Highlights

Our last festival took place in 2023 and it was our biggest yet. 33,000 visits were made across five unique rural and urban Dorset locations, making memories that will last a lifetime and having a huge impact on the local community and economy.

Watch our Inside Out Dorset 2023 film and see how the festival makes memories that last lifetimes!

Inside Out Dorset is an outdoor international festival of extraordinary events in extraordinary places that takes place across sites in Dorset. Since 2007, we’ve brought live performance to unexpected places – town centres, village squares, beaches and hilltops – for everyone to enjoy.

Our vision for every festival is to create extraordinary moments to connect and uplift us all.

At Inside Out Dorset 2023:

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visits were made across 5 locations

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Internationally renowned artists, from 10 different countries across Europe, took part

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of audiences surveyed for 2023 rated their whole experience of the festival as ‘very good’ or ‘good’

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school children, 5 and 6 year olds, engaged in school workshops

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volunteering hours were completed across 5 sites

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of audiences surveyed rated the accessibility of the festival as ‘very good’ and ‘good’.

We present international artists and companies

We featured companies from India, New Zealand, France, Italy, Germany and The Netherlands, as well as from the UK and the South West.

“It is always a great pleasure to participate in Inside Out Dorset 2023. Thank you for your work and the exceptional welcome you gave us. I’d also like to highlight the incredible work you seem to be doing on issues of audience accessibility.”

Cécile Durot, French company Le. G. Bistaki.

Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band pose with their instruments.Four men in white suits throw corn in the air.

Work in the community

Whenever we create our events we make sure they’re made for and with our communities.
We worked with a number of artists to deliver a range of workshops prior to, and during, the 2023 festival involving community centres and schools.

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The approximate number of volunteering hours completed across the five sites.

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Children, 5 and 6 year olds, took part in inspiring workshops and events.

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Volunteers supported the 2023 festival.

“My son is neurodiverse, ASC, and this is the first festival he has been fully engaged in since lockdown. Very positive festival for families, and has had a positive effect on his mental wellbeing.”
Audience member

“Events like this in Weymouth mean locals and visitors experience our town in a really special way.”
Dawn Rondeau
Chief Operations Officer, We Are Weymouth

Feeling inspired

Volunteers are at the heart of the festival, it simply would not exist without them. Find out more today and register your interest in volunteering at our 2025 festival.

Work in the landscape

With the current climate crisis, we consciously work in greener ways, understanding that we all need to be part of the solution in protecting our planet.

Some of the things we did at Inside Out Dorset 2023:

  • Created no negative environmental impact through our rigorous event planning and management.
  • Provided drinking water points where visitors could fill up their own bottle.
  • Encouraged our artists to travel in more environmentally-friendly ways.
  • Printed our festival brochure on recycled paper.
  • Printed our outdoor information boards on 100% recyclable Triaprint.
  • Offered a FREE bus service from Poole and Dorchester to the festival site at Bere Regis.
  • Promoted travelling to Inside Out Dorset by public transport, car share, cycling or walking.
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