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Cake Sale

Oborne Playing Field, Oborne, Nr Sherborne DT9 4LA Oborne Playing Field, Nr Sherborne, United Kingdom

Sale of delicious cakes, biscuits and delicacies along with teas, coffee and soft drinks. All money raised is going towards the upkeep of Oborne Playing Field.

Free

FERNE PARK GARDENS – OPEN DAY

Ferne Park Gardens Berwick st John, Nr Shaftesbury Dorset

FERNE PARK GARDENS Berwick St John Nr Shaftesbury Dorset Will be open on Saturday 11th June 10am – 4pm To celebrate Her Majesty the Queen’s Birthday In memory of Julia Hall and The Hon Alastair Campbell By kind permission of The Viscount and Viscountess Rothermere Entry via North Lodge Admission £5.00 Children Free All proceeds […]

£5

Whispering Willows by Wassail Theatre

Springhead Gardens Mill Street, Fontmell Magna

It's 1929. Morris has been planting, harvesting, basket making and drinking tea on his Somerset willow farm since before he can remember. Every year the same pattern repeats itself. Plant, harvest, weave. Plant, harvest, weave... One day he pulls up a particularly large piece of willow with a girl clinging to the end of it! […]

£5 – £22

Whispering Willows by Wassail Theatre

Springhead Gardens Mill Street, Fontmell Magna

It's 1929. Morris has been planting, harvesting, basket making and drinking tea on his Somerset willow farm since before he can remember. Every year the same pattern repeats itself. Plant, harvest, weave. Plant, harvest, weave... One day he pulls up a particularly large piece of willow with a girl clinging to the end of it! […]

£5 – £22

Rachel McLean in Conversation

Sturminster Newton Library Bath Rd, Sturminster Newton

Rachel McLean is an award-winning crime author who writes UK- based police procedurals. She is best known for the DI Zoe Finch series set in her home city of Birmingham, as well as the Dorset Crime series. Book 1 in the Dorset Crime series, The Corfe Castle Murders, won the Kindle Storyteller Award 2021 As […]

£6

The Wurzels

All Saints School Bishops Caundle Giles Lane, Bishops Caundle

All Saints Primary School are hosting the Wurzels and support acts. Gates open at 4pm with main act at 7pm. Children's activities in afternoon, food and licenced bar.

Free

Ukraine farmers Charity Music Evening at The Langton Arms

Join us at The Langton Arms, Tarrant Monkton, DT118RX for a charity music evening. There will be a ploughman's supper served between 7.30-8.30pm. Rock waves band will be playing from 9pm. All profits will go towards the Ukrainian farmers fund. Tickets are £15 per person.

£15.00

Ukraine farmers Charity Music Evening at The Langton Arms

The Langton Arms THE LANGTON ARMS, BLANDFORD FORUM, United Kingdom

Join us at The Langton Arms, Tarrant Monkton, DT118RX for a charity music evening. There will be a ploughman's supper served between 7.30-8.30pm. Rock waves band will be playing from 9pm. All profits will go towards the Ukrainian farmers fund. Tickets are £15 per person.

£15.00

Garden Teas for Julia’s House

Littlebrook Farmhouse Belchalwell Street,, Belchalwell, United Kingdom

"Jackie Abbott is once again opening her garden and grounds at Littlebrook Farmhouse in Belchalwell on Sunday 12th June to raise funds for Julia’s House,  the much loved Dorset Childrens Hospice.   The charming garden feature a large landscaped pond area as well as fruit trees, formal terracing and vegetables all with spectacular views of the Blackmore […]

£5

A Supermarket Love Story by John Osborne

The Gaggle of Geese Buckland Newton

A story about supermarkets and the people who use them... Love will bloom, lives will continue as they always have, and you'll meet two paramedics by the crisps. As staff untuck their shirts and sit on kick stools stacking shelves, we join them all for a storytelling feast and find that every aisle really does […]

£5

The Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy with Bonny Sartin of The Yetties

The Exchange, Sturminster Newton Sturminster Newton

Thomas Hardy was not only a brilliant writer and poet, but also a talented fiddle player. This is the story of his music, his instruments and the characters he created, many of whom were involved in traditional song, music or dance. With poems, songs and readings by Bonny Sartin of The Yetties. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-musical-heritage-of-thomas-hardy-tickets-301824413947

£8

Thomas Hardy and His Correspondents

The Exchange, Sturminster Newton Sturminster Newton

Professor Angelique Richardson and Dr Cath Sawyer discuss their work with the University of Exeter’s Hardy's Correspondents project. This presentation will introduce the University of Exeter’s Hardy's Correspondents project, a digital humanities collaboration with Dorset Museum, and look at ways in which the letters Hardy wrote, received, and respondd to, shed light on his many-sidedness, […]

£10