This event is FREE and available for viewing throughout the Festival week

A collaborative installation of small artworks created by a variety of groups within the local community and by the young people of our charity partner, Be Free Young Carers. Designed and led and by Oxford-based artist Emma Coleman-Jones, individual responses to The Abbey, the village and the local landscape are displayed together in an innovative design inspired by the windows and arches within the Abbey itself. Through the generous support of locally-based and internationally-renowned sculptor David Harber, the supporting arches used to create the display in the People’s Chapel will be auctioned at the end of the festival to provide additional funds for our charities.

At 11am on Saturday 2nd May it will be formally opened by the artists who have created it and we are hoping all the community artists who have contributed will come and see their work in place.

If you’d like to submit a piece for the Art Installation we’d love to hear from you! Here’s a leaflet with some more information and you can collect your paper from the box on the table on the North wall of the Abbey.  All the pieces need to be on the same paper but can be any art form from craft to crochet to oils, drawing or watercolours.  The subject can be anything related to Dorchester or its surroundings.  Please return the pieces to the box in the Abbey or to Steph Forman at 73 High St by Easter.

If you need disabled parking or access do contact us here with your requirements – we’d love to help you!

This event is sponsored by Hallidays