kid - cancelled
2023-06-17 19:00 - 2023-06-18 20:30 (Europe/London) | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
Si Mack
We are sorry to announce that our one man show ‘kid’ from The Outsiders Project can’t go ahead for personal reasons.
The Outsiders Project is the proud leader of the Safe Homes Network, supporting unheard voices to make and perform their own work. We understand that at times projects have to be postponed, but we continue to work with our artists so they can develop their ideas in our supportive space.
In its place we are delighted to present the brilliant one woman show from Holly Spillar, Hole. Saturday 17th June at 7pm. Please book here.

kid is a one man show written and performed by Si Mack, writer in residence at The Outsiders Project. The show started in one of our Lock-Ins.
A man receives a letter and opens it to find that Social Services have a 6 year old boy in their care and they have been told he is the father.
The show is a beautifully written story of that child and that man. It is a profound, dark and funny exploration of fatherhood.
kid is directed by Nell Leyshon, Artistic Director of The Outsiders Project, who has worked with Si Mack since 2005. Jo Billingham is the Assistant Director and Producer for kid.
Si Mack,Tattoo. Image ©️ Roz Pike
kid is a BEAF 2023 Commission. Supported by: Lottery Community fund, Henry Smith, Dorset Community Foundation, Alpine Foundation, Sovereign Centre and New River Retail.
Please note this is a 16+ event. Content warning: This performance contains strong language.
Sat 17 & Sun 18 June, 7pm-8.30pm.
Please note that this performance is an alcohol-free space. We won’t be offering drinks and please do not bring your own drinks in to respect the performer. Si Mack is part of The Outsiders Project. The Outsiders Project vision is to show that people side-lined from society can write, perform and create work at the highest level in a safe space and supportive environment. Our theatre in B.A.D. is part of our Safe Homes Network.
Tickets: Pay what you can ticket £7/12. Solidarity ticket £15. Free tickets available.
TICKETS

HOLE
2023-06-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
Holly Spillar
Join comedy writer/performer Holly Spillar in a muff-busting, musical mystery on sex, pain and the brain.
After a diagnosis of vaginismus (a condition preventing penetrative sex) HOLE showcases the determination of one woman to achieve the basic, beige sex life of her dreams, with only a little red loop pedal for company.
Once described as ‘Tim Minchin bumping into Kate Bush at full speed’ this tightly packed one woman show is full of unexpected advice from doctors, Joe Rogan obsessed boyfriends and a whole lot of holes.
Please note: 16+ event. Content warning: explicit sexual language and swearing.
TICKETS: PWYC Tickets: £10 / Solidarity ticket: £15 / Free tickets available
Images credit – Holly Spillar

IN TOUCH
2023-06-17 12:00 - 17:00 | Boscombe Precinct & Sovereign Centre, Christchurch Rd, Boscombe, BH1 4SX, United Kingdom
Miss High Leg Kick

In Touch celebrates the memories of three girls on the Boscombe Hippodrome dancefloor on a night out in 1959. This is a multi-sensory performance show evoking a moment from the 1950s in Boscombe via music, dance, fragrance, with a particular emphasis on one of our most overlooked senses – touch.
Join artists Francesca Baglione, Abi Cunliffe, Lorna Rees and Steve Nice as they lead you on an evocative and entertaining tactile journey including classic dances of the era – “The Stroll’, “The Twist” and more…with opportunities for audiences to join in. This show draws on the memories of local girls Pat and Janet, who have shared their sensory stories from nights out at the ballroom, including the feel of petticoat netting, doing “The Twist”, and holding hands when asked to dance…
Accessible and fun, suitable for all ages.
Image ©️ Miss High Leg Kick
Francesca Baglione (Miss High Leg Kick) is an Olivier Award winning live artist whose work is characterised by humour, unusual approaches to audience engagement, a love of spectacle, and a celebration of the everyday.
In Touch is a BEAF 2023 Commission. Also supported by Colchester Arts Centre, Compagnie Nathalie Béasse, and Arts Council England.

Sat 17 June, 12pm, 2pm & 5pm (location varies) Royal Arcade, Sovereign Centre & B.A.D.
Free event

Sandra at the Boscombe Hippodrome in 1959. Image ©️ Miss High Leg Kick

For Clara
2023-06-17 11:00 - 2023-06-25 18:00 | Studio Roost, 635 Christchurch Road Boscombe Bournemouth, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH14AP, United Kingdom
Anders Birger

‘For Clara’ is shaped as a letter to the future. A travelling pop-up van exhibition, that presents a time capsule, containing stories, images, video and writing, that is addressed to Anders’ imaginary great great granddaughter. Large parts of the work was created in collaboration with Nora, Anders’ daughter who is nine years old. It is their attempt to imagine a future where their descendant, Clara, finds herself living as a migrant.
The work consists of real and imagined stories, as well as documentary photography shot across Europe throughout the past ten years, from border regions but also from events as well as historical places. Anders wants to present an alternative reality, stepping away from the classic type of documentary photography and photo journalism that shows the lives of people affected at their most vulnerable. Instead by creating space and reflecting on migration and the treatment of migrants living on the borders of, as well as inside, Europe that is happening today. Anders’ work creates stories that works against the notion of ‘us and them’ and instead shows that, if we go back or forward far enough in time, we are all migrants.
My hope is that by reminding people of their own migration stories there will be a greater compassion towards people living as migrants right now. Anders Birger
This is a travelling exhibition where Anders collects stories and images that will add to this on-going archive. To hear more about talks and workshops in the festival by Anders sign up to our mailing list.
Please note: The main exhibition will be at Studio Roost Sat 17-Sun 25 June.
The pop up van exhibition will be Sat 17-Sun 18 June at Boscombe Precinct.
Image ©️ Anders Birger
Supported by: Studio Roost
Tickets: Free event, no booking required.

