Dorchester’s Anonymous Festival Grant

Young people and community workers who organise Dorchester's free

youth festival were pleased to learn last week that the festival has been

awarded a grant through the Arts Council.

The grant will allow Anonymous festival, held in Maumbury Rings on

Saturday 28th August, to add even more activities and performers to

a day already packed with local musicians.

The festival will now also have Boredbrands Digital Funfair, which

combines new media, dance music, film and things found lying around in the street

to create an interactive experience. There will be a chance for young people to

try out free running with Train Hard.

Another new feature of the festival will be PIG from the Whalley

Range All Stars, which features a 30 foot long sleeping sow in a pen where the

public get a chance to peek at a show that takes place inside her belly (see picture). 

Added to the main stage line up is an Acoustic Cafe with Jack

Harrison and Joe Trudgeon, Lil Dreads, Beth Hyde, Owen & Capaldi and Ali

Rich, while a host of DJs take to the decks in the festival’s own silent disco.

On the main stage there will be acts such as the Kathy Davies

School of Dance, the Dorchester Ballet and Dance Club, Dorchester Youth Theatre

and Distinction with Cheerleading and Street Dance.

Emma Scott, Community Development Officer for West Dorset District

Council said: “This grant is great news. Anonymous was already looking to build

on the success of last year, but we can know add so much more to the day, it

really will have something for everyone.

“We not only have some brilliant local bands, but we now have some

amazing activities for people to take part in and performers to be inspired

by.”

Anonymous 2010 will be held in Maumbury Rings on 28th August

from 12.00 p.m. –10.00 p.m.