Supporting Social Mobility Awareness Day 2024. Raising awareness and promoting positive activity to ensure that every child and person has the chance to succeed in our society. #ShareMoments Image credit: Jayne Jackson

Meet Working Boys Club! Have some serious fun with this multi-sensory sound installation that serves bass not beer & creates connections through music.🎹🎸🥁🎼 Get involved & find them this summer at SGP: Roots. Tickets: secretgardenparty.com/buy-sgp-roots-…

Want to relive the incredible moments of Street in the Park 2024? You can! We have just released a new documentary capturing the best of the day. Please share! vimeo.com/953535506?shar…

FIREFLIES: A WORLD PREMIERE FOR WEYMOUTH Activate is bringing two shows by the incredible Worldbeaters to Weymouth this September as part of We Are Weymouth’s Dusk Til Dark event:  activateperformingarts.org.uk/2024/06/26/wor… FREE-TO-ATTEND and family-friendly! Picture credit: Chris Maines-Beasley

Celebrating Disability Pride Month with Chloe Loftus and Rodney Bell's  mesmerizing performance at Inside Out Dorset 2023: The Air Between Us. A performance about equality and connection.  Chloe Loftus Focus on Disability Disability Rights UK DisabilityArtsOnline Diverse Abilities Diverse City

A nudge to parents out there. It's only 7 days until schools break up! Book Activate's Summer School for 5 - 11 year olds and enjoy dance, drama and music workshops from the 20 - 24 August. Dorset Council Primary Times Dorset People First Dorset Diverse Abilities Dorsetmums

Want to be inspired, get active and make new friends this summer? Sign up to Activate's Summer School and join brilliant workshops designed to let you try your hand in dance, drama and music workshops. Dorset Council Youth In Dorset Dorset Youth Association Dorset Music Hub Carer Support Dorset

The smiles just didn't stop for the FLAVOURS meet up, walk and lunch at Durlston Country Park. Huge thank you to Lorna Rees Lorna Rees who brought joy with her vibrant ear trumpets and wonderful music and to Durlston Country Park for hosting and Dorset National Landscape and Jayne Jackson - photographer/changemaker.

Gates open today for The Secret Garden Party but the party really begins when Working Boys Club start serving their incredible sounds. Expect lots of connections with the crowds through the most on it music! Don't miss them!

Activate is delighted to share that we have been invited to join Circostrada Network, the European Network for contemporary circus and outdoor arts, which increases our ability to form more outstanding international partnerships and cutting-edge performances. Artsreach Dorset Arts Council England

Activate are thrilled to announce that we have been selected to receive a grant from the Talbot Village Trust for the development of a diverse-led youth performance group for young people of colour in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) We cannot wait to start! BCP Council

A top post-fest highlight reel from The Secret Garden Party. Working Boys Club (who are midway through a packed national and international tour) took Serving Sounds to Secret Garden Party last w/end - featured at 37secs in! Contact us to book them for your event: activateperformingarts.org.uk/projects/servi…

Marking National Friendship Day and FLAVOURS which celebrates cultural diversity and enjoying  food in wonderful landscapes.  We all connected in July with Lorna Rees Lorna Rees and her amazing ear trumpets! Thanks to Dorset National Landscape, Durlston Country Park for hosting,  Jayne Jackson - photographer/changemaker.

Let's acknowledge young people’s amazing contribution to our society for NATIONAL YOUTH DAY. This is a perfect time to celebrate our incredible youth performance companies:  Dorset Youth Dance, Remix, Premix and Originals. These groups changes lives and create opportunities.

LISTEN UP! Noisy Noise Noise is by far the most interesting bookcase you’ll ever come across. It's a new customisable, interactive touring installation from Working Boys Club and it's going to LAUNCH at We Out Here Festival this week!  See you soon for a magical experience!

We're excited to announce the Art in the Landscape: Connecting People to Nature - Artists’ Residencies, as part of our Nature Calling project! Deadline: 16 September 2024. ow.ly/p8tY50T3TLr Image: Jayne Jackson Activate Arts Council England @defragovuk #outdoorarts

ONE MORE HOUR TO GO! Listen to DJ Lola interviewed TODAY at 4.15 on Radio Solent. Lucy Ambache will be chatting to DJ Lola about being crowned the grand winner of Street in the Park at We Out Here Festival bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00f…….

WE CAN REVEAL the artists and writers for Nature Calling. Commissions include a MOBO award winner, Tate Modern and British Museum artists and 6 Music favourite: naturecalling.org.uk. Funded by Arts Council England, @Defra and National Landscapes. Keep up to date on Activate.

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS! to the writer Louisa Adjoa Parker and the artist Becca Gill for being selected for Nature Calling! Both will co-create unique artworks inspired by Dorset’s iconic landscape. Keep up to date: @naturecalling25 Dorset National Landscape Activate.

We are looking forward to this event tonight and all weekend. Featuring Cie Carabosse who wowed us with the world-renowned, Fire Garden installation in Bournemouth's Lower Gardens as part of a previous InsideOutDorset festival. 101outdoorarts.com/outdoor-events…