Defenders
2023-06-17 - 2023-06-25 | Sovereign Shopping Centre, 600 Christchurch Rd, Bounemouth, BH1 4SX, United Kingdom
Julia Kochetova x Fine Acts

Stories from a nation under fire. Stories from a nation made of hope, pride, and resilience. When the war in Ukraine started, hundreds of thousands of civilians left their previous lives behind, and volunteered to protect their homeland.
Who are these people? Is such bravery superhuman, or the most intrinsic human trait there is? Along with her regular equipment, Ukrainian photographer Julia Kochetova decided to use old Russian prism lenses, making a powerful point. Instead of being broken, the country’s spirit has been multiplied.
Defenders, 2022. Image ©️ Julia Kochetova x Fine Acts
Defenders is part of a larger project called Being Ukraine, an initiative from creative studio Fine Acts, together with photographers Julia Kochetova and Mila Teshaieva, and studio WE BAD.
Sat 17-Sun 25 June, 11am-6pm
Free public installation

The Stories We Thread
2023-06-17 - 2023-06-25 | The Old School House, Gladstone Mews Gladstone Rd, Bournemouth, BH7 6BG, United Kingdom
Seeking Refuge Collaboration
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. Using one of the oldest photographic printing techniques, the cyanotype, a camera-less process, will act as a collage of images using plants from the UK, maps of people’s hometowns, countries and precious objects. ‘Thursday Threads’ weekly participants (an ongoing Seeking Refuge and BEAF project) have been working collaboratively to sew these stories together, embellishing them with gold embroidery, and presenting to us the stories and journeys of all those who have fled their homes and communities.
Alongside the exhibition will be a set of ‘painting with light’ postcards that you can purchase, produced by participants from Bournemouth and Poole College in photography workshops at TOSH. The words are inspired by their first thoughts of the UK when they arrived.
Thursday Threads workshop. Image ©️ Heidi Steller
Seeking Refuge is a creative, collaborative project sharing the hidden voices of people who have been forced to flee their homes. Seeking Refuge is an ongoing project that works with people seeking asylum in the UK and people that have settled in Bournemouth through ongoing creative workshops, such as textiles and photography, as well as working with locally commissioned artists.
Seeking Refuge is a BEAF Arts Co project.
Seeking Refuge is supported by: Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charitable Foundation, Community Action Network, Dorset Community Foundation, Henry Smith Charity, JP Morgan, Lottery Community Fund, People’s Health Trust, Recreate Dorset, Valentine Charitable Trust.
Facilitated by workshop leaders, Heidi Steller and Maddison Collymore.
The Stories We Thread is a BEAF 2023 Commission
Sat 17-Sun 25 June, 11am – 6pm
Free event

BEAF Group Exhibition
2023-06-17 - 2023-06-25 | Sovereign Shopping Centre, 600 Christchurch Rd, Bounemouth, BH1 4SX, United Kingdom
Corrianna Clarke, Maddison Collymore, Mark England, Sadaf Firoozi, Rose Leyshon, Mark Perry and Nicholas Teo.
Group exhibition presenting intertwining narratives and portraits from the past and present. Responding to the theme of unheard voices, some portraits shown reflect personal stories of migration and journeys, whilst others represent how we identify, relationships and how we envision mental health in contemporary society.
The artists were selected from a BEAF call out for commissions within our festival.
Image ©️ Sadaf Firoozi
BEAF group exhibition is a BEAF 2023 Commission
Free event

Images: From left to right ©️ Corrianna Clarke, Maddison Collymore, Sadaf Firoozi, Mark Perry, Rose Leyshon, Nicholas Teo
Artist Bios:
Corrianna Clarke: I’m a neurodivergent freelance visual artist and facilitator with specific experience in directing, animation and illustration. My practice is unified by my investment in local place and community spaces – how people of mixed abilities, backgrounds and needs are drawn together drives my desire to share meaningful personal and cultural narratives. Innovative art forms and sensitive, collaborative co-creation that actively elevates lesser heard voices and new talent forms the core of my work. With notions of the creative role as encompassing both tactile product and social process, I aspire to lead diverse audiences to engage with perhaps previously unfamiliar or inaccessible artworks. In raising awareness through conversations and participation connecting regional to national – whether animated, drawn, performed or curated – I hope to draw attention to what many would consider difficult, underrepresented or sensitive subjects.
Maddison Collymore: I am a Bournemouth based multidisciplinary artist with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Arts University Bournemouth, 2019. My practice is exploring dreamscapes or imaginative landscapes that are inspired by my Great Grandmother’s migration from India to the UK. I predominantly use drawing, collage and stitch to trace this narrative of changing cultures, new discovery and resettlement.The work I make is largely speculative with references to intersectional feminism, race and stories of science fiction that aid alternative ways of seeing or being in the world. Part of the creative process is playing with shadow landscapes, spilled pigment or multicoloured drawing techniques that allow the materials to begin the work. I tend to add collage and stitch to then highlight and attach my lineal references. Sometimes participation becomes a part of the work with moments for other voices to collaborate and engage with the process of making. Experimenting with control is definitely a part of my process and a looseness with materials or inviting interaction can take the work in unexpected ways.
Sadaf Firoozi: Having worked as an Art Director in advertising for almost a decade, the title of ‘artist’ does not fully encompass the practice through which Sadaf Firoozi now integrates installation, writing, performance, collage, painting, drawing, film, sculpture, and graphic design methodologies. However, it is the active, creative, traumatized, and expressive body that binds this diversity as a coherent and intelligent critique of contemporary life. The topics addressed derive from personal experience and the social issues that affect both the isolated individual and collective community. Although initiated by a negative viewpoint, the art-making process that follows produces a visualization to be analyzed and shared in positive ways. The stories being told are familiar but open-ended, raising questions in the minds of others. In this way, the audience looks to their own remembered relations and events for meaning. Although “Who are you?” can be met with a simple response, the physical, social, and cultural contexts in which the work is encountered are purposefully manipulated. Just as this artist interrogates her own cultural and geographical shift from Iran to the UK, the richly provocative outputs present shifting situations and narratives.
Rose Leyshon: Rose Leyshon is a figurative sculptor living in Boscombe. She trained in traditional casting methods in Paris and uses a variety of materials including plaster, ceramics, resins and, most recently, bronze. Through her work, she aims to represent the complexities and subtleties of womanhood and sexuality. She uses figuration to portray recognisable people and inspire empathy from the viewer. She’s influenced by artists such as Duane Hanson and Paula Rego for their use of realism and their humanist, political and feminist engagement.
For BEAF 2023, Rose has been commissioned to produce some new sculptures on the theme of “Unheard Voices”. She will portray a variety of identifiable, uncensored and compassionate portraits of the neglected, the tired and the dismissed. The work is intended for the most modest people of Boscombe: it will be amusing, touching and relatable.
Mark Perry: My creative practice is committed to exploring the signifiers of individuality/personality and the way identity is constructed, deconstructed or transformed through life experiences. Contemporary notions of the lens and its technological distortion are key to the gaze I manipulate. Images captured via communications technologies provide a starting point for sketches that are then reworked and edited in pursuit of an appropriate visual language. In this transition from mobile phone or laptop, to canvas or paper, observational representation’s evolve surpassing mimesis to become visualised interrogations of individualism. Within this I have a list of commissions that vary from Fan work to portraits, all of which are guided by the above notion of individuality and identity. To offer something that is observed beyond the representational, and as such deliver a personal reflection on the moment.
Nicholas Teo: Nicholas Teo is a Singaporean filmmaker & photographer now based in Bournemouth.
Currently pursuing Commercial Photography at Arts University Bournemouth, Nicholas’s practice revolves around fashion, fine art, and documentary work. Enjoying all kinds of image-making and describing himself as a “jack of all trades” creative, his work varies wildly in style and subject matter. But born with a curious mind and gentle heart, the common thread of exploring and advocating for social causes like mental health became more apparent in his work and he seeks to pursue this even more in the future.

