Portraits of Boscombe
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.
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.
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.
Artist bones tan jones will lead a herbal balm making workshop. Drawing on their interests in collective, social and individual healing
A rare and exclusive chance to hear writer and outsider John Healy talk about his world famous memoir, The Glass Arena.
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.
The remarkable story of John Healy's rise from wino and street thief to chess master and award-winning author.
Join artist Anders Birger on World Refugee Day for a workshop exploring future stories through image making.