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  • WIMBORNE MINSTER FLOWER FESTIVAL

    Wimborne Minster High St, Wimborne Minster,, Wimborne

    The first major Flower Festival to be held in Wimborne Minster for seven years will take place from Friday 2nd to Monday 5th September 2022. In recent times the Minster […]

    £5

  • Bees a-Swarmen!

    North Dorset Beekeepers Associa1on Bees a -Swarmen! Traditonal Music and Song With Tim Laycock and Colin Thompson A country garland of dance tunes and folksongs collected in Dorset, played on fiddle, viola, guitar, concer&na and melodeon. Readings from William Barnes, Thomas Hardy and other Dorset writers https://buy1ckets.at/northdorsetbka/717111 All proceeds to the North Dorset Honeybee Centre. […]

    £12.00

  • 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

  • b-side Festival

    St Georges Centre, Reforne, Easton Portland St Georges Centre, Reforne

    b-side is an internationally recognised and locally loved arts organisation that both embodies and enriches its place of origin – the Isle of Portland in Dorset. This year, b-side Festival returns for their 2022 edition, launching 15 brand new artworks under the theme of 'Common Lands' which invites visitors to explore their relationship to the […]

  • Queen Camel Tennis Club BIG TENNIS WEEKEND

    Queen Camel Tennis Club Green Lane, Yeovil

    Queen Camel Tennis Club will be holding a BIG TENNIS WEEKEND on Saturday & Sunday, the 10th/11th September with a packed programme of coaching, fun games and a chance to just have a go swinging a racquet and hitting a few balls. The courts will be open from 9.00 am on each day. On Saturday […]

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  • Roald Dahl Day!

    Shaftesbury Library Bell Street, Shaftesbury

    Celebrate Roald Dahl Day at Shaftesbury Library! Make your own Esio Trot!

    Free

  • Hatch House Open Garden

    Hatch House West Hatch, Tisbury, United Kingdom

    Idyllic Hatch House in the heart of the Wiltshire countryside, by the kind permission of Sir Henry and Lady Rumbold, will once again hold its annual Open Garden on Saturday […]

    £1

  • OPEN AFTERNOON with BLACKMORE VALE SCRIBES

    10TH SEPTEMBER, 2.30-4.30 at BRADFORD ABBAS VILLAGE HALL, near Sherborne. For our September meeting we invite you to join us, see us working on calligraphy projects and maybe have a […]

    Free

  • Jumble Sale

    Stour Provost Village Hall Village Hall The Street Stour Provost GILLINGHAM, Gillingham

    Jumble sale Admission 50p.

    £0.50

  • The Gentlemen of St John’s In Concert

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    On Saturday 17 September at 6.30pm in St Peter's Church Dorchester (DT1 1XA), a septet from the internationally-renowned vocal ensemble The Gentlemen of St John's will present a concert. The […]

    £12

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