Access BEAF
2023-06-17 - 2023-06-25 | Sovereign Shopping Centre, 600 Christchurch Rd, Bounemouth, BH1 4SX, United Kingdom
Access BEAF is a group of emerging artists from across Bournemouth and Dorset. The group was set up to support one another, particularly for those artists who have experienced racism and may have faced barriers and access into the arts and education.
The artists within this exhibition are using the Sovereign Centre as a test space to experiment, acting as a platform to share their work with a wider audience in a shared space.
Access BEAF exhibition is a BEAF 2023 Commission
Sat 17-Sun 25 June, 11am – 6pm
Free event
Banner Image ©️ Elizabeth Walker. Images from top left to bottom right: Huda Osni, Salma Adi, Adilson Naueji, Elizabeth Walker, Lucas Militao, Prajvi Mandhani, Tracey Jane, Miles Bagarinao (animation) and Dr. Aanka Batta (performance video)

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Artist Bios
Salma Adi
Salma Adi is a conceptual artist, author, and art teacher based in Bournemouth. Her burning desire to answer the question of “Who am I? and How can I be here?” made her dive into analytical psychology to explore the depth of B E I N G, leading her to create art in different mediums that are mind-state conscious based. Art helps Salma evoke conceptuality and form a precise incarnation of complex states humans experience. Since art has significantly influenced her life, her mission has been to help people unfold their potential and create better life journeys. Salma considers her art as visual affirmations, which can be a self-discovering journey and a self-empowering tool to support people in their lives.
SALMAADIART
Miles Bagarinao
saltseashark (he/they) is an all-rounder, jack-of-all trades artist that makes silly TTRPGs, short video games, animations and illustrations for whatever medium suits at the time, recently making art about the transmasc experience. He creates heartfelt short stories of characters in extreme situations through illustration, animation and interactive media.
@saltseashark saltseashark.portfolio.site
Dr. Aanka Batta
Aanka Batta is a south asian born artist and activist residing in the UK. She explores migration, race relations and gender in her work. Aanka is a performance poet who combines theatre and poetry to deliver emotionally evocative experiences. She has performed at theatre venues nationally, and at conferences, festivals and demonstrations. Aanka is also a public speaker on political matters centered on race. She speaks at public sector meetings and also does case work in anti-racism advocacy.
Tracey Jane
Tracey Jane graduated from Exeter College of Art and Design and has painted in all media throughout her life. Now she concentrates purely on acrylics on canvas or wood. Since moving to Dorset from London in 2016, she has been inspired by the beautiful Dorset coastline and her experiences as an Argentine Tango dancer and teacher. Currently she is trying to express the energy and connection of people whilst they dance and also their relationship to others in the room.
www.bfmedia.co.uk
Prajvi Mandhani
Prajvi Mandhani works across video, sound, printmaking, and drawing. She creates multi-media installations through a blend of digital as well as material-led processes. She is interested in creating experiential works that contain multiple video screens and channels of audio.
prajvimandhanicom.wordpress.com @poetic_licence_
Lucas Militao
Lucas Militao is a Brazilian musician, digital and stencil artist. In love with arts in all forms, he was always interested in play and study different media, from visual arts to music, dancing and anything that he can use to connect to his emotions. He thinks art is necessary in human lives as it’s a way to understand your own feelings. Now a days the main medium used are digital and stencil art that he uses together to create his paintings. His stencils usually use strong contrasting colours due to the medium limitations, but it’s also a great way for evoking strong emotions. Lucas is excited about this new tools and think it will be great to inspire not only him but everyone in the world.
instagram.com/um_dia_posto_arte
Adilson Naueji
“Curiosity in from who, where from, and how they fell in and with surrounding…”
Adilson Naueji is currently based in Bournemouth, originally from Angola but more than anywhere African. He advocates that everyone has a story behind their facial features and is proud to introduce these people to the world. This is the foundation for his work: realistic portraits in acrylic or oil on canvas, this is his first exhibition experience but he has done several commissions.
Huda Osni
Huda Osni is currently pursuing a Ba (Hons) Film Production degree at Arts University Bournemouth. She is currently doing research on her own heritage and identity. She has always believed that films are a great medium of telling stories.
And spends a lot of her time watching films and analyzing them. She explains “It’s fun to watch people’s theories on the stories as well. I hope that one day I get to create a compelling and impactful story with the resources I have.”
http://hudaosni.creatorlink.net/index#HOME
Samantha Zandile Ngwenya
Samantha Zandile Ngwenya is a talented Bournemouth-based artist with a passion for shining a spotlight onto familiar, mundane and frankly “bog standard” subject matters. Born and raised in Bournemouth by her parents who emigrated from Zimbabwe, Samantha developed a non-stop work ethic that drives her artistic passion. She draws inspiration from the Renaissance work of Edward Hopper and Vilhelm Hammershoi, as well as contemporary artist George Shaw. By exploring the unorthodox, Samantha aims to inspire conversation and evoke feelings that transport you back to a moment in your own life. With relatability and community at the heart of her practice, there is no need to shroud her story with artistic jargon.
www.szngwenya.com @szngwenya
Elizabeth Walker
Elizabeth Walker was born in Zapopan Mexico and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She now lives and works in the UK. She is a mixed media artist with her mediums including oil paint, digital collage, photograms, and photography. Her practice is concerned with combining the figurative and the natural through forms of collage that then spark compositions for oil paintings. Her oil paintings currently explore themes of memory, time passing, and diaspora. Her subjects are often family members or close friends as her work likes to explore relationships and human connection.
https://ewalkerart1706.wixsite.com/my-site-2 @ewalker.art

Postcards from Prison
2023-06-17 - 2023-06-25 | Boscombe Precinct, Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 4BH, United Kingdom
Postcards from Prison is an exhibition made up of rarely heard voices from inside the criminal justice system. Following an Open call-out the exhibition has been selected by members of The Outsiders Project. The final selection, displayed inside Boscombe’s Police Box, is part of the wider work of The Outsiders Project, where those with lived experience of the criminal justice system have been visiting prisons across the south and southwest to deliver workshops and performances.
The Outsiders Project supports people with lived experience of addiction, recovery and mental health, TOP have just completed an extensive tour of prisons in the south west, delivering workshops and performances from members of the Project.
All postcard submissions will also be displayed on our website.
Boscombe Police Box. Image ©️ Ian Rathbone
Developed in partnership with Koestler Arts. Supported by Dorset Police.
Postcards from Prison is a BEAF 2023 Commission
Sat 17-Sun 25 June, 11am-6pm
Free public installation

