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As a lovely way to round up 2024, three members of our team – Jen Walke-Myles, Jude Allen and Emily Thompson-Smith – reflect on the stand out moments of this year. Jen Walke-Myles, Executive Producer, said: “This year I worked on our new promotional film to show the impact of what we do, and how we […]
ReadActivate’s Producing team have selected the most memorable and brilliant events from this year. As a lovely way to round up 2024, Dom Kippin, Caroline Suri and Michaela Shaw reflect on the stand out moments: from seeing Weymouth College students rehearse with Worldbeaters to co-creating a new noisy bookcase with 400 energetic school children, […]
ReadWHAT AN INCREDIBLE COUPLE OF WEEKS! Just under 30 artists from a diversity of artistic disciplines joined us to develop their practice in the context of working in nature and ‘protected landscapes’. These residencies were part of the major national programme Nature Calling which is commissioning exceptional diverse artists to explore and celebrate nature and our National […]
ReadActivate has an ongoing commitment to supporting young people, making performing arts accessible and breaking down barriers. Recently, we created 2 bursaries enabling Weymouth College students, Miles Evans and Olly Franks, to attend Frank Wurzinger’s clowning workshop at the Lyric Theatre in Bridport on Saturday 26th October. These students had been involved in the ground breaking […]
ReadActivate will support the development and presentation of ambitious new outdoor work by artists based in the UK. Activate Performing Arts are delighted to announce that we are joining Without Walls Artistic Directorate network to commission and present the Without Walls Programme from 2025 onwards. The Artistic Directorate is responsible for curating an annual programme […]
ReadWatch our NEW incredible film by Pageant Productions about the fantastic Worldbeaters and shows Fireflies (a world premiere) and Spark! that drew people onto the streets from far and wide to Weymouth: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1019807697 We Are Weymouth’s Dusk Til Dark event ROCKED with Worldbeaters’ processional show; it was an explosion of drumming, light and community performances that wowed the […]
ReadWhat an incredible two days of shows by Worldbeaters for We Are Weymouth’s Dusk Til Dark. This free to attend event brought huge numbers of people to the streets of Weymouth and wowed everyone with the incredible light, sound and colours of the shows. Activate Performing Arts produced all of the shows which transformed Weymouth for […]
ReadOne of Remix’s long standing students gave an extraordinary performance at the Parkdean Talent Contest in Devon with his rendition of ‘Revolting Children’ this weekend. There was stiff competition with 13 finalists but this did not phase Sam at all. With three hour rehearsals to help prepare for this big moment, Sam presented his best […]
ReadWEYMOUTH COLLEGE STUDENTS JOINED FORCES WITH WORLDBEATERS FOR A SPECTACULAR PERFORMANCE AND A CHANCE OF A LIFE TIME What made Fireflies so unique was the amazing participation of Weymouth College students who had rehearsed over several days with Worldbeaters. This involved an intense process of learning new skills from high-impact drumming and dynamic choreography. […]
ReadCREATE! 2025 is a free course for those who are based in Dorset and BCP (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole) that would like to learn how artistic events are created from start to finish. Applications are now open and the deadline is Friday 15th November at 5pm. If you are someone who has a creative idea […]
ReadSPREAD THE WORD! We are brimming with excitement about the relaunch of PREMIX EAST. The Premix is an inclusive youth performance company open to 5 – 11 year-olds which works with both disabled and non-disabled children. We would love to invite you to this special launch. MEET US at the Allendale Centre, Wimborne on the […]
ReadDorset National Landscape in partnership with Activate Performing Arts is going to feature as a major hub in a £2M ground-breaking national art project, Nature Calling, which is funded by Arts Council England, the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) and National Landscapes in England. Today, we announce the artists that have been […]
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