Links to the The DDF21 DAD Digital Festival site and YOU CAN REACH THE WORLD FROM DOVER 2023 site can be found here. We are working towards a Festival in 2027
Dover Arts Development (DAD) and F.A.T. Studio have joined together to offer an artist residency opportunity in Dover.
Simon Bill’s collection of essays titled ‘DOVER’ expanded his monthly blog for the DAD digital festival 2021 in to an ‘artist’s book’ modelled on pocketable travel guides, designed by Edda Salander-Jones. The blog began as a record of Bill’s experiences exploring Dover and surrounding countryside on foot.
This space in the home of Joanna Jones has belonged to the nationwide network of such Urban Rooms since 2018, physical spaces where people meet to discuss, debate and become actively involved in the destiny of their own towns and communities.
A directory of local Kentish craftspeople compiled by Nicolas Deshayes that artists working on projects in the area can call upon. Please help us keep this up to date.
Dover based artist Simon Bill has transformed the outdoor theatre/cinema at St Radigund’s Community Centre with a dazzling Op Art mural.
A multidisciplinary body of work that asks if matter and place remember the way our bodies do. Tamara Al-Mashouk and collaborators took over 6 casemates at the Citadel in June 2023 exhibiting a wave machine + sound score, a three-channel film and a photographic series.
A cross-generational arts project, using embroidery and photography focusing on different food cultures. 18 Participants from across the community stitched 29 “plates” of food-related motifs inspired by individual cultures and personal memories. The photography element involved 10 young people from Dover Technical College.
Dover Arts Development project managed three new public art commissions for the Via Francigena pilgrims way section of the North Downs Way trail.
DAD is pleased to be part of the Dover Printfest21 events celebrating the 9th Fête de l’estampe in France.