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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 [...]
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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 [...]
£5
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, [...]
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Tickets £62 6.30pm 'til late! Get your party clothes on, bring your friends and join in the fun in our fabulously decorated party tent. By popular demand we have booked the same fantastic food and band you all raved about in 2024; you won’t be disappointed! THE unmissable village party of the year! Tables of [...]
£62
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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 [...]
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£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 [...]
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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. This event is managed by Jamie Wakeham from Gallery Bouldering -- a brilliant Oxford bouldering centre. [...]
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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 [...]
£20
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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 £20 incl breakfast Up with the lark? Get up bright and early to enjoy the most [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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£35 Ticket price includes weaving materials to create 2 willow bird feeders to take home This relaxed, 2hr course is run by Suz Williams of The Copice Co During this workshop you will make 2 willow fat ball bird feeders and learn several basketry techniques that are used in larger projects. Willow weaving is an [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Tickets £22 including paella supper The ticket price includes a fantastic paella supper by Paella by Antonio. Gluten free. Vegetarian option available There will be a section of seats reserved at the very front for Festival Friends at this concert. Festival Friend privileges include early booking and the best seats in the house! Do consider [...]
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Tickets: £3 Children under 16 free (but please do book a free ticket so we can be sure you get a seat!) Over 200 children from local schools will spend a joyful day singing with professional musicians from Ex Cathedra and then perform what they have learnt in a concert at 6pm in the fabulous [...]
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Tickets £35/£25/£18 There will be a section of seats reserved at the very front of the front section 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. As a man who came of [...]
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This event is free to book but we will ask for donations on the day. PLEASE book a free ticket so that we know how many people are coming! Revd Dr Harriet Harris MBE leads this morning of reflection on the Festival Art exhibition Drawn to Imperfection by Dave Nevard Starting with coffee and pastries [...]
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Tickets £20/£12 Children (under 16) now FREE! 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. Lithuanian pianist and [...]
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Tickets £20 Pizza £16 (limited availability) Following huge Sell Out success at our past Festivals, you won't want to miss out on this Comedy Club, headlined by the very funny Nick Page, MCd by Alex Farrow and supported by Ben Pope and Celya Ab. Set up cafe style with tables, so order pizza with your [...]
£20
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Emma Horwill, a yoga teacher with a decade of experience, introduces yoga to pupils in our local primary school, Dorchester St Birinus This is a private class and is already pre-booked. If your school would like to be involved in future Festivals with events like this, then do get in touch! Emma Horwill is a [...]
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This event is FREE! With Hannah Frazer Mackenzie. Soprano This is a free concert to which all are invited! Local autistic schools will come to enjoy the therapeutic effects of music live in the Abbey with professional musicians associated with the Orchestra of St John's (OSJ) as part of their Music for Autism programme. For over [...]
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This event is SOLD OUT! Tickets £27 incl 8 x 60ml glasses of wine Platters made up by Snug cafe are available to buy alongside tickets Think you know your wine? Want to both taste some fine wines and also understand more about them? Fancy some fun and competition whilst learning? Then this event is [...]
£27
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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 [...]
£15 – £25
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. Roll your sleeves up for an afternoon of baking delicious Scandi goods including the ultimate perfect cinnamon [...]
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Tickets £8 for children, Adults free! (but please book a free ticket) Bring your outdoor obsessed children and encourage their green fingers! A fun filled hour learning about planting seeds with Head Gardener Matt and kids get to take their own seed pot home to nurture! Children must be accompanied by a parent Children will [...]
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Come to this special Dorchester Abbey Festival service with Guest Speaker poet Malcolm Guite, and 2023's Junior BBC Chorister of the year Belinda Gifford-Guy This service will be packed with favourite hymns and a lovely anthem from our amazing Dorchester Abbey choir. A bit of peace and quiet in the middle of the Festival madness! [...]
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This event is now SOLD OUT! Sir John Rutter, one of the UK’s foremost choral composers, leads a Come & Sing day in Dorchester Abbey. He explores some of his favourite treasures of English church music - and brings along some of his own well-loved shorter choral favourites. Copies will be provided! Enthusiastic singers of [...]
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