BEAF Art Pavilion
2023-06-17 - 2023-06-25 | BEAF Art Pavilion, Boscombe Precinct, 627 Christchurch Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, BH1 4AP, 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. Created by local designer Karolina Bilvinaite, from Bed Studio, the pavilion combines the work of artists and the community, making this a vibrant and colourful hub for the duration of the festival. Street artists Slam Daniels and Tech Moon have worked together with students from SWRAC, the South West Regional Assessment Centre, supporting young people with learning differences, to create a four metre high artwork, a cabinet of curiosities taking references from Boscombe’s past and future.
BEAF Art Pavilion Workshop Programme Sat 17 – Sun 25 June 11-1pm & 2-4pm daily Every day the Art Pavilion will be hosting drop-in and bookable workshops. Over the Opening Weekend, join Keira Rathbone to create an exhibition of ‘typewriter eyes’ or for young ones, watch the Buzztastic Bee-Balancing Blundershow. The Cabinet of Living Cinema joins us for animation workshops, and throughout the week you can take part in printing your own T-shirt, lino-printing, creative writing, up-cycling, drawing, zine making and much more.
BEAF ART pavilion is a BEAF 2023 Commission. Pavilion designed by Karolina Bilvinaite, banner design by Nat Cook, artwork by Ninth Seal and Tech Moon and scaffolding provided by Sureworks Scaffolding Ltd.
Free workshops run 11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm Sat 17-Sun 25 June 2023. Plus daily kids drop-in after school activities from 3pm. The The BEAF Arts Pavilion is situated right outside the B.A.D. building.
Free event, but we recommend booking a space on the following workshops/events below:
The Buzztastic Bee-Balancing Blundershow, Sat 17 & Sat 24 June, 11am, 1pm & 3pm.
Boscombe balms with bones workshop, Sun 18 June, 1-4pm
Lino printing with Jo Maylon, Mon 19 June 2.30-4pm & Sat 24 June 11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm.
Future Worlds with Anders Birger, Tues 20 June 2-4pm
Rising Voices special edition, Wed 21 June, 4-6pm
Willow bird feeder workshop with Jo Maylon, Thurs 22 11am-1pm.
Mindful drawing workshop with Lauren Marina, Thurs 22 June 2-4pm.
Queer zine workshop with Miles, Fri 23 June, 11am-1pm & 2-4pm.
Boscombe World Tea Room with Tara White, Sat 24 June, 1-3pm
The Cabinet of Living Cinema, Sat 24 June, 4pm-6.15pm.
Mini banner making with Rosie Edwards, Sun 25 June 11am-1pm

The Buzztastic Bee-Balancing Blundershow (Albina Magnificӑ)
2023-06-17 - 2023-06-24
Sophie Fretwell & Bogdan Babei

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.
Born out of a passion for platforming the unheard voices of bees (they’re often very quiet and buzzy and therefore easily misunderstood) and the struggles of a Romanian migratory parent to find his community, this family-friendly show takes a closer look at the buzz-tastic bee!
Prepare to bee amazed!
A new show created by Dorset artists Sophie Fretwell and Bogdan Babei.
Image ©️ Bogdan Babei
Performers: Bogdan Babei and Ian Neale
Artist bios: Sophie Fretwell, is a disabled theatre designer and maker, based in Portland who has designed costumes, sets and puppets for local companies like Arts University Bournemouth, Angel Exit, Gobbledegook and Diverse City’s EBYA. Dan Babei, is a Transylvanian performer and musician also living in Dorset, who has performed in various, local, ACE funded community productions.
The Buzztastic Bee-Balancing Blundershow is a BEAF 2023 Commission
Sat 17 & Sat 24 June, 11am, 1pm & 3pm
Free event – drop ins welcome, but we advise reserving a place for free here.

Eye Contact
2023-06-17 - 2023-06-18 | BEAF Art Pavilion, Boscombe Precinct, 627 Christchurch Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, BH1 4AP, United Kingdom
Keira Rathbone, Typewriter Artist

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. “During these short encounters, we will have a unique moment to look into each other’s eyes, to connect and listen.”
Over the course of the festival a collection of eyes will also fill the streets throughout Boscombe, creating a trail for the public to find and explore.
Keira will also be typing eyes from her typewriter on Boscombe precinct on the 21-22 April 2023, alongside Brendan Barry’s camera caravan, so please sign up to our mailing list to be the first to hear about it and the activities in June.
Image ©️ Alex Griffiths
Artist bio: Reading born, Poole raised, Bristol “educated” and for the last 10 years London-based artist Keira Rathbone has been messing around on old manual typewriters for the past 18 years. She types landscapes, portraits, nature and objects using typewriter characters to represent or translate the shape, texture and tone in what she sees into original ‘typics’ . This is done directly from life, wherever possible.
When street-typing, Keira’s niche artform appeals to and attracts comment and conversation from people of all ages and walks of life. Keira has appeared on various TV and BBC radio shows in the UK and worldwide, her most recent TV highlight was being on BBC London News in January 2021 and before that, Sky Landscape Artist Of The Year 2018.
Eye Contact is a BEAF 2023 Commission
Sat 17 & Sun 18 June, 11am-6pm @ BEAF Art Pavilion. The trail will be visible throughout the festival.
Free event & trail

BEAF 2023 Launch Party
2023-06-16 20:30 - 23:00 | O2 Academy, 570 Christchurch Rd, Boscombe, BH1 4BH, United Kingdom
The festival kicks off with our Launch Party on Friday 16 June, bringing incredible music all the way from Soweto to Boscombe’s 02.

Featuring BCUC
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. Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness (known as BCUC) combines a heady mix of indigenous funk, hip hop and punk rock energy, portraying the rich traditions, rituals and beliefs coming out of Africa.
“Without a doubt the best live act I saw.” Gilles Peterson
Soweto based BCUC tackle the harsh realities of the voiceless, – the plight of the workers at the bottom of the social food chain. The Africa they portray is not poor, but rich in tradition, rituals and beliefs.
“The most impressive newcomers this year.” The Guardian
A stone’s throw from the church where Desmond Tutu organised the escape of the most wanted anti-Apartheid activists of Soweto, BCUC rehearses in a shipping container-turned-community restaurant, where their indomitable outspokenness echoes in a whole new way. Like its elders, Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness sees its music as a hedonistic trance, but also as a weapon of political and spiritual liberation.
Artistic heirs to Philip “Malombo” Tabane and Batsumi, they give contemporary voice to the ancestral traditions of indigenous peoples. Jazz sounds of 1970s and ‘80s productions replaced by hip-hop influences and punk-rock energy, taking the listener on an intriguing epic journey, sharing their controversial yet interesting views on modern Africa.
“We bring fun and emo-indigenous Afro psychedelic fire from the hood,” says vocalist Kgomotso Mokone.
Image ©️ Shudufhadzo Lubengo.

