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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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 to help you to enjoy movement and dance, led by dance workshop leader Anna Golding who specialises in working with people who are new to dance and movement, as well as […]
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 sing- a long, taught by singing teacher Sammy Hurden.
As in the Bard’s day, Festival Players tour as an all-male troupe of skilled professional actors. Supported by their patron, Dame Judi Dench, the company has a growing international reputation […]
Best-selling novelist and screenwriter Natasha Solomons will be discussing her dazzling new novel, I, Mona Lisa, with Sherborne novelist Lulu Taylor. This is a great opportunity to hear Natasha reveal […]
Sale of delicious cakes, biscuits and delicacies along with teas, coffee and soft drinks. All money raised is going towards the upkeep of Oborne Playing Field.
FERNE PARK GARDENS Berwick St John Nr Shaftesbury Dorset Will be open on Saturday 11th June 10am – 4pm To celebrate Her Majesty the Queen’s Birthday In memory of Julia Hall and The Hon Alastair Campbell By kind permission of The Viscount and Viscountess Rothermere Entry via North Lodge Admission £5.00 Children Free All proceeds […]
It's 1929. Morris has been planting, harvesting, basket making and drinking tea on his Somerset willow farm since before he can remember. Every year the same pattern repeats itself. Plant, […]
It's 1929. Morris has been planting, harvesting, basket making and drinking tea on his Somerset willow farm since before he can remember. Every year the same pattern repeats itself. Plant, […]
Rachel McLean is an award-winning crime author who writes UK- based police procedurals. She is best known for the DI Zoe Finch series set in her home city of Birmingham, as well as the Dorset Crime series. Book 1 in the Dorset Crime series, The Corfe Castle Murders, won the Kindle Storyteller Award 2021 As […]
All Saints Primary School are hosting the Wurzels and support acts. Gates open at 4pm with main act at 7pm. Children's activities in afternoon, food and licenced bar.
Join us at The Langton Arms, Tarrant Monkton, DT118RX for a charity music evening. There will be a ploughman's supper served between 7.30-8.30pm. Rock waves band will be playing from […]
Join us at The Langton Arms, Tarrant Monkton, DT118RX for a charity music evening. There will be a ploughman's supper served between 7.30-8.30pm. Rock waves band will be playing from 9pm. All profits will go towards the Ukrainian farmers fund. Tickets are £15 per person.
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