BIG Issue sellers will drum in a Flash Mob on the first day of Bournemouth's Arts by the Sea Festival.

Around 65 vendors will perform at 4pm at The Triangle and 5pm at Bournemouth Square on Saturday, September 29.

The work has been choreographed to dance by students from the Arts University College at Bournemouth by theatre practitioner Lee Hart.

He worked with vendors over the summer 'to develop a challenging work that conveys the very unique experiences of those living and working on our streets', said the festival.

Mr Hart said: “The piece will be provocative in places.

“It conveys some of what Big Issue vendors experience, standing in the street, and the reactions they receive from the rest of us in the town.”

The event also makes the 21st anniversary of the Big Issue Foundation.