• Portraits of Boscombe

    Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    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.

  • BEAF Festival 2023 opening celebration

    Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    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

    Free
  • Eye Contact

    BEAF Art Pavilion Boscombe Precinct, 627 Christchurch Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    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.

  • BEAF Art Pavilion

    BEAF Art Pavilion Boscombe Precinct, 627 Christchurch Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    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

    Boscombe Precinct Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

    Postcards from Prison is an exhibition made up of rarely heard voices from inside the criminal justice system.

  • Access BEAF

    Sovereign Shopping Centre 600 Christchurch Rd, Bounemouth, United Kingdom

    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.

  • BEAF Group Exhibition

    Sovereign Shopping Centre 600 Christchurch Rd, Bounemouth, United Kingdom

    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

    The Old School House Gladstone Mews Gladstone Rd, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    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.

  • Defenders

    Sovereign Shopping Centre 600 Christchurch Rd, Bounemouth, United Kingdom

    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.

  • For Clara

    Studio Roost 635 Christchurch Road Boscombe Bournemouth, Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

    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

    Boscombe Precinct & Sovereign Centre Christchurch Rd, Boscombe, United Kingdom

    In Touch celebrates the memories of three girls on the Boscombe Hippodrome dancefloor on a night out in 1959.

  • HOLE

    Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    Join comedy writer/performer Holly Spillar in a muff-busting, musical mystery on sex, pain and the brain.

  • kid – cancelled

    Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    kid is a one man show exploring fatherhood, childhood. Expect truthful gripping story telling and uncensored content.

  • A Night Of Music and Stories

    Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    Twisted ballads and odd pop from BBC 6 Music regular, Scott Lavene. Stories collected from a wandering life full of unpredictable humour, unguarded vulnerability, wry observation and humble wisdom.

    Free
  • Boscombe balms with Bones

    Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    Artist bones tan jones will lead a herbal balm making workshop. Drawing on their interests in collective, social and individual healing

  • John Healy Q & A – cancelled

    Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    A rare and exclusive chance to hear writer and outsider John Healy talk about his world famous memoir, The Glass Arena.

    Free
  • The Lock-In

    Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    The Lock-in is an ongoing monthly event for our outstanding outsider artists to try out their new uncensored work. Expect brilliant new writing, spoken word and music from unheard voices.

    Free
  • Barbaric Genius

    Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    The remarkable story of John Healy's rise from wino and street thief to chess master and award-winning author.

    Free
  • Future Worlds

    Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    Join artist Anders Birger on World Refugee Day for a workshop exploring future stories through image making.