Supported by Harare
A virtuoso marimbist, Kuda Matimba was a member of Zimbabwe’s legendary Bhundu Boys, a groundbreaking force in the African music industry, as they paved the way for more artists to reach commercial success in Europe and the US. Harare features a groundbreaking line-up, mixing the buzzing acoustics of the Southern African rich-toned marimba, mbira, ringing jingling guitars, swooping basslines, irresistible dance rhythms and uplifting vocals. Harare celebrates both the past and the future of African dance music and brings a spectacular mix of Southern African musical styles, particularly the musical styles of Zimbabwe. Words to the songs are performed in the Shona language of Zimbabwe.
Image ©️ Katherine Hannaford

Doors open at 8pm, Harare starts at 8.30pm.
Age Restrictions: No under 8s. Under 14 to be accompanied at all times by an adult over 18. For detailed information please vsisit the O2’s website.

BEAF Festival 2023 opening celebration
2023-06-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, 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.

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. Boscombe World is an adventurous visual and sensory art installation, inviting play, participation and contemplation, presenting Boscombe as a place of healing and restorative care.
There will be speeches and drinks followed by our 2023 launch party at 8.30pm celebrating African music at the O2 featuring BCUC and Harare. Tickets here.
Image ©️ Roz Pike

Please RSVP & book a free ticket

Portraits of Boscombe
2023-06-16 11:00 - 2023-06-25 18:00 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
Brendan Barry

Brendan Barry is a photographer, educator and camera builder whose creative photographic practice combines elements of construction, education, performance and participation.
Brendan is working with us at BEAF to create a large camera obscura in Boscombe Arts Depot. Over the course of the festival we invite you to capture images of Boscombe and the people within our wonderful community with Brendan. Portraits of Boscombe will become activated with daily activities where we can learn about each other through experimenting and processing. The obscura will remain at B.A.D. after the festival for on-going projects and workshops.
Brendan Barry will also be bringing his caravan camera to Boscombe’s precinct on the 21-22 April 2023, so please sign up to our mailing list to be the first to hear about it and the activities in June.
Brendan Barry, NY Skyscraper Camera Project. Image ©️ Brendan Barry
Portraits of Boscombe is a BEAF 2023 Commission
Supported by: Lottery Community fund, Henry Smith, Sovereign Centre and New River Retail.
Tickets: Free event

Boscombe World
2023-06-16 11:00 - 2023-06-25 18:00 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
Harold Offeh

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.
Boscombe World explores the area’s rich history as a seaside resort for visitors in search of health, recuperation and pleasure, brought into dialogue with Boscombe’s contemporary perception as a place for recovery, sanctuary and asylum.
The installation invites visitors to engage with Boscombe as a place of healing and restorative care. Boscombe World will be a hub for a number of playful installations. The project hopes to provide an opportunity to reflect on the rich and complex narratives of Boscombe and challenge the reducing of places and communities to labels, like good, bad, ugly etc. It will seek to confront cliches and stereotypes and provide a platform for narratives and voices that have not been heard or marginalised. .
Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He employs humour as a means to confront the viewer with historical narratives and contemporary culture. He has exhibited and performed widely in the UK and internationally including Tate Britain and Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Wysing Art Centre, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, MAC VAL, France, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark and Art Tower Mito, Japan.
Offeh studied Critical Fine Art Practice at the University of Brighton and has an MA in Fine art Photography from the Royal College of Art, London and a PhD in Contemporary Art and Performance from Leeds Beckett University. He lives in Cambridge and works in London and Oxford. He is currently a Senior Tutor in Art at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford and a tutor in MA Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art, London.
Harold Offeh, workshop presented for East Side Projects, Birmingham, 2020. Image ©️ Ashley Carr.
Boscombe World is a BEAF 2023 Commission, supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
The preview for this exhibition is Friday 16 June, 6-8pm.
Free event, no booking required.
Read our latest interview with Harold talking about the themes of care, rest, healing and recovery in Boscombe World.
Harold will be talking about Boscombe World on Sat 17 June at 3pm. Book a free ticket here.

The Flags of Boscombe
2023-04-20 - 2023-09-30 | Boscombe Precinct & Sovereign Centre, Christchurch Rd, Boscombe, BH1 4SX, United Kingdom
Ian Wornast

We are commissioning Ian Wornast, an artist from ActionSpace to create new semi-abstract flags in response to Boscombe and its architecture. Ian has been mapping Boscombe’s history and the built environment around us through colourful mark making documenting iconic buildings in Boscombe. Watch out for Ian’s vibrant flags that will fill the streets in April.
Artist bio:
Ian Wornast’s art practice is inspired by place and a developed sense of design. Ian has a passion for transport and the built environment around us. He is particularly inspired by London transport, its history and developments. He notices and researches changes to structures around the city and creates graphic yet personal geographic mappings in response. Iconic buildings and local landmarks get translated into Ian’s distinctive style, which uses bright colour and intricate references. He has produced work in response to areas around London and further afield including Glasgow. In 2022 he was commissioned by Art on the Underground for a poster work for Nine Elms station to respond to its dramatically evolving landscape. Ian’s work has a strong and unique visual identity – recognisable instantly by his use of line and pattern. He is prolific in his experimentation. Like urban developments, in his art he likes “things to be moving forward, not going back, to keep progressing”. His artworks encourage you to look closer and also out at the world around you.
Ian Wornast. Images ©️ courtesy of the artist and ActionSpace.
Boscombe Summer flags is an ongoing BEAF placemaking project to enliven Boscombe high-street, first commissioned in 2021 and funded by Bournemouth Coastal BID and supported by Boscombe Sovereign Centre.
ActionSpace is an exceptional visual arts development agency for learning disabled artists.
The Flags of Boscombe is a BEAF 2023 Commission
Free public installation until September 2023

B.A.D. cinema presents: A bunch of Amateurs
2023-04-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
Join us to watch this uplifting and funny story of how a once thriving community work together to attempt to save their beloved club.

