On Sunday 27 September, and against a perfect blue sky, we visited two more of the installations as part of this Arts By The Sea Festival 2020.

Boscombe is to benefit from a £65,000 grant that will be used to add seating, lighting and plants - and to give it a deep clean.

A pared-down Arts By The Sea Festival kicked off this weekend in Bournemouth. Due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation, many events were online only with just a handful of live events taking place Friday 25th September – Sunday 4th October 2020.

A local theme park has won two silver awards in the inaugural UK Theme Park Awards 2020.

After 172 days closed due to Coronavirus, loft bar and live lounge Canvas is re-opening in Bournemouth.

This Monday to Thursday, from noon to close, Café Rouge are offering 25% off your food bill!

Bournemouth's Arts by the Sea Festival is 10 and the popular festival returns 25th - 27th September 2020. This year it will explore ‘Journeys’ as the theme.

Strictly Ballroom the Musical, based on the award-winning world-wide film phenomenon, is heading out to tour the UK and coming to Bournemouth in March 2021.

The Priest’s House Museum in Wimborne, Dorset has received National Lottery grant support to help address the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on heritage.

Blink and you’d have missed them! The UK offshore power boat season started on Sunday 30th August and saw power boats speed across the Bournemouth coastline, having started in Poole Harbour. 

Six months to the day that the curtain fell on the last film screening before lockdown cinema returns to Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, on 17 September with a season of film stories that have notably strong female roles in common.

In line with many theatres up and down the country, for the first time in its 42-year history Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, has taken the difficult decision to postpone its traditional family pantomime until next year.

As lockdown is eased and restaurants are opening their doors again, we wanted to visit somewhere special for our first restaurant review. Nestled on the Isle of Purbeck is The Pig on the Beach which seemed to fit the bill. Here you'll find a walled kitchen garden, stunning sea views, a path to the beach, a herd of Dorset Horn sheep and top-notch quality, locally sourced food.

Bournemouth's Arts by the Sea Festival is back for 2020. The popular festival will be different this year due to the COVID-19 situation, but there's still lots to look forward to.

Up to the 31 August you can get a 50% discount when you eat in at restaurants that are registered with the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.

Riverdance - the international Irish dance phenomenon is coming to Bournemouth in 2021.

Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe (BEAF) opens its first ‘socially distanced’ exhibition at its new pop-up venue in the heart of Boscombe.

Families can get back into the swing of things this summer as Mr Mulligans adventure golf in Bournemouth reopens its doors on Friday.

Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, is to open again to the public on Tuesday 15 September, six months to the day after closing in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A safe space in which secrets can be shared in complete anonymity, a place to free guilt, cleanse the soul and unburden the mind – what would you confess?

The government’s £1.57 billion rescue package for Britain’s crisis-hit arts, culture and heritage sector has been welcomed as an “amazing boost to us all” by Elspeth McBain, Chief Executive of Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts.

Monsters are on the march along the Bournemouth coast – and collecting them will help the NHS.

The Dorset Arts Festival 2020 is one of the first larger public events taking place after the Coronavirus lockdown. The event launched today, Friday 3rd July, and carries on all weekend.

On Saturday 4 July, the council will open most playgrounds and play areas across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The remaining parks open on Monday 6 July.

The National Trust have opened more than 100 gardens and parks across the country. Some local properties remain closed, including Brownsea Island, but there are still many fabulous places currently open.

Having been overwhelmed by entries to its first bedtime story writing competition Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, is to commission three winning stories to be performed in its weekly Sunday evening Bedtime Story video on Facebook.

Whilst a number of large scale events across Dorset have been cancelled, Sculpture by the Lakes near Dorchester, the hosts and organisers of Dorset Arts Festival, are confident that a strict visitor cap and crowd control, paired with extensive social distancing set in a vast 26-acre outdoor venue, can guarantee visitor, exhibitor and staff safety.

A major incident has been declared after thousands of people defied advice to stay away and descended on Bournemouth beaches on the hottest day of the year so far.  

The London Repertory Players have very reluctantly and sadly cancelled this year's summer season, in negotiation with the Shelley Theatre. The Shelley Theatre will not reopen in time for the season to begin.

Unable to meet for its weekly rehearsal at Lighthouse, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus has been singing loud and clear… online.