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With special thanks for the advice and support from b-side, The Drop In Centre, Island Community Action and the Royal Manor Theatre.

Other artists include:

Miranda Henderson, Director of Prodigal, Movement and Dance, and with young artists, Zoe Cochrane, Molly Scarborough, Gina Bolt, Martha Court, Alix Emery, Gemma Stephens, Liza Glybchenko, Bruno Chavez, Conor Kirkpatrick, Marie Scholt and Sebastian Hjuler, amongst others.

Samantha Knights QC

Is a versatile and established silk recommended in both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 with a broad practice but focusing on immigration and asylum, public law, human rights, international law and commercial litigation. Her cases have involved ground breaking developments in law before the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, European Court of Human Rights and Court of Justice of the European Union.

Hamza Bakkor

Will teach the cooking of Syrian food with members of KRAN, who are joining us for the week. Hamza runs Hazma’s Syrian and Middle Eastern Restaurant in Dorchester.

Prodigal/UPG

Will be delivering Performance Parkour (PK2) workshops as well as their latest production from their emergent ensemble, On the Strandline.

In effect Beats Across Borders is a global community of musicians and project managers who believe that strong human and intercultural resonance through music is one of the best possibilities we have to fully comprehend the future we created.

A core part of our work is to develop local capacities of education in creative arts. We’ve experienced that this is possible by making use of original music to kick start social and educational options for young people and musicians within a local community.

It’s on the shoulders of these communties to secure a coherent future of its members. They can only do this by encouraging the youth to engage in resonating environments where they feel like they belong and are allowed to express them selves in every key of life.

All of our work is built around the creation of new music in a collaboration between untrained young people and professional musicians and music producers and project managers.

During a project we utilize a mix of collaborative music games and exercises, live music recording and music production and songwriting tools to reach the personal goals of the participants.

Through the music and sound archives growing out of working with the extraordinary people we meet we see our work as an equally personal and professional way of "giving back". In it's core music is born within the people and it's a musician's job to give the music back to the people.​

b-side is an internationally recognised and locally loved arts organisation that both embodies and enriches its place of origin - the Isle of Portland in Dorset.

This island is the beating heart that inspires b-side’s work, but our projects and opportunities extend all over Dorset and beyond. We work with and commission artists who are as excited by the bigger picture as the smallest detail. Our current 'Common Lands' programme regards Portland as a microcosm to explore relationships to and with land. We invite artists, residents, and researchers to create unique and inventive projects inspired by the themes of ‘people’ and ‘place’. We host big discussions on topics that affect us both locally and globally and create art that exists in unusual and unexpected places. Underpinning our approach is the recognition of the need for sustainable tourism. We want everyone to be able to experience everything we love about Portland in a way that respects and benefits the island and those who live and work there. Every two years, we produce the b-side festival, which brings new, unique art to local audiences and visitors alike, sharing incredible stories about and with the Isle of Portland, as well as the rest of the world. b-side is run by a collaborative team of artists, producers and curators with experience in visual arts, live art, performance, social practice, heritage, environment and arts education.

Termokiss is a cooperative run by young people and founded in Pristina, Kosovo in 2016.

After revitalizing an abandoned and forgotten building, “Termokiss” social centre  opened with a range of activities, which can be linked only by being non-for-profit and educative. Activities and organizing processes are managed by the community. The offered activities are determined by both the needs of the community and the skills which the volunteers have to offer. The space works to promote the ideas of mutual aid and cooperation. 

Providing a welcoming space for everyone, including those whose voices and contributions are not always heard or appreciated, is a top priority for us.

Opera Circus is a music theatre and chamber opera company which works locally and globally founded by artists in 1991 in London. Our work covers new music theatre and chamber opera productions and performances. We work with long term youth arts programmes in the UK and Wider Europe, projects exploring the use of Music for Health and Well Being, and local music programmes around our home base in West Dorset. We support local schools in with Edible Garden Projects, Music workshops and concerts and larger community and wellbeing programmes. All of our work is developed and delivered with artists and partners both locally and globally. Tolerance, inclusiveness, deeper learning, kindness and an understanding of others is at the heart of our creative process. TCFT began its journey in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Hertzegovina in 2008 during the tour of Nigel Osborne’s Sevdah chamber opera, Differences in Demolitions. A new web site will be launched shortly. Opera Circus works on a project by project basis with a large ensemble of people some who have worked with the company for over 30 years.