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Watercolour Workshop

Watercolour Workshop

Highway Farm Bridport

Arts and Crafts

There are a number of art and craft workshops available across Dorset.

Course providers like The Kingcombe Centre and Highway Farm give you the opportunity to try a wide range of differing arts and crafts with courses running right through the year..

Dorset is also proud to promote a well supported network of Art Centres that provide a variety of shows and displays for all.

For a more comprehensive view of all the great arts events going on in Dorset why not visit Dorset Loves Arts and find an event near you.

More art and crafts events going on can be found below, so get involved!

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Stand Up Dorchester - Comedy Night

Stand Up Dorchester - Comedy Night

Comedy with three great comedians and compere. Licensed bar, cabaret style seating around tables. Tickets from Dorchester T I C 01305 267992.

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  1. Dorset Opera Festival

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    Dorset Opera Festival

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    Festival

    Blandford Forum

    Dorset Opera has established a considerable national reputation for the quality of its opera productions. One opera critic calling it “consistently on a par with UK’s five main opera companies”.

    This year’s production on July 25 ,27 and 28 is Verdi’s Il Trovatore. Whilst on July 26 and 28 are...

    Dates

    From:
    25 Jul 2012 To 28 Jul 2012
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    Nowhereisland

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    Participatory Event

    In 2004, as part of the Cape Farewell Arctic expedition, artist Alex Hartley discovered an island that had emerged from the melting ice in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

    Alex's winning proposal for the Artists Taking the Lead project in the south west is to sail a portion of the island...

    Dates

    From:
    25 Jul 2012 To 9 Sep 2012
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    Add Moving Tides to your Itinerary

    Moving Tides

    Type

    Show/Display

    Weymouth

    Spirit of the Sea Children's Procession. Weymouth Seafront.

    Dates

    From:
    12 Jul 2012 To 12 Jul 2012
  4. Artwey At Dorset Arts Week

    Artwey At Dorset Arts Week

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    Show/Display

    Weymouth & Portland

    An exhibition of a variety of works by Artwey, a group of local Weymouth & Portland artists. This exhibition is part of the biannual Dorsets Art weeks fortnight. During the show there will be an opportunity to take part in the ‘Giant Wall’ a community made Olympic inspired wall hanging led by...

    Dates

    From:
    26 May 2012 To 10 Jun 2012
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    Add Digital Photography – Family and Friends Course to your Itinerary

    Digital Photography – Family and Friends Course

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    Participatory Event

    Wimborne

    This workshop will show you how to get good shots of family activities, outdoors or indoors, using natural light and how fill-in flash can transform your shots.

    Learn how to photograph friends and family, including children at play - and other moving targets!
    This workshop includes two...

    Dates

    From:
    8 Jul 2012 To 8 Jul 2012
  6. Patrik Fitzgerald & Pog

    Patrik Fitzgerald & Pog

    Type

    Concert

    Lyme Regis

    Rare Dorset gig from original punk poet Patrik Fitzgerald, influential to Billy Bragg, Chumbawamba and Benjamin Zephaniah. Patrik continued making music throughout the decades and is the subject of Dom Shaw's 2009 documentary, 'All The Years of Trying'.
    Support comes from Brighton's multi-talented...

    Dates

    From:
    31 Mar 2012 To 31 Mar 2012
  7. Bella Hardy at the Electric Palace

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    Bella Hardy at the Electric Palace

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    Performance

    Bridport

    Bella is one of the finest young folk acts around, singing unaccompanied ballads, or entwining her hypnotic voice with her own fiddle accompaniment to breathtaking effect. Three times nominated in the BBC Folk Awards, she has a voice marked as '...mesmerising' and '...faultless'. Her songs touch on...

    Dates

    From:
    17 Feb 2012 To 17 Feb 2012
  8. Highway Farm

    Add Workshop at Highway Farm: Felt Making (various workshop themes) to your Itinerary

    Workshop at Highway Farm: Felt Making (various workshop themes)

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    Workshop

    Bridport

    10.30 -4.30pm
    A real felting treat with Dennie Rose. It’s a therapeutic day, come and experience the ancient
    techniques of creating fabric from fleece that can be from cobweb to carpet quality to make a beautiful felted bag £38 +materials supplied at cost.

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    From:
    11 Feb 2012 To 11 Feb 2012
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    24 Mar 2012 To 24 Mar 2012
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    30 Jun 2012 To 30 Jun 2012
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    13 Oct 2012 To 13 Oct 2012
  9. The Pickers, © Adam Chodzko 2010. Production Sketch from single screen video with sound. 17 mins 52 secs.

    Add Road for the Future: Artist’s Talk by Adam Chodzko to your Itinerary

    Road for the Future: Artist’s Talk by Adam Chodzko

    Type

    Exhibition

    Powerstock, Bridport

    Talk by internationally known artist, Adam Chodzko, who has been commissioned to make new work in response to Powerstock Common for the Road for the Future project. He will be talking about previous work and the new work he is currently making at Powerstock, illustrated by images and film clips. ...

    Dates

    From:
    12 Feb 2012 To 12 Feb 2012
  10. Wimborne & Blandford Decorative & Fine Arts Soc

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    Illustrated lectures - Wimborne & Blandford DFAS

    Type

    Talk or Lecture

    Wimborne

    Wimborne and Blandford Decorative & Fine Arts Society present a calendar of monthly illustrated lectures at the Allendale Community Centre in Wimborne.

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    From:
    12 Feb 2012 To 12 Feb 2012
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    19 Mar 2012 To 19 Mar 2012
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    16 Apr 2012 To 16 Apr 2012
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    21 May 2012 To 21 May 2012
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    18 Jun 2012 To 18 Jun 2012
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    16 Jul 2012 To 16 Jul 2012