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.
Hosting an event in Dorset? Add it to the calendar for free and share it with Dorset Life readers.
Please note: inclusion in the online calendar does not guarantee inclusion in the magazine, though a selection of events is featured each month.
- This event has passed.
Distant Lands – A Concert of Words and Music
Through continued technological progress and innovation, the world, in many ways, has never seemed smaller. For global tourists, the relative ease and comfort of travel has made once impossible journeys commonplace experience. Through ever-present modes of media and communication, we have come to be familiar with unknown places and peoples. Yet for all this progress, our world remains mapped by the physical, political and cultural boundaries integral to the history of humankind, and journeys initiated by desperate circumstances remain as everyday as those inspired by the spirit of discovery.
This sequence contemplates the concept of physical and philosophical ‘distant lands’ through experiences of adventure, discovery, exploration, migration and displacement. Moving between past and present, we will explore the tensions between home and away, conquest and liberty, unity and otherness in this journey of words and music to the distant lands of our own knowledge and imagination.
Don’t forget to sign up to receive the monthly Dorset Life here .
