Sustainable Development Fund 961.44 Kb - the Dorset AONB

Exploring and celebrating landscapes
Inside Out Festival
The first ever Inside Out festival in 2007
set out to run extraordinary events in
extraordinary places, attracting over
30,000 people to the biggest free outdoor
performance programme in the South
West. The Sustainable Development Fund
supported the West Bay and Hambledon
Hill events to see how these outdoor
spaces could be turned into performance
spaces for the day.
‘Counter Currents’ at West Bay laid on
drama, music, acrobatics and dance
against the backdrop of the Jurassic
Coast. Young people from the area were
offered the chance to perform in and
dance to a 10 000 strong crowd on the day.
‘Enclosure’ set up on Hambledon Hill
attracted 700 people despite wind and
rain, the atmospheric journey involving
dance, music and fire that many described
as a once in a lifetime experience. Local
school children had been involved in
pottery making in the run up to the event
and took part in the procession up the
hill on the night.
Inside Out has since helped launch the
Cultural Olympiad and hopes to return
in 2010 for another ground breaking
festival.
Landlines
4Reel Films used film celebrating our
landscape heritage through dance,
drama, music and animation, based on
the work of Thomas Hardy. Through their
‘Landlines’ project, the DVD film they
created uses sequences drawn from
Hardy’s work and translated into different
media, using his words as a soundtrack.
It includes factual information about
Hardy – the people and places that
influenced and inspired.