Inside Out Dorset Festival 2021

The Inside Out Festival will be returning to the Dorset AONB 24-26 September 2021, with an awe-inspiring programme set within the Symondsbury landscape.

Geophonic, Lorna Rees

We are delighted to announce that the Inside Out Festival will be returning to the Dorset AONB 24-26  September 2021, with an awe-inspiring programme set within the Symondsbury landscape.

Colmer's Hill, on the Symondsbury Estate near Bridport

Inside Out Dorset is an international outdoor arts festival that returns to wow audiences this September. Expect live performance in unexpected places – in town centres, by the sea, on hilltops and in woodland – for everyone to enjoy.

Some of Dorset’s most remarkable urban and rural spots will be transformed with experiences that touch hearts and minds like nothing else.

One of this year’s highlights includes artist Luke Jerram’s Gaia. Marvel at an awe-inspiring sculpture of the Earth hidden in the intimate landscape of the Symondsbury Estate and at Moors Valley Country Park & Forest.

Gaia by Luke Jerram, Outdoors at Bluedot, 2018

Learn about our land and climate change from Dorset artists Lorna Rees and The Shouting Mute. Capture the imaginations of little ones at family-friendly circus shows in Poole and Christchurch. And see Weymouth come to life at night with world-famous drummers and giant puppets.

We’re also very excited to pitching up with our Talking Tent project, so do come and find us!

Experience extraordinary events in extraordinary places.

Inside Out Dorset is produced by Activate Performing Arts and you can see the full programme here