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Sherborne Places Archive

Every month one of Sherborne’s independent businesses is featured to give you an insight into these enterprising businesses. To access past features please click on the links below:

July 2012: Chapter House Books

February 2012: Butterfly Bright

November / December 2011: The Arch

October 2011: The Margaret Balfour Beauty Centre

September 2011: The Eastbury Hotel

August 2011: Home Sweet Home

July 2011: Olivers Coffee House

June 2011: Castle Gardens

May 2011: The Town Mill Bakery

April 2011: Parsons the Butchers

March 2011: Vineyards Wine-shop

What's Coming Up

Friday 10 to Wednesday 29 April / Exhibition of New Work by Charles Jamieson, Elsa Taylor & Vivienne Williams The Jerram Gallery, Half Moon Street, Sherborne. Open daily 9:30am-5pm Monday - Saturday. www.jerramgallery.com

Friday 17 April / Sherborne Farmer’s Market Cheap Street, Sherborne, 9.00am to 1.00pm

Sunday 19 April / Waterwheel Open Day Sherborne Steam & Waterwheel Centre, Sherborne. 11am-4pm. See an extensive collection of Victorian engineering featuring the massive 26ft diameter waterwheel built in 1869. Adults £5, Family £7, Children FREE. (Members of English Heritage £3.) 01963 250206 / 01935 389535 www.castletonwaterwheelmuseum.org.uk

Thursday 23 - Saturday 25 April / Amateur Players of Sherborne present Tonight at 8:30 The Digby Hall, Hound Street, Sherborne, DT9 3AA. 7:30pm. Featuring three plays from Noel Coward’s ten one-act play cycle titled ‘Tonight at 8:30′ including Hands Across the Sea, In Still Life and Red Peppers. Tickets £8, students £5, group bookings 10+ £7.50 will be available from Marsh’s, Cheap Street, Sherborne and The Abbey Shop, Abbey Close, Sherborne. 01963 210462 www.aps-sherborne.co.uk

Thursday 23 April / World Book Night Library, Hound St, Sherborne. Join this social event with Sherborne Literary Society. 07712 59897

Friday 24 April / Auction of Pictures, Books, Antiques, Interiors & Sporting Items Charterhouse, Long St, Sherborne. 01935 812277

Friday 24 April / S.U.N. Sherborne Ukulele Noodle / Digby Memorial Hall, Sherborne. 7.00pm - 9.00pm. Weekly in term time. Instrumental ukulele group for all ages and standards. Some knowledge of reading tab preferable. £6 per session. Contact: Samantha Muir: 01935 812325. www.SamanthaMuir.com

Sunday 26 April / The Sherborne Big Little Market Digby Hall, Hound Street, Sherborne. 11am-4pm. A monthly market celebrating the finest Dorset has to offer – from food to artisan craft and entertainment. www.arkadiaevents.co.uk

Wednesday 29 April / Organ Recital Sherborne Abbey. 1pm. Showcasing a wide variety of music, for 40mins. Free entry, with retiring collection.

Thursday 30 April / Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Digby Memorial Hall, Sherborne. 6:30pm-8:30pm. An 8 week course by Wessex Mindfulness Training. 01258 456278 www.wessexmindfulnesstraining.co.uk

Friday 1 May / S.U.N. Sherborne Ukulele Noodle / Digby Memorial Hall, Sherborne. 7.00pm - 9.00pm. Weekly in term time. Instrumental ukulele group for all ages and standards. Some knowledge of reading tab preferable. £6 per session. Contact: Samantha Muir: 01935 812325. www.SamanthaMuir.com

Friday 1st May to Tuesday 5th May / Sherborne Abbey Festival various venues, as below *Denotes FREE ENTRY with plate donations

Friday 1st May

11.00am* Dominican Convent School Choir (Sherborne Abbey)
1.30pm* Sherborne School Chamber Concert (Sherborne Abbey)
4.45pm* Jazz at the Powell: Sherborne School Swing Band (Powell Theatre, Abbey Road) 7.30pm ‘Strictly Viennese’ with Adam Summerhayes (Sherborne Abbey)

Saturday 2nd May

10.00am Recorder Workshop: i Flautisti (Stuart Centre, Sherborne Girls)
10.30am* Sherborne School Chamber Choir & Close Harmony (Sherborne Abbey)
12.00pm Lieder & Song, Shakespeare & Heine: Ben Craw (Cheap Street Church)
2.00pm Sound Clouds: i Flautisti (Sherborne Abbey)
4.00pm* From the Court of Frederick the Great: Rossignol (Castleton Church)
8.00pm Russian Treasures: Tenebrae (Sherborne Abbey)

Sunday 3rd May

9.30am* Festival Eucharist: Abbey Choir (Sherborne Abbey)
11.15am* Sung Mattins: Becket’s Consort (Castleton Church)
1.30pm* Zimbe!: Gryphon School Choirs & Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir (Sherborne Abbey)
3.45pm* Sherborne Young Singers (Cheap St Church)
5.00pm* Choral Evensong with the combined choirs of Romsey Abbey & Sherborne Abbey (Sherborne Abbey)
7.45pm Edith Piaf – A Celebration of a Legend: Tina May & her musicians (Big School Room)

Monday 4th May

10.30am Kaleidoscope: Margaret Phillips, Organ (Sherborne Abbey)
1.00pm* Schola Cantorum, Leweston School (Sherborne Abbey)
2.15pm* Sherborne Early Music (Cheap Street Church)
4.30pm* Legends & Laments: Samantha Muir, Classical Guitar (Castleton Church)
7.30pm A German Requiem (Brahms): Sherborne Festival Chorus & Chameleon Arts Orchestra (Sherborne Abbey)

Tuesday 5th May

1.30pm* Madrigal Society of Sherborne Girls (Sherborne Abbey)
2.30pm* Lecture/Recital: A Journey Towards Silence | Samantha Muir, Classical Guitar (Church Hall, Digby Rd)
4.30pm* Sherborne Girls String Orchestra (Castleton Church)
7.30pm Devotions: VOCES8 (Sherborne Abbey)

 

 

 

Sherborne in Dorset

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