THOUSANDS flocked to Bournemouth town centre over the weekend to look at the weird, wacky, and wonderful the Arts by the Sea festival had to offer. 

Residents and visitors from afar came to the Lower Gardens and seafront to see a range of different and unique acts from the world of arts over the three-day event which started on Friday. 

Around 120,000 people were anticipated to come to the town for the annual event. 

This year’s theme was ‘moment’ and organisers invited guests to take a moment by taking in more than 100 artists, performers and musicians from across the world. 

 

In the Square, bikers and skateboarders performed tricks and stunts on a big ramp while the Big Gay Disco Bike’s Adam Carver flounced around the gardens. 

On Sunday afternoon and brand new this year was Break Down Walls, a mass celebration of dance broadly similar to a flash mob. 

Co-commissioned with Pavilion Dance South West and choreographed by Jazz Gritt and Victor Fung with music from Town of Cats, everyone from revellers to community dance troupes and schools performed routine in unison. 

The ever-popular Poole-born identical twin brothers, Jason and Adam Dupree, also known as The Working Boys Club, returned to this year’s festival. 

Other performers included Fluid Motion, Trigger, Jeanefer Jean-Charles, She Said Jump and Miss High Leg Kick. 

The event was launched with a spectacular 3D projection mapping at Bournemouth Town Hall on Friday evening. 

The Hush Club curated the accompanying soundtrack to the mesmerising 3D video projection which transformed the façade of the building.