About Dorchester Arts
Our vision: The arts at the heart of Dorset’s county town.
Our mission: We bring the best of the arts to Dorset’s county town, give our community creative opportunities and nurture local talent, because we believe that where the arts thrive people and places do too.
We are the major provider of performance and participation events in Dorset’s County town and have recently extended our offer to Sherborne following the closure of Artslink.
Our purpose is to :
- attract audiences from all over Dorset and beyond
- provide an accessibly-priced programme of exceptional quality, appealing to a broad, diverse audience
- be a catalyst for community arts engagement, through both large scale events and our regular, inexpensive/free drama, dance and music classes for all ages/abilities
- improve community health and wellbeing through our programme of targeted arts activities, with particular focus on Parkinson’s, MS, dementia and adult mental health
- work with partners to provide arts services of exceptional quality that represent good value for money
- nurture and support local creatives – writers, actors, directors; groups and theatre companies; young people seeking to work in the creative industries
- bring our community together to promote cohesion and reduce isolation
- create economic benefit through our programme and especially the development and management of Dorchester Corn Exchange.
www.dorchesterarts.org.uk
engage@dorchesterarts.org.uk
Dorchester Arts Registered charity number 1015546
