Scarecrow entry for scarecrow makers: £5. Dorchester Folk can enter a scarecrow for the Scarecrow trail or you can simply stroll around the village and see if you can work out what they are during Festival week The theme is Historical Figures! If you'd like to enter a scarecrow - they can be really simple, [...]
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, [...]
£6 Tickets only needed to enter a dog - spectators FREE! A fun day out for all the family and your dog held in the beautiful grounds of Dorchester Abbey. The show ring will be a calm and safe area for your dog to take part in the classes throughout the day. There will be [...]
Brave volunteers will abseil down the 100 foot Dorchester Abbey tower to raise money for the Festival charities - Dorchester Abbey and Be Free Young Carers Come and cheer them on! There will a bucket collection while they abseil in aid of the Festival charities This event is managed by Jamie Wakeham from Gallery Bouldering [...]
Tickets £20 Cygnets Art School are also running an Anime workshop at 3pm Calling all young budding artists 5-13yrs! A 90 minute workshop with a Spring theme: a class using dip pen and inks to create some beautiful, vibrant chicks. We provide all the materials, just turn up in messy clothes and no need for parents to [...]
Cygnets Art School are also running a spring chick drawing workshop at 1pm Calling all young budding artists 5-13yrs! A 90 minute workshop with a Anime theme: creating a watercolour Tortoro masterpiece from the Studio Ghibli films. We provide all the materials, just turn up in messy clothes and no need for parents to stay! Cygnets Art [...]
Tickets £20 incl breakfast Up with the lark? Get up bright and early to enjoy the most beautiful natural concert of the season on this Dawn Chorus Walk. Birdsong is at its best in May, so join local naturalists Roger Seabrook and Richard Tilley for an early morning guided amble around Dorchester's three water meadows, [...]
The event is FREE! Join us for morning worship in the tent. Lots of interactive fun, singing, and praising as well as a short Bible story with a gentle challenge that all ages will understand! This will be led by Chichester Cathedral’s travelling evangelist ‘Deacon Ish’ (Ishmael). He is a singer, songwriter, speaker and author. [...]
Tentertainment tickets £7 (adults free) Tickets not required for babes in arms or adults! Rain or shine, roll up for fabulous tentertainment for all ages. BBQ lunch, tea and amazing cakes available to buy from 12.30pm while children are entertained for the whole afternoon. All their favourite parties rolled into one so turn up in [...]
Dorchester Duck Race Ducks £5 (£12 for 3) The Dorchester Duck Race is now one of THE essential village Festival events for all ages. Buy a duck, customise it and have it launched down the river from the Hurst Water Meadow to a nail biting finish next to the Abbey. Prizes for the first ducks [...]
Take part in the hugely popular 5k Fun Run (or walk). Enjoy the amazing scenery of a run through the historic water meadow and alongside the river. Bring the whole family – you can even bring the dog! A range of prizes! Pay for your fun run entry and complete a registration form online Last [...]
Throughout this Bank Holiday afternoon there will be FREE hands on science experiments and environmental tables for all ages! If you're a scientist then please do book a table and come along to share your enthusiasm! Find out more here. There will be 2 BIG science shows run by the experts at [...]
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