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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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 […]
Queens Platinum Jubilee weekend at Manston and Hammoon Village Hall Sunday 5 June we will be having a party! It will comprise of BBQ lunch starting at 12.30 - please bring your own food/drinks. It should be a fun day with games etc. Everyone welcome!
A one day open air music festival on Church Green in the centre of Semley village, with live music, pizza and street food, wine and spirits bar, beer tent, a variety of stalls and children's activities.
A one day open air music festival on Church Green in the centre of Semley village, with live music, pizza and street food, wine and spirits bar, beer tent, a variety of stalls and children's activities.
Do you help to look after someone? Join Carer Support Dorset this Carers Week for free events to celebrate Dorset's unpaid carers. Come and have a go at making figures with clay. A fun introduction to working with clay and to portray the Queen. We will be using air dried clay, so you can take […]
Do you help to look after someone? Join Carer Support Dorset this Carers Week for free events to celebrate Dorset's unpaid carers. Come and make a puppet of the Queen, or one of her Corgis. Make your own moving mouth puppets head then add fabrics, yarn and embellishments to costume your character.
Do you help to look after someone? Join Carer Support Dorset this Carers Week for free events to celebrate Dorset's unpaid carers. Come and lie on a large cushion and listen to a story by the amazing Gobbligook Theatre. Take a bit of time out and enjoy being taken on an adventure.
Do you help to look after someone? Join Carer Support Dorset this Carers Week for free events to celebrate Dorset's unpaid carers. This workshop introduces you to different instruments and by collaborating with the other class members, you will be making music and rhythm together. This is led by David Squirrell, a fine Dorset based […]
Heidi Perks is a Bournemouth-based bestselling author of four novels and will be talking about her latest impossible-to-put-down thriller, The Whispers. Heidi’s debut novel, Now You See Her, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick which twice reached the Sunday Times bestseller list and has also been optioned for TV from the production company […]
A literary afternoon tea. Bestselling author Sally Page will be in discussion with Matt Billingsley at The Stur of the Moment. Afternoon tea is included. Gillingham author Sally Page's debut novel, The Keeper of Stories, has been described as the most charming and uplifting novel you will read this year. In her debut novel, The […]
Do you help to look after someone? Join Carer Support Dorset this Carers Week for free events to celebrate Dorset's unpaid carers. A session on learning lino printmaking. All materials to be provided and you can take you prints home. Artist Tara Harland Vinney will show you how to cut into lino, print and enjoy […]
Do you help to look after someone? Join Carer Support Dorset this Carers Week for free events to celebrate Dorset's unpaid carers. A session on learning lino printmaking. All materials to be provided and you can take you prints home. Artist Tara Harland Vinney will show you how to cut into lino, print and enjoy […]
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