PLAY
ART MONTH
Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole
September 2022
Early autumn is shaping up to be Arts Month in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
Opening up with the globally renowned Airship Orchestra Installation by Studio ENESS that runs for 4 weeks and finishing with the Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival, its further pushes forward our ambitions of being a Coast of Culture.
GIANT OFFSITE
AIRSHIP ORCHESTRA
by ENESS
8 September – 9 October 2022
The Triangle, BH2 5SE
Airship Orchestra by ENESS is an ambitious, joyous intervention that will see several large-scale inflatable, interactive sculptures installed in the town centre. Epitomising the overarching theme for Art Month – ‘PLAY’ – the sculptural environment of Airship Orchestra is one for all to engage with throughout its run.
GIANT
FOREVER: CHANGED
curated by Stuart Semple
16 July – 16 October 2022
Bobbies - Floor Two
Through the works of several major contemporary artists, tHe exhibition FOREVER: CHANGED, we gain an important perspective on this difficult moment in which the future we believed in was slowly cancelled. Takes its title from a Lou Reed and John Cale song about their friend and mentor, Andy Warhol’s death. The song implies that after Warhol our world has been irreversibly changed.
The big idea is that rather than having a critical distance from the subject, in the case of many post-war artists this was culture itself, today’s artists are living inside it. It’s as if we all find ourselves living in one big Warhol.
Arts by the Sea - Christchurch Edition
Saturday 10th September
Saxon Square & Druitt Gardens
Friday 30th September
Press Play
The Media Workshop & House Gospel Choir
Bournemouth’s Town Hall
The Luminarium by Architects of Air
The Lower Gardens
The Nectary by Alison Smith
Central Gardens
Arts by the Sea Festival, Bournemouth’s annual celebration of art, culture, people and place, will explore the theme of PLAY in all its forms. Through a range of music, dance, theatre, installations and spectacles, festival goers can shake off the seriousness of what has been and rediscover the profound nature of the act of PLAY.
GET INVOLVED
The theme for September’s Art Month is Play.
Are you planning a creative event, exhibition or performance around this theme?
Send in details and a selection will be chosen to be featured in the PLAY calendar.