FORMER university lecturer Kate Rawles comes to Sladers Yard at West Bay on Thursday 23rd November, as part of the Help Our Planet (HOP) series. Her talk, Adventure in the Andes: The Life Cycle biodiversity bike ride, is the story of her extraordinary journey the length of South America on a bamboo bike she built…
THE November event in the Guardians of Martock Church programme is a talk rather than a concert, looking at life on the Channel Island of Jersey during the Nazi occupation in the Second World War. The talk is at the Martock Fellowship Hall on Thursday 16th November at 2pm. The Nazi occupation of the Channel…
FIRST generation farmer, chef and internet star, Dorset-based Julius Roberts comes to the Butterfly House at Castle Gardens at Sherborne on Wednesday 8th November at 7pm to talk about his newly published, first book, The Farm Table at Castle Gardens The event is being held to conjunction with Winstone’s Bookshop in Sherborne, and will include…
CRANBORNE Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty has inspired generations of artists, and now the AONB team is also hoping this vast ancient landscape will inspire writers too with a Festival of Words, running to Sunday 29th October. With free and online workshops, storytelling walks and performances, the festival is themed around the idea of…
A NEW literary festival takes place this Saturday, 28th October. The Script’s the Thing, from 10am onwards at Dorchester Corn Exchange and Tom Brown’s pub, is being run in conjunction with Dorchester Arts, and offers a showcase of new writing. There are more than 70 bite-size scripts, none lasting more than 15 minutes, during the…
THIS year’s Yeovil Literary Festival, from 26th to 30th October, has a new principal venue, Westlands Entertainments Centre, while the Octagon is closed for refurbishment. There are a handful of events at Yeovil Library, The packed programme follows the familiar and successful format with a host of exciting authors, from new names to old favourites….
VETERAN Cornish actor David Mynne, well-known from his solo work and appearances with the much-missed Kneehigh Theatre, is a favourite with Artsreach’s village hall audiences. He is back with his uniquely hilarious and vivid one-man version of Chaucer’s bawdy Canterbury Tales, at Piddletrenthide Memorial Hall on Friday 13th October, Corfe Castle village hall on Saturday…
DORCHESTER Literary Festival returns, from Saturday 14th to Sunday 21st October, with a varied line-up that ranges from best-selling novelist Victoria Hislop to retired judge Wendy Joseph, from forager and walker John Wright to art critic Richard Cork, broadcaster James Naughtie to poet Lemn Sissay, and scientist Tim Spector to author and academic Celia Brayfield,…
THE award-winning FOLDE Dorset bookshop and gallery at the top of Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, has an impressive line-up of speakers for the autumn series of talks at the Grosvenor Arms. Next up is Tristan Gooley’s talk on 15th November, about his book How To Read a Tree is sold out, and there is a waiting…
IT seems hard to believe that it is ten years since the first performances of the Ridgeway Singers and Band, and the anniversary is being celebrated with a concert at Bridport on Sunday 29th October. The group’s concerts of traditional (and new) Dorset songs and tunes feels like an ancient part of the cultural fabric…