Half Term Has Never Been This Much Fun!

Aged 7-14years? Don’t know what to do with yourself this half term? Then join us at Dorchester ARTS on our mission to banish half term boredom!!

Are you a budding dancer or an actor? Could you be a future puppeteer? 

Do you dream of producing your very own animated film? Or maybe you just want to have as much creative fun as possible this half term?! Then Make a Date to CREATE! at Dorchester ARTS Centre from Monday 25 to Friday 29 of October 

Monday 25: Create A Puppet with Kathy Webb - Spend the day creating your own puppet to use during the play-in-a-day on Tuesday and then to take home to make stories come to life at home! 

Tuesday 26: Create A Play in a Day. Join Youth Theatre Leader Jo Simons to have your chance to create a whole play in just one day! Produce a storyboard, make props and costumes and perform a play for your family at 3.30pm.

Wednesday 27: Dance Live Diversity. Learn some basic streetdance moves with professional dancer Katey Leader.

Katey, from the show Elvis Still my Heart, will have you breaking, popping and locking as she takes you through a range of popular hip hop dance moves.

On Thursday 28 and Friday 29, Create An Animation over two days - Create a short animated film from story board to DVD with community film maker Alastair Nisbet. Children will develop a story and bring it to life using a variety of stop frame animation techniques. Parents invited to watch the “rushes” at 3.45pm on the second day. All children receive a copy on DVD. Watch previous films at www.nisbetmedia.co.uk (special offer £30 for both days) 

Dorchester ARTS is the place to be this half term, and with all this on offer, holiday boredom is definitely a thing of the past – mission accomplished!!

Make a Date to CREATE! at Dorchester ARTS Centre • Monday 25 to Friday 29 of October • 10am – 4pm • Bring packed lunches • £18 per day (£80 for the week) • Age 7 – 14 years • Bookings: 01305 266926

A performance waiting for a spine to tingle...

Send two artists to the Arctic and what do you get? An extraordinary fusion of dance, poetry and science in ‘The Shiver’ - a spine-tingling dance performance exploring the emotions and events behind why we shiver - whether through pain or pleasure.

The Shiver - at Dorchester Corn Exchange on Friday October 15th – combines three beautiful Indian dancers with the words of poet Lemn Sissay - and concludes with a discussion introduced by Quentin Cooper from BBC Radio 4’s Material World.

The work came out of a cultural response to climate change - the Cape Farewell Project - in which both artistic director Subathra Subramaniam and Lemn Sissay spent time in the Arctic working with groups of young people.

Dorchester Arts’ Artistic Director Sharon Hayden said they were thrilled to be hosting such an innovative new dance: “On one level, this is a wonderful performance by three remarkable dancers - add the poetry of Lemn Sissay and the science underpinning it and you have an extraordinary evening’s entertainment.”

Subathra Subramaniam has choreographed numerous original pieces of dance for youth and school groups and was recently artistic director of “Returning to Dance Nepal”, a cultural exchange project between the Gurkha community of the Blandford Army Camp and the local community that included a dance work for 13 Gurkha soldiers.

Dorchester Arts welcomes the return of Lemn Sissay, a poet, playwright and broadcaster with an Ethiopian and Eritrean heritage. He contributes regularly to BBC Radio.  He is currently poet-in-residence at London’s South Bank. The Independent newspaper said: “His name is magic, his poems are the songs of the street.”

Tickets  £10 (members £8) Under 18s £6
Box Office: 01305 266926  

baddest blues band ever ?

Zoe Schwarz and Rob Koral make a welcome return to Dorchester Arts on Saturday with a band described by Time Out as one of the finest blues and roots acts in the world - wow!

The Baddest Blues Band (ever!) brings together some of the funkiest musicians from the parallel worlds of blues, jazz and rock.

“Mixing jazz and rock into a quaking blues mix, this band features sultry vocalist Zoe Schwartz with virtuoso support from guitarist Rob Koral, harp blower Si Genaro and Hammond organ grinder extraordinaire, Mike Gorman combining for some truly kick-ass blues sounds. Recommended” Time Out
http://www.myspace.com/thebaddestbluesbandever#ixzz11ZZ8fRWA
Dorchester Arts • 8pm (doors and bar 7.30pm) • £10/£8