| Read More | Event Date | Title | Teaser | Hall |
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| view | Tue, 10/04/2018 - 19:30 | Why Should We Care What Happens In Lyme Bay? |
Celebrated author Horatio Morpurgo grew up in Devon and was educated at Cambridge. He returned to live in the South West and participated in the campaign to ban scallop dredging in parts of Lyme Bay. He has written extensively on the sea-bed's recovery since the establishment of a Marine Protected Area in 2008. 'The Paradoxal Compass' (2017), his most recent book, will feature at this year's Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival. It explores the West Country's relationship with the sea, history and marine conservation. |
Chideock |
| view | Sat, 21/04/2018 - 19:00 - 22:00 | Two guest speakers. From the association of Lighthouse Keepers |
Keith Moreton Presents "Lighthouses" Roger Walker - From Friends of Hurst Castle, Presents "Hurst Castle" |
Stanpit |
| view | Thu, 03/05/2018 - 19:15 - 22:00 | DEMG - Mysterious Wimborne - Malcolm Angel |
Wimborne Minster is steeped in the most surprising history. Both ancient and modern – it seeps from the very fabric of the place – it is a town rightly described as a jewel in Dorset’s crown and likened to a near perfect cathedral city in miniature. |
Stapehill |
| view | Sat, 12/05/2018 - 19:15 | Roger Hirons, The Plant Doctor, gives tips on ‘Steps to make the garden easier, giving you more time to enjoy it’ |
Roger Hirons is The Plant Doctor. Dorset born and bred, he has over 35 years’ experience in the horticultural industry and is a popular and enthusiastic speaker and broadcaster on all things plant-related. Originally qualified at Pershore College of Horticulture, he spent many years running plant centres. As well as practical and labour-saving ideas he will bring plants that will help you achieve good results with minimum effort. Some plants will be for sale after his talk. Chideock Village Hall, Saturday 12th May, 7.15 for 7.30 start |
Chideock |
| view | Thu, 05/07/2018 - 19:15 - 22:00 | Hidden Patterns in the Dorset Landscape - Jonathan Harwood - DEMG |
The positions of churches in the South Dorset landscape, when connected together by drawn lines (church symbol to church symbol on the 1:25,000 scale map of South Dorset) reveal deliberate meaningful patterns. Jonathon will be describing and analysing these patterns. The hypothesis is explored that these patterns were created in the late Roman period and that, where parish churches now stand, there were once early Christian sacred sites. |
Stapehill |
| view | Thu, 02/08/2018 - 19:15 - 22:00 | DEMG - Madeleine Le Despencer Entwining of the Occult with Mainstream Organised Religion in 18th Cent. France |
Madeleine Le Despencer (Tau Archildaël II) is a visual artist and author whose varied interests range from Roman Catholicism, French Decadence, grimoires, traditional witchcraft, legerdemain, and Spiritualism. She lives in London. All Talks are in Stapehill Village Hall, 224 Wimborne Road West, Stapehill, BH21 2DY |
Stapehill |
| view | Thu, 04/10/2018 - 19:15 - 22:00 | Louise Hodgson -Secret Places of Dorset - Dorset Earth Mysteries Group |
Louise Hodgson, founder of Secret Landscape Tours, writer and artist, has spent most of her life in areas of natural beauty. She was inspired from an early age to explore what she considered to be the roots of her spirituality, hidden and revealed in Nature. With a pack-pony and greyhound, she has travelled some of the ancient track-ways of England. Louise has appeared on television twice, discussing sacred landscape related issues. Entry £5.00 - includes small buffet - contact Steve Hawker 07979 853683 for more details
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Stapehill |
| view | Thu, 01/11/2018 - 19:15 - 22:00 | DEMG - Dr Michael Arnheim - Angel Tongue the Evolution of English and Euro languages and the Oral Tradition |
Dr Michael Arnheim (or “Doctor Mike”, as he is commonly known) is a practicing London Barrister and Sometime Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. |
Stapehill |
| view | Wed, 14/11/2018 - 19:30 - 21:00 | Loders Local History Group - Loders – A Peek at the Past” |
"Loders - A Peep at the Past". It's a journey back in time looking at places of interest, the people who lived here, their work, their leisure time activities and a few of those special occasions. |
Loders |
| view | Thu, 06/12/2018 - 19:15 - 22:00 | DEMG - Gary Biltcliffe - Occult Centres of Power in the British Landscape and Dorset Sites |
After visiting many Celtic sites around Europe, Gary Biltcliffe and Caroline Hoare discovered that these ancient tribes marked their territory by locating and honouring its geographical centre or ‘navel’ by either using the nearest natural feature or by constructing mounds, stone monuments, and ceremonial earthworks and re-shaping sacred hills to create a link to the cosmos. |
Stapehill |