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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. More...

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. More...

Luckily for Us: Short film by Ed Jones produced by PVA Media Lab for B Side 2008. Art film about Seahorses. More...

More to come

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. More...

More to come

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. More...

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. More...

Create a giant sand ammonite sculpture on the beach with Alan and Lynne Vian. More...

More to come