The Hallidays Community Art Installation
This event is FREE and available for viewing throughout the Festival week.
A collaborative installation of small artworks created by a variety of groups within the local community and by the young people of their charity partner, Be Free Young Carers.
Designed and led and by Oxford-based artist Emma Coleman-Jones, individual responses to The Abbey, the village and the local landscape are displayed together in an innovative design inspired by the windows and arches within the Abbey itself.
Through the generous support of locally-based and internationally-renowned sculptor David Harber, the supporting arches used to create the display in the People’s Chapel will be auctioned at the end of the festival to provide additional funds for their charities.
At 11am on Saturday 2nd May it will be formally opened by the artists who have created it and they are hoping all the community artists who have contributed will come and see their work in place.
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Dorchester Festival
Dorchester High St
Dorchester on Thames, OxfordshireOX107HN United Kingdom
The biennial Dorchester-on-Thames Festival is one of Oxfordshire’s leading Festivals based in and around the stunning location of Dorchester Abbey.
Since 2005 the Festival has regularly attracted over 5,000 people each year, from serious followers of the arts to schools, families and children of all ages and has raised significant profile and £350,000 for Dorchester Abbey and local charities.
In 2026 they are partnering with local charity Be Free Young Carers, who enable Oxfordshire Young Carers to achieve their full potential by delivering a far-reaching developmental and emotional support network of people and resources in their daily lives, schools and communities.
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