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The festival included a number of performances, screenings, interactive and time-based activities. Scroll down to review all the happenings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rolling On and Off<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

by Andrew Cross<\/a><\/p>\n

During the course of our summer arts festival, Andrew Cross hosted two afternoon film screenings. Each one included a piece of his own work alongside clips of period footage that has informed it. Andrew\u2019s work focuses on the often overlooked and ignored networks of commerce, trade, transport and logistics that supply our needs and support our lifestyles. His photographs and films map these processes and constitute a contemporary form of landscape-based art.<\/p>\n

Passage<\/em> is a film commissioned to mark the opening of the channel tunnel link from Dover to St Pancras and it follows the route. Set against the slow tuning of a piano in the Handel house, the camera seeks out the tunnel below the ground. Lyrical and poignant, and yet matter-of-fact, Passage<\/em> describes the profound and pragmatic realities of travel.<\/p>\n

Andrew\u2019s contributions to the festival placed Dover within a nexus of travel and transport, reaffirming its status as a place of departure and arrival and a space and place of logistics, trade and commerce.<\/p>\n

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Dover Fictions<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Danny Bee<\/a>: Radical Walker
\nTravis Elborough<\/a>: Writer and Broadcaster
\nCharles Holland<\/a>: Architect and writer<\/p>\n

Back in August,\u00a0 Vinoteq wine bar (run by Dave Robinson<\/a>) hosted an evening of talks exploring depictions of Dover in literature, pop music, TV and film.<\/p>\n

To a soundtrack supplied by Blur (Clover over Dover), Brian Eno (Dover Beach), Shirley Collins (Sailor from Dover) and others, Danny B, Travis Elborough and Charles Holland each took turns to explore the town\u2019s fictional self.<\/p>\n

Riddley Walker<\/em>, Moonraker<\/em>, Vile Bodies<\/em>, The Military Orchid<\/em> and King Lear<\/em> all depict Dover in some way, using the town and the white cliffs as both a metaphor and a literal setting. They and other books, songs and films proved a fascinating lens through which to view Dover and try to understand its shifting role and status in popular and literary culture.<\/p>\n

The evening filled Vinoteq\u2019s cellar bar literally to the rafters, with the audience camped out on the stairs and squeezed into corners. It made for a wonderfully atmospheric and entertaining evening of stories, ideas and speculations.<\/p>\n

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No Forwarding Address<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

by Pokit<\/a> and Tomas Poblete<\/a><\/p>\n

Back in July, two houses on Dover\u2019s Castle Street were transformed into an impromptu, outside, exhibition of portraits, a true urban \u201chappening\u201d.<\/p>\n

Invited by DAD to contribute to our summer arts festival, new Castle Street residents Pokit (Claire and Bayode Oduwole) and Tomas Poblete collaborated on a striking street intervention. Various residents and workers from Castle Street were photographed by Tomas Poblete wearing one of Pokit\u2019s white suits. The resulting portraits were displayed as billboard sized images on scaffolding, a public celebration of the lives on this busy Dover thoroughfare.<\/p>\n

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From Dover with Love x<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

by Alma Tischlerwood<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dover Festival Happening \u2018from Dover with Love<\/em>\u2019 by Alma Tischlerwood took place over two days in August and September. It started at the \u2018Alice<\/em>\u2019 sculpture in Kearsney Abbey that Alma completed in 2019. Here many of the poets and musicians that had been at the original launch of her Alice sculpture came to perform music and poetry as well as fold boats and write love messages on the red paper boats . The second day started at the Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club. After more making and messaging, a procession \u2013 led by Diane Mae Ironside Bundy \u2013 took the boats to the seafront passing Alma\u2019s two other Dover public art works; the START\/FINISH<\/em> line from 2010 and ‘Everyone\u2019s a Winner bench<\/em>‘ from 2023. The messages were love messages to the world from Dover launched into the sea. Watch the video here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Voltaire’s Rake<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Gabor Stark<\/a><\/p>\n

For the duration of DAD\u2019s summer arts festival, architect Gabor Stark undertook a series of urban d\u00e9rives, walks through and around Dover together with Voltaire\u2019s Rake, a peripatetic sculpture.<\/p>\n

The sculpture is based around the concluding words of Voltaire\u2019s novel Candide. \u201cMais il faut cultiver notre Jardin\u201d can be translated as \u201cBut we must cultivate our garden\u201d, a call to tend our lives and relationships after the years of war and human folly.<\/p>\n

Gabor\u2019s sculpture was photographed in various locations and accompanied other events in the programme, a constant reminder of priorities and an article of faith. It also kick started conversations and elicited interactions with passers by.<\/p>\n

In this image, Gabor is photographed on his second d\u00e9rive along the cliffs by @zhuozhangli.<\/p>\n

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Sentinel Trees<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by\u00a0Ian Bride<\/a><\/p>\n

On Sunday, 17th of September Dr Ian Bride led his Sentinel Trees<\/em> Happening; \u2018interviewing\u2019 Kearsney Abbey specimens and fusing different creative elements to help participants enjoy, cherish, and properly honour their gaze’. The event was split into two parts.<\/p>\n

Part 1 comprised a walking introduction, sharing knowledge and imaginings about a selection of the specimen trees at Kearsney Abbey.<\/p>\n

Part 2, in the nearby River Dour classroom, focused on composing Haikus \u2013 the Japanese short poetic form, with its three line, 5-7-5 syllable pattern \u2013 inspired by the morning spent with Kearsney Abbey trees. Participants were then tasked with translating their own Haikus into the ancient Irish alphabet (Ogham) before drawing their Ogham Haiku onto a piece of wood to take with them.<\/p>\n

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We’re looking out for you<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Gabor Stark<\/a> and Charles Holland<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018We’re looking out for you<\/em>‘ was the Dover Arts Festival final event – a magical lighthouse-lantern parade on October 8th ending at the Festival temporary lighthouse, designed by Charles Holland Architects and erected by Equip Scaffolding, ‘I’m looking out for you<\/em>\u2019, on the Port of Dover\u2019s Marina Curve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It was the culmination of the ‘You can reach the world from Dover 2023<\/em>\u2019 Festival that had begun in mid June. It marked a week of collaboration with the Dover-based social enterprise Future Foundry, workshops and knowledge exchange, with their lantern makers and thirty two M.ARCH master of architecture students from across the globe who have come to study at the University of the Creative Arts Canterbury, School of Architecture and Design. Their tutors Gabor Stark and Charles Holland assigned this project to be the first of their academic year.<\/p>\n

The students, together with local families, designed and built portable lighthouses for the lantern parade that consolidated and celebrated the Festival partnership between Dover Arts Development and Future Foundry.<\/p>\n

It was a perfect evening – warm and still. The parade was led by Paul Cheneour<\/a> on flutes and Dave Robinson<\/a> on drums and was joined by 200 people. It brought to a close a Festival where Dover’s creative community came together and reached out to Dover and the world beyond.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Roger Parish for the photo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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