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b-side Festival 2014

Portland

In 2014 Artists explored the island’s heritage, cultural history and local taboos as well as Portland’s special ecology and geology.

A programme of original work sometimes poignant or challenging, sometimes celebratory and frequently witty. The work was displayed on footpaths, in a living room, a library, a cafe, within a prison wall, at bus stops, in a church and more traditionally, in a gallery and theatre.

There was a wealth of events to experience and participate in: including a mass night time bike ride, cabaret, walks, film screenings and a shed-based communal reading experience!

Wonderful to experience the arts outside of London and see the history of this Island being preserved in a novel and fascinating manner

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Lullaby illuminated bike ride by Luke Jerram at b-side festival 2014

'Our Rock' a short film made by young people from Portland, Dorset working with film maker Peter Snelling for b-side festival 2014.

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b-side 2014 festival guide

Project events

Agnieszka Kozlowska
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Re-presencing the island: photographs from and out of Portland

Portland Museum, 217 Wakeham, Portland, DT5 1HS
Portland

A small 'taster' installation of Agnieszka's work in Portland Museum.

Agnieszka makes paper from local plants and exposes it for long

Ellie Harrison & Roshana Rubin Mayhew
Event

What is Left?

7 Belle Vue Terrace
Portland

Since the beginning of the year, Roshana and Ellie have been travelling the country to photograph 50 people in their own homes with an object they

Alex Hartley
Event

Portland Erratics

Liberty Road
Portland

For b-side Alex is presenting a selection of migratory stones and their stories within a bespoke room-sized vitrine built onto existing platforms

Alistair Gentry
Event

R*****

Roaming all Festival sites and venues
Portland

Alistair will be roaming all Festival sites and venues dressed as a version of the forbidden creature and ready to talk to Festival visitors and

Ania Bas
Event

Literary Cutlery

The Sugar Loaf Cafe
Portland

Over the Summer Ania Bas was resident artist at Tophill Library and The Sugar Loaf Cafe on Portland, meeting café customers and staff and writing

Ania Bas
Event

Literary Cutlery Festival Brunch

The Sugar Loaf Cafe
Portland

Just before you head out on the b-side festival trail, why not treat yourself to a fantastic festival brunch at The Sugar Loaf Cafe?

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b-side bus stops

TBC
Portland

On your travels around Portland keep an eye out for artworks replacing adverts at seven bus stops across the island - we've turned Portland into a

Duncan Whitley
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Writing of Stones

St Georges CCT
Portland

Writing of Stones is a site-specific audio work by Duncan Whitley, created for St. George's Church on Reforne. The artist's haunting installation

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Variable 4

Portland Bill
Portland

Variable 4 is an outdoor landscape sound work composed for remote and exposed locations which translates weather conditions into musical patterns

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