Can you guess what it is yet ?

A new type of dinosaur has been discovered by one of the artists working on this week's Dorchester Festival..

It's big, it will be carried by up to eight people, and it will take pride of place in the most spectacular, noisy and scariest Festival parade yet - this Saturday, June 2nd leaving the Corn Exchange at 12.30pm.

Artist Heidi Steller worked with groups of children all day in South Street to make the willow frame of the beast - a Gigantasaurus.

"They had a great time - and they have created a magnificent shape for our Festival dinosaur," explained Community Outreach officer Kathie Prince. "In fact it is so big that two of us had to carry the frame across town to Manor Park First School at the end of the day, where Heidi and James Kimber founder of junk band Weapons of Sound will be in residence during the week. If you saw a dinosaur heading across town at the end of the day, it was us!"


Join Gigantasaurus - if you dare - on June 2nd as it wends its way down South Street on Saturday towards the main Festival site in the Borough Gardens - and bop to the sounds of the funkiest, junkiest festival drummers, lad by James.

Feast your ears on the amazing Jaipur Brass Band direct from India who will lead the procession and then perform in the gardens.

Dorchester has never seen anything like it !