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Art / Music / Theatre
The Fossil Festival arts programme contains a range of events and activities aimed at adults and young people, many of which are participatory.
Music and Film
Robyn Hitchcock, surrealist singer-songwriter and guitarist, will
headline the Festival with a performance in the Marine Theatre on the
evening of Saturday, 1 May. More...
The B Sharp youth music ensemble will perform a musical extravaganza
on the themes of fossils and biodiversity, accommpanied by a VJ video
backdrop. More...
Cape Farewell - There
will be a screening of Art from the Arctic, a co-production with the
BBC. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Cape
Farewell founder David Buckland. More...
End of the
Line - The world’s first major documentary about the devastating effect of
overfishing, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year.
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The Blue
Planet: a natural history of the oceans. The Festival will screen Seasonal
Seas, and Coasts, two of the BBC1 Natural History Unit series of eight
programmes narrated by David Attenborough.
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Luckily
for Us: Short film by Ed Jones produced by PVA Media Lab for B Side 2008. Art film about Seahorses.
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Street Theatre
Innovative theatre company Desperate Men will premier "Everything Gets Eaten",
their specially devised Biodiversity Show, created to mark the
International Year of Biodiversity. More...
Street performer extraordinaire, Herbie Treehead brings his show full
of tricks, with dolphins, and their encounter with ancient forbears
ichthyosaurs. More...
Lyme Youth Theatre perform their specially-devised piece about
biodiversity around the streets of Lyme Regis. More...
My
Stonebalancing performance has been a successful attraction on the beach
at Lyme Regis for the last three years. More...
Right to Play will tell the story of the young girl from Lyme Regis whose
fossil discoveries during the early 19th century paved the way for our
present understanding of fossils and geology.
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2D & 3D Art
Mass Extinction
Memorial Observatory (MEMO) will carve an 'endangered species' which
will remain in Lyme Regis, and will continue to work on
the Syrian Wild Ass. More...
Christine Allison and Darrell Wakelam will engage young people in
making beautiful artwork related to the theme. More...
The Cabinet of Curiosities is an interactive museum
cabinet which encourages children of all ages to explore some of the science of the coast. More...
Selected works from Mapping the Jurassic Coast - a collaborative project by
artists Jeremy Gardiner and Amanda Wallwork exploring the archaeology and geology
of the Dorset and East Devon coastline.
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Graffiti artist, Cleo Heard, will be setting the young people of Lyme Regis
a challenge to explore the theme of biodiversity in an exciting visual arts
project using their 185 million Natural World Heritage Site as inspiration.
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Create a giant sand ammonite sculpture on the beach with Alan and Lynne Vian.
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