Arts & Entertainment

Animal Magic: the strange and the familiar

An artist born and brought up in Dorchester makes a rare return to the town in October for a…

Ready, steady –it’s time to tango!

Tango Calor are one of the most exciting tango bands performing in the UK, appearing at tango dances and…

How art will help refugee family

The Blandford Welcome Group is hosting an art exhibition to support a refugee family coming to settle in Blandford…

Booker Prize contender to open festival

Mere Literary Festival, which raises money for charities in the town and surrounding area, has now been running for…

Elvis’s story from start to tragic end

Elvis tribute artist Rob Kingsley will take fans on a musical journey from the superstar’s musical beginnings to his…

Buzzcocks’ Hardy connection

Buzzcocks frontman Steve Diggle has revealed he was inspired by Thomas Hardy’s tale of Jude the Obscure. The legendary punk…

Tiger tank making rare appearance

The world’s only running Tiger I tank is set to have a rare outing at Tiger Day at the…

Busker on the beach

Musician Conor Smith, who busks in Shaftesbury and Yeovil, has released his latest song, Please Don’t Go, accompanied by…

New poetry collection

Blandford St Mary author Gerald Killingworth has published his first collection of poems entitled Emptying Houses. Two of Gerald’s poems…

A tribe of walking men

by Katrine ffiske Sculptor Laurence Edwards is exhibiting for the first time large-scale bronze figurative sculptures and small-scale maquettes and…