What's on
We curate the BEAF arts festival but also programme events throughout the year from our pop-up venue, Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.), at our workshop and events space, The Old School House, (TOSH) or at temporary locations, depending on the event. For example, in 2022 we brought a performance of Julius Caesar from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre to Boscombe’s Sovereign Centre carpark. Regular events include a Wednesday night film programme in our lounge cinema in B.A.D. plus our weekly specialist workshops linked to our projects, The Outsiders Project and Seeking Refuge Project. We announce all our upcoming events via our newsletter and on social media.
We also work with our partners at TOSH to programme workshops and courses to support professional practice for artists, including meetup events, mentoring and business support. See further information here.
Current projects and events
OSC Events
OSC is a collaboration between BEAF Arts Co and TOSH (The Old School House) to support our community of artists and their artistic development at all stages of their career. OSC events and workshops are for artists interested in collaboration, skills development, community and networking.
OSC Lucky Draw
No strings attached £500 support fund for artists and creatives based in the Bournemouth (BH) Postcode area to develop your professional arts practice.
Apply just once and if eligible you will be entered into every Lucky Draw for 12 months.
Spring Deadline: Mon 24th Feb
Tattoo Tour by The Outsiders Project
Tour dates:
Thurs 24 April, 7-8.30pm, Palace Court Theatre, Bournemouth. Book here.
Thurs 5 June, 8-9.30pm, Poole Lighthouse, Poole. Book here.
Thurs 16 October, 7.30-9pm, Forest Arts Centre, New Milton. Book here.
Every tattoo has a story and these have never been heard before.
Every word is written and performed by our outstanding outsider artists. Expect strong language, uncensored stories and brilliant writing.
Tattoo is a collection of first person stories performed by artists with extraordinary lived experience. A true celebration of unheard voices.
Writing Reality – Tattoo Stories with The Outsider’s Project
Fri 25 April, 1.30-2.30pm, Pavilion Dance
Every tattoo has a story – but what story do your scars tell?
Following on from the Thursday night performance at the Palace Court Theatre, using The Outsiders Project methodology to explore the stories buried under ink and time.
With stories from prison, the depths of addiction and recovery rooms – The Outsiders Project works with artists to tell stories that are exquisite, fearless, and uncensored. Join our outsider artists in a workshop designed to discover the key to writing stories rooted in raw, unfiltered truth.
Note, these tickets are for the workshop only. Performance tickets are available here.
You're Not Alone: Women in Art 2025
Presenting ‘You’re Not Alone: Women in Art 2025‘, two site specific exhibitions across Muzeum Śląskie in Katowicach, Poland and Boscombe Arts Depot in Bournemouth, UK, as part of the events programmed for the UK/Poland 2025 Festival initiated by the British Council.
You’re Not Alone: Women in Art 2025 brings together ten visual artists; their experiences as women outside mainstream art and education and foregrounding their significant contributions to contemporary art.
The exhibition showcases the spectrum of different journeys through painting, drawing, textiles and installation, created by self-taught, working class, learning disabled and neurodivergent artists, and by women who feel excluded because of the systems and structures that are inherent within the art world.
Conceived and researched by Carol Maund, Director, BEAF Arts
Featuring works by artists living in the South and Southwest of England it includes: Mahlia Amatina, Kate Bradbury, Ann Churchill, Yvonne Mabs Francis, Sarah Jane Hender, Delaine Le Bas, Kim Noble, Elinor Rowlands, Patricia Shrigley and Kwaga Sillingi.
Painting © Sarah Jane Hender
Weekly workshops
Creative writing with the Outsiders Project
Mondays 11.30am-1pm
Tuesdays 6-8pm
Wednesdays 6-8pm (bi-weekly only starting from the 15 Jan) is a LGBT+ writing group.
All at at TOSH.
We run weekly creative writing workshops throughout the year with marginalised communities in Boscombe. They help to develop skills, confidence and self-belief.
To read more about who these workshops are for and our criteria click here.
No experience is necessary for all of our workshops. If you are interested in joining our workshops, please email us at theoutsidersproj@gmail.com
Photography with the Outsiders Project
Specific Saturdays in the day throughout the year
We run weekly photography workshops, developing skills in analogue and digital photography. These workshops are free for people that have been sidelined from society and whose voices have not been heard.
To read more about who these workshops are for and our criteria click here.
No experience is necessary for all of our workshops. If you are interested in joining our workshops, please email us at theoutsidersproj@gmail.com
Thursday Threads by Seeking Refuge
Thursdays 12.30- 2.30pm at TOSH
Seeking Refuge workshops are on going projects that give people seeking asylum, refugees and vulnerable migrants a space to come together and work creatively, as well as meeting new people.
Currently, we run free women’s workshops, called ‘Thursday Threads’, which meet every Thursday, at TOSH, the Old School House, Boscombe. Providing a supportive space, friendship and creative activities to enjoy over a cup of tea. More info here.
Contact Caroline for more info if you or if you know someone that would like to join one of our workshops, at:
caroline.bjohnson@recreatedorset.co.uk