Inside Out Dorset

Inside Out Dorset

Inside Out Dorset — Friday 12 – Sunday 21 September 2025

Inside Out Dorset is an international outdoor arts festival that returns to wow audiences this September. Expect live performance and giant installations in unexpected places – in town centres, on hillsides, and by the sea – for everyone to enjoy.

Some of Dorset’s most remarkable urban and rural spots will be transformed with experiences that touch hearts and minds like nothing else.

The festival features artists from Catalonia, India, the UK, as well as Dorset-based companies. And this festival, more than any other, has been made creatively with the active collaboration of hundreds of people from Dorset, Hampshire and South Somerset engaging with the landscape.

This year sees a diverse range of events animating some of the region’s most remarkable places. The programme includes a new Giant for the Dorset landscape, the county’s response to the international River of Hope arts-based learning project, a remarkable new sound trail in a working forest, four astonishing performance pieces from the Catalan region in one of Dorset’s most iconic villages, and an amazing, site-specific promenade performance against the backdrop of a Georgian seafront.

Experience extraordinary events in extraordinary places. This year’s festival takes place in Christchurch, Moors Valley Country Park and Forest, Yeovil, Corfe Castle and Weymouth.

Inside Out Dorset is produced by Activate Performing Arts.