Arts & Entertainment

You can help bring new art hub to life

The director of the annual Free Expression arts festival in Blandford has finally secured temporary planning permission for an…

At last! Sport can start up again and here’s where to go

It felt like the first day of school holidays: let’s all run outside and play! It was last Monday…

Band all keyed up to start playing again

After 12 months in isolation, members of the popular Blandford Stour Valley Band (BSVB) are looking forward to being…

Railway theme for artists in museum’s new competition

As part of the ongoing Art at the Museum programme at Blandford Town Museum, local artists have been invited…

£50k seating area artwork defended

The final unveiling of the new canopied seating area at Badbury Heights, Blandford, commissioned as a public artwork which…

£10m funding boost in bid to expand Octagon Theatre

A project to turn the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil into a popular cultural polestar is £10million closer to reaching…

Your chance to play a part in tale of dastardly villainy

The community of Kilmington is planning to stage a new play about dastardly events of over 450 years ago….

The show must go on after venue handed £38k lifeline

Westlands Entertainment Centre in Yeovil has secured £38,926 from the government’s £1.57billion Culture Recovery Fund to implement covid-secure measures…

Country Festival now postponed until August

The Bath & West Country Festival, which replaces the traditional agricultural highlight this summer and was set for early…

Arts venue now a jabs hub

Sturminster Newton’s community building The Exchange is being used as a vaccination hub. Assistant manager Sharon Clifton said: “We…