Kick off b-side Festival 2026 with a joyful celebration hosted by Diverse City and b-side.
Expect DJs, live poetry, disco routines to learn and plenty of surprises as deaf, disabled and neurodivergent musicians, poets, dancers and creatives take over the dance floor for an unforgettable evening.
Everyone is welcome
Everyone is fabulous.
Everybody can dance.
Wear whatever makes you feel amazing. Come with friends or come to make new ones.
Celebrate community, creativity and collective joy through music, performance, laughter and a few creative acts of resistance.
Let’s be Out Out together!
Guidance: Online ticket sales end 1hr before the event
This activity is part of b-side festival 2026 – That Other Place.
This year’s festival theme, “That Other Place,” draws inspiration from the Isle of Portland’s proud oddness, the now-defunct Portland Fair, and local resident David Palmer’s extraordinary Fair archives.
In 2026, b-side are bringing this to life through artists and communities bringing back their interpretation of the Fair alongside ambitious, year-long artist projects rooted in the island.
The Portland Fair was a hugely popular event for more than 200 years – part childhood rite, part otherworldly escape – That Other Place will reawaken the experience of it in a stranger, twistier, sideways sort of way.
