Despite being branded as Britain’s most disappointing tourist attraction, Dismaland has sold out everyday for five weeks and attracted thousands of people to Weston-super-Mare.
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On Monday, Dismaland will be taken down and all the timber and fixtures will be sent across the Channel, where there are now about 5,000 people camped out.
Timber and fixtures from Dismaland, artist Banksy’s so-called “bemusement park”, is to be sent to aid refugees in Calais.
Banksy posted a photo of the castle superimposed over the migrant camp today.
Above the message was a picture of Dismaland’s iconic, burnt and broken Cinderella castle surrounded by tents. The dismantled park will be sent to the Calais refugee camp “to build shelters”, the website states.
Last night the Somerset theme park held a masked ball, with acts including Pussy Riot, Kate Tempest, Leftfield, De La Soul, DJ Premier and Damon Albarn performing. Somerset businesses estimate that it added as much as £20m to the seaside town’s local economy.
FILE – A steward is seen outside Bansky’s “Dismaland” exhibition, which opens tomorrow, at a derelict seafront lido on August 20, 2015 in Weston-Super-Mare, England.
A woman attacked by seagulls piece by Banksy.
An anarchic amusement park by street artist Banksy that mocked capitalism and consumer culture has brought an economic boom to a faded British seaside town.
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He told the Sunday Times that he was inspired by seasonal theme parks which spring up around Christmas, “where they stick some antlers on an Alsatian” and spray fake snow around. Although the park is now closed, the North Somerset Council has said that it has other events planned for the site.
