Follow Rudolph’s trail. Explore the Fleet Air Arm Museum this Christmas with our popular children's Advent Trail! From 3 December, explore the tinsel-wrapped museum with our new children's Advent Trail, free with a valid museum ticket! Can you find your way around the museum, spotting the clues and opening the trail's windows as you go? If […]
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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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You are warmly invited to our candlelit Epiphany Carol Service on Saturday10th January at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. Hear the final part of the Christmas story told through bible readings, poetry, carols and fantastic choral music by Cornelius, Mendelssohn, Philip Stopford, Poulenc and many others. All are very welcome to this service, which […]
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“A cabaret that will leave you wanting more” Daily Mail 16 strings, 8 dancing feet and 4 voices in 1 electrifying and hilarious musical show, touring Dorset with Artsreach, the […]
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Join us at St Peter's Church Dorchester on Saturday 17th December between 12.30pm and 1pm for our lunchtime concert. This is a thirty-minute recital of songs and arias performed by soprano Daisy Tye, who is accompanied by Jonathan Prentice. Admission is free and all are very welcome. More information at www.musicatstpetersdorchester.org
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You are warmly invited to our cathedral-style service of Choral Eucharist on Sunday 18th January at 10.30am in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes: Victoria’s ‘Missa o magnum mysterium’, Howells’s ‘Here is the little door’ and Berlioz’s ‘The shepherd’s farewell’. All are very welcome to this free service and for refreshments afterwards. More information […]
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Occupied / Unoccupied is a photography exhibition by Ukrainian photographer Iryna Sozanska, living in Dorset, on display at Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum from 20 January to 8 March 2026. The exhibition brings together photographs taken over four years, from the first days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when the artist and her family […]
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You are warmly invited to our monthly, cathedral-style service of Choral Evensong on Saturday 24th January at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes Tallis’s ‘Salvator mundi’, the ‘Preces & Responses’ by Richard Seal, Brewer’s ‘Evening Canticles in D’ and ‘Blessed city, heavenly Salem’ by Bairstow. Admission is free and there is a […]
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You are warmly invited to our cathedral-style service of Choral Eucharist to mark Candlemas on Sunday 1st February at 10.30am in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes: Casciolini’s ‘Missa brevis’, Byrd’s ‘Senex puerum portabat’, Eccard’s ‘When Mary to the temple went’ and Amy Beach’s ‘Nunc dimittis’. All are very welcome to this free service […]
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