About the event: Doors open from 7pm, high-street entrance to Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) on Wednesday 12 April. The film will start at 7.30pm.
About the film: A bunch of Amateurs, directed by Kim Hopkins
A thoroughly moving and ultimately joyful documentary, A Bunch of Amateurs follows the members of Bradford Movie Makers, one of the oldest amateur filmmaking clubs in the world. Once a thriving community, these days the membership is dwindling and the group struggle to keep the wolf from the door, but it’s group of ageing cinephiles’ attempt to save their beloved club.
Running Time: 93 mins
This film contains some strong language.

Ticket info: We want to keep prices to a minimum so as many people can come as possible. Tickets are therefore £5.00. Free tickets are also available for those with low income, outsider artists, asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants. BEAF Arts Co is a not-for-profit organisation. All profits from our ticket sales go back into supporting our work, community and artists.
Refunds: If you can no longer make this event, then please contact us a week in advance of the screening date to request one. Refunds after then will not be accepted and please note Eventbrite’s fee cannot be refunded.
Access info: Doors open from 7pm to have a chat and a drink and to grab a comfy seat, the film starts at 7.30pm, drinks and snacks are available. B.A.D. is on the ground floor and has wide doors for access.
Getting to us: If you are coming by foot or by bus, take the M2 bus and get off near Boscanova if coming from Southbourne or next to Aldi if coming from Poole and Bournemouth. Walk along the high-street and please come to the main entrance at B.A.D. directly opposite Costa. If you are coming by car we would recommend parking in the sovereign centre car park, then come to the main entrance on the high-street. Pokesdown for Boscombe train station is a 15-20 minute walk from B.A.D. along Christchurch Road.

B.A.D. CINEMA PRESENTS: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2023-03-08 19:00 - 21:30 | B.A.D. Boscombe Arts Depot, 616-622 Christchurch Road, Boscombe, Dorset, BH1 4SX, United Kingdom
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 film is riveting and essential.” The Independent ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5
In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, one of the great documentaries about an artist, any boundaries between activism and art, art and life, and life and work are blown open.” ARTnews
In 2014, Goldin was prescribed OxyContin to deal with pain caused by tendonitis in her wrist. Within days she was addicted. Following her recovery, she began working with campaigners to bring the family behind the drug, the Sacklers, to justice. Employing footage previously shot by Goldin and her colleagues, which records the grassroots campaign as it ups the ante on pressurising major cultural institutions to distance themselves from the Sacklers, Poitras’ film widens its focus to encompass Goldin’s extraordinary life. It charts her journey from a conservative childhood to her entry into the art world, becoming a defining figure of the 1970s and 1980s New York art scene, and along the way creating a landmark work with The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
Poitras brings together the various strands of Goldin’s life with impressive clarity. It highlights how Goldin saw no distinction between private and public, the personal and the political, and how her perspective on the world was sharpened by both the AIDS and opioid crises. Only the second documentary to win the prestigious Golden Lion award in the Venice Film Festival’s 80-year history, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an enthralling portrait of an artist as activist.
Running Time: 122mins

Ticket info:
We want to keep prices to a minimum so as many people can come as possible. Tickets are therefore £5.00.
Free tickets are also available for those with low income, outsider artists, asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants.
BEAF Arts Co is a not-for-profit organisation. All profits from our ticket sales go back into supporting our work, community and artists.

Refunds:
If you can no longer make this event, then please contact us a week in advance of the screening date to request one. Refunds after then will not be accepted and please note Eventbrite’s fee cannot be refunded.

Access info:
Doors open from 7pm to have a chat and a drink and to grab a comfy seat, the film starts at 7.30pm, drinks and snacks are available. B.A.D. is on the ground floor and has wide doors for access.

Getting to us:
If you are coming by foot or by bus, take the M2 bus and get off near Boscanova if coming from Southbourne or next to Aldi if coming from Poole and Bournemouth. Walk along the high-street and please come to the main entrance at B.A.D. directly opposite Costa.
If you are coming by car we would recommend parking in the sovereign centre car park, then come to the main entrance on the high-street.
Pokesdown for Boscombe train station is a 15-20 minute walk from B.A.D. along Christchurch Road.

Pinhole workshop with Brendan Barry
2023-02-18 11:00 - 15:00 | The Old School House, Gladstone Mews Gladstone Rd, Bournemouth, BH7 6BG, United Kingdom
In this workshop, participants will make and then photograph with their own pinhole camera.
A pinhole camera is based on the naturally occurring phenomenon of the camera obscura and is one of the most accessible and fun ways of leaning about the fundamentals of analogue photography. Images will be captured on to light sensitive silver gelatine photographic paper and then developed into a paper negative in a darkroom constructed in the space.
One of the focuses of the workshop will be on enabling and teaching participants all they need to know and what resources and equipment they will need to repeat what they have learnt during the day so they can continue using their cameras afterwards at home.
Brendan Barry is an expert on camera making and alternative photographic processes and there will be plenty of time during the workshop to discuss more complex and advanced camera building and image making techniques and approaches for those who are interested.
On Thursday 16th Feb, 7pm at B.A.D. Brendan will also be talking about his practice alongside his work in our BEAF 2023 Festival in June, so please feel free to come along to that too.
Image credit above: Brendan Barry
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Brendan Barry artist talk
2023-02-16 19:00 - 20:00 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
Brendan Barry is a photographer, educator and camera builder whose creative photographic practice combines elements of construction, education, performance and participation.
Brendan is founder & director of Positive Light Projects, a not for profit organisation using the visual arts to engage and inspire a diverse range of audiences and communities as well as developing emerging artists and aiding them move their practise forward in exciting and innovative ways.
He will be talking about his practice at this event alongside his work in our BEAF 2023 Festival in June.
On Saturday 18th Feb Brendan will be delivering a pinhole workshop available for anyone to come along learn more and to experiment at TOSH. You can purchase an individual ticket for the talk only or a combined artist talk (Thurs 16th) with a pinhole workshop ticket (Sat 18th)
Image credit above: Brendan Barry
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Merry F***ing Christmas: The Outsiders Project
2022-12-03 19:00 - 2022-12-04 20:30 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
The Outsiders Project is having a Christmas get together.
Three performances: Sat 3 Dec, 7pm. Sun 4 Dec 3pm (matinee) & Sun 4 Dec, 7pm.
Come and join us for songs and stories you won’t hear at your local carol service at our anti-xmas fun performance!
Christmas trees are made of coat hangers. Santa arrives in a police van. Turkey lands on your food tray like a brick.
Our artists meet monthly at the BAD theatre to try out new work. Come and join us and hear fresh new words about a tired old cliche.
Adult content, 16 plus
TICKETS
Our ticketing policy is pay what you can, either £5 or £10, solidarity tickets are for those who are able to pay a little more. Free tickets are also available for those with low income, outsider artists, asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants. You can also email us instead for a free ticket if that is easier for you – theoutsidersproj@gmail.com
All ticket income goes towards supporting our artists for future events and commissions so please support them!
BOOK TICKETS HERE

