Events - Dorset West

Bridport has a new festival this November exploring words, both written and spoken. Bridport Literary Fringe, or "BridLit Fringe", takes place between 12th and 16th.   BridLit Fringe aims to complement the main Festival and is the brainchild of a small group of like-minded individuals, headed by Ged Duncan and Roy...

This October half term, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has some spooky wild events to get children out into nature at our visitor centres and nature reserves in Dorset.   The Kingcombe Centre is getting into the swing of Halloween with its ‘Spooky stories and Scary Bats’ event on Tuesday 23rd...

Highly entertaining, satirical and slickly choreographed theatre featuring local girl Rachel Fullegar coming to Dorset In a year when #metoo, gender pay inequality and the feminist agenda has rarely been out of the headlines, 2018 is an especially appropriate time for Gracefool Collective to tour their powerfully satirical Edinburgh hit This Really Is...

Learn how Weymouth and Dorchester played an unlikely part in the national story of the Trade Union Movement.   In 1934, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) chose the tiny Dorset village of Tolpuddle to host large scale celebrations of the Tolpuddle Martyrs Centenary. The Tolpuddle Martyrs and their Dorset village would...

Event: Trade unions in the twenty first century   When and what time: Thursday 15 November 7pm for 7.30pm   More info: Kate Bell from the TUC gives a talk about what is the role of trade unions in the twenty first century. Workers are facing the longest wage squeeze for 200 years,...

Looking for a new Christmas party location? Why not enjoy canapés surrounded by 200 years of history?   This Christmas, Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum in Dorchester will be opening its café and the spectacular Grand Jury Room after visiting hours for parties. The spacious and airy café can host up...

Bring your parents to Shire Hall in a spooky costume this Halloween half term and get free entry! There will be a host of family fun happening at Dorchester’s newest museum, Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum, this Halloween week. Up to two children dressed in Halloween costume will get into the...

A powerful love story set during the Second World War is the subject of The Very White of Love by acclaimed journalist Simon Worrall.  Author Simon Worrall will be in conversation with Sally Laverack at Bridport Literary Festival on Thursday 8 November at The Bull Hotel Ballroom at 10am.  The novel was inspired...

Local spoken word performers and writers, The Dorset Holloway Collective, are delighted to announce that acclaimed poet, playwright and presenter of BBC Radio Four's 'Poetry Please', Roger McGough, has agreed to lend his support to its forthcoming fundraiser for the Dorset County Hospital radiotherapy unit on Friday 26th October.   The...

A NEW film aims to shine a spotlight on the divide between rich and poor. Dorset Equality Group will be screening ‘The Divide’, a film about social inequality, at Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum on October 3, from 7pm. The film will be introduced by former Dorset Liberal Democrat MP and...