Light up the dark autumn evenings with a walk through Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens, as their Floodlit Evening Walks offer visitors a chance to see the gardens in a different light…
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Creative creatures and pyrotechnics at Arts by the Sea
There will be three days of free vibrant theatre, dance and music performances in Bournemouth this weekend for their annual arts festival…
Contemplate clouds with an immersive art experience in Dorset
Visitors to Studland Bay on Sunday will be able to make mountains in the sand and find their heads in the clouds with two immersive art interventions…
Hats off to Bridport’s quirky festival
Head to Dorset this weekend for a quirky celebration of hats, featuring a mass hat-wearing photoshoot, hatted dogs and best hat competitions…
Radical film, music and talks at Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival
The annual Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival will take place in Dorset with radical film screenings in a vintage mobile cinema, a left wing indie disco and live artpunk kitchencore music…
A playful new outdoor duet takes flight in Bournemouth
Audiences in Bournemouth can embark on a dance journey with two flight attendants this weekend…
A new moon appears in Dorset this summer
Fifty years on from the first moon landing, three Dorset arts festivals will be joining forces this summer to present Dorset Moon…
15 unusual ceramic figures go on display in Dorset
The Tribe, a free exhibition of 15 unusual ceramic figures has opened at Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts…
Embrace the winter nights with Light Up Poole
This year’s Light Up Poole, Dorset’s annual festival of light art, will feature four world premieres, a European premiere and a raft of newly commissioned works.
Dress up as Santa and Chase the Pudding in Weymouth
On Sunday 16th December, Weymouth beach will be filled with costumed Santas for the 11th annual Chase the Pudding event…
A night carnival, walkabout puppets and gangster pandas at Arts by the Sea
Arts by the Sea, Bournemouth’s annual inspirational and diverse arts festival will take place from 29th September to 6th October, with more than 100 unique and thought-provoking performances…
Elegant ensembles and hat hurling challenges in Bridport
The Bridport Hat Festival will take place on Saturday 1st September with quirky hat competitions, talks, mass-hatted gatherings and street entertainment…
Crabbing competitions and shanty singing at Dorset Seafood Festival
Dorset Seafood Festival will take place on 14th and 15th July at Weymouth Harbour, with crabbing competitions, sea shanty singing and hands on activities…
Wimborne’s Chained Library
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is one of the oldest and most unusual libraries in the country. The Chained Library at Wimborne Minster in Dorset was founded in 1686 and is the second largest library of its kind in the country…
An exhibition that revels in the joy of stopping and taking a moment
In an age when we’re repeatedly told how busy our lives are, The Thinking Line, a new exhibition at Gillingham’s Slade Centre, revels in the matchless joy of simply taking a minute…