B.A.D. CINEMA PRESENTS: FOR SAMA
2022-11-30 19:30 - 21:40 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
About the event:
Doors open from 7pm, high-street entrance to Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) on Wednesday 30 November. We are delighted to continue our film screenings on Wednesday evenings with support from Film Hub South West through their audience development fund with BFI. This is the last event in our autumn film programme series ‘The Show Must Go On.’
About the film:
For Sama, 2019, (18) directed by Waad al-Kateab.
Cast: Edward Watts, Waad al-Kateab
“A profoundly moving study of horror and hope.” The Guardian ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
For Sama is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her.
Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
The film is the first feature documentary by Emmy award-winning filmmakers, Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts.
With talk from special guest Good Chance Theatre.
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
Running Time: 100mins
This film contains: disturbing scenes and images of real dead bodies
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We want to keep prices to a minimum so as many people can come as possible. Tickets are therefore £5.00. Free tickets are also available for those with low income, outsider artists, asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants. You can also email us instead for a free ticket if that is easier for you – gotbeaf@gmail.com

B.A.D. CINEMA PRESENTS: NO SPICY NO FUN
2022-11-23 19:30 - 21:30 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
About the event:
Doors open from 7pm, high-street entrance to Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) on Wednesday 23 November. We are delighted to continue our film screenings on Wednesday evenings with support from Film Hub South West through their audience development fund with BFI. This event is part of our autumn film programme series ‘The Show Must Go On.’
About the film:
No Spicy No Fun: Rebel Riot in the UK, 2022 (rating TBA) directed Roberta Bononi and Kim Ford
Cast: Kyaw Thu Win, Oakar Aung, Zarni Muang Maung, Nyan Lin
Produced by Jay Kerr
“This is an uplifting film for anyone who is still in love with punk rock. My take away was that punk can still be a force for change rather than a throwback soundtrack.” Louder than war
Released in 2022, against the backdrop of a return to military dictatorship in Myanmar (also known as Burma) following a deadly coup and historic protests to resist it in the spring of 2021. No Spicy No Fun: Rebel Riot in the UK shows a Yangon group of activist punks formed under the military dictatorship, full of hope, experiencing new things in new lands and sharing ideas on social change that they wanted to take back home, ready to face the future together.
Since then, things have become unimaginably hard for the band and the people of Myanmar as they continue their resistance. When General Min Aung Hlaing took power in February 2021 there were spontaneous protests all over Myanmar opposing the military coup. People from all walks of life took part in these passionate and often creative protests and following that the military began a brutal crackdown since killing thousands of people. More recently In July 2022 Myanmar’s military junta executed four men, including a veteran democracy activist and a rapper-turned-politician in the country’s first death sentences carried out in over 30 years.
Money raised at this event will go towards Rebel Riot’s Food Not Bombs campaign and to other good causes in Myanmar. We will also have a donation pot if you would like to contribute further.
With online talk with special guest MiMi Aye, Burmese Chef and activist.
Language: Predominately English with some Burmese (English subtitles)
Running Time: 57mins
BOOK TICKETS HERE
We want to keep prices to a minimum so as many people can come as possible. Tickets are therefore £5.00. Free tickets are also available for those with low income, outsider artists, asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants. You can also email us instead for a free ticket if that is easier for you – gotbeaf@gmail.com

B.A.D. CINEMA PRESENTS: MADE IN HONG KONG
2022-11-16 19:30 - 21:40 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
About the event:
Doors open from 7pm, high-street entrance to Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) on Wednesday 16 November. We are delighted to continue our film screenings on Wednesday evenings with support from Film Hub South West through their audience development fund with BFI. This event is part of our autumn film programme series ‘The Show Must Go On.’
About the film:
Made in Hong Kong 香港製造, 1997 (restored in 2017) (15) directed by Fruit Chan.
Starring: Sam Lee, Yim Hui-Chi, Wenders Li
“Its ultra-cheap production and effortless blending of genre film tropes with art house sensibilities mark[s] it as a successor to the classics of the Hong Kong New Wave…” Sean, MUBI
Released to critical acclaim in 1997, the year of the Hong Kong handover, Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong was praised as an anarchic masterpiece, a powerful distillation of urban alienation and youthful despair.
Moon (Sam Lee) is a small-time triad, stuck in an endless cycle of pointless violence with no hope of escape. After he and his friends witness the suicide of a young girl, they embark on a journey to deliver two letters she had on her when she died.
Produced on a shoestring budget, with non-professional actors and using discarded film reels for stock, the film has been rescued from obscurity and fully restored in 4K in time for its 20th anniversary in 2017, thanks to the Far East Film Festival, in collaboration with Andy Lau’s Hong Kong production company, Focus Film.
Talk with special guest and HK sound artist Travis Yu.
Language: Cantonese (with English subtitles)
Running time: 108 mins
Please note this film contains: occasional strong language, violence and sexual references.
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We want to keep prices to a minimum so as many people can come as possible. Tickets are therefore £5.00. Free tickets are also available for those with low income, outsider artists, asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants. You can also email us instead for a free ticket if that is easier for you – gotbeaf@gmail.com

Artist talk from TGT & workshop from Grrrl Zine
2022-11-11 12:30 - 16:00
This event is part of our autumn film programme series ‘The Show Must Go On.’

You can purchase a combined ticket with our film ‘Minari’ on Wed 9 Nov for the film and this event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bad-cinema-presents-minari-tickets-430115305457
Or if you are just able to make this workshop please book a ticket below on this page.
About the talk:
Tomorrow Girls Troop are fourth-wave feminists whose genders and nationalities vary. Our social art projects are Internet-based, focusing on gender inequality issues in East Asia. Tomorrow Girls Troop was established in April 2015.
For this Talk and Q&A the feminist collective TGT will share how they work as a collective and address gender inequality issues in East Asia by working with pop culture, magazines, internet memes, and commercial advertising. The Tomorrow Girls Troop is made up of about 50 anonymous members worldwide and is consistently growing.
About the workshop:
Grrrl Zine Fair platforms women, transgender and non-binary artists and makers and is comprised of a self-publishing fair, panel talks, performances, live music, exhibitions and workshops curated by artist Lu Williams.
In this workshop Grrrl Zine will discuss and explore the history of zine making, particularly within feminism, and contemporary zine culture. They will guide you through making your own zine and exploring different techniques as well as using imagery from our film programme. Please feel free to bring any images that you love too.
Overview of the day:
12.15pm – meet at TOSH (The Old school House)
12.30pm – Tomorrow Girls Troop Talk and Q&A (approx 45 mins)
Short break
1.45 – Start the Grrrl Zine workshop at B.A.D. (Boscombe Arts Depot) we will walk over together after the break. The workshop will last 1.5-2 hrs and we will finish no later than 4pm.
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B.A.D. CINEMA PRESENTS: MINARI
2022-11-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
About the event:
Doors open from 7pm, high-street entrance to Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) on Wednesday 9 November. We are delighted to continue our film screenings on Wednesday evenings with support from Film Hub South West through their audience development fund with BFI. This event is part of our autumn film programme series ‘The Show Must Go On.’
About the film:
Minari, 2020, (12A)directed by Lee Isaac Chung
Starring: Yuh-Jung Youn, Yeri Han, Steven Yeun
“Infused with a wonderful sentimentality, Lee Isaac Chung’s fictionalised account of his rural US childhood explores the growing pains of a family farm.” The Guardian ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, Minari shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
With special guests on Friday 11 Nov – Artist talk from Tomorrow Girls Troop and zine workshop by Grrrl Zine. Details and booking for this event will be available soon.
Language: Korean and English with English subtitles
Running Time: 120mins
This film contains: rude gesture and suicide references
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We want to keep prices to a minimum so as many people can come as possible. Tickets are therefore £5.00. Free tickets are also available for those with low income, outsider artists, asylum seekers, refugees, vulnerable migrants and the LGBTQIA+ community. You can also email us instead for a free ticket if that is easier for you – gotbeaf@gmail.com

B.A.D. CINEMA PRESENTS: IF I COULD WISH FOR SOMETHING
2022-11-02 19:30 - 21:15 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
About the event:
Doors open from 7pm, high-street entrance to Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) on Wednesday 2 November. We are delighted to continue our film screenings on Wednesday evenings with support from Film Hub South West through their audience development fund with BFI. This event is part of our autumn film programme series ‘The Show Must Go On.’
About the film:
Si Pudiera Desear Algo (If I Could Wish for Something), 2021, (rating TBA) directed by Dora García.
About this film, filmmaker/artist Dora García writes:
The inspiration and point of departure of this film is an old song, written in 1930 by German composer Friedrich Holländer: “Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte”. This song, translated into Spanish as “Si pudiera desear algo” (If I Could Wish for Something), has been in my memory for as long as I can remember.
It expresses poetically a very complex concept: that the disappointment of women has been going on for so long, the promise made to them by the revolution has remained for so long unfulfilled, delayed, negated, that the sadness, the vulnerability derived from this feeling of abandonment has been turned into a shelter and a shield, perhaps even a sword. In sadness, we overcome the temptation to feel victimised and instead use pain as a conduit to recognize another’s suffering, opening the possibility for an encounter with other struggles.
With this in mind, I wanted to create a contemporary equivalent of the old song, that could function as a soundtrack to the incredible feminist demonstrations that have been taking place – modifying and appropriating public space and public discourse – in the city of Mexico in the last 5 years.
The film follows two paths: one, a collective recollection of images and sounds from these feminist marches in Mexico City; two, the composition, recording and final performance of the film theme song by trans artist La Bruja de Texcoco.
Followed by a Q&A with director Dora García.
Language: Spanish & Purépecha with English subtitles
Running time: 65 min
Please note this film contains: moderate violence
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We want to keep prices to a minimum so as many people can come as possible. Tickets are therefore £5.00. Free tickets are also available for those with low income, outsider artists, asylum seekers, refugees, vulnerable migrants and LGBTQIA+ community. You can also email us instead for a free ticket if that is easier for you – gotbeaf@gmail.com

B.A.D. CINEMA PRESENTS: RAFIKI
2022-10-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
About the event:
Doors open from 7pm, high-street entrance to Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) on Wednesday 26 October. We are delighted to continue our film screenings on Wednesday evenings with support from Film Hub South West through their audience development fund with BFI. This event is part of our autumn film programme series ‘The Show Must Go On.’
About the film:
Rafiki, 2018 (12A) directed by Wanuri Kahiu
Starring: Neville Misati, Nice Githinji, Samantha Mugatsia, Vitalis Waweru, Charlie Karumi, Muthoni Gathecha
“If ever there were a cinematic equivalent of “purple prose,” the Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu finds it.” Los Angeles Times
With beautiful scenes connected through shades of fuchsia and violet, reflecting the femininity of the characters, this gentle film follows the development of love between two young women. Set against the backdrop of the bustling streets of Nairobi, the two very different girls must choose between love and safety surrounded by insular gossip, local politics and burgeoning maturity. Their magnetic pull draws us into a queer Romeo and Juliet romance, as they try to hide their relationship from their politically opposing fathers.
Directed by Wanuri Kahiu, part of a strong cohort of Kenyan female filmmakers, Rafiki was the first Kenyan film to be included in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes earlier this year, and was then controversially banned from being shown in Kenya by the Kenya Film Classification Board. LGBTQ+, Triple F Rated
Special guests Khaleb Brooks and Queer Vision Film Festival will be in conversation after the film.
Language: Swahili and English with English subtitles
Running Time: 82mins
This film contains: moderate violence, infrequent strong language and discriminatory behaviour.
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We want to keep prices to a minimum so as many people can come as possible. Tickets are therefore £5.00. Free tickets are also available for those with low income, outsider artists, asylum seekers, refugees, vulnerable migrants and the LGBTQIA+ community including indigenous and people of colour. You can also email us instead for a free ticket if that is easier for you – gotbeaf@gmail.com

The Outsiders Project: The Lock-In
2022-10-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), Bournemouth, BH1 4BP, United Kingdom
The Lock-In is our monthly event for our outstanding outsider artists to try out their new work. New writing, spoken word and music from unheard voices.
The Outsiders Project is a BEAF ARTS CO project funded by: Arts Council England, Lottery Community Fund, People’s Health Trust, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Alpine Fellowship, Sovereign Centre, Talbot Village Trust, Recreate Dorset, Artful Scribe and Literature Works.
The Outsiders Project The Lock-in 16+
TICKETS BOOK HERE
Our ticketing policy is pay what you can, either £3 or £5, solidarity tickets are for those who are able to pay a little more. Free tickets are also available for those with low income, outsider artists, asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants. You can also email us instead for a free ticket if that is easier for you – theoutsidersproj@gmail.com
All ticket income goes towards supporting our artists for future events and commissions so please support them!
