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  • Free Taster Lectures

    Interested in The Arts? This Spring, The Arts Society Blackmore Vale has some free taster places for its Thursday lectures: 5th May: Peggy Guggenheim 9th June: Georgia O'Keefe in New Mexico 7th July: The Artworks Top 20 Coffee from 10.30am, lecture 11.30am - 12.30pm Details on our website : www.theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk or email: [email protected] or telephone […]

    Free
  • Free Taster Lectures

    Interested in The Arts? This Spring, The Arts Society Blackmore Vale has some free taster places for its Thursday lectures: 5th May: Peggy Guggenheim 9th June: Georgia O'Keefe in New Mexico 7th July: The Artworks Top 20 Coffee from 10.30am, lecture 11.30am - 12.30pm Details on our website : www.theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk or email: [email protected] or telephone […]

    Free
  • Dorset Perennial Group: Gardening in a Changing Climate

    Durweston Village Hall Church Road, Durweston

    A talk by David Hurrion, Associate Editor of Gardeners’ World Magazine and RHS Judge, To be held at 2pm on Saturday 29th October. at Durweston Village Hall, DT11 0QA,. Organised by Dorset Perennial Group as part of our annual programme of talks and visits. Everyone most welcome. £5 to include refreshments. or join for the […]

    £5
  • Adorned by Nature talk by Wolfgang Grulke

    Oborne Village Hall Oborne, Nr Sherborne

    At the evenings gets colder, Oborne Village Hall has invited author Wolfgang Grulke to warm us up with tales of the tropical South Pacific. Wolfgang is well known for his award-wining books on the subject of his fossil collection that has been visited by many locals. Now, he has turned his attention to the islands […]

    £10
  • A talk by Richard Spencer Foreign correspondent for The Times

    Digby Hall Hound Street, Sherborne

    A talk by Richard Spencer Foreign correspondent for The Times From Arab Spring to Ukraine Winter Wednesday 12th April 2023 Digby Memorial Church Hall, Sherborne 7:00 for 7:30pm Tickets - £12.50 (inc. a glass of wine) From - Winstone’s Bookshop

    £12.50
  • Ruprt Brooke’s Poetry at Shillingstone Station

    Shillingstone Station St Patricks Industrial Estate, Station Rd, Shillingstone,, Blandford Forum

    Local poet David Caddy will lead a short walk along the North Dorset Trailway and will read poems by Rupert Brooke in the railway carriage at Shillingstone Station. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rupert-brookes-poetry-at-shillingstone-station-tickets-571742726887

    £10
  • The Tennis Champion who Escaped the Nazis

    1855 Building Old Market Cross, Sturminster Newton

    Writer Felice Hardy tells the remarkable story of her grandmother, who escaped the Nazis in WW2 Vienna and played tennis at Wimbledon.

    £8
  • From Sturminster Newton to the White House: the Fuller Sisters in America

    The Exchange, Sturminster Newton Sturminster Newton

    A dramatic monologue performed by Rachel Alexander - as Rosalind Fuller - recounts the sisters’ three tours of America between 1911 and 1917. The drama is interspersed with the folk songs she and her sisters sang on farms, in the high class salons of wealthy women and even the White House. This piece, written by […]

    £8
  • Beyond Tess

    The Exchange, Sturminster Newton Sturminster Newton

    Michael Langridge, in conversation with Dr Tracy Hayes , talks about The Second Mrs Clare, his sequel to Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tess'. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-tess-tickets-567919902717

    £8
  • A Test Pilot’s Story

    Sturminster Newton Library Bath Rd, Sturminster Newton

    Writer Chris Taylor talks about his extraordinary career as a test pilot both with the Royal Navy and with civilian aircraft. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-test-pilots-story-tickets-578649094017

    £8
  • Nature’s Wonders

    Sturminster Newton Library Bath Rd, Sturminster Newton

    Jane V. Adams talks about her latest book, Nature's Wonders, and how nature inspires her writing. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natures-wonders-tickets-593662870627

    £8