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  • Music in the Park

    Pageant Gardens Sherborne

    Sherborne Town Band are pleased to be back in the beautiful Pageant Gardens for an exciting concert.

  • “High Tops, Knobs, Birdseyes and Mites” celebrating 400 years of Dorset Button

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

    An exhibition of contemporary art inspired by Dorset Buttons, its history, the people and the villages, towns and countryside are one of a number of events planned to celebrate 400 years. The Dorset Button industry was a major part of many people’s lives in east Dorset for 200 years. Abraham Case stated making buttons in […]

    Free

  • PIDDLEHINTON CHURCH FETE

    West Lodge Piddlehinton

    The lovely English country garden of West Lodge, Piddlehinton will be the setting of this year’s Annual Church Fete. Come and join us and enjoy a wonderful afternoon out for the whole family with children’s races, coconut shy, bowling alley, ‘welly whanging’, pony rides and duck races on the River Piddle. There’s even a dog […]

  • Coffee Concert

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

    You are warmly invited to the final coffee concert in our summer series. On Sunday 17th July at 11.45am in St Peter's Church, Dorchester you can enjoy coffee, cake and a short vocal recital given by soprano choral scholar, Flora Davies. Flora began her musical career as head chorister at Salisbury Cathedral and is currently […]

    Free

  • ‘Wuthering Heights’ outdoor show at Sandsfoot Castle Gardens, Weymouth

    Sandsfoot Castle Gardens 39 Old Castle Rd, Weymouth

    Picnic and a show! Enjoy SISATA's new outdoor adaptation of 'Wuthering Heights'. Performing at Weymouth's stunning Sandsfoot Castle Gardens for one night only - 6.30pm on 22nd July. Upon the brooding heath, an intoxicating obsession torments the moor. Witness a passion that goes beyond the grave... Audiences can enjoy the show from their very own […]

    £12 – £15

  • Bug hotel workshop

    Hinton Hall, Tisbury

    This July at Young Nature Watch (the young branch of the Tisbury and District Natural History Society) we have a workshop to make your own insect hotel, with repurposed or natural materials, that you will be able to take home to provide nesting spaces for solitary bees and other insects. It will be held on […]

  • The Fifieheads Garden Fete

    Plumber Cottage, Fifehead Neville, DT10 2AL Plumber Cottage, Fifehead Neville

    Garden Fete in-aid of the village hall and church upkeep. Tea or Coffee & Homemade Cakes, Strawberries, Plants, Bric-a-Brac, Cake Stall, Gifts, Wine Raffle, Children’s Games.

    £1.00

  • Choral Evensong

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

    You are warmly invited to our monthly cathedral-style service of Choral Evensong on Saturday 23rd July at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. Music includes: Philip Stopford 'God be in my head', Rose 'Preces & Responses', Howells 'Magnificat & Nunc dimittis Collegium Regale' and Bainton 'And I saw a new Heaven'. Peter Nardone is at […]

    Free

  • John Devine’s “Notions”

    Tolpuddle Village Hall Main Road, Tolpuddle

    An original live music performance presenting John's latest album "Notions" a brilliant cross genre body of work featuring the poetry of Seamous O'Rourke with traditional and modern instrumentation, as featured on the Mike Harding show. The very best in original contemporary folk music steeped in the Irish traditions of John's ancestors, he will be joined […]

    £10.00

  • Charity Open Day

    Warmwell DT2 8HQ Warmwell stables, Dorchester

    Warmwell stables open there doors for a fun day out

  • Popsicle Catapults and Gadget Bingo

    Shaftesbury Library Bell Street, Shaftesbury

    Shaftesbury Library Summer Reading Challenge Children's Activity: Let's get creative and let's have some fun with some Gadget Bingo and make your own popsicle catapults!

    Free

  • The Rascally Diner by LAStheatre

    Alderholt Village Hall Alderholt

    Everybody clap your pans – it’s time for The Rascally Diner! Cook up a stink as part of Rufus Skumskins O’Parsleys’ kitchen crew or bring a pot to bang and ward off evil cakes in this fun-filled, messy performance about food which heads to Dorset through Artsreach this summer! Chef Rufus Skumskins O’Parsley is famous […]

    £5 – £20

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