THE August exhibition at Durlston Country Park’s Fine Foundation Gallery, is Interaction of Light, paintings and limited edition prints by the acclaimed watercolourist Cathy Veale. The exhibition runs until Sunday 23rd August and the gallery is open from 10.30am to 4.30pm. Cathy specialises in large seascapes with a distinctive style that is rich in luminosity…
SOME years ago, the campaigning environmental charity Common Ground published a booklet exploring the idea of souvenirs and the difference between trinkets and geegaws – nylon tartan, plastic scallop shells – mass-produced on the other side of the world, and locally produced crafts that carried a connection to their place. If you are in Devon…
JURASSIC Fields, a feel-good family festival billed as the “the jewel in the crown of a West Dorset summer of sounds,” returns to West Bay for a packed weekend of great music and food, from 14th to 16th August. With camping right next door to the West Bay Fields festival site, just a short walk…
BURTON Bradstock’s arts festival is renowned for the wide spectrum of music played by ensembles and soloists, led by violinist and artistic director David Juritz, alongside an exhibition of West Country arts, ceramics and crafts in the historic village hall. This year’s 44th annual festival runs from 15th to 23rd August. The majority of the…
NON-professional musicians and instrumentalists across the UK are invited to enter for the BSO Music-Making Competition, which returns for a second year, sponsored by Lark Music, part of Howden. Entry is free and the closing date for applications is 3rd September. The panel of industry judges includes broadcaster and writer Tom Service, guitarist Dagan Wilkin…
IF the name John Osborne says “angry young man” to you, don’t worry – the John Osborne who is coming to Dorset with Artsreach on 12th and 13th August wants to spread a little happiness! Already familiar to local audiences with his John Peel’s Shed solo show, the poet and storyteller returns with a new…
ONE of the pleasures of the original Iford Festival, this year celebrating its 30th anniversary, was the one-off events, separate from the opera which was the principal focus of the festival in the gorgeous Harold Peto-designed gardens at Iford Manor. Now happily settled in the calm and gentle setting of Church Farm, Wingfield, If Opera…
TREEHOUSE, a theatre company renowned for their interactive performances and workshops, brings Alice in Wonderland to Dorset for two performances with Artsreach, at Buckland Newton village hall on Wednesday 12th August at 10.30am, and Cranborne’s Cecil Memorial Hall that afternoon at 3pm. Specialists in history and great story-telling, Treehouse aim to introduce young people to…
IN the course of a summer, we reviewers get to see many plays in fields, on coasts, in the grounds of stately homes and in beautiful private gardens, performed by intrepid actors and singers who brave the elements to entertain their loyal and devoted audiences. The summer touring open air theatre season has evolved into an…
JOHN Le Carre was the king of gritty espionage thrillers, and his 1963 novel, The Spy Came In From The Cold, is widely considered not only one of the finest of the genre, but one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. Chichester Festival Theatre had a big critical hit with the premiere of…