Prepare your senses for an exotic journey back to 1940′s Casablanca. Enjoy an evening of authentic dining and entertainment in the stunning surroundings of Dorchester Abbey and the Cloister Garden marquee. Download your ticket application form here
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Tower abseil and Teddy bear hot air ballooning Brave volunteers (including The Rector, Sue Booys, and many other familiar faces) will abseil down the 100 foot tower to raise money for the Festival charities. Come and cheer them on! You can support our brave abseilers by donating using our justgiving.com site. Please donate now! Buy …
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Bring along a picnic tea and dance along to a great Oxford ceilidh band! Cat Kelly and Jamie Huddlestone are the most popular ceilidh duo in and around Oxford, and as a one off special for this evening have invited guitarist Tristan Seume (from the Jackie Oates band) to join them. Cat’s driving fiddle playing …
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Saturday Morning picture show (on Bank Holiday Monday!) Did you ever go to the Saturday morning cinema shows in the 40s and 50s? Do you remember seeing Donald Duck, Laurel and Hardy, Popeye, The Three Stooges and Buster Crabbe travelling from planet to planet in a tin spaceship? Did you thrill to the excitement of …
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Dorchester Festival hosts a unique residency by Shedman – the writer and poet John Davies. Shedman’s home, a shed in the Abbey grounds, will be auctioned for festival funds. Help him explore the wonderful world of sheds by contributing your shed stories and memorabilia. Shedman is inspired by all things shed – garden sheds, bike sheds and railway sheds, …
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