Over £25,000 Awarded in Reveal Commissions to Support New Cultural Projects Across Weymouth and Portland More than £25,000 has been awarded to local artists and community groups through the Portland & Weymouth Towns of Culture Reveal Commissions programme, helping to bring a host of creative projects to life across the two towns this autumn and [...]
A new Heritage Trail has been unveiled as part of REVEAL: Portland and Weymouth’s Towns of Culture 2025 celebrations, giving residents and visitors the chance to explore 20 historic buildings and sites across both towns this September. The trail runs alongside Heritage Open Days from 12 to 21 September 2025, [...]
FROM CONE TO COAST: ROSSI’S DISHES UP DORSET-INSPIRED DELIGHTS As part of Portland & Weymouth’s year as Towns of Culture 2025, Weymouth institution Rossi’s Ices is launching a series of imaginative ice cream dishes celebrating local heritage, landmarks, and the community that has supported them for nearly 90 years. The first of the new creations [...]
Every year, the rugged, intriguing island of Portland in Dorset becomes the stage for b-side’s Big Weekend - a series of events that transform the Island with surprising and thought-provoking contemporary art. From 11th to 14th September 2025, audiences are invited to explore installations, performances, films, and interventions created especially for Portland’s distinctive landscape [...]
Organised by Island Community Action (ICA), the Woolly Wonderland Community Yarn Bomb Festival has seen around 1,500 people from across Portland, Weymouth and beyond create thousands of wool-based items to decorate Easton Gardens, Portland. The event showcases knitted, crocheted, felted, sewn, wrapped, and tied decorations and community art pieces, including mermaids, a giant lighthouse, [...]
Residents and visitors are invited to join an uplifting afternoon of singing and music-making as SongFest takes over the Ocean Room at Weymouth Pavilion on Sunday 27 July 2025, 1.30pm to 5.30pm. Hosted by The Quangle Wangle Choir and supported by Portland & Weymouth Towns of Culture 2025, SongFest is an inclusive harmony singing [...]
Opening to the public Saturday 19th July 2025 In the spirit of Portland and Weymouth’s Towns of Culture 2025 theme, Reveal, Nothe Fort is unveiling a new exhibition exploring the lives of the rebels and daredevils who took over the Fort during its time of dereliction. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Nothe Fort was invaded [...]
Join in a double serving of fossil fun at Nothe Fort's Dinosaur-themed weekend 28-29 June, with Fossil Fest weekend and performances of Emerald Ant's Iguanodon Restaurant on Sunday 29th June! Arts company Emerald Ant and Nothe Fort, Weymouth, are pleased to present the Iguanodon Restaurant, a wonderfully quirky piece of FREE (with price of [...]
It’s time to get everybody up and sing for this year’s Chesil Youth Pride, which has the special theme ‘We are Family’. Now in its third year, Chesil Youth Pride returns to Weymouth on 28 June. The youth-led, family event celebrates Dorset’s LGBTQ+ young people in Weymouth and Portland and beyond. And it aims to [...]
Peter Roe, a physically disabled, neurodivergent performance poet, and Naomi Wilcox-Lee, a local Weymouth community activist and member of the LGBTQ+ community, are the compères of the Weymouth and Portland Spoken Words nights and facilitators of the OmniVerse Poetry workshops. Peter is the Managing Editor of The Jawbone Collective CIC, while Naomi hosts Proud [...]
Portland and Weymouth, the proud recipients of Dorset’s Towns of Culture 2025 title, have today unveiled the first cohort of successful applicants to receive funding through the REVEAL Launchpad Fund. With over a dozen projects selected, the fund awards up to £1,500 to help individuals, organisations and community groups deliver unique cultural activities across [...]