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EVENTS
What's On
NOVEMBER
5: Fireworks, Poole Quay
5: Guy Fawkes Celebrations,
Weymouth Seafront
WINTER EVENTS
FOR 2017-2018
This image: All aboard
the Santa Special
Right image: Spooky
half-term fun
11: Me and My Girl, Weymouth Pavilion
17-4/1: Great Reindeer Hunt, Teddy Bear
Museum, Dorchester
17: Dorset Wildlife Trust's Kingcombe
Meadows Nature Reserve Walk
19: Dorset Wildlife Trust's festive printmaking
workshop at Kingcombe Meadows Nature
Reserve Walk
24: Christmas light switch on in
The Buttermarket from 5.30pm. Complete
with carols and mulled wine
25: Christmas in The Buttermarket, festive
stalls, crafts and Santa's grotto
25-26: Dorset Food & Drink Christmas Fair,
Athelhampton House
26-23/12: Step Into Christmas,
Adventure Wonderland
DECEMBER
1-31: A Family Christmas At Kingston Lacy
2: Festive wreath making at Dorset Wildlife
Trust’s Happy Bottom Nature Reserve,
Corfe Mullen
2-3: Vintage Christmas,
Bovington Tank Museum
2-3: Father Christmas Visits Farmer Palmers,
Poole
2-24: Santa Specials, Swanage Railway
3: Christmas Fayre, Wyke Regis, Weymouth
3: Poundbury Christmas Children's Party,
Brownsword Hall, 2-4 pm, free
3: Weldmar Santa Fun Run, meeting
at Dorchester Rugby Club
7: Dorchester Cracker evening, light switch on,
stalls and live music
8-10: Father Christmas Visits Kingston Lacy
8-6/1: Cinderella, Lighthouse Poole
9-1/1: Sleeping Beauty, Weymouth Pavilion
14: Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
16-17: Father Christmas Visits Farmer Palmers
17: Chase the Pudding Santa Run,
Weymouth Beach
17: Shaftesbury Christmas Street Fair,
Shaftesbury
19: The Snowman, Lighthouse Poole
21: Winter Solstice, Knoll Beach, Studland
23: BSO Christmas Carols, Lighthouse Poole
25: Christmas Day Swim, Weymouth Harbour
28: Winter Warm Up, Swanage Railway
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It's winter time so make sure you fill up your
diary with the best that Dorset has to offer.
T
he coming months promise a whole host of spooky autumnal
delights, festive favourites and New Year delights. So while we can’t
promise you sunshine, we can promise you never a dull moment with
our guide to Dorset events.
A DORSET CHRISTMAS
Christmas is a magical time for getting out and about in Dorset. The calendar
is full of festive events to celebrate the Christmas season and take you into the
New Year.
From seasonal food and craft shows to traditional pantos, there is something
for everyone this Christmas.
In Poundbury, the Buttermarket hosts both a lights switch on Friday 24
November and the following day the businesses host a festive market. This event
features toasted marshmallows, mulled wine, craft stalls and lots of delicious food
as well as festive gifts.
Seasonal celebrations in Dorchester can only truly begin after the town’s annual
Christmas Cracker night on 7 December. The Christmas lights are switched on at
6.30pm and the High Street is lined with charity stalls and local food and craft.
Many of the town’s shops open late and offer Christmas discounts or freebies
to shoppers.
A few days before Christmas, Weymouth beach is the scene of herds of Santas
chasing one Christmas pudding – and as if that wasn’t enough, Christmas Day sees
hundreds of people swimming across Weymouth Harbour!
PANTO ROUND-UP
The traditional pantomine season is upon us and there is plenty of choice in
productions this year. Oh, yes there is!
Weymouth’s annual panto is popular locally and this year Sleeping Beauty will
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To see more events visit www.celebratingpoundbury.co.uk
Panto fun with Cinderella
be taking to the stage at the Pavilion. Lee Redwood
returns to Weymouth to take up the role of panto
dame and Gwynfryn West stars at Mudd