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All are welcome to come to our meetings where we also have a well-stocked bar. Our audience always ask interesting questions and so any one can come along to learn about science in a friendly atmosphere. The reports of our meetings since 2006 can be found on our website which is on the poster.
Come and join The Quayside Choir for an exciting and inspiring day of singing at Upton Community Centre. The Workshop will be led by Simon Earl, Director of Music, Organist & Master of the Choristers at Christchurch Priory, Dorset. Simon is a highly experienced Choral Director and organist – he is the founder of the […]
The University of the 3rd Age.Retired? Make the most of life and join the U3A. Come and discover what it’s all about. For more information email shaftesburylibrary@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk or call01747 852256
Tim Laycock returns to Shaftesbury Library with traditional children's tales and story-songs from the British Isles for all the family. Come along, join in and find out! Booking essential via Ticket Source.
Reading the land! Tim Laycock returns to Shaftesbury Library with traditional children's tales and story-songs from the British Isles for all the family. Come along, join in and find out! Booking essential via Ticket Source. Saturday 16 March Shaftesbury Library Session one 10:30am - 11:15am Session two 11:45am - 12:30pm For more information, please call […]
Join us at St Peter's Church, Dorchester on Saturday 16th March between 12.30 and 1pm for our lunchtime concert in Lent, when we offer a performance of Pergolesi’s ‘Stabat Mater’. This plaintive choral masterpiece will be sung by vocal consort. Spend a truly restful and reflective half an hour with us in the midst of […]
You are warmly invited to our monthly, cathedral-style service of Choral Eucharist on Passion Sunday 17th March at 10.30am in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes: Mozart’s ‘Missa brevis in C, K.259’, J.S. Bach’s ‘O große Lieb’ and ‘An Irish Blessing’ by Philip Stopford. All are very welcome to this free service and for […]
The Dorset Police Rural Crime Team Engagement Van will be at Mole Country Store, Dorchester, DT1 1ST, on Wednesday the 20th of March between the hours of 11:00 and 12:00. Please come along as this is your opportunity to speak with the Dorset Police Rural Crime Team. If you are unable to attend but would […]
PCSO 5382 Leatt will be at Shaftesbury Library to offer crime prevention advice and leaflets, and to hear any local concerns. FREE.
All things Shaftesbury!Cllr. Derek Beer will be holding a community drop-ininformation and guidance session at Shaftesbury Library on all things Shaftesbury, from social wellbeing and loneliness to housing and highways, and to hear other local concerns. No need to book, just come along!Saturday 23 March10:00am – 12 middayFor more information contact:shaftesburylibrary@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk01747 852256
You are warmly invited to our monthly, cathedral-style service of Choral Evensong on Saturday 23rd March at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes Lotti’s ‘Crucifixus a8’, Sumsion’s ‘Preces & Responses’, Wood’s ‘Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D’ and Bainton’s ‘And I saw a new heaven’. Do join us for this free event […]
Not to be missed! The professional theatre company Half Cut Theatre take their loving but disarmingly sharp hatchet to one of the seminal works of English Literature, Geoffrey Chaucer’s six-hundred-year-old-snapshot-of-mediaeval-society-in-all-its-filth-and-glory, ‘The Canterbury Tales’. An evening packed full of laughs and loves, music and mayhem, Half Cut bring their trademark joy to this raucous journey which […]
This year North Dorset CPRE, the Countryside Charity, also known as the Campaign to Protect Rural England, will be holding their AGM will be at 5.30pm on Tuesday 26th March at Clayesmore School, DT11 8LL. The speaker will be George Hosford, whose talk will be on “The Future of Farming in North Dorset”. It should […]
As part of our series of music for Lent and Holy Week, Music at St Peter’s presents a performance of Faure’s Requiem on Good Friday 29th March at 6pm. The choir will be accompanied by organist, Chris Dowie. Admission is free, but you are advised to arrive in good time to be seated at this […]
You are warmly invited to our cathedral-style service of Choral Eucharist on Easter Sunday 31st March at 10.30am in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes: Haydn’s ‘Little Organ Mass’, Harris’s ‘This joyful Eastertide’ and ‘Ye choirs of new Jerusalem’ by Stanford. All are very welcome to this free service and for refreshments afterwards.