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Reminiscence Afternoon

Shaftesbury Library Bell Street, Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury Remembers and Gold Hill Museum Community Project presents a Photography Reminiscence Afternoon at Shaftesbury Library. Monday 4th September 2.30 – 3.30pm. Talk about the way that photography reminds us of the past. Share favourite photos of people and places. Tea and cakes will be served. Please book in advance by contacting Shaftesbury Library (01747 […]

Free

Community Policing Drop In Surgery

Shaftesbury Library Bell Street, Shaftesbury

Community Policing Drop In Surgery; PCSO Su Leatt will be at Shaftesbury Library to offer Crime Prevention advice and leaflets and to hear any local concerns. Thursday 7th September and Thursday 5th October between 10:00am and 11:00am. For more information please call 01747 852 256 or email [email protected]

Free

Choral Eucharist

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

You are warmly invited to our monthly, cathedral-style service of Choral Eucharist on Sunday 10th September at 10.30am in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes: Stopford’s ‘God be in my head as well as Grayston Ives’s ‘Missa brevis’ and ‘Listen sweet dove’. All are very welcome to the service and for refreshments afterwards.

Free

Sturminster Newton u3a Open Morning

The Exchange, Sturminster Newton Sturminster Newton

Annual Open Morning of Sturminster Newton u3a. Opportunity to join the u3a and to see what we offer for those no longer in full time work. Group leaders will be available to talk about their particular interest groups.

Roald Dahl Day!

Shaftesbury Library Bell Street, Shaftesbury

Roald Dahl Day! Make your own giraffe from "The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me". Shaftesbury Library Saturday 16 September 11:00am - 12:00noon For more information please call the library on 01747 852256 or email [email protected] Children under 8 must be accompanied by a parent or carer.

Free

Wimborne Community Centre Artisan Makers Market

Wimborne Community Centre 41 - 44 King Street, Wimborne

After a break for the summer, come along and enjoy our September Artisan Makers Market here at Wimborne Community Centre. Open from 10.00am till 3.00pm on Saturday 23rd September 2023, you can browse a wide range of handmade pieces and products, created for you by local artists and crafts people. Our café will be open […]

Free

Charity Band Concert – The Grenadier Guards

This Concert is being held in Sherborne Abbey on Saturday 23 September at 6.30pm by kind permission of The Reverend Martin Lee. The Band of the Grenadier Guards will play a variety of their music to entertain us all. The Concert is supporting Pancreatic Cancer UK and The Colonels Fund which supports injured military personnel […]

Free

EG Coles Open Day

EG Coles & Son Station Yard, Station Road, Semley, Shaftesbury

We’re delighted to be throwing open our doors on 27 September for our 2023 Open Day, and showcasing everything that we do here at EG Coles.

Free

EG Coles Open Day

EG Coles & Son Station Yard, Station Road, Semley, Shaftesbury

We’re delighted to be throwing open our doors on 27 September for our 2023 Open Day, and showcasing everything that we do here at EG Coles.

Free

Medical Detection Dogs a lecture by Joanna Gardiner

29 September. The Blandford & District branch of the University of the Third Age invites you to a lecture at 2 pm at Durweston Village Hall, where Joanna Gardiner will be speaking about Medical Detection Dogs. Please phone 01258 628079 for further information.

Free

Words, Music and Silence – The House of Life

Arts University Bournemouth Arts University Bournemouth, Wallisdown

This lecture recital will consider Ralph Vaughan Williams’ settings of 6 sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1904). The first of these to be composed was 'Silent Noon’; singer Julia Hollander and pianist Peter McMullin will focus on this song, its relationship to the rest of the cycle and especially the theme of silence. They analyse […]

Free