This exhibition is FREE to visit There will be a free preview and Q&A with the artist and David Painting (the author of the book about the exhibition) at 7pm in Dorchester Abbey on Thursday 30th April. Please do come! Drawn to Imperfection is a collection of 21 large scale contemporary portraits offering an engaging [...]
The 2026 Scarecrow historical figures are listed below. Congratulations to the Line family for their winning scarecrow - Howard Carter and Tutankhamun Dorchester Festival 2026 Scarecrow Trail Answers (most popular scarecrow: Howard Carter and Tutankhamun) No Address Who is the historical figure? 1 Dorchester Abbey Museum Geoffrey Chaucer 2 Village Hall, Queen’s St (Dorchester Historical [...]
This event is FREE and available for viewing throughout the Festival week A collaborative installation of small artworks created by a variety of groups within the local community and by the young people of our charity partner, Be Free Young Carers. Designed and led and by Oxford-based artist Emma Coleman-Jones, individual responses to The Abbey, [...]
The work will be available to view 11am-5pm Weekends & BH Mon Dorchester Artists including Sophia Stewart-Liberty Tracy Lester Ed Metcalfe Carol Golding Simon Clements Bill Maish Emma Coleman-Jones will be exhibiting their work in the Dorchester Abbey Guest House. 25% of all sales will go to the Festival Charities - Dorchester Abbey and Be Free [...]
Tickets : £15 children under 10 / £20 adults / £25 with Prosecco Children too young for their own seat may sit on a parent's lap and share their tea. 1 hour teas starting at 2pm / 3.15pm / 4.30pm Tumble down the rabbit hole to enter the world of Alice in Wonderland and eat a [...]
Tickets £8 adults / £6 children (under 16) A fun family concert! Would you like to take your children to a concert but you’re worried in case they make a noise during the performance? Would you like to know more about wind instruments and ask the players questions? This is the concert for you! Featuring [...]
A morning dedicated to Latte Art! Learn new skills and give it a go. Or simply watch and donate to drink as much specialty coffee as you want! Organised and sponsored by the team at Horsebox Coffee Co. & Dark Horse Roastery. They’ll be mixing it up with their ‘Delicious decaf’ and plant based milks [...]
Tickets £70 Lunch available for purchase from the food and gift fair in the Cloister Garden open 10am-5pm All levels of painter are welcome to work with Lucy Burton on a stage by stage process to create a Pet Portrait in Oils or Acrylics You'll use an ‘islands to oceans’ method of working, aiming to [...]
On the second Festival weekend we'll have FREE live music on the Cloister Stage in the Cloister Garden behind Dorchester Abbey Everything from choirs to bands, singer songwriters to cover bands - it'll all be there surrounded by lovely food and drink stalls! So just turn up, buy a pint or a coffee and some [...]
This event is SOLD OUT but you can add yourself to the waiting list by going to the box office. We will contact the waiting list in order if customers drop out and want to resell their tickets. Tickets £25 – limited so book early! Tona Erreguin Head Chef of Imma Bakery, an award-winning artisan [...]
This event is SOLD OUT but you can add yourself to the waiting list by going to the box office. We will contact the waiting list in order if customers drop out and want to resell their tickets. Tickets: £17 Professor Malcolm Airs FSA, FRHistSoc Renowned architectural historian Malcolm Airs will lead a 90 minute [...]
This event is SOLD OUT but you can add yourself to the waiting list by going to the box office. We will contact the waiting list in order if customers drop out and want to resell their tickets. Tickets £25 – limited so book early! Curry Masterclass with Sanjay Dhrona, The White Hart Hotel Join [...]
Tickets £30/£25/£20 Children 16 and under half price There will be a section of seats reserved at the very front of the nave for Festival Friends at this concert. Festival Friend privileges include early booking and the best seats in the house! Do consider becoming a Friend – find out more about it here. The Thames [...]
Tickets £15 limited numbers! Bird song is at its best in May, so join local naturalists Richard Tilley and Roger Seabrook for a guided evening amble around Dorchester’s three water meadows, courtesy of the Hurst Water Meadow Trust. Relax into a gentle walk listening to the birds sing their final songs of the day and [...]
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