Wimborne Folk Festival with an international flavour
With the Wimborne Folk Festival fast-approaching, the huge line-up of dancers, Tibetan monks and musicians are preparing to descend on the town for next weekend’s big event.
With the Wimborne Folk Festival fast-approaching, the huge line-up of dancers, Tibetan monks and musicians are preparing to descend on the town for next weekend’s big event.
Possibly Parkstone’s longest-running community event, the St Peter’s Parkstone Summer Fayre, is back this month celebrating its centenary year and who better to open the milestone event than the Mayor of Poole, Cllr Sean Gabriel.
With one of the biggest processions in recent years and a scorching hot day to draw the crowds, Verwood Carnival on May Bank Holiday saw its biggest and most successful event for years.
Over 17,000 people attended Metropole Market’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’-themed event on Sunday 27 May that provided a riveting glimpse into Lewis Carroll’s acclaimed children’s novel, Alice in Wonderland.
Forest Holme Hospice in Poole is appealing to locals for support during National Hospice Awareness Month in June to help raise both awareness and funds for the hospice and highlight the important role of hospices in the local community.
An exclusive preview performance of Feral – a new drama by award-winning playwright John Foster – will take place at Upton Country Park on Sunday 17 June at 7pm as part of the Bournemouth University’s ‘Festival of Learning’.
Eight women from the south will compete together in the Round the Island Yacht Race in July as part of an all-female crew
The well-known historian, broadcaster and BBC TV presenter, Dan Snow (The History Guy), will be visiting the Regent in Christchurch on Thursday, 28 June at 7.30pm when he will recount anecdotes from his very successful career.
The annual Jazz by the Sea Festival will return to Bournemouth and Poole in 2018, this time bringing two whole weeks of jazz, from 24 June to 7 July inclusive.
In its fifth year, Live: Ferndown 2018 showcased some of the best local musical talent on stage at the Barrington Theatre on Saturday, 21 April, which literally raised the roof.