RhythmZone Andy from RhythmZone will be running fun and engaging African Hand Drumming Workshops for all ages. Participants will learn basic technique and traditional West African rhythm patterns. We will also learn signals to lead the group, play musical games and develop our own musical pieces.
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Tickets for Sunday 1 May 2011 are now only available on the door. Tremulous crowds followed Mark ‘ghostly’ Williams’ during the 2009 Festival, and now you are called to be chilled to the bone as he recounts his tales and tells of newly discovered apparitions in the shady spectrum of Dorchester’s spectres. Dare you brave the After …
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Tickets for Sunday 1 May 2011 are now only available on the door. (Art at the Beginning – an afternoon of worksops designed for the adult beginner to try out arts for the first time. Three of these sessions run twice so that you can try more than one workshop in the afternoon.) This 2 hour workshop …
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This event is now sold out – sorry! Nick will be doing an intimate cookery demonstration aimed at the home cook and will include menu design/planning, preparation hints, tips and questions, viewer participation and wine matching suggestions. Very limited space, so book early! Nick Galer’s career as a professional chef spans 10 years, emerging from …
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BAFTA award winning Brian Tufano is one of Britain’s most illustrious cinematographers, and is also known in the film industry as the man with the Midas touch – Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, East Is East and Billy Elliot rank among his recent successes; Quadrophenia and Blade Runner among his earliest. Brian will share the challenges 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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Comedian, writer, producer and comic artist Kev F writes & draws Bash St Kids adventures in The Beano and has worked for Marvel Comics, Viz, 2000AD, Funday Times, Dr Who, and Red Dwarf. In these fantastic 2 hour masterclasses with Kev you will produce your very own comic strip and he will draw a caricature …
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An evening of spoken word, sound and song with: MacGillivray a Scottish singer who has performed as support for The Fall, Arlo Guthrie and Arthur Brown and is currently working on her third album Somewhere the Night. Her first album Wolf was played on BBC Radio 3 Late Junction and The Verb and has been …
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