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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• Amadeus Mozart – Great Mass in C minor, K427 • Ola Gjeilo – The Spheres • Ola Gjeilo – Identity • Ola Gjeilo – The Ground (from Sunrise Mass) • Joseph Haydn – The Representation of Chaos (from the Creation) • Felix Mendelssohn – Psalm 95, Op.46
Calling all Italian car enthusiasts 🇮🇹🇮🇹 BAD Abarth invite you to their Italian BBQ day at Laycock Cider Farm. A fun-filled family day out at the stunning Laycock Cider Farm! ▪️Live music ▪️Trade stands ▪️Photographer ▪️Incredible Raffle ▪️Garden games ▪️Full BBQ ▪️Chocolate fountain ▪️Ice Cream van Free to attend and to display Italian cars & […]
Shaftesbury Library Summer Reading Challenge Children's Activity: Finger Print Detection with PCSO Su Leatt
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 […]
The Stur Half, organised by the Dorset Doddlers, is now in its 30th year. The start is in Station Road, and the route takes the runners through Manston, Margaret Marsh, Stour Row and Todber, returning through Moorside and Hinton St Mary to finish on the High School playing field. Enter the half, or our new […]
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.
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