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Open Call for Artists – “High Tops, Knobs, Birdseyes and Mites” celebrating 400 years of Dorset Button

Shaftesbury Arts Centre 13 Bell St, Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom

Dorset Buttons 2022 Exhibition at Shaftesbury Arts Centre 13 Bell Street SP7 8AR We are looking for artists who are prepared to share your interpretation of the Dorset Button industry at an exhibition from 13 July to 19 July 2022 to celebrate the birth of this local cottage industry 400 years ago. Full details and […]

£10.00

Teddy Rocks Festival 2022

Teddy Rocks Festival Charisworth Farm Cottage, Blandford Forum

Teddy Rocks is a 3 day family-friendly rock music event in Blandford, Dorset, UK - Home to some of the biggest acts in the UK. Teddy Rocks Festival started with a small gig in 2011 to raise money for Teddy20, a children's cancer charity founded by Tom Newton and his family after he lost his […]

Teddy Rocks Festival 2022

Teddy Rocks is a 3 day family-friendly rock music event in Blandford, Dorset, UK - Home to some of the biggest acts in the UK. Teddy Rocks Festival started with a small gig in 2011 to raise money for Teddy20, a children's cancer charity founded by Tom Newton and his family after he lost his […]

Pop Up Cafe

Stourton Memorial Hall Spreadeagle Courtyard, Stourton

Pop up cafe offering delicious food and hot and cold drinks. Everyone welcome. Stourton Memorial Hall is a perfect place to visit before or after a stroll around the estate and gardens at Stourhead. All proceeds in aid of Whitesheet Primary Academy, Zeals

Pop Up Cafe

Stourton Memorial Hall Spreadeagle Courtyard, Stourton

Pop up cafe offering delicious food and hot and cold drinks. Everyone welcome. Stourton Memorial Hall is a perfect place to visit before or after a stroll around the estate and gardens at Stourhead. All proceeds in aid of Whitesheet Primary Academy, Zeals

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

Fabric Sale

Digby Hall Hound Street, Sherborne

Returning to Sherborne for one of their famous travelling fabric sales, Stitch Fabrics by M Rosenberg & son are back with a bang! Visit their website http://www.stitchfabrics.co.uk for more details and to subscribe to their newsletter to be kept up to date on all future events. FREE ENTRY AND GOOD PARKING See you there!

Free

Fabric Sale

Digby Hall Hound Street, Sherborne

Returning to Sherborne for one of their famous travelling fabric sales, Stitch Fabrics by M Rosenberg & son are back with a bang! Visit their website http://www.stitchfabrics.co.uk for more details and to subscribe to their newsletter to be kept up to date on all future events. FREE ENTRY AND GOOD PARKING See you there!

Free

Sturminster Newton Wedding Festival

Sturminster Newton is holding a unique, town-based Wedding Festival and everyone is invited. As well as a Wedding Fair featuring wedding specialists in the Stour Hall at The Exchange (10.a.m. To 2.00 p.m.) a stroll around town will reveal that our shops and businesses are providing wedding themed offers too. An exhibition entitled “Wedding Attire […]

Free

Hanging Basket Workshops at Thorngrove

Thorngrove Garden Centre, Gillingham Thorngrove Garden Centre, Gillingham, Dorset

Back again for late Spring we’re hosting hanging basket workshops with Thorngrove expert Chris Francis! Create a beautiful hanging basket full of seasonal flowers and brighten up your home. Tickets are £5 for the demo and guidance from Chris, plus cost of basket and plants used that you take home. Sessions will run 2pm-4pm on […]

£5

Hedgehog Craft Fayre

The Pavilion, Hazelbury Bryan

Over 30 Craft stalls are booked to make our day fun, with Ice Cream and Bottle Stall and Raffle. Last year we had a great day and I hope this will be the same. We are raising funds for your local Hedgehog Rescue of Hazelbury Bryan. Please come and support us. Free Parking and toilets […]

Saul David at the Sherborne Literary Society

Digby Memorial Church Hall, Sherborne

SBS Silent Warriors, The Authorised Wartime History Saul David is a Sunday Times bestselling military historian, novelist, and broadcaster. This is the first authorised history of Britain’s SBS or Special Boat Service - the world’s first maritime special operations unit. Written with the full cooperation of the modern SBS – the first time this ultra-secretive […]

£10