Join us at B.A.D. to hear from photographer Brendan Barry who we will be working with us at our BEAF 2023 festival in June.
Join us at TOSH to learn how to make a pinhole camera and how to develop images in a darkroom.
Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras’ portrait of acclaimed artist Nan Goldin is a riveting account of a life defined by art and activism.About the event: Doors open from 7pm, high-street entrance to Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) on Wednesday 8 March. About the film: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, 2022, (18) directed by Laura Poitras. "The […]
Join us to watch this uplifting and funny story of how a once thriving community work fiercely together to attempt to save their beloved club and their dreams.
Ian will be mapping Boscombe’s history and the built environment around us through colourful mark making documenting iconic buildings in Boscombe.
B.A.D. will feature our major festival exhibition, Boscombe World, commissioned from artist Harold Offeh, an adventurous visual and sensory art installation, inviting play, participation and contemplation.
Over the course of the festival we invite you to capture images of Boscombe and the people within our wonderful community using a camera obscura.
Join us on Friday 16 June 6pm at B.A.D. as we launch the start of the festival and the preview to see Boscombe World, a major new BEAF commission by Harold Offeh
The festival kicks off with our Launch Party on Friday 16 June, bringing incredible music all the way from Soweto to Boscombe’s glorious Victorian music venue, the O2.
Join Keira in the BEAF Art Pavilion where she will create live typewriter artworks that she describes as ‘typics’ to document the eyes of people in Boscombe.
You may have heard of a Flea Circus but what about a Bee Circus?! Come and take a closer look at one of nature's most buzz-tastic creatures, the humble bee, in a new, family-friendly show.
Spilling out onto the streets, BEAF is building its first Art Pavilion, a space for workshops, performances and maybe a game of backgammon or chess.
Postcards from Prison is an exhibition made up of rarely heard voices from inside the criminal justice system.
Access BEAF is a group of emerging artists from across Bournemouth and Dorset using the Royal Arcade as a test space to experiment, acting as a platform to share their work with a wider audience.
Group exhibition presenting intertwining narratives and portraits from the past and present selected from a BEAF call out for commissions within our festival.
The Stories We Thread brings together all the voices of the Seeking Refuge project; the young unaccompanied refugees, asylum seekers, and all the women and men refugees who come to our weekly workshops to create a large communal artwork.
Stories from a nation under fire. Stories from a nation made of hope, pride, and resilience captured using an old Russian prism lense by artist Julia Kochetova.
A time capsule that consists of stories from our time dealing with topics such as identity, nationality, borders and trauma, and how these topics are part of deciding how we define ourselves.
In Touch celebrates the memories of three girls on the Boscombe Hippodrome dancefloor on a night out in 1959.
Join comedy writer/performer Holly Spillar in a muff-busting, musical mystery on sex, pain and the brain.
kid is a one man show exploring fatherhood, childhood. Expect truthful gripping story telling and uncensored content.