in search of hair-raising views and rare wildlife.

The Walking Reading Group on Care. Photos by Rosie Lonsdale.
Event

Storms, Rocks and Thrills - The West Weares Walk

Quiddles Cafe
Portland

A walk through shipwrecks and misleading rocks leading up the hill to quarries in search of hair-raising views and rare wildlife.

The Walking Reading Group on Care. Photo by Rosie Lonsdale.
Event

Lost paths and freedoms - The East Weares Walk

Portland Museum
Portland

A coastal walk in pursuit of lost paths, via railways tracks, naval matters and Skylark Durston’s poems.

Performative, guided walks