Dover Arts Development (DAD)
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DAD is an artist-led organisation producing & co-creating projects of excellence in visual arts, poetry, sound & music within Dover District, SE England.
Dover
Joined July 2010
As of one minute past midnight on January 1st 2024 founder director Joanna Jones was joined by four new Dover Arts Development co-directors: Charles Holland, Edda Salander-Jones, Richard Bundy and Simon Bill with Nicolas Deshayes as Guardian. https://t.co/2o2ZgQnEfM
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This weekend marks the formal end of our summer festival programme. We’re Looking Out For You will be a lantern parade along Dover seafront. You can get involved and make a lantern on Saturday 07th or join us on the 08th at 6.30pm. More info here:
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Join us this Saturday at Dover’s Silver Screen for a viewing of Andrew Cross’ film An English Journey. Andrew will also be showing archive footage about Dover and will be in conversation with @charlesjholland. The event is free and part of #youcanreachtheworldfromdover23
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This Saturday 16th: Dover Unlocked. Anna Phoebe and Richard Bundy will be talking about their collaborative music and film project exploring hidden Dover with Joanna Jones. Tickets available via our website. @JJ_Dover @AnnaPhoebe @ace_national @KentDownsAONB @NorthDownsWayNT
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Not much entices me out of Folkestone nowadays but I was so pleased I went to @JJ_Dover’s beguiling & monumental show, ‘Shocked Into Presence’. Congratulations to Joanna & her colleagues @DoverArts for finding the startling venue -The Citadel- & for their wonderfully warm welcome
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Tomorrow’s festival walk is from Snowdown to Shepherdswell features two artworks on the North Downs Way National Trail. The walk starts c10am. Trains arrive at Snowdown at 10.03 and the walk leaders will wait for anyone on it. Eventbrite link below:
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Coming up on Sunday with @DoverArts🚶♀️ A walk to From After the Black Gold to Monumenta Romana 👇 https://t.co/5rvYpG83k9
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Our latest festival walk is this Sunday! Join @DanielStilwell of @CharlesHollArch, Ryan Cook of Channel and Peter Morris of @NorthDownsWayNT. Cc @VisitDover @VisitEastKent @KentDownsAONB @ace_national
This Sunday join @danieljstilwell and myself for a walk across the Kent Downs. The route will take in Monumenta Romana and After The Black Gold, two public artworks by @CharlesHollArch’s and Channel. Tickets are free but book via @DoverArts. #youcanreachtheworldfromdover23
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On Sunday 03rd From After the Black Gold to Monumenta Romana will explore the North Downs Way Arts Trail + works by @CharlesHollArch +Channel. Events are free but book here: https://t.co/zCvaA98QfJ
@NorthDownsWayNT @KentDownsAONB @ace_national #youcanreachtheworldfromdover23
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More festival events coming up! This Sunday is the second of Danny Bee’s Radical Walks. These walks uncover a hidden political history of the town covering the Captain Swing riots, the suffragette movement and more….the walk is free but book here:
eventbrite.co.uk
Discover the surprising and often hidden radical history of the town of Dover with Danny Bee.
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For the past few weeks, Gabor Stark has been exploring Dover with Voltaire’s Rake, a mobile sculpture. Garbor’s project is part of #youcanreachtheworldfromdover23, our summer-long arts festival. You can read about his derive through the town here:
precariouspropositions.wordpress.com
on space, time, architecture & art
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This Sunday: Dover Crossings 2, a walk exploring Dover’s peripheries with artist Simon Bill. #youcanreachtheworldfromdover23 @DoverArts @KentDownsAONB @NorthDownsWayNT @ace_national
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A reminder for tonight’s odyssey into the fictional heart of Dover. Travis Elborough, Danny Bee and me will set sail into the channel and draw connections between King Lear, Brian Eno, 1950’s menu options, Shirley Bassey, hovercraft and nuclear Armageddon.
eventbrite.co.uk
Dover Fictions is a three way conversation between Danny Bee, Travis Elborough and Charles Holland.
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This week will see @AnnaPhoebe + Richard Bundy perform Dover Unlocked at the Grand Shaft + on Sunday Melanie Wrigley will walk from CHA’s lighthouse to the South Foreland to talk geology and the megaflood that cut England off from Europe. Tickets are free - book via our website.
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Our #youcanreachtheworldfromdover23 festival is in full flight! This week we have had a walk across the cliffs led by Jamie Partridge, a two-day workshop in Kearsney Abbey run by Alma Tischlerwood and @CharlesHollArch have installed I’m Looking Out For You on Clocktower Square.
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This weekend will see the second in our Sunday Walks on 23rd July. Explore the butterflies & birds of Dover’s chalk cliffs with Jamie Partridge. It’s free but book via: https://t.co/jCHgl4qfXT
@NorthDownsWayNT @KentDownsAONB @ace_national
#youcanreachtheworldfromdover23
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More fantastic festival events this week! Artist Alma Tischlerwood will be hosting From Dover with Love X, a two-day ‘happening’ in Kearsney Abbey on 21st + 22nd. Details via https://t.co/jCHgl4qfXT
#youcanreachtheworldfromdover23
@KentDownsAONB @NorthDownsWayNT @ace_national
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📢 Have you heard about the 'You Can Reach The World From Dover 2023' Festival? We're proud to be supporting this brand new festival from @DoverArts celebrating Dover’s contemporary life and rich history 🙌 https://t.co/AMTgTLGVMv
#youcanreachtheworldfromdover23
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