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18/06/2026

We've got our lovely local Paul Le Keux joining us for this year's Portland Fair 2026! Ready for a cabaret night of 'Royal Mannerisms'?

A Midlands transplant and island resident of five years. As The Groove Consortium and Paulo’s Hoodoo Jukebox, he has spent nearly 20 years producing community arts events, DJing festivals, PRIDE rallies, carnivals and fundraisers.

With two decades of teaching experience and a passion for bringing people together through music and creativity, you might just spot him DJing outside Quiddles - weather permitting.

To find out more : https://b-side.org.uk/artist/paul-le-keux/

15/06/2026

We’re excited to announce Ella Yolande as part of Portland Fair in That Other Place 2026.

Ella works across video, sculpture, and textiles to create immersive installations informed by q***r ecologies, colonial botanical histories, and multi-species ways of being. Her practice explores plants, bodies, and resilience through site-specific works, alternative mapping, and plant-based processes such as medicinal and dye-making.

Find out more here : https://b-side.org.uk/artist/ella-yollande/

13/06/2026

Joining us at Portland Fair in That Other Place 2026 is Alexi Marshall.

Based in Hastings and trained at the Slade School of Art, Alexi works across print, painting, mosaic, and embroidery to explore womanhood, folklore, and the blurred space between myth and lived experience. Her large-scale, hand-made works embrace the physicality of process- traces of the body, gesture, and material becoming part of the narrative itself.

Through layered, theatrical compositions, she builds new mythologies that weave together autobiography and archetype, often reclaiming and reworking traditional stories through a feminist lens.

Find out more here: https://b-side.org.uk/artist/alexi-marshall/

10/06/2026

📣REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED📣

It's been busy, we get it!
So we have extended the deadline to register for b-side FRINGE to June 14th. It literally takes 2 mins to register, just dates, times and a very brief description of your plans and BOOM it's done and your listing will appear in the printed b-side Festival Guide and map as well as online.

You then have a few months to perfect your FRINGE offerings - exhibitions, installations, photos in windows, a performance in your garden, a poetry reading in the pub, whatever it is we want to help share your creative talents with the b-side festival audiences.

Our visitors LOVE visiting the FRINGE events, so let's give them a bumper b-side experience this year. Got a question? Email Emma our FRINGE Coordinator [email protected].

Sign up www.b-side.org.uk

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09/06/2026

Want something to make your heart light up this year? We’re excited to announce Gavin Morris as part of Portland Fair in That Other Place 2026.

Gavin creates playful interactive installations designed for audiences to explore together. His touring show, The Digital Funfair, has appeared at festivals, museums, shopping centres, and public events across the UK and Europe, blending art, technology, and collaboration in unexpected ways.

Find out more here : https://b-side.org.uk/artist/gavin-morris/

07/06/2026

Get ready to see Portland in a way you've never seen it before...We’re delighted to announce Chloe Mantripp, Mike McCallum, and Sophie Greenwood as part of Portland Fair in That Other Place 2026.

Together, the trio create immersive, playful work inspired by folk stories, counterculture, and a mischievous resistance to authority. Blending physical theatre, circus, clowning, found objects, and site-specific performance, they build richly textured worlds that shift between the personal, political, and absurd.

Find out more here : https://b-side.org.uk/artist/chloe-mantripp/

05/06/2026

Got a business or a project?
Come hang out in this year’s b-side Festival guide for "That Other Place"✨

Seen by thousands of festival-goers, our printed guide is a beautiful way to get your name in front of curious creative humans!

We’re especially keen to shout about local businesses and creative folk, so if you’d like to advertise with us this year, we’d love to hear from you 💌

Drop us an email at [email protected] to for prices, sizes and more.
Let’s make something lovely together!

04/06/2026

You're warmly invited to Café Ope! 9th June
⏰ 6–8pm
📍 77 Fortuneswell

✨ An Opeful Story with "Crumpet Claire" Shilton ✨

Discover the curious tale of Frolic - a name chosen for a Bridport disco that led to unexpected Dorset connections, from an 1806 ship called HMS Frolic to a lost stone circle known as The Frolics.

Coincidence or something more? Come and hear the story.

FREE entry - Everyone welcome 💛

02/06/2026

Ready to play with light and shadow in a new way? Light Space Color are here as part of Portland Fair in That Other Place 2026.

Founded by Peter Hudson and Dawn Parsonage, they create experimental, interactive installations that invite audiences to play with light, shadow, and colour.

Working across photography, sculpture, and immersive environments, their practice often draws on archives and participation to connect communities with history and perception. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including at Tate St Ives and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

Find out more here : https://b-side.org.uk/artist/light-space-color/

29/05/2026

Ever wanted to feel a radical new experience through technology?
We've got you with 'Buried Giants' as part of Portland Fair in That Other Place 2026.

Founded by Hannah Price and Tim Powell, Buried Giants creates immersive, multi-sensory experiences that blend theatre, heritage, gaming, film, and emerging technologies to bring mythic stories to life. Working across XR, projection, AI, spatial sound, and performance, their work places audiences inside unforgettable storyworlds designed to evoke emotion and empathy.

Find out more via their artist page here:

By combining our backgrounds in theatre, heritage, gaming and film, we engage audiences in innovative, unexpected and accessible ways.