Beautiful World Festival will take place across Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21 in Boscombe’s King’s Park. The cultural event promises a fully immersive celebration of global traditions through food, music and art.
Organisers say visitors will be able to explore cultural zones representing countries including Poland, Thailand, Italy, China, India, Gambia and Ukraine, each offering a unique sensory experience.
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Bea Sieradzka, festival director, said: “I started this event because I genuinely believe that the world is beautiful and every culture has something special to offer.
“Beautiful World Festival is not about showcasing cultures as if they were exhibits.
“It is about giving people a reason to be in the same place at the same time and letting the rest happen naturally.
“Walking from Poland to Thailand to Gambia in ten minutes, that is not a gimmick.
“That is the whole point.”
Early bird tickets for the Beautiful World Festival start at £10 per adult whilst children under 15 attend for free.
Organisers say the festival has been designed to be “equally welcoming to local families and first time visitors”.
In the Polish zone, visitors will be able to join craft workshops and sample traditional cuisine.
A few steps away, the Thai area will feature blessings from monks, aromatic food and immersive music and, in another corner, an Italian singer will perform unplugged, while Gambian drummers invite the crowd with their infectious rhythms.
Ms Sieradzka added: “I want people to leave feeling like the world is smaller and kinder than they thought when they arrived.
“I also want to encourage them to travel and see the world in person.
“But until then, they can come to Beautiful World and get a taste of what awaits around the corner.”
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Ms Sieradzka said the event has been organised by a not for profit platform which is dedicated to cultural exchange across the south west.
She also emphasised the Beautiful World Festival is not ‘cultural tourism’ but rather a form of shared “belonging”.
Ms Sieradzka said: “What Beautiful World Festival adds to that picture is something no beach or pier can offer: a genuine encounter with the people who live here and the worlds they carry with them.
“The festival is locally rooted, independently run, and deliberately ambitious – the kind of event that a town points to, years later, as the moment it started to understand itself a little better.
For tickets and more information, visit the Beautiful World website directly.
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