Festival Coast Live!

Celebrating the great outdoors throughout the summer, Festival Coast Live! brings popup performances and activities to popular locations: 

Lower Gardens - Bandstand - Pine Walk -  Star Tent - Big Screen

The beautiful Lower Gardens,  only a five minute walk from the main Bournemouth shopping centre, the beach and the pier, are a perfect location for enjoying all the entertainment and activities on offer as part of hte Festival Coast Live! programme this summe. 

Over the Summer the Gardens are playing host to a variety of musical, theatrical and cultural activities and performances including music and street entertainment delivered as part of the Arts by the Sea Summer Programme.  Pavilion Dance South West are performing their energetic dance activities - Dancing Terraces and in the Pine Walk Aviary behind the bandstand you will find all sorts of family-friendly entertainment, arts, crafts and sports under the banner of ‘Westoverton’

The Lower Gardens Bandstand will see performances celebrating Jamaican Independence day and musical highlights such as Miss Ruby's Roadhouse Blues Band and a 70s and 80s classics night including songs from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. It will also host a series of Young Singers showcases providing the opportunity for local singers to perform live in front of an audience.

Throughout the summer in the Star Tent you will find the Great Ukelele Making Week, King Brass workshops and an Arts Club provided through the Soundstorm Music Education Agency as well as a series of Dance Crazy Kids dance sessions. Steamship Circus will be performing aerial acts, fire shows, workshops and walkabouts in various locations including the Gardens.

At the beginning of August the FCL! Big Screen will be located in Ashley Cross, Poole moving to Poole Park a week later and then from  23^rd August it will return to the Lower Gardens until the beginning of September.  There wil be films suitable for children and families, along with a few of the classics and some special  recorded performances from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.  Screenings will be at 3.15pm and 7pm most days, with some additional 12.15pm screenings whilst in Poole.  When it returns to Bournemouth you will be ale to catch up on the action qt the Paralympics from 10am - 3pm each day.   You will find a full list of the films here.