Find events in Dorset, from village fêtes and jumble sales to the county’s biggest shows, alongside theatre, live music, exhibitions, markets, talks, walks and family days out. The Dorset Life What’s On calendar brings together things to do across the county, with dates, locations and details to help you plan.
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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 […]
Shaftesbury Library Summer Reading Challenge Children's Activity: Learn how sound travels by making your own non-electrical 'secret' gadget.
The superb Wriggle Valley Jazz Band performing in atmospheric church with great acoustics. BBQ and bar available..
Shaftesbury Library Summer Reading Challenge Children's Activity: Will you be able to complete our newspaper challenge? Free children's event.
Open Air Circus for all the Family to enjoy this summer with Artsreach! A young businessman struggles with the demands of city life and, after losing his job, takes his frustrations out on a group of pigeons. Karma soon returns however, and the man finds himself turned into a pigeon, where he quickly learns about […]
Open Air Circus for all the Family to enjoy this summer with Artsreach! A young businessman struggles with the demands of city life and, after losing his job, takes his frustrations out on a group of pigeons. Karma soon returns however, and the man finds himself turned into a pigeon, where he quickly learns about […]
Blandford Art Society is pleased to announce its annual Open Exhibition in The Corn Exchange, Blandford Forum. www.blandfordartsociety.weebly.com A wide variety of work will be on display and for sale. Our guest artist for 2022 is Michael Hemming.
Shaftesbury Library Summer Reading Challenge Children's Activity: Come and enjoy a very special story time at Shaftesbury Library with prolific children's author, Angela McAllister, reading one of her much loved stories followed by a fun craft activity.
An hour of family friendly music including Disney Classics.
Lin & Jemima studied ceramics together at Bath Academy of Art. After graduating Jemima moved to Shaftesbury and taught Art & Design at William Barnes School, Sturminster Newton before moving to the hills of West Wales to farm with her husband and young family. Recently she and her husband have retired to Cornwall to be […]
Shaftesbury Library Summer Reading Challenge Children's Activity: Thermal Imaging with Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Riverside Family Fest, is a fun family festival raising money for Children With Cancer UK, and a couple of local charities, The Vale Pantry in Sturminster Newton and The Big Yellow Bus Garden Project in Shillingstone. There will be live bands, BBQ, Bar, childrens entertainment, ice cream, cream teas, stalls bouncy castle, rides